New Projects...stoked!!

Finally got time to do somethings last night without being interrupted...which is very rare!  Sometimes I think my husband is one of my kids too! (gotta love him)


Josie was my model last night and she LOVED it! She kept asking her daddy if she was pretty and if she looked cute!! (we are def going to have our hands full with her!)


**these were taken with my phone, very bad camera on the smartphone I have, that is more dumb than smart :)**

This one is made out of felt...LOVING felt right now, so easy to work with!  I made this to match a sweater she has!

Felt Rosette's....I found it easier for me to do these than the fabric ones.  To each their own!

I am making more tonight for Lil miss *T*, her mommy is a long time friend of mine and requested I makee her precious girl some hair accessories.  Though she doesn't have much hair...headbands will be made :)

New Year...Clean Slate

I always hear people around this time of year saying that their resolution is going on a diet.  I'm not really sure how many people stick to it but it's a good plan I suppose.  I think mine are a little different for once!  Life was never meant to be easy and it sure didn't come with instructions or a manual! 
My husband and I have had it rough...financial wise, the past few years.  BUT we always seem to make it to the light!  2011 is a new year and fresh beginnings!  Never too late to make a fresh start!

Goals for 2011:

* Stay ahead financially and put back $ in savings
* Pay off my car (**BIG one**)
* Redo all the plumbing in our home--work in progress
* Finish remodeling our bathroom (that I have been without in what seems like forever)
* Build our patio before summer gets here
* Tear up carpet in the house in put down hardwoods and ceramic tile
* Start making more things by hand instead of buying (clothes, decor, personal accessories) & maybe possibly selling them
* Re-gravel the driveway or save for pavement (the ground has ate my gravel :0)
* Go back to school, even if it's just taking certificate/training classes (never too old to learn)
* Work on making an upward job move within my company (not holding my breath but will work on it)
* And most importantly...continue keeping my faith...nothing else helps me to become a better mother, friend and wife!

Working on some projects this week.  Hope to have them complete before this weekend! 
**There are 24 usable hours in everyday!**

Candace & Aliyah

Last Tuesday I took my older two daughters to have their hair cut.  I am usually the one that "trims" their hair for them.  But for sometime now they have been wanting it "chopped off" as they call it.  Well me being hesitant as I am about that...their dad and I agreed.  A family friend of ours runs her own shop in Newton, so that's were I took them.  They were so excited...me on the other hand was VERY nervous.  She cut off about 9 inches a piece on each of them...and they LOVE it!



Candace Before





Aliyah Before



All grown up

Buttons

I found some old pictures the other day and happened to run across some headbands I had made for my daughters earlier this year.  I am really bad for not taking pictures of things I make, but I'm working on that.  My older 2 have to wear uniforms to school so the only way they can express their "fashion" at school is by what they wear in their hair (they dont have restrictions on that)!

Candace's wearing her button headband

Some more colorful ones they wanted made

I also did some with bows on them.  The one in the middle is their school colors and the others were their picks of ribbon :)

Making some more this week but with fabric made flowers and feathers!  Cant wait to see how they turn out!

Some of my creations from my wedding:

Had to have "something borrowed" for my wedding so I borrowed this black flower hair clip from one of my bridesmaids and I added the black tail feathers to it

Pink and white silk carnation pomander...I placed these in the church on vintage candle holders I had in my house

Our Programs were made with pink construction paper and I printed them on regular print paper, used a hole puncher and added the brown twine

I'm not very "traditional" when it comes to weddings...I never really cared for the pillow that the ring bearers carried.  So I made this for my younger stepson to carry.  I took a piece of square foam, wrapped it with package paper, hot glued the moss, satin black ribbon and twine.  Then topped it with a silk white carnation flower

For the reception, we covered the tables with with white table linens, I used brown packaging paper as a table runner.  For the centerpieces, I spray painted cans (food cans and cat food cans...cleaned of course) with a crackle finish, hot glued brown twine around the tops and tied off in a knot, then added moss and the carnations. I found some "bling" jewels on sale in our colors and tossed them in between the centerpieces



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And last, the bouquets...made them out of silk white carnations, pink hydrangea's, green fuzzy's and added a green Gerber daisy to mine to be just a little different from the others and added black feathers

Welcome

Welcome to my blog!  I have had a few on other sites with a friend of mine (wedding/party planning) but I am on my own now!  I have been "creating" for a while now.  Started with making bows and headbands for my daughters to wear.  Then started selling them in a local boutique where I live.  I moved on from bows to other things...feathers and buttons are an obsession of mine!  I have recently started tinkering in fabrics.  Not much of a sewer but I am learning!  Also starting to crochet and knit with my older two girls! Always looking for a way to save money and not have to buy everything but instead try to make it!