Category: crafts

  • Hair Bows

    Hair Bows

    I think all little girls need frilly bows! So for a little girl I know, who is turning 2 years old, I set out to make a birthday gift. I’m hoping she will channel all her terrible 2 energy into terrorizing her mother or anything other than pulling her pretty bows out of her hair.…

  • Jelly Roll Jumpers

    Jelly Roll Jumpers

    Two summers ago I went to the “Shop Hop” in Utah. I purchased the pattern “Jelly Roll Jumper”, thank you Susan Carbine Johnson, for this darling pattern.  My mother purchased two Moda Jelly Rolls and gave one to me.  I have been waiting for my granddaughters to grow enough so the smallest size, a size…

  • I Love  Spray Paint

    I Love Spray Paint

    Spray paint has become one of my new best friends. Last summer during our neighborhood yard sale I found a great curio, but the color was that “Blonde” color from the 40’s and 50’s. Not that I have anything against the 40’s and 50’s, I love antiques, the color is just not me. Upon seeing…

  • Flag Blocks

    Flag Blocks

    We’ve lived in our house a little over 3 years now and I’m finally getting around to decorating my family room.  I was waiting for some sort of inspiration that wouldn’t brake the bank. I had a few  pictures on the wall and I hung a flag quilt a couple of July’s ago, I liked…