Category: Projects

  • Bugs Needed a Home

    Bugs Needed a Home

    My kids love playing with their pipe cleaner bugs. They fly and crawl them all over the house, but the other day Tyler said, “Mom, they (the bugs) need a place to live.” I was stumped. What had I started? So again we went to the craft box. Which I might add is in desperate…

  • Lady Bug Door Stop

    Lady Bug Door Stop

    This time of year I love to open the windows and feel the breeze through the house. Most days however I will be enjoying  the cool air and then “SLAM” a door blows shut. We use all sorts of things to block the doors only to step on them or trip over them in the…

  • Pipe Cleaner Bugs

    Pipe Cleaner Bugs

    My kids get tired of me sitting at the computer and sewing machine so we had a craft day. I bought a bag of pipe cleaners a few months ago for a project that never happened. The kids have been asking what they were for weeks so I decided it was time to introduce them…

  • 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…