The directions for blogger's mobile photo uploader thing are kind of confusing. I haven't had too much luck with it yet. I can be really slow with that kind of stuff though. Anyways, here are some crappy cellphone pictures of my latest crafting adventures.
I'm on a banners kick lately. It started off with this cheerful happy birthday one. My house is the most centrally located and has the biggest kitchen, we tend to have celebratory birthday dinners here. Occasionally, I try to be domestic and decorate. Last year I made a really cute paper happy birthday banner for my brother's birthday. It didn't store well though and got kind of crumped and I thought it would make more sense to have a fabric one handy. I just followed the tutorial I found here. I didn't bother using the tiny iron to press open the seams though. I don't have a tiny iron and I find ironing seams open to be extremely tedious. Anyways, there are also cute tutorials for other variations found here and here.
I don't think my poor quality pictures do justice to their utter adorableness, if I do say so myself and they are wicked easy to make.
I just picked up some fun fat quarters for the little pennants, some bias tape, some wunder under. The letters I cut from an old pair of jeans.
I decided I was so happy with the way that came out, I bought some fallish fat quarters and made one for fall. Then I made two more for gifts.
I don't even have a mantle. My brother helped me put up this shelf which serves as sort of a makeshift mantle between two of my windows.
Hopefully next time I am out in Lancaster I can pick up some little pumpkins or something to beef up the mantle a little.
2 comments:
very cute! i need to break out my sewing machine...its been a long while.
Those are way cute.
Have you been to Basket Warehouse? They have TONS of stuff for fun decorating, and their prices are really good. My dad's wife loves that place; we go every time I visit, and then I have to pay to ship everything home. So worth it though.
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