In The Shop!

Just loaded everything left from the show into my Etsy shop! 

Check it out HERE!

Time For A Show!

Been busy getting ready for today's Bryant Street Festival!  Come on out if you are local, 12pm-6pm.

There will also be a tent selling hot dogs, chips and a drink for $3 with all proceeds going to HaitiH2O.

Here's what I've been up to since my last post.

Flower Pens

Stained Glass Birdies

Dragonfly Suncatchers

Handmade Aprons

Fabric Covered Journals

Handmade Totes

Here's hoping the rain hold off for a good day!  I would hate a repeat of the last Bryant Street Festival I had a booth at...

Felt Rose Tutorial

This post has LOTS of pictures, but they are pretty!!  This is a tutorial on how to make and dye felt roses to be used for whatever you want!  I am using them on the covers of some journals I am going to be selling.  I needed some shades of flowers that I don't have in my felt stash and I am kind of on a craft-spending freeze right now, so I had to be creative with what I have.

I found this patten at The Purl Bee and printed it, cut it out and cut out my felt.  I used her template for the smaller size roses.  After I did the first few, I didn't need the pattern anymore and just eyeballed similar shapes for the larger roses.

You can assemble the flower just like she has in her {rose barrette template} the directions are pretty easy to follow.  I just didn't attach them to a barrette.  I'll put simple instructions up, though, since I took pictures :)

Roll it up & secure with needle & thread.  Add the smaller petals, secure with stitches.

It will look like this:

So pretty! Add the larger petals & stitch.

This is what the back looks like all done:

Now, get out your fabric dye, watercolors, markers or food dye or whatever you have on hand to dye the felt!  I was even thinking that I would pick up some egg dying kits, since they are all 75% off right now!

It seemed like the color went on & flowed better if the flowers were wet first.

Then I just added some color to the tips & set it upside down (so the color wouldn't run)

on paper towels (to soak up extra dye) in a glass pan (so it wouldn't dye my countertops)!

That was with bright yellow felt and pink dye.  Here's some pictures with white felt:

Dipped the bottom only in yellow.

Pretty!  This one, I did the bottom in yellow and the top in pink!

I let them dry overnight, upside down.

Today, they were all dry so I attached them to the journals.

This is one of my favorites!

The kids wanted to make some so we used a hot glue gun, markers and a spray bottle.  The turned out cute, but didn't lay as flat with the glue.  They did dry a lot faster, since we just spitzed them with febreeze to get the colors to run & to smell good. 

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In other news, I have all of my craft room painted except one wall, I am going to do that today.  We are waiting on the rest of the wallpaper to arrive (tomorrow) to finish up the ceiling. 

The paint color is the same color I have in the living room, it's going to be a bright & cheery space.  I can't WAIT until I move all my things back in & start creating for the upcoming show I am doing.  Hopefully this week and this weekend we can be pretty productive up there & start moving things back into place soon...

Hope you have a great Wednesday!