World's Best Dad

I saw this idea on pinterest and had to make it with my kiddos for the hubs. I used my silhouette machine to cut the vinyl words. it was my first time cutting vinyl and I feel awesome about it. I opted to use as little vinyl as possible and scrunched the words all together. the spacing was adjusted using the transfer paper. I love my silhouette!

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Fancy Clipboard

While helping my brother in law clean out his extra bedroom he said to me. "What am I going to do with a clipboard?!" Beautiful images ran through my head as I raised my hand and then grabbed the brown, slightly stained clipboard from him.

I'm not sure if my images were exactly like this, but I MIGHT like this even better than those imaginary clipboards!




I used adorable Amy Butler paper (from MICHAEL'S!) and cut the "E" and the boarder on my Silhouette machine.

I'm thinking these might make excellent Christmas gifts for people!! SO easy, useful and cheap!!

(Sorry for the sideways pics, I'm too lazy right now.)

Hair Bow Board

Last week I was driving and saw this framed picture in someone's GARBAGE pile.



I thought to myself. "I can do something with that!" The truth is that I've been wanting to make a hair bow board and I really didn't want to buy a frame. (Isn't it much cooler when it DIDN'T cost any money??)

So yesterday, after buying spending $3.50 on batting from Hobby Lobby, and only using 1/4 of it, I spent a couple hours making this:


Seriously $3.50 was all I spent. I pulled out all the staples from the back that were holding the picture in place and scrapped the picture and glass. I used the cardboard backing as my base for two layers of batting and then a fat quarter that a friend gave me. Did I mention that I duct taped the entire thing in place? Seriously! (I think I used half a role!! haha.) After sanding the lovely gold off the frame, I painted it with acrylic paint because that's what I had!! I'm thinking about doing a coat of poly on the top to give it a bit of shine, but that's for another day!

This was my bow storage before:

And here it is after:



I like it much better now!!

Apron

For Christmas, I made my daughter an apron. I made up the pattern myself and I LOVE the way it turned out! (I will try to add the pattern dimensions to this post later.)

I got the fabric at Hobby Lobby and I love it because it's kitchen-ey. (I just made that word up.)





My little girl loves it too! On Christmas, she wore it for about 6 hours straight! Now I just need to make her a kitchen to match! Good think I found the Knock off Wood website! I can't WAIT to get started on this kitchen!

Felt Doughnuts

A while back, I was bitten by the felt food bug. I wanted to make a boat load of felt food for my little girl (almost 3 years old) to play with. I was pretty sure that she'd go as crazy for it as I had. I started searching for tutorials and found this summary on ohdeedoh.

Included on that page was a link to a tutorial on Skip to My Lou for felt doughnuts. They seemed like the perfect starter project: Quick and simple! So I enlisted a couple of my friends to help and went to the craft store to buy all the stuff. I spent about $10, which bought me enough crap, I meant craft felt to make a TON of doughnuts. (And I have a lot left over.)

(Side note: As mentioned in a previous post, don't buy the crap/craft felt. Spend the extra money for the nice wool stuff. You won't regret it.)





What's better than an even dozen of doughnuts? A cute pink box to put them in! The box came with a take-out lunch, believe it or not. I painted it pink and stuffed all my doughnuts in it.


My favorite doughnut is the cream filled one. I modified the pattern by not cutting out a hole and then just did a "tab" of white felt to be the filling. I LOVE the way they turned out!

A note about this project: The pattern uses a sewing machine a lot. By the end, I realized that, either due to my marginal sewing skills or my marginal machine, it was not easy to make the sewing look good when it was on the outside. For the middle of the doughnuts, I ended up sewing some of them by hand and I think they looked a LOT better.

Purl Bee Rose Hair Clips

A few months ago, A friend showed me this tutorial on Purl Bee. The felt Rose barrettes were SO adorable that I HAD to make some. I had high hopes of making a TON of them, but to be honest, I only finished one. (I still need to do more!) It turned out SO cute and I LOVE it! I can't wait to make some more!


If you have any felt projects, resist the urge to buy the cheap craft felt. I know it's a lot cheaper and all, but it's NOT WORTH IT!! The stuff that even has a little bit of wool in it is SO much softer and nice. I read on someone's blog that the craft stuff creeps them out, and after feeling/seeing the difference, I have to agree!