Bow Ring

Make a cute and easy bow ring!

To make this ring you will need 8" of trim or ribbon, needle and thread, scissors and a piece of clear stretch cord.

Cut an 8" piece of trim or ribbon (I used a sparkly black trim). With the pattern side down, take both ends and cross the left side over the right side. Flip over and make a crease in the trim in order to line up the backside with the front side. Then stitch down the center to keep the crease in place. Cut edges of trim to finish the ends.

Place the stretch cord through the needle. Stick the needle from back to front and then through it again front to back. Take the loose ends on the back of the bow and tie a knot in the cord.

Place on finger and smile!

Yarn Pom Pom Headband

Make a cute pom pom headband using yarn!

I love making headbands for my little Soph. I saw a post online of how to make pom poms out of yarn and thought I definitely needed to get those on my babies head! Of course I cant find the original link now but its really simple.

To make this headband I used: Yarn, Scissors, Elastic, Felt and a Hot Glue Gun.

To make the pom pom start by wrapping the yarn around your fingers about 50 times.

Slip the yarn off your fingers and tie with another piece of yarn. Make sure to tie it tight and in the center of the bundle.

Once the yarn is tied snip the loops.

Fluff and cut the yarn into a dome shape. If you want smaller pom poms wrap your yarn around two fingers instead of 3 and about 30 times instead of 50. This will give the size of the blue pom pom.

Once your pom pom is ready, cut a piece of elastic to fit your little one.

To make the headband first cut a circle of white felt and glue the pom pom onto it. Next glue the elastic onto the felt, one side at a time. Lastly glue another piece of white felt on top of the elastic to help hold it together and to make it more comfortable for little heads.

You can make a single pom pom headband, a row of pom poms or a cluster! I made a couple Halloween themed headbands in candy corn colors and classic black and orange. Also a little pink and white one for fun. But I see plenty more of these being made in the near future!

  

Fathers Day

Make a cute personalized Dads Day gift!

I wanted to make a cute photo gift for my husband featuring our sweet little one. I had seen a couple cute gift ideas where you take three pictures of your little one. In one they would hold a D, the next an A, and the last the D again. When you frame them together your little one is spelling DAD. Super cute!

I wanted to take this same kind of idea but make it more personal. I decided to have it so that the pieces our little one held conveyed the message I Love My Daddy! This project used cardboard, cardstock, and our sweet baby ;)

First I cut out three rectangle pieces of cardboard, all the same size. Then I printed out a capital I and a heart shape onto white cardstock. For the last piece I opened a picture of my husband in photoshop, changed the picture to black and white and magic extracted out the background. Then I printed out the black and white image onto white cardstock as well.

Next I glued the cardstock onto the cardboard to make them more stable for our baby to hold. Disney sticker were also placed on the backside of the cardboard to try and keep the attention of our little one and get her to hold the pieces so that the right side showed...this sort of worked...sort of.

Then the hard part. Getting her to sit still, hold the pieces facing the camera and smile all at the same time. Luckily my mom was here to help while I took the pictures! Otherwise I'm not sure if I could have gotten them on my own!

 I had her scribbled with pink crayon on some white paper and used this as a sort of mat board around the pictures and put it all in a black frame. I loved how it turned out and so did her daddy! I am for sure going to do something like this again when she is a little older :)

Fabric and Paper Wall Hanging

Make a quick and easy wall hanging!

Our kitchen is probably the most neglected space in the house, decor wise. I wanted to put something up fast so the walls weren't so bare!

I had a couple of canvass but wasn't sure what to do with them. I knew if I decided to paint them who knew when it would actually get done! Since I had just done the IKEA frames in fabric I thought Id do a fabric based project for the kitchen too.

I stretched fabric over the canvas and stapled it in the back. But I wanted to put something else on it instead of leaving it blank. So I downloaded this cute black frame from http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/ and added my own words into the inside of it in photoshop.

Printed it out and attached it to the fabric covered canvas with blue brads. Super easy and quick way to add a little personality to the wall! (I must add that the second canvas is still blank...waiting patiently for a sprinkling of paint)

IKEA Frames

So I am in love with this UNG DRILL  frame from IKEA. I bought two but had not deciede what to do with them. So for a long time they were hanging on our wall with nothing inside but the oringinal paper insert.

Many people initially would think they were mirrors, which I would have loved, but could never find a mirror or figure out how to get a mirror to fit the frame.

I had seen pictures of these frames filled with fabric and had been wanting to add more color into the room so I thought I'd give this a shot. However I knew I wanted to do more with them than just fabric so I also glued pictures onto white cardstock and added these into the fames as well.

Then as a finishing touch I used dry erase markers to write little notes around the pictures to tell how old our little one was in the pictures. I have to admit this was my favorite part. Planning on doodling on a majority of my frames from now on :)

I have seen alot of cute photography using these frames as well. So I bought another one to spray paint and have some fun with later on!

Here are some things I love that others have done with their IKEA frames.

Use it for pictures:

http://pinkpaisley1.blogspot.com/

http://www.skyejohansen.com/?p=3996

http://www.hostessblog.com/2010/04/real-parties-olivia-the-pig-theme/

Hang it on the wall:

Made into a white board at http://nothingbutbonfires.com/2011/08/sneak-peek-office-makeover-diy-white-board

Made into a chalk board at http://prettycitythings.blogspot.com/2011/06/chalk-board-frame.html

Catching Up

Lately Ive been trying to spruce up the house some to give it more personality. I always feel so silly when people come into my house and know that I have a degree in Interior Design because most of our house looks like snoozeville.

Getting our house to feel more like a home has been kind of put on the back burner for a while, with the exception of little Sophie's room that is!

Ive put a few things on our walls since I last posted that I thought Id briefly share. I don't have any in depth pictures of step by step instructions but here goes :)