Turkey Towel

This year I wanted to make something special for the Grandparents for Thanksgiving. I found some cheap dish towels, and flour sack cloth at the dollar store, and we decided  to make some turkey towels.

Brady helped by making hand turkeys with paint on the flour sack cloth. I added a few embellishments, and personalized it for each Grandparent.

Then I sewed the turkeys on the dish towels.

They kind of look like Brady sewed them, but I am okay with that, and the Grandparents like them so that is all that matters. Happy Thanksgiving!

Flower Dish Towel

The other day I was procrastinating and not cleaning, like normal, and I had the urge to do a quick sewing project.

I looked in my stash and found some ribbon, and some left over dish towel cloth.

Then I started playing with the ribbon, and just sewed it on. Nothing perfect, but it was nice and relaxing.

Nothing special, but at least now I have a new dish towel.

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Spring has sprung!

Finally spring has started to show around here; it was in the mid 60's and gorgeous today. With spring comes one of my favorite holidays, Easter. Also, my camera showed up! So I can finally do some crafts, and take pictures!

Here are a few of our Easter decorations.

A crucial part of my decor is dollar store eggs. I think I got at least 5 packs, love the dollar store.


I changed my burlap wreath by adding some of the fabulous dollar store eggs.

I tried to also add a bow, but it didn't work for me, so I took it off.

In addition to the wreath I did my take on an Easter tree, like Martha's. It is just a vase, with some sticks from the yard, moss in the bottom, and dollar store eggs. Love it though!


The last thing I did with the dollar store eggs was to make a topiary. I got a dollar store pot, some moss, Styrofoam, and I had a rod and ribbon. I covered the top part of the Styrofoam with moss, lots of glue from the glue gun, and also the dollar store eggs. Then I attached all of the parts together and tied a ribbon.

It was fun and I think it looks cute. I do wish that the moss was greener, but sometimes you have to work with what you got.

Ok, enough with the dollar store eggs.
Next up were these super cute burlap bunnies, I found via a blog link party.
I had some left over burlap from my wreath, so I had to give it a try.

Mine was slightly bigger, and it would be great as a pillow, but since burlap is messy it sits near the fireplace. Brady loves him.

Finally, I did another dish towel. It was the end of naptime, so I rushed, but it turned out ok.

Other things that are making our house feel springy...

My birthday flowers (a week old)

I think tulips are my favorite flowers

And another birthday present, this runner that my Mom got me while in Germany.

I really need to iron it, but I looove it. Wouldn't it look great with a matching dish towel? Gosh Mom! Just kidding, thanks I love it.

So that is spring in our house, and just looking around it makes me happy. What spring decor makes you happy? Happy spring everyone!

Valentine's Day

I don't normally decorate for holidays, other than Christmas really. But after having Brady, everything seems like more fun when it is decorated. So I decided to do a little decorating for valentine's day.
I set a very small budget, like $2 small, so I did not have much to work with.
First I bought some candy hearts, for a dollar, and placed them in a vase. Then I painted some wooden skewers pink, and glued some hearts to the top. I tied a little bow around the vase, and here is my valentine's center piece.

It kind of looks like a craft Brady helped with, but he didn't. Oh well I still like it.

Next up, I found a piece of a 4 by 4 in the yard from the new construction behind our house, and have saved it for awhile. I finally knew how I wanted to use it. First I used my jigsaw to cut them in 4 inch sections.
(My Dad would be so proud, he made me but that thing 6 months ago and I finally used it, by myself! Makes me want to do the tool man Taylor grunt thing)

Then I painted the corners and sides

Finally I modge podged scrapbook paper and letters on them to spell out LOVE.


Not sure how they will go but I also really LOVE these blocks, cute! Oh and Brady likes to play with them too, so it is a win, win.

Next was a dish towel. I forgot to take pictures of the process, but I cut up a flour sack from the dollar store, sewed on some hearts, a button, and some trim. I sewed the flour sack the size I wanted, right sides facing one another, leaving a hole. I turned it right side out, and top stitched around the whole thing. I would of loved to have had red thread to do my top stitching, BUT that would involving spending more money, and dragging Brady to the store. So that did not happen. First thing Brady did after seeing this after waking up from his nap was try to get the hearts and button off. He is so destructive, aren't all boys?

Hmm maybe I should do less crafting, and more cleaning of that oven, but that is no fun! :)

Lastly was my burlap wreath from this post. I simply sewed a ribbon to each felt heart. That way they can easily come off, and be used for next year. I started to add bows and more junk, but then I decided I liked it just like this.


This is my favorite valentines day craft, and I can't wait to change this wreath for other months.
My only question is: Is it wrong to leave up my wreath all of February? Or will my neighbors freak out like I do when Christmas lights are up past January 1st? (My neighbors lights are still up by the way! It is Jan 27th people! At least they don't come on anymore.) Can you tell my pet peeve?
Anyway! Hope you have a wonderful month full of LOVE!