Thursday, December 3, 2009

Luggage ID Tag

Here's another present for the traveling hubby! It's an ID tag that I found HERE on Make it and Love it. I would've taken more pictures but my machine was being really dumb so the seams aren't very good. I need to get it serviced or something. Oh well, it's probably about time.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Neck Pillow

The hubby has been and will be flying to a lot of interviews. I saw a Neck pillow tutorial HERE on Make it and Love it and figured I could do that. Well the one she made was for a child so I looked at the shape of the one she made and made a pattern with construction paper. I then cut it out of micro fleece and filled it will fiber fill. It looked great, but it was too small. So I remade it and cut it a ton bigger. I think it turned out great and the hubby said he loved having it during his flight today!!

Friday, November 20, 2009

Homemade Golf Club Covers

My husband loves golf, and he is a big University of Utah fan. So for our anniversary I thought what better gift to give him that something that has to do with two things he loves! So I took one of the covers that came with his clubs and I got some Utah fleece from Hobby Lobby. I took my blue fabric marking pencil and made a mark from the top of the back seam to the bottom, then I rolled in to the front and marked the top and bottom and then continued to roll it to the back again. To tell you the truth I really don't know how I got this to work, but it turned out pretty good! Then I cut out the fabric. I made four covers so I had a front and back for each to make it a little thicker. I also had to make the top, so I took a wider mouth cup from my kitchen and traced a circle and then cut out 8 of those. I used a really thick double iron on interfacing and fused the two circles together, but I made the interfacing circle smaller than the fleece so I didn't have to sew through 4 layers of fleece and thick interfacing. When all of those were done I bought a 1, 3, 5, and H to put on top of the covers. I bought the iron on numbers that were a little thicker so they would last longer. But not only did I iron it on, but I sewed around it as well.
Then I bought black socks (cause they never get dirty!) for the neck of the covers. I just cut them where I thought they would look the best. I didn't worry about cutting them too straight cause I knew the edges would be covered by the fabric.
Then I sewed the two pieces together along the top edge, and then I sewed the back edges together.
Once that was done I sewed the top circle to the rest of the fleece. When you do this make sure that the number is facing the front of the sock. You don't want the number facing the back seam.
Once the top was sewn on I took the black sock and turned it inside out with the rest of the cover the right side out. I did it the first time with them both inside out and I ended up with the top inside out and the neck the right way. So I had to unpick, not fun! Pin all of it together and sew around the top. I did about a half inch seam just to make sure I got all the different layers.
Once you've sewn that it's finished, and you have custom golf club covers that don't take too long and don't cost and arm and a leg!!
The only sad part is he can't use them for another 5 months. Oh well, it'll be like getting a present twice!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween Apothecary!!!

I saw this idea on the Idea Room and loved it, so I started my own. The labels came from The Love Manor. I have one more bottle I need to add and some spider webs, but I thought it was a good start! Fun addition to my other Halloween decor!







EEEEEKKKKKK!!!!!

I made this cute Eek at a Super Saturday activity. Happy Halloween!


Friday, October 16, 2009

Board

I have been wanting to make one of these for quite some time. I went with Shanna to buy the supplies for hers, so it got me even more excited! I finally got the supplies and put it together. I made mine a little different. I put a corkboard on the left, the glass in the middle, and metal on the right. I have Halloween pins on the corkboard, and I made some Halloween magnets for the metal. In the middle I drew a calendar on the back of the glass so it will not erase (eventually I will get vinyl instead). I put Halloween paper behind the glass, that way I can switch it out each month to go with the month! Now I just need to hang it up and put it to use!


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Monday, October 12, 2009

Cute Magnets!

A lot of people have made these cute magnets, and I really wanted to make some. Well Melissa (also on this blog!) has made them before so she told me how to make them. Thanks Melissa!
Glossy Accents was a great way to make these!
These magnets are really good. They actually work! You also use these flat marbles.
First you put a drop of the glossy accents on the marble
Then you put it onto your scrap booking paper and smoosh it down so the gloss goes over everything. You can see the bottom right one the gloss isn't everywhere and the others you can't see the gloss cause it's all over.
Melissa told me to put the marbles on first cause all the marbles are different sizes and you can cut them out after they've dried so you don't have to match them up after you've cut them out.
Then you cut them out and use a little super glue on the back and put the magnet on the back, let it dry and then you are done! The only thing I wish I would've done different was put less super glue on because I put too much and it seeped through so you could see it through the marble. But other than that I liked how they turned out!
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