Somthing to do with old shirts

As I was wondering around the Internet I came across this fun little tutorial on how to do Restyled Shrugs from old shirts. I'm excited to try it but think I might go to a thrift store and get a shirt to try it on before I use one of my own. If anyone does this let me know how it turns out. I'm interested to know how it goes.

H.O.P.E. Festival Fundraiser

On Wednesday I was able to participate in the first annual H.O.P.E. festival . It was a fundraiser for CAPSA and 25% of whatever the vendors sold was donated. My friend and I set up a little booth with some of the different projects we have done over the summer.

I learned how to crochet once, a long time ago (just very simple stuff), and over the summer I decided to take it back up. There were a couple of beanie styles that I really liked, so I took bits and pieces of them and made my own. They were a hit at the Festival - I could not be more excited.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to support me and a wonderful cause to help raise money for CAPSA. There are a few items left and over the weekend I will be putting them online - AlwaysBeCreating.Etsy.com. If there are certain colors that you want let me know and would be happy to make you a beanie/scarf.

~Keep Creating

Crafts for the kids

A couple of weekends ago my niece and nephew came up to stay with us for a couple of days. Whenever they come up here I always try to come up with a craft to make with them. Over the years I have collected quit an assortment of craft goodies, they are from school, old hobbies, new hobbies, all sorts of stuff. The craft has to be something that is easy enough for them to do and something that won't just end up on the floor or become clutter once they get it home. Lately I have been doing things with them that we can hang on the walls. This time we made a little wall hanging, or it could be place on a wall shelf. They wanted to remember the fall colors so this is what we came up with.


We just used some extra pieces of plexi glass and spray painted a frame on them. Then we took dried, flattened leaves and spay mounted them to the back side of the glass. After everything had time to dry we put clear transparency on the back to hold everything in place. It also gave to glass a more foggy look.

I'm happy to say that both of them loved their little project. I was pretty please about how they turned out too.

Fun Frames

I made these frames a while ago but never got around to posting about them. The idea came from a sister-in-law who has done similar things for gifts and to frames in her house. They were fun to make and a bit different from the other things I've done so far. I love to make wall art pieces in triplicates.

Enjoy.

Chic

Spring

Fun!!!!!!

Printable Planner

While in school I came up with a planner that I could use in my binders. It needed to be something that could be printed off whenever needed. This has plenty of room to write notes, grocery lists and sketch while waiting for the time to pass. ENJOY!!!!!

What a difference a planner can make!!! – Let me help you get organized.

This PDF contains all of you need to print and make your very own customized calendar and planner, including these 5 page designs:
Cover
Monthly Calendar
Weekly Calendar
Notes
Contacts

The page designs are very flexible, you put in the dates for any month and year. The perfect calendar, it can be printed off year after year and whenever you may need another sheet. A helpful gift to purchase this for your college student, I can even send it directly to them. The weekly page is great to write in the semester’s schedule.


You will have;
Letter Size – Print it, punch it and place in a 3-ring binder! Great for school binders.
Half Size – This is half the size of the letter pages, just as easy to use. With these ones I print about four months at a time to keep in my bag.

If you don't want to deal with printing and binding let me, convo me at my Etsy shop. I will do all the work and set up a reserved listing for you. Just let me know what size, color and number of months to be included.

Have fun Creating!!

Mini-Magnets

Looking for a fun way to jazz up your fridge? Mini-magnets are the perfect way to add color and fun to the fridge. They are great to use to keep the monthly calender up or for your kids to put their latest school/art work up for everyone to see.

The listing is for all 10 magnets shown.

I have always thought these home made magnets are so much fun. It is a great way to use the left over paper from scrapbooking and add some life to a message board or fridge. There are also the larger ones that I have used to put pictures behind. This a great way to use school pictures and keep them up without cluttering up. If you would like me to put personal pictures on magnets convo me at my ETSY shop and I would be happy to do that for you.

Have fun creating!!!!!!!

New Hobby

I was looking through some pictures of a friend and saw a really cute crocheted hat. I have not been able to find a job and the ones that are available my doctor told me I can't take since I would spend most of the time standing, I have recently had surgery on my foot. To help me fill my time I asked my friend for the pattern to her hat but there was no way I was going to be able to figure it out. The most I have done is really simple scarves with the basic stitch. So I sent the pattern to my Aunt to try and help me figure it out. That night, Friday, I decided that I should try to figure out some of the basics so that when I saw my Aunt on Sunday I would be able to better understand what she was talking about. From a website of free crochet patterns I found a beanie that looked pretty easy (the stripped one). A friend came over and we sat in front of the computer looking up stitches on YouTube to figure it out and by the time she left we both had a beanie. I made two more that weekend, but took one of them apart because I didn't like the way it turned out.

When I saw my Aunt last Sunday she showed me how to do the spiral using the front post stitch. Then I made the pink/brown beanie with the spiral using the basic pattern from the brown one but just changed it up a little bit. It has been really fun to figure this out and see the beanies take shape. Now I will need to make them every so often just so I do not forget everything I have learned.