Foto Friday #8 - Something New....In The Making

Pretty in Pink

On Easter Sunday, my daughter looked so cute in her pink cardi. You can't really see it in that picture, but she had a big pink flower in her hair. I was probably as big as her head, so I put it in the back.

It was a simple destruct and restruct project, that took no time at all (my favoritest kind). I saw this flowers in Michael's (on sale for a buck):

I didn't really like the big yellow center....

In comes the glue gun (don't judge my glue gun, I bought it back when I move back to KY...17 years ago), scarpbooking gems (uh, I am not a scrapbooker, but I really like pretty papers and gems), and hair clips (from The Plaid Barn).

First i cut the flower from the stem, then I cut the yellow center off. Of course by doing that there was nothing holding the petals together, so I put a dot of glue between each layer (on two sides). The I used hot glue to glue the gem to the center, and to glue the flower the the clip.



Some Assembly Required

Well more like a lot required!

There are 2 legs, two arms, and an ear....

(after i took this picture I realized one arm was longer than the other...LOL)

There is a head with bobby pins where the eyes should be....

Once I had all the parts done, I stuffed and began the stitching together part. I took him to work with me (the YMCA) and it was interesting that the parents were all super interested and the children were a little weirded out about it. So, I tired to always have the head sitting on top well he was sitting out. It kept falling off. It was pretty funny, well funny to me, not so much for the little people.

Can you tell what it is yet?

How about now? He just needs a nose and a mouth!

Ta Dah! Yep the Easter Bunny!

My daughter carried him around all day yesterday, I think he came out pretty cute. Then, it dawned on my at the end of the day....I forgot to give him a tail. So tonight I will make one up real quick. :)

Pattern is from Caron

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Foto Friday # 7 - Go Team?

Tomorrow is the BIG game between University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky. So at school today it's Big Blue Day. My daughter decided to wear Red! I was born and raised in Louisville, and attended the University of Kentucky. I refuse to pick a side, so she picked one for me. :)

If you don't know how crazy the in-state rivalry is here in Kentucky check out this article or better yet, this one.



Rubberband Man!

Ok, well not really rubber bands, more like elastic bands. But I use to like the Rubberband Man commercials. :) Anyway, I found these really cute hairband balls, and $3.50 is not expensive, but I knew I could do it or less, cause I'm cheap like that!

So I took the hairband I bought a few weeks ago, and some left over Styrofoam balls I already had....



$1 Spent

Then I just started wrapping them around

And added even more

Grabbed a second ball, and added some to that



Until I ran out!



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Foto Friday # 6 -Sketch



Another one of my favorites drawn by my son



Yarn Covered Containers

I ran across this project over on Craftpassion.com and figured, easy enough. Not only easy, but pretty fun too. I found a huge bag of toilet paper rolls (industrial sized) at work. I'm not sure why they had so many of them, but I certainly helped myself to a few...well maybe more than a few :)

I made one:



I covered the inside and the bottom of the container differently than the ones on craft passion



It was cute, it needed a friend, so I made another one:

Then I became sort of addicted... and I made more:



I needed one for every thing that I could possibly put inside a container.

If anyone is interested in how I covered the insides...let me know I have a couple of tubes leftover and would be happy to do a how to. :)

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