Craft Month 2011 – Day 11 – Lace Flowers

I really like fabric flowers.  Actually… that might be the understatement of the year.  I LOVE fabric flowers…. So, today’s national craft month project is another style of fabric flowers.  Or… two really.  The biggest thing about today’s project is that I wanted to experiment with lace. I actually ended up with two very different,…

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Rock the Red Pump

Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) and I’m proudly (and fiercely) Rocking the Red Pump with over 1,200 of my fellow bloggers from around the country (and the world). NWGHAAD is recognized on March 10th of every year with the goal is of bringing women together to encourage dialogue and educate…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 10 – Hot Iron Travel Pouch

Today’s national craft month project can be done aas a sewing project, or a hot glue project.  I did mine as a hot glue project, because I couldn’t get the layers of fabric through my sewing machine. This travel pouch was made for my travel size flat iron.  It’s an amazingly simple project.  For this…

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Wee Bit: March 9th

{one} what color is your kitchen? off white, the color of the rest of my house. (We rent) {two} do you have a good luck charm? my husband. {three} do you prefer to write with a pen or pencil? Sharpies! I can never keep a pencil. {four} can you use chopsticks? I love to use them……

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 9 – Simple Elastic Waist Skirt

Today’s craft project is a my first sewing project for national craft month. I don’t normally do sewing projects, because I always seem to have issues with my sewing machine. It’s usually the tension, but this was such a cool project, that I had to try it. This skirt was actually really simple. I took…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 8 – Hair Wrap

Today’s project is a hair wrap.  It as actually really simple to make… or it would have been if I hadn’t insisted on folding and ironing all of my fabric too avoid edges. I cut some fabric into 2 inch strips and folded it the way bias tape is folded – with the edges to…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 7 – Burnt Silk Flowers

Today I’m going to show you some cute silk flower clips I made over the weekend.  I really like these clips, because they were simple to make, and gave me a nice project for my silk remnants. To make these flowers, I simply cut some circles out of my silk fabric.  I used 3  –…

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 6 – Mod Podge Cityscape

If you’ve been reading my blog, I’m sure you already know that it’s national craft month and I’m trying to make a project a day all month.  I’m proud to say that I haven’t missed a day yet.  But, since it’s sunday.  Today is a simple project. 

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 5 – Felt Flower Dahalia

It’s the fifth day of craft month and I am still going strong. Whoo!  Today’s project is brought to you by a tutorial for Fabric Dahalias from Holidash.  I used this project as a test for some thicker, more wool like felt that I had laying around.  I bought it for it’s beautiful chocolate brown…

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