Valentine Round-UP

Okay, so Valentine's Day is done, and I haven't been on here forever...so I thought I'd do a round-up of all the lovey-dovey projects we did for Valentine's Day.  Included are links to all of the sites where I found the projects as well as their wonderful tutorials.  Enjoy!

I found this idea on Pinterest and immediately fell in love with it.

A cute heart wreath made of...you guessed it...FELT!  But it looks like lovely Valentine roses, and can add a little bit of Valentine love to your house.

Or you could give it as a gift....

Total cost for me was about $6...I used my JoAnn's coupon for the foam heart, and bought the felt on sale 3/4 of a yard should be good, and you need straight pins.  A wonderful tutorial for this project can be found at The Idea Room.  She says to use a 3 inch circle which, in case you were wondering, is the same size as a regular soup can (I used diced tomatoes).  Also, if you have a good movie to watch you can finish this project pretty fast, I made mine start-to-finish in one movie (the 6th Harry Potter) so approximately 153 minutes :)

Next up are some valentines for friends at school.  Since I just bought a new serger, we decided to sew Ryan's valentines this year.  She wrote on all of the hearts and I sewed them onto the little "baggies" which were then filled with packets of valentine fruit snacks from Target.  The idea for these came from one of my absolute favorite blogs: MADE.  All of her tutorials are unbelievably easy to follow (even for beginners) and everything turns out so cute!! You can find a tutorial for these valentines at her site.

I ended up buying WAY WAY too much fabric for the valentines, so we decided to make a cute valentine skirt for Ryan to deliver her treats in :) ...again the easiest skirt tutorial EVER!

And what Valentine outfit would be complete without a festive hair-do? This cute "heart hair" looks complicated, but really is very easy just a few ponytails and two braids...plus with a full video tutorial, I'm sure you could all figure it out :)

Hope your February was full of L*O*V*E

Eight Little Reindeer

Taking a felt food break for a moment, I made these cute reindeer t-shirts.  Super easy, and super fast!

I have 5 nieces and nephews that live nearby, plus my two kids, the age range is 3-14...and every year their brave grandma takes them ALL out for the day to have whatever festive holiday experiences she can think up.  So this year I thought it might be fun for them all to have matching shirts (and make it easier for grandma to keep track of all of them!)...and of course grandma needed one too.

  

A Little Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving!!!  (A little late, but I was eating turkey....and then I had to sleep it off....clean the house....decorate for Christmas....you know!)  Thought I would share a quick little turkey day project, a turkey shirt.  Perfect, fun, comfy attire for Thanksgiving day.  And this shirt only took me about 1 hour to make start to finish! (That's my kind of project)

Ryan loved her shirt, and wore it to school multiple times, and on Thanksgiving. Notice the head tilt, that is to show off her newly pierced ears :)


I did have to go back and tack the tops of the ribbons down because I made them too long and they started to flop over, otherwise I was very happy with how well the shirt turned out.


I got the idea for this shirt from this blog: http://www.lovefromtexas.com/2011/07/phone-pics.html she has lots of cute embroidery and applique ideas