wishing for Spring

wishing for Spring, I made a new Spring flavored wreath. I love the colors.

I made the flowers the same way I made them here, here and here.

Then I just glued them on a grapevine wreath with a hot glue gun.

I am linking up with A Bowl Full of Lemons today.

Holiday Wreath

I made a Christmas wreath this weekend.

I made it the same way I made this one and his one.

I added a ribbon to make it a little more festive and I think that these are my best flowers to date.

Yarn Wreath

I made a yarn wreath yesterday to hang on my front door.

I would share a how to but all I did was wrap yarn around a straw wreath, with the plastic still on. Then I made flowers like I did for the one here. Glued them on and hung it up.

Happy Fall, its my favorite time of year!

Fall Wreath

I made this Fall wreath last week.

I love all these felt flower wreaths that I have seen all over online. 

I found so many pretty ones etsy, but they were anywhere from 27 to 40 dollars.

I decided to try to make one of my own and it was really easy and I love the way it turned out.

The wreath was $4 and the felt was $2 the ribbon was $2. 

I looked up how to's online and ended up doing a combo of a couple different ones.

first, I drew a circle in the felt.

Then I cut the circle out. Make sure that you cut in wavy lines so the flower petals are different lengths.

Cut the circle in a long spiral, keeping it wavy, so that you end up with a long line.

leave the little oval at the end to use as the bottom of the flower.

Then, you just roll the felt up.

you want to start the center out tight so that the flower stays, but you can roll it up tight to make it smaller or you can roll it up looser to make the flower look fuller.

This was the first flower I made, it is easy!

I made 12 flowers in different sizes. ( the size of you circle changes the size too.)

and once again, here it is finished.

I love it!

next, I am going to try a yarn wreath.

Today, I linked up with ...

trip to Hobby Lobby

Yesterday Tatum and I went to Hobby Lobby, I had a bag that my mom gave me that I wanted to but letters for.

here is the bag before.....

and after

Tatum also found something she wanted to make......

before...

and after

she has if full and is carrying it around already!

isn't hobby lobby fun????

making bows...

The night of Josh's birthday dinner, we went into a Hobby Lobby. I ended up buying some ribbon that Tatum picked out and some hair clips to make some bows for Tatum Friday night I gave it a try. These three are the starters. I think I'll make some more. These are the ones Tatum wants to wear now. :)

The purple one is her favorite one.

more updates to come soon....

Inspiration from Stephanie.

A while back I saw a post from Stephanie called "Pretty things made by Stephanie". In her post, she made a bow holder for her daughter. I thought it was really cute. So last week I bought stuff to make Tatum a bow holder too, for her ever growing collection of bows.

Tatum picked out the ribbon to clip the bows on.

I also painted some hooks to hang her bags or purses on. She has so many, I should have made two or three! :)