Simply Grace Headbands

Hello Everyone. As you know I am obsessed with  making headbands. I have decided I would start making them to sell. I have created a facebook and instagram account where I will sell them only on there via paypal. I have a giveaway going on right now so please follow me on both Instagram and Facebook and enter the giveaway! There are quite a few places that sale headbands out there and most of them are crazy expensive. I want to try to keep mine on the cheaper side. 2-10 dollars each depending on the headband! 

I am really trying to get the word out about my new shop so please go like my page on facebook page here and tell all your friends. Don't forget to enter the giveaway! 

Fabric flower 4

Easy fabric flower tutorial.



So it has been quite a while since I have blogged and I will try to do better I promise. I was looking through my most popular posts and my flower tutorials were the most popular so I decided I would do another tutorial. This one is so easy and took me like 10 minutes to put together including cutting. 

Step 1: cut out circles. I cut out about 16. The fastest way is to fold your fabric in half then in half again so you are cutting out 4 circles at once.

Step 2 once you have your circles cut out take a circle and fold it in half 3 times. (Like the picture below) and cut like a tear drop shape (like the photo below) that way it will make some pedals. The pedals don't need to be perfect. You can also cut these 2 or 3 at a time so it goes faster.

Step 3. Take one of your flowers and fols it in half so the pedals are off set. ( like the photo below.)

Step 4: OK after it is folded in half roll the pedal (like the photo below) and put a dot of hot glue at the end so it doesn't come apart.

Step 5: once you have all your pedals rolled and glued. Cut out a felt circle for the back and start hot gluing your pedals around in a circle right next to each other (see photo below) 

Step 6: after you have your first row glue on glue another row on top of the first one. Glue the top ones in the spaces between the first row to make it look more full. Then place an embellishment in the middle and your done.

Please feel free to ask questions or comments or whatever I would love to hear from you;) 

Garlic Biscuits

Garlic Biscuits

In our home we love biscuits and gravy. My husband will not eat the kind out of the can he has to have homemade from scratch biscuits. I have tried so many different recipes to try and find the best biscuits. Needless to say all of them did not turn out. One day we were at my husbands aunts house and she made these with dinner and they were amazing. So of course I asked her for her recipe and just prayed that mine would taste as good as hers. Does that ever happen you, use the exact same recipe as someone and it doesn't taste the same? Well it happens to me all the time. But these turned out great! I have made them for a few different dinner parties and get togethers I have been to and they are a hit everyone asks for my recipe. So here it is. Very simple

Ingredients



 4 C. Flour (I use 2 all purpose and 2 wheat)

3 T baking powder

1 t. cream of tartar

1 t. salt

4 T sugar

1 C. shortening

2 eggs

1 1/3 milk.

 

Directions:

-Preheat oven 425

- Combine all dry ingredients

-Cut in shortening

-add eggs and milk

- mix well and evenly put into muffin pan.

 

* Once they are in the muffin pan melt 1/4 cup butter and chop garlic. You can add as little or as much garlic as you want. We eat a lot of garlic around here. mix the garlic and melted butter and brush tops of muffins with the butter/garlic mixture and bake.

-bake at 425 for 15 minutes.

 

I hope you enjoy these! 

thanksgiving banner

I just wanted to share my thanksgiving banner. I made this one out of paper. My back paper is 4.5 by 3.25 then my light paper is 4x3. I just cut my letters out with my cricut. This was a super simple and fast craft. Then I just punched holes at the top and weaved the lace in and out of it.

halloween banner

Happy Halloween Banner

I just had to share my new banner. Sorry i hvent posted for a few weeks we have been gone visiting family or a few weeks. everyone keeps asking if its paper or fabric. It is fabric. They had a pattern at  small quilt shop in st. George. I can't remember the name.  Then I just cut it all out and sewe it together. I am pleased with how it turned out. Anyway I hope you have a great Halloween.

DIY Wreath

DIY Wreath

 

So I had made a wreath last winter for this fall and was so excited to put it up. I put it up a few weeks ago..yes I know that is a little early... anyway it fell off my door when someone came to visit and kind of slammed the door as they left and it fell off and broke ;(. So I made another one. Quite different from the first but I think I like this one better. I wish I would have taken more pictures of the process but I didn't. 

Supplies:

Burlap

Wreath

Hot glue gun

Different kinds of material

Ribbon (i got the ribbon from here)

Ok so i cut a 3 inch strip of burlap and just wrapped it around the wreath all the way around. Then hot glued it in place.

 

 

 

Next I took the different kinds of fabric and cut strips. I cut different lengths and widths to whatever i wanted. I also cut some smaller strips of burlap to make the smaller rosettes.

 

Then I made a bunch of rosettes. I am sorry i didn't post  pictures of that process. I will do a post on how to make them another time i suppose.

 

Anyway i made all the rosettes and then started placing them where i wanted them and then hot glued them on. I then took some ribbon and tied bows to add a little different textures to the wreath. Then i hot glued them on.

 

 

And thats it! If you make a wreath similar to this please leave a comment with a link to yours i would love to see your ideas!

If you have a big hook on your door that you hang wreaths by you could just hang it on or if you have a smaller hook you could hot glue a small piece of ribbon on the back to hang it on. Either way would work great i am sure!

color game

So my little guy just turned 2 last month. Crazy I know!! Anyway those of you who have kids know it is hard to entertain a 2 year old for very long!  Winter is coming fast around here and I have been stressed about what to do with him because he wont be able to go outside and play and I dont want him to just sit in front of the TV all day. So I decided I would make games and things so he will learn his colors, ABCs, and counting.  

So today we made this! Just a simple matching type game of his colors.. I make him repeat the color before he puts the clothes pin on. He actually likes it a lot so that is great! 

It is super simple to make.. I saw something like this on Pinterest and thought "hey i have all the stuff to make that i will try it out". I traced a circle onto a box and cut it out. Then i attempted to make even sections and color them. Don't judge i couldnt get the sections perfect but i figured he is 2 he wont care. 

Then i painted each color and he helped by painting the newspaper I put under it. And i panted the clothes pins and let it dry and then gave it to him. So i will let him play with it today then maybe put it away for a couple weeks and trade out other activities so he doesn't get bored with it. 

Anyway I will try to post all my ideas for the winter as i make them so keep checking back :)