carseat canopy

Carseat Canopy.

So I bought the material to do this a long long time ago and totally forgot about it until the other day when I was cleaning my craft room and found it so I decided to make the canopy before I forgot again. I did take some pictures of the process but they really didn't turn out at all so I will just tell you how I did it without the step by step pictures. It is really easy and just a few steps. The front of mine ( the pink) is just regular cotton material. The back is white minky material. If you buy a yard and a  half you will have plenty of material with some to spare. 

Step 1. Cut out your material. Mine was 42 1/2 by 28 1/2.

Step 2. Put the right sides together and sew around the sides. I noticed it was easier to sew the minky if it was on the bottom I dont know why. Sew all the way around but leave a small hole so you can flip it back with the right sides out.  I sewed mine with about 1/4 inch seem allowance.

Step 3. Turn it so right sides are facing out and sew all the way around it again closing up the hole this time. When i sewed all the way around this time i went as close to the edge as I could. 

Step 4. Cut out 4 straps. Mine were 8 inches by 2 1/2 inches.  

Step 5. Sew the right sides together and leave one end open to flip. 

Step 6. Flip material so the right sides are out and sew the one side shut. 

Step 7. I measured down 18 inches on the canopy and sewed a straight line all the way across this way it will hold the 2 fabrics together so when it is hanging the bottom wont fall down into the babies face. 

Step 8. Sew Velcro on to the straps.

Step 9. I measured down 18 inches so right where the line was that I sewed across and 8 inches in from the side and that is where i sewed my straps. and then i did the same on the other side 18 inches down and 8 inches in.

And your done!! Its as easy as that! 

Hopefully my instructions are easy enough to follow if you have questions please feel free to contact me or leave a comment. I would love any feed back anyone has! Thanks.


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fabric flower #3

Fabric Bow



These bows are super easy to make and look really cute on new babies or older todlers which ever you prefer. They really only take maybe 5 minutes.

 

 

SUPPLIES:

Material

Sissors

Needle

Thread

 

 

Step 1: cut out a strip of fabric. Now this may change depeding on your style and how big or small you want the bow. I cut mine 7 inches by 2 inches. Then cut out a smaller strip which will go around the center of the bow i cut mine 5 inches by 1/4 of an inch.



Now fold your fabric so they over lap a little bit and then sew a loose stich up the middle. Make sure to go through the front of the fabric as well not just the back. (pictures below)

 

 

Now pull the thread tight so it scrunches up the middle and tie it off.

 

 

Now you wrap the smaller strip you cut around the middle to hide the stich. and you can either hot glue it on there or sew the back with a few stiches to keep it on there either way.

 

* what i did was lay my bow on to a headband ( I crochet all my headbands but I am sure it would work with the elastic headbands you buy also) then i wrap the smaller strip around my bow and my headband and that is how i attach the bow to the headband and then stich the back with 2 stiches just to keep it on. That way if i want to change headbands or something i can just cut the strip in the middle and it wont ruin my bow.

 

baby mobile

Baby Mobile

So I saw a bunch of these on pinterest and decided to make one. It was super easy to make I didn't spend a penny, granted i had all the things i needed but i think it would be pretty cheap if you had to buy everything Sorry the pictures aren't that good they were taken with my phone and the lighting is bad in that room. I will just tell you how i made it and you can do your own variation of it or copy me.

- I found scrapbook paper that I thought would go together. I tried to get some plain colors because my kids will be sharing a room so some green and brown and pink to tie it all together.

- I cut out circles using my cricut machine. I cut some 2 inch and 2.5 inch and 3 inch just different sizes. I honestly dont know how much i cut. A lot because i 2 together so there was a color front and back. I had 9 rows with 4 or 5 circles on each row.

- Then i layed out my circles how i wanted them and sewed them together with my sewing machine. I tried to make them all different lengths.

Then I just tied all the strings around a embrodery ring and one in the middle. and i was finished!

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Spinach Artichoke Pasta

Spinach Artichoke Pasta

I got this recipe from here and it is amazing.. I altered it a tiny bit to our liking of course. But I was seriously surprised how good it was. Plus the husband even liked it and that is always a bonus. It makes tons so you can have some for lunch the next day or just left overs for when  you don't have time to make dinner one night. 

INGREDIENTS: 

5 Tablespoons butter
6 cloves of garlic finely minced
1 18 oz bag of frozen spinach
2 cans of quartered Artichoke Hearts drained
4 Tablespoons flour
3 Cups whole milk
A couple dashes of red pepper flakes
Salt and pepper to taste
3/4 Cup Parmesan Cheese
1 1/2 Cup Mozzarella Cheese
12 oz of Pasta
2 Chicken breasts shredded (more or less if you like lots of not so much chicken)

DIRECTIONS:

* Cook chicken however you like it ( i fried mine so it could be frying while I did other things)
* Cook the pasta
* Thaw or cook spinach if you don't have the frozen kind. (Ill be honest i just threw mine in the microwave)
* In a pan melt 2 Tablespoons butter and add garlic and frozen artichoke hearts. Leave them in there until the hearts start to turn brown then remove and sit aside. 
* Reduce the heat to low add 3 tablespoons of butter to the pot. When the butter is melted sprinkle in flower and whisk until combined then add the milk and let it cook for 3 or 4 minutes add your cheese and salt and peppers. 

* if it looks like your sauce is too thick add a little chicken broth to it

*Add the artichokes back to the pan along with the pasta and spinach and the shredded chicken and gently mix it all together and your ready to eat.

Fabric Flower #2

FABRIC FLOWER #2

 

This flower is super simple I found a couple different ways of doing it on pinterest and then kind of made it my own. So this is what worked best for me.

 

Step 1. I cut out a flower shape out of paper and then pinned it on the fabric to cut it out. I am not good a drawing flowers freehand so i traced a quarter 5 times you can see it in the picture below and that made it so it was pretty even.

 

 

Step 2. For this flower i cut out 14 flowers. It depends on how poofy you want your flower most of the tutorials i saw only did 10 flowers it just depends on what you want. Anyway cut out however many flowers you want and 1 felt circle for the back.

 

Step 3. Fold the flower in half. And right where my finger is I put a small dot of hot glue and folded it in half again just to kind of keep it together.  So 1 pedel will be folded in half twice. You dont have to glue it in the middle like i did i just found the flower stayed together better.

 

Step 4. Place 4 pedals side by side onto the felt. Just put a small dot of glue in the middle and place the four around it. like the picture below.

 

Step 5.Do that same step again ontop of the ones you just glued in the spaces between. I did 3 rows of this on my flower.  Then for the top two just put a dot of glue and stick them in there so they are fluffed up. You can also not put the top 2 in and just put a button instead.

 

Side note. This works better for light fabric. I used just plain cotton for mine and you can see the right and wrong side. It would have probably looked better if you couldn't see the wrong side but oh well i still think it tured out pretty cute.

 

If you like this look better (the yellow flower below) It is the same process but instead of cutting out the flower with 5 pedals at the first it is just a cirlce. Then you just fold it in half and in half again just like before. The only difference is that its a circle and the red one was cut with pedals.

fabric flower 1

Fabric Flower #1

I have had quite a few requests on how I make my fabric flowers for my headbands. So I thought I would post 1 flower a week or maybe 2 depending on how it goes.This flower is super super easy. Lets face it most everything I will post on here will be easy because I don't have time to make hard complicated things and I like easy things.

Supplies.

Felt

Fabric

Sissors

Hot glue gun.

 Directions

Step 1.

Cut 1 circle out of felt for the back. Any color will do because you wont see it. 

Step 2. 

Cut out lots of circles of the fabric of your choice. I did about 15-20 circles. (see photo below)

Step 3.

Take one circle at a time and fold sides inward. (look at photo below). Put some hot glue on the bottom and glue it to the felt then keep squishing the circles in next to each other so they are all bundled up.

Eventually after you have glued a bunch on you will have a beautiful fluffy flower. I turned it over and cut off the excess felt but you don't need to unless it is showing. Just remember to try and glue all the circles as close together as you can it will make it look more full. 

You can put them on headbands or hats or whatever I think they are super cute! 

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Thank you cards

Thank You Cards

As I have been cleaning out my craft room I noticed I have way too much stuff. So I started thinking of things I could make and have on hand that i would need all the time. Cards immediately popped into my head because we have a huge family on both sides and we are always needing birthday cards and thank you cards and on and on. So I thought I would save a few pennies by making my own cards to have on hand. Seeing how we live in the middle of nowhere it is kind of hard to just run to the store when you need a wedding, birthday, baby, or thank you card. So today I will show you how I made these super easy 5 min thank you cards. 

Supplies:

Scissors
Card stock paper for the actual card part
Background paper any pattern will do.
A solid colored paper
A scrap piece of white card stock for the thank you circle.
Glue Gun.
Tape

Step 1.

Cut the card stock paper in half horizontally. (now u have your 2 cards)

Step 2. 

Cut out background paper to cover the entire front of the card and tape or glue it on which ever you prefer. I use double sided tape. 

Step 3. 

Take your solid colored paper and cut 2 strips out of it. I cut 2 strips of 1.5 inches wide by 12 inches long. Then I realized i didn't need 2 that long so i cut one of them in half.

Step 4. 

Fold the strip back and forth like a fan. (See picture below)

Step 5. 

Tape the 2 strips together forming a circle. If you get 1 strip of paper long enough you wont have to use 2 but I didn't have one long enough. (See photo below)

Step 6.

Now this took me forever to figure out. I could not for the life of me figure out how to get this to stay glued or taped to the card then it hit me. Cut out a small piece of card stock and hot glue it to the back. (see photo below) Now it will be easy to stick to the card.

Step 7.

Tape or glue the fan circle is what i will call it, to the back. Again I used double sided tape.

Step 8.

Now if you don't like your hand writing like me you can print off  thank you on card stock and cut a circle out of it or you can write it out by hand. I tried both. I liked the printed better. But either way cut out the circle and I found that hot clue works best again. So just hot glue the thank you on and your done :)

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