Tutu and Two

It has been a little while since my last craft project, but last weekend I finally had another reason to make something. One of my good friends has an adorable little girl who turned two last week. I wanted to make something and thought what could be better for a two-year-old than a tutu!?


It was quite easy. I took elastic and just sewed two edges together to make a stretchy waist band. Next, I cut tulle into long strands. Then I tied the tulle onto the elastic. Lots and lots of tulle...

And I thought Juliet needed a cute shirt to go with it as well. :)

 

T-shirt from Hobby Lobby, bag of lime green sequins, white and pink felt,  and a little patience

Who said that 2's have to be terrible? They can be fabulous!

Happy Birthday to my favorite two-year-old!

Hold Me Close.

This is probably the most difficult project I've attempted so far. I don't consider myself an artist. I'm more of a crafter. When I paint, it is normally patterns or cartoony type objects. A few weekends ago, I found this giant framed painting at a yard sale for $5. It was from a hotel that had recently redecorated, so the painting was "meh," but the frame was really nice. I decided to step out of my comfort zone and paint something a bit more difficult than my norm... I decided to paint my favorite picture from our wedding.

I just really love the composition of this shot. To me, it just feel extremely intimate. I also love the flowers as the focal point. My bouquet was beautiful. My mom and aunt worked themselves to the bone on the flowers for our wedding, and I loved every single thing they put out there. They really made my dream wedding come true. So here's my attempt...

Happy Pictures Need Happy Frames

Dane and I have been married for nearly eight months... and I had yet to put up any of our wedding pictures around the apartment. For this project, I decided to go extra thrifty. I took a trip to our local Goodwill and found a few old, plain, CHEAP frames. Each of them were $2 or less. You can see why.

 

Who doesn't want a Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel?

I had a few other frames from the dollar store and Michael's.

Add some paint and some scrapbooking paper and here you go... 

The finished product.

To give some reference or reason as to the color choice, these are in the same room as these paintings.

Never FELT Better

I've decided to make a few changes to my blog. I don't have enough interesting stories to tell in order to keep up with a everyday-life-blog, but I really enjoyed sharing a few of my recent craft projects. So, I've decided to make this blog all about one of favorite hobbies... Taking something ordinary, boring, or dated and making it into something new and exciting.


So here is the first post under my new blog name: Color Me Happy!


A few years ago, I saw a friend of mine turn a few plain onesies into adorable, personalized onesies. I thought this would be perfect for my little niece/nephew Baby Nichols.

Supplies: Plain Onesies and a rainbow of Felt and Thread

A Little Night Owl

 

I made this one really hoping that my big brother would like it :)

Baby Nichols is gonna love "Haddadi"

Finished Product

Bright Polka Dots and Happy Animals

Last weekend, I went to visit my little sis-in-law in Starkville. If you didn't know, almost everything shuts down around 5 or 6 o'clock. So, as we usually do, we decided to get creative. We got a few canvases and decided to spend our Saturday night painting. Earlier that day we had browsed a few stores and I had seen some really cute paintings of a monkey and a giraffe. My older sis-in-law announced a few weeks ago that she is having a baby... and they are not finding out the gender. When I saw those paintings, I thought they'd be perfect for a gender neutral nursery. So, I decided to make my own and if they didn't match how they decide to decorate the nursery it'd be okay, because paint and canvas is inexpensive and reusable.


Here is the finished product...

 After making the monkey and giraffe, I remembered there is one jungle animal that is very important to our family. T - I - G - E - R - S !

I wrapped each canvas in ribbon so they're easily hung and extra cute :)

Green is much happier than Beige...

Well... I officially failed my "Blog everyday" goal. The weekend just gets so full of fun things or projects... like this one I'm going to show you.


When we picked our bedding, Dane made it very clear that it could not be girly. We looked and we looked, but most bedding is either very feminine or very masculine. We finally found this grey and white duvet that we both liked enough to register for. Then we got a black bed... and grey curtains... and black nightstands... and eventually our room became very black and grey. I hated it. It became my least favorite room in our apartment. I decided to do something about it. I didn't want to paint because then we'd have to worry about repainting it before we move out, so I had to come up with something else. I don't know where it came from, but I got an idea. I love scrapbooking paper. I use it on all sorts of projects. I decided I'd cover my wall in scrapbooking paper. Goodbye, Beige. Hello, Green!

BEFORE

 

AFTER

I used removable glue dots and thumb tacks

I may put the birds & tree paintings back up or create a mirror and picture frame collage. We'll see. I'm just glad that I'm really happy with it.

The different patterns up close

Day 17: Bucket List

Here is my list. It is in no particular order... some are crazy, some are serious, but they all sound great to me.

-hang out on the beaches in Australia
-go on a safari in Africa
-hit the many tourist stops in Europe
-swim with dolphins
-read the whole Bible
-learn to play piano or guitar
-see a Broadway play in NYC
-run a 5k
-go on an overseas mission trip
-learn to cook something fancy
-earn a master's degree
-go to a Memphis NCAA tournament game
-paint a mural
-write a children's book
-go parasailing
-ride an elephant
-create something completely unique
-truly surprise someone
-become a mother