Patriotic Burlap Wreath

I made this wreath for a friend's birthday.  I bought all of my supplies at Hobby Lobby last week for under $15 dollars...some of it was on sale.  Anyway, I came home and watched some video tutorials on how to make your own burlap wreath, and voila!  I created this one.  I really like how it looks and might make one for myself soon.  Thanks for visiting!

USA Ribbon Flag

My living room is patriotic themed, and when I was sent a pin from a friend that is similar to this ribbon flag, I knew it was on my project list.  I received this pin from her months ago, and finally decided last month to make it.  Sometimes when I am consumed with Etsy shop orders, I crave a creation for myself!   haha  So I bought all of the ribbon at WalMart and the blue fabric came from JoAnn's.  Then I hot glued everything together and tacked it up on the wall. I love it!!!  Thanks for looking!

Updated flag post here:  http://thecozyhousecrafter.blogspot.com/2015/07/updated-us-flag.html

Valentine's Day Tag Wreath

I made this wreath today during Jayna's nap and while watching my son play the Wii. (Carly was at school, of course.) Did you know that a mushroom monster can eat Mario's hat when it falls off?!? I didn't until today, and I used to play Super Mario Bros. on the Super Nintendo a lot while my honey was on his mission back in the 90's. Anyway,...back to the craft at hand. hehe I used my Cricut Expression to cut the hearts and circles, and then I hole-punched them with a Crop-a-dile. After that I purchased a grapevine wreath at Hobby Lobby (they are on sale there this week!), and took some scrap ribbons in coordinating colors and tied them to the dried vines. The paper is a My Mind's Eye paper stack also bought at Hobby Lobby. And the tile "Because nice matters" was made by my friend, Sarah, who is known as "hometypography" on Etsy and she also sells Scentsy candles. I hot glued the ribbon to the back of the tile she gifted me at one of her parties for bringing two friends along (score!) and hung it in the middle of the wreath. That's it! Let me know if you make one and send me pictures!

AMAZING!

All I have to say about www.princesshairstyles.com is that it's A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! I would never be able to create so many different hairstyles for my girls! I am hoping Carly will continue to grow her hair out so we can try some of these...and for Jayna to get enough hair for me to do something with it. Until then, in case some of you would like to check it out, I am posting. So good luck with re-creating these unique styles!

Bows...and More Bows!

A new friend I've made recently showed me a simple way to make cute bows. I didn't feel like much crocheting or scrapping tonight...so bow-making became the event of the evening for me. I really like the way these turned out -- they are very "in season" right now. Thank you, Elizabeth Brown, for helping me learn how to make these. And by the way, my fingers were too big to hold the ribbon well and thread through them, so Brent went out in the garage and quickly put together the peg board you talked about to help me make them. It took him all of five minutes, but I still believe he's such a sweetie. Thanks for looking!