stockings!

Yesterday I was wanting some stockings for christmas. Sooo... of course I decided to make some! I wanted to make them for everyone but I also wanted them to all be different in the fabrics because I know well have to make more some day. I wanted them to have a similar look but not be the same at all. I Think I achieved that! I hope you enjoy! I didn't have a patter I just cut on out of paper and cut them out all the same. The best thing about crafting is that the imperfections make things unique!

Matt's stocking!

mine! The toe looks a little akward in this picture but I promise its round and not goofy!

This is lexi's !!!
I think they turned out well and I am getting more excited about Christmas!

Christmas DIY

It's that time of year! The most wonderful time of the year! I love Christmas and I was wanting to get into the Christmas spirit so I made a few decorations. The first project I made was for my moms formal living room. I spray painted a brown stick wreath black and then I wrapped a white feather bowa around part of it. ( I found it in the dress of drawer) and then I bought some silver Christmas bulbs at the stove for 2 bucks. The final touch was a large bow tied from ribbon with silver sparkles. This project cost about $4 because I already had the wreath. I hung the wreath over a large Mirror to finish it off.

The next project I did was more for myself. I took three old frames that my cousin was going to give to DI and I made some fun wall decor out of them. She had already spray painted then white so that was pefect. The first one I made was a Button tree I used some scrapbook paper for the background and then just glued on white and red buttons in the shape of a christmas tree.

The next one I did was the HO HO HO. I wanted to keep some continuity so I kept using buttons on each picture. I used scrap book paper again for the back ground  and I just drew some "H"s on paper and then cut out the one I liked and kept tracing it until I had enough.

Notice taht I used the scraps from the black paper on picture on to make the letter H so that they would all match.

The final one I did was my favorite and it was an accident. I needed one more and I didn't know what to do so I decided rather than cut out a bunch of letters to write Merry Christmas or something I would make a present and write a simple word like Joy. I used only scrapbook paper again and a few buttons. Here is picture number 3 .

This project only required 3 old picture frames painted white, 3 pages of scrapbook paper and a few buttons! I was really excited about how it turned out and I was especially excited that I did this project with only things I had around the house!

Hope you have as much fun as I did decorating for Christmas!!

Fall Decor

I was wanting some fun fall decorations, but I didn't want to spend the money to buy some so I made a few of my own. I made a fall picture and a wreath. The picture I made was from some all fabric my grandma gave me and I sewed it onto some fabric that would cover the cardboard back of a picture frame. The wreath I used some old fabric also form my grandma to cover an foam wreath. I then made some Rosettes from a tutorial I found online and added them to the wreath. These were both really simple and fun projects.