Pine Cone Garland

Happy Sunday!!
I was able to have some more "ME" time on Saturday with my youngest daughter and wow did we have a wonderful time.  She has been so busy going away on the weekends we haven't had much time to spend together so it was a very special day.  Her fiance is out of town on business so she actually had some time to spend with me :)  She spent the night with us on Friday, we got up on Saturday and I made her the pancakes that tastes like cinnamon rolls and then off we went to start our pamper day.  What did we do????

• Started the day off with a massage
• Off to the store to get the weekly necessities
• Had lunch
• Got a pedicure
• Stopped to get new wiperblades for 3 of the vehicles
• Home to relax for the evening, well for me anyway.  She went to the casino to play bingo with some friends.

What a wonderful day :)

I was checking my blog feeds and came across this Pine Cone Garland over at Room To Inspire and just loved it and thought how simple and sweet is this so I got out my burlap, ribbon and pine cones and made it up.  I had all the items so that is always a plus huh :)

I love it and it fits right in with my twig arrangement I did a few days ago.  Wow I'm really bringing the outdoors in huh :)

I also changed out my "Fall" picture and changed it to reflect Thanksgiving.  Simple but such a great reminder to stop and smell the roses and reflect on all that we have to be thankful for.

Have a wonderful day and happy crafting!!

xo ~ Laura

Loom Flowers

Happy Rednesday!!

Well I have been playing with fabric flowers and am having a lot of fun with different techniques.  I've seen so many on the different blogs and I end up for some reason putting my own twist on them and coming up with something totally different and unique.  I guess that is what it is all about huh :)

I had boughten a smaller loom, about 3" in diameter and haven't tried it out yet but got an idea so thought I'd try it.  I had bought a role of sparkly embrodiary thread and thought I'd play with it first.  I want to try yarn also but thought I'd try to master this first.  Like I said I have never made any of these yet.  I read the directions in the kit (it's from Provo Craft) and started circling around until I felt I had enough strands on it.  I sewed it so they'd all stay together and took it off the loom.  It looks like this.

Then I had some left over circles from a fabric flower I was making from yesterday and instead of folding it in half, then half again, I pinched it and then put a stitch in it and just started going around the circle.  Then I added this cute gingham heart to the middle.  Hot glue it to the loom flower and Tada!!

I think I'm going to have to make more of these.  Think of the possibilities!!  Sorry for the blurry pic on this one. 

I also have finished a my first custom sign for a dear friend of mine!  She saw the picture of what I did on one of my thrift finds and loved the saying she emailed me immediately and said she wanted one but wanted something else on it besides the rooster and a little smaller so off I went to accomodate.  Here is her final product and she loves it!!  Finished off her kitchen perfectly :)

I hope that you have a great day!!  Back to getting busy :)

xo ~ Laura