Lettering

Sense most of my time is spent counting down the days till I get to hold my baby girl and the other part of my time is spent making cute things to decorate her room this is another blog about little miss X.

I went to Joanns Fabric store and got wooden letters. Mine are about 12 inches tall ($2 each)

Then I had my paint. Im doing her room in pink and green so I painted every other one. Then I thought they were to plain so I dressed them up a little by adding some "bling". So I used my hot glue gun and put little jewels on each of them.
To hand it up I took some ribbon and stables it to the back of each letter and tied a bow at the top then had my handy husband hammer up the nails and we hung them up! I love it!
This is her room so far! I will blog about the adorable quilt (my first sewing project) in the next post that I make.
It cost a total of $20. I splurged on the ribbon and bought like 18yards of it so I could use it for other projects!

$10 butterfly moble

Sense I don't have much to do and I don't feel like cleaning I have been doing crafts!

I saw this craft about 2 months ago and saved the picture so I could remember it and now cant find the original post but I winged it and I like how it turned out! I decided that I would not buy cute things for my little girls room that if I wanted it to look cute I had to do everything by hand or on clearance. So far so good and I feel crafty!

So I tried to make it and I love it! Here is my simple version!

The finished project!!

You will need:

• Embroidery Hoop thebroidery hoop: I got at Michales for 1.19 (only the solid hoop is needed; the hoop I used is about 14in in diameter)
• Twine / String
• Ribbon (1/2 inch or so width)
• Ribbon (thin)
• Beads- found @ Michaels for 2.00 each (make sure the hole is big enough to fit thin ribbon through)
• Card stock Paper (I used 3 colors)
• Butterfly Template or punch I found a picture online & printed it out then cut each one. I did 36 total (I wanted my butterflies to be about 3 inches wide)
• Hot Glue Gun
• Ribbon Punch (optional – is a tool used for scrapbooking that punches out two slits for ribbons to feed through)

first step:

1.Take the thread of any color and the hoop and make a grid. 3 across each way as picture(2) above.

2.take your ribbon & wrap it around the hoop(4). I hot glued the ribbon as I went to make sure it stayed.

after the ribbon is all wrapped around the thread should be a little tighter.

3.Once the grid is done you need to take the butterfly's and make 2 slits in the middle of them just wide enough for the thin ribbon to feed through. You want a tight fit so that the butterflies stay put on the ribbons.

(4) Start assembling the butterflies on the thin ribbon, For the chandelier look I did a longer string in the middle and gradually have shorter strand toward the outside. I did for 4 butterflies on my center strand (tied to the middle point of the grid). Then I had 4 strands of 3 butterflies, 4 strands of 2 butterflies, and 12 strands of 1 butterfly. The original post did beads hanging from the bottom of the ribbon but I hung them individually. As a hint, find someplace to balance the hoop like between 2 chairs so you can look at the strands as you attach them to the grid. That way, you can play with the length you want.

(5) I did not think it was shiny enough so I got some glue on sparkles and put them on each butterfly.

Now its finished!

if it does not make sense let me know! have fun!

Hello!

I have decided to start my craft blog.

I will have a weekly craft that either I have been working on or one I find amazing!

Hope you enjoy!!

Joni B