St. Patrick's Day Pillows

I added some St. Patrick's Day pillows to my Etsy Shop...


You can also purchase the stencils for each of these pillows in my shop.

Another Laundry Room

A few weeks ago I entered my VINYL LAUNDRY SYMBOLS in a service auction for my church. My cute Neighbor won them. She painted a vertical stripe on her wall then stuck the symbols in the stripe. Way awesome!

This is what I did with my symbols...

Go HERE to see my original post.
Go HERE to purchase your own LAUNDRY ROOM SYMBOLS.

Etsy Shop adds

I added some St. Patrick's Day pillows to my Etsy Shop...

3 Board Heart

3 Board Heart Tutorial:

Supplies:
2 cedar fence posts- wider the better
wire
paint
polka dots (optional)


1. Cut the boards so they look like this. You are going to have to eye ball it.
2. Sand all edges.
3. Drill holes.

4. Drill holes in these spots. You should have 10 holes total.
5. Paint, distress, then wire it together. Curl the ends of the wire by wrapping the excess wire around a pencil. Each wire holding the heart together is about 8 inches long. Cut the wire you hang the heart with to the length desired.
6. This step is optional. I cut vinyl polka dots out and stuck them on the heart. Then sprayed the whole thing with clear acrylic spray.

The heart with polka dots...
The heart without polka dots...

LOVE String Art

LOVE String Art Tutorial:

Supplies:
-heavy duty material- I used painters dropcloth
-embroidery floss
-pattern and # sequence- Mirror the image so it is backwards (click on photos to enlarge)
-needle
-embroidery hoop
-frame
-staple gun and staples

My husband made me this frame. I spray painted it red. This project came out of this 1970's book. This is the string art pattern. CLICK on it to enlarge. Remember it needs to be a mirrored image. The number sequence for each letter. CLICK to enlarge. OUT means that you go through the fabric from the back. The knot at the end of the string needs to be on the back. IN means you come back up through the fabric.
1. Pin image to the piece of fabric.
2. Poke holes in the dots.
3. Use a marker to mark the dots, and a pen to write the #'s and letters on the back.
4. Start from the back and poke the needle through the fabric and pull it through.

5. Keep going...
6. Once you are done, this is what the back will look like
7. Front view.
8. Finally, staple the fabric to the frame. My staple gun was broken, so I used tape and some nails. It's ghetto, but it worked!

Now you can display it for all to see. Since I don't have a fireplace mantel, a shelf is the next best thing...




If you don't want to do the framed string art, you can also make a pillow...
I also made this pillow with the same string art pattern. But I substituted the "O" for a heart from THIS string art project.

Email me, if you want the mirrored image and LOVE sequence and numbers.

Knockoff Razzmatazz

For Christmas, from Matt's parents, we got a Ninja Blender. This blender will make ice into powder... it's that awesome. We have even mixed dough with it. Like I said, this thing is awesome!!! So in order to use said blender, we made a trip to Costco and Walmart and spent a small fortune on frozen fruit, juice, and sherbet.

After many a trial and error, Matt finally perfected a knockoff of the Razzmatazz smoothie at Jamba Juice.
2 large scoops of raspberry sherbet
3/4 cup blueberries
1 cup raspberries
1 cup strawberries
1/4 can of Old Orchard's Apple Raspberry frozen concentrate
1 cup ice
3 cups water

*all the fruit needs to be frozen

Put all those things in the blender... and blend until smooth.
Pour the yumminess into cups and serve.

Valentine's Day Pillow Day 5: Petal Pillow

Petal Pillow:

Supplies:
-felt
-stuffing

Find this pillow tutorial HERE.




This pillow was time consuming! It took three hours to make!

Thanks for following my Valentine's Day Pillow Week....

Go HERE for Day 1
Go HERE for Day 2
Go HERE for Day 3
Go HERE for Day 4