Share the Love!

Today is the day of Sweetness, right?!!  Well I saw these Valentine Smore's and HAD to make them, they were so cute!  

Posted by Crazy Domestic I seriously want to know where she found heart marshmellows though!  Because all I could find was the circle ones.

Can I just say they were delicious!  Mine were not as pretty but oh so yummy!

Now...  I have to tell you something...

I have the sweetest neighbour EVER!  She is an older lady, and someone I want to become!  She brings my family treats on every holiday, and on my birthday she drops a card off with the sweetest sentiment it makes me tear up!!  I had to do something for her on Valentine's!!!

Wouldn't you if you had my neighbour?

So I started with my daughter's outgrown shirt, and bloomers.

Cut some hearts out of the material...

Sewed this little heart on, and left the edges to fringe gracefully with age.

And filled it with rice.  

Why rice?

So you can heat it up in the microwave and have a nice little warming pack for anything from cramps, boo-boos, aches and  pains, or keeping you warmer!!!

Remember here:  I am a beginner sewer (if I keep all this sewing up I may not be able to use that excuse anymore)

We left a little love note and dropped it off with some of the Smore's the kids helped me make.

Did you share some LOVE today?

Flower Hairpieces Galore

I was so excited about the flower I made with my last project, that... with the leftover scraps from the dress I cut up more flowers!  How many did I make, well let me show you!!

It started out with the cute flower I made for this book, and it turned into all of these!

I got these hairbands from the dollar store...

I burnt all these flowers ( I am SO in love with silk),  it's so fun to burn!

And, don't forget the zebra print that I had leftovers of from this dress.

These are the different kinds of hairpieces I ended up making:

I was trying to incorporate blue, so as not to have too many pink, so I ripped up a stained shirt of my daughters.

This one is my favourite hairband. I love the pearl!

I got plain barrettes at the dollar store too, and glued these flowers on them.

And these.... are all the extra flowers that I didn't have a clip or band for, and who knows may just be for something else entirely!

Seriously, that is what I call up-cycle!  This dress went so far!

And I cut up a dollar store pearl necklace and hair elastic to get all my beads, and look how many I have left for future projects!

Love it!

My niece is having a birthday, and guess what she is getting...?!

Have you made any of these?  So easy and fun!

Cost:

Hairbands: $3

Beads: $2

Total: $5

(11 hairbands, 4 barrettes, 22 extra flowers!)