NEW HEADBAND!!

I just want to share the cutest headband I just made!  Complete with the cutest bow EVER!  Seriously!  It's AWESOME!  I know you will love it and want one of your very own!

{LOVE}

Trista

LOVE!!

Hubs and I have married for 3 years today!  I am sooooo excited!  So in LOVE!!  I decided that I wanted to make a cute banner to hang from our awesome window that said "I love you" and was totally going to wait to hang it until today, the actual day, but instead I hung it up a week early!  So that the celebration could begin!  You know, like birthday week!  It's anniversary week!  I hope you enjoy the cutest project ever!

{I took some heavy card stock paper to trace out my letters, a heart for the centre and hearts for either side}

{If you ever did arts and crafts when you were younger, perhaps this might look familiar?  Yes, tissue squared wrapped on the end of a pencil and glued to the heart.  Super cute, right!?}

{Here is the final product hanging from our window.  I used a needle and thick thread to attach it all together}

{LOVE IT}

P.S. How in the WORLD do you rotate a photo??????  Obviously, I need help!

Trista

Happy Heart Day!

I really really really wanted to share a recipe that I made on Saturday, but my sweet hubby had taken a couple of pics on his mobile and I don't have them yet on my computer.  Instead I decided to post this cute quick project that I made for Roo Roo for heart day!  It was soooooooo easy!  And, I had all the supplies already so I it cost me, well, nothing!

Supplies:
Felt: white, pink... whatever you colours you wanna use!
Clip
Hot glue gun (one of my most FAVOURITE TOOLS EVER!)

First, cut out hearts of varied sizes and colours

Cut out one circular piece with 2 slits in it

Slid clip through slits and glue down

Hot glue the hearts to each other

Attach circular piece to the back of the largest heart

And that's it!  Super easy!!!!

Trista

Excited!

The Problem:
I just have to say that I have loads of recipes floating around without any proper way of storing them.  A few years ago, my mum had given me a nice recipe binder which contained pockets to place recipes providing some organisation, but with all the accumulation of recipes it has run out of space.  What to do???

The Solution:
I am going to design my very own recipe collection book!  WOHOO!  So excited!!!  Tomorrow I will start gathering the supplies.  I am going to head up to Cass Art Supply and find a cheap sketch book.  When I was in there the other day, I saw some really inexpensive sketch books - spiral bound (although I haven't decided yet if I really want spiral bound... I have one more night to decide).  That will be my first purchase!  I will eventually need to get some rubber cement (they don't really have the same kind of rubber cement here that you can find in the states, so I will be trying out different kinds of glue that will hopefully do the trick!) and some cool paper!  I am going to look for that also, but I have noticed that you can find some inexpensive coloured scrapbook paper online.  Then I am going to let the creativity flow out!  I will try to post my progress as I go along so that you too can be inspired to organise your recipe collection!

Trista

My Latest Project!

My latest project idea came to me as I was trying to figure out where to put my earrings.  I had them in a box, but with them out of sight, I would always forget to wear them!  In one of favourite magazines, they had suggested putting fabric over a cork board and then putting little sewing pins up on the fabric to hang the earring from.  I decided that was a little to plain for me, so I decided to incorporate my own style in it by adding my "earring tree".  Super SIMPLE!!  

This entire project was made for less than £5!!  I found some scraps of felt that I had from previous projects and used that for the seriously cute tree!  To attach the fabric to the cork board, I just cut down the fabric to a size that would allow for folding over the edges around the back and then used my favourite tool, the hot glue gun, to attach the fabric to the back.  For the tree, I cut out my felt pieces and then glued them down with fabric glue!  Easy!  You could really use it to hang your necklaces and other jewellery from as well!  But, I already have the cutest necklace/bracelet holder in the world!  Super CUTE!  Now, my earrings have a place and we can also use the rest of the board to pin up special papers and reminders!

Trista