All posts tagged: Blue

Flowery Infinity Scarf

I really liked the flower pattern on one of the pieces of fabric I got to make my alphabet magnets a few months ago, but wasn’t sure what I could do with it until I ran across a nice lightweight blue fabric on the red tag sale at Joann’s the other day. I decided it would make a great scarf. The colors coordinated perfectly… so I used this and this as inspiration to create my own infinity scarf (sewing project #10). A simple project… plus it only cost me $2.55 and less than an hour of my time. I used exactly 1/2 yard of the blue fabric and a small rectangle of the flowery fabric – in the photos it is doubled-up; it’s one big circle otherwise. I had to crop that second picture down a lot… that is what I call a crazy messy room. It’s the aftermath of lots of laundry, no time to fold, and a puppy running around terrorizing the house. Today, needless to say, is cleaning day. Plus it’s a …

Cardmaking Adventures

Ok ok… baby gift almost complete. At first, I tried to make her name out of the letter beads… but apparently the two packs that I bought a while ago only had one “K” in the whole bunch. Craziness. The grey and yellow star part came from their invitation. Also made one for my bff whose birthday is coming soon! (Finally she will be old with me… Bethany, hopefully you don’t see this before the 14th… but if you do, oh well… you know what’s headed your way!). These are my first homemade cards (other than the ones I used to make as a kid with construction paper and crayons)… they aren’t a huge step up from that but they were fun nonetheless! There will definitely be more to come.