Butterfly shirt

Estimated completion time: 1 hour
Estimated cost: $10 (if using an old shirt)

Things you'll need:
Sweatshirt
Felt
Scissors
Sewing machine

1. Cut out "wings."

2. Cut out design 4 of each.

3. Sew the designs onto the wings. Remember to sew one set on each side of the wings

4. Sew the straight side of the wing down.  (You can sew down the entire wings if you wish, but I left them so that they'd be able to "fly".)

That's it!

Flower Hoody

Estimated completion time: 1 hour
Estimated cost: $10 (if you're using an old sweatshirt)

Things you'll need:

Hooded sweatshirt
Felt in green and "flower" color
Scissors
Sewing machine

1. Cut out 2 strips of green felt.

2. Cut out 2 leave patterns of green felt.

3. Cut out petal pattern from another color (I knew I was going to double mine up, so I cut twice the amount).

4. Sew one strip of the green fabric on one side of the zipper.

5. Sew the other stripe on the opposite side of the zipper.  (When this is zipped up it will cover the zipper.)

6. Sew the green leaves leaves on either side of the stem (above the pockets so that they're still usable).

7. (You don't have to do this, but I like the thickness of the doubled up petals.  I sewed the petals together so that it would be thicker.)

8. Sew the petals around the hood.  (right up to the edge of the hood.)

That's it! 

Dinosaur hoody


Estimated completion time: 1 hour
Estimated cost: $10 (if using an old hoody)

Things you'll need:
Hooded sweatshirt
Coordinating felt
Scissors
Sewing machine (I suppose you could hand sew, but that would take a very long time)

1. Take your felt and fold it in half length ways. Cut the design you want for the spikes ensuring that it is as long as the sweatshirt.  You'll now have two of these. 

2. Cut up the middle of the sweatshirt, right on up through the hood.

3. (You don't have to do this, but I wanted to.  I sewed the two pieces together.)

4. Turn the sweatshirt inside out.  Placing the spikes in it so that the spikes will stick out on the outside.

5. Sew the shirt back together.  The spikes will be on the outside.

That's it!

Easy No Sew TUTU

Estimated completion time: 30 minutes
Estimated cost: $15

Things you'll need:

2 spools of tulle
1 yard of ribbon
Scissors

1. Slip knot (not sure that's what it's really called.  But you basically just make a lower case "n" with the tulle placing your thumb and forefinger inside the tulle. Place your hand and tulle over the ribbon and rotate your hand downwards.  Your tulle will now be knotted around your ribbon.) Repeat until your tulle is all on the ribbon.

THAT'S IT!

Over sized Picture
You've probably seen these all over Pinterest, it's the same thing, I just made mine a bit smaller.

Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes
Estimated cost: roughly $15

Things you'll need:

Engineering print from Staples
MDF board
Mod podge (or watered down glue)

1. Upload your picture to Staples.  Chose the engineering print option (you can also do a colored print but it is probably 3 times the price, but it'll work the same way).  They'll let you know when it's printed. (I chose the A1 size roughly 3X2ft.)

2. Cut your board to the size of your print.  (I cut mine about an 1/8 of an inch smaller so I could wrap the picture around.)

3. Paint your board with your mod podge.

4. While the board is tacky place your print on top, being sure to eliminate the air bubbles.


That's it!!!! I chose a thin MDF board so I couldn't add hardware to the back to hang it, so what I did when I hung it was just nailed through the corners.  I hope to buy some crown molding to frame it when I have some free time (and some money!)

Thanks For Helping Me GROW flower pots

These are the pots I made for my daughter's teacher and teacher's assistants.
These were super easy (except for taking the time for the paint to dry.)

Estimated time for completion: 40 minutes (not including drying time)
Estimated cost: roughly $10 (depending on if you have the paint and what plants you choose)

Things you'll need:

Ceramic plant pots
Black paint
White paint
Yellow paint
Paint brush
Tape measure (I'd suggest a non rigid one!)
Flowers
Soil

1. Clean and dry your ceramic pots.

2. Paint the bottom portion of the pots black.

3. Once the bottom is dry, paint the top portion yellow.  Also make sure to paint the top part inside the pot too.

4. Once this is completely dried (you may need to paint a couple of layers) pull out your tape measure.  These particular pots were HUGE.  On the first one, I measured out the exact inch, but it was really crowded (this is the one on the right of the picture).  So on the subsequent ones, I made it a 2 inch scale (this is the one on the left and the one in the back).  Anyway, paint the ruler across the top.

5.  When this has tried again, paint your saying on the black portion in white to create the chalkboard look.

6. Once this had dried AGAIN, place your soil up to the bottom of the ridge.  Plant your flowers and water.

Again, another easy project. 

What a crazy busy summer.  I haven't stopped making things, just been too busy to post.  So here goes.   This is the wreath that I made for my daughter's teacher at the end of the year.    I got the idea off of another Pinterest user.

Estimated time of completion: 1 hour
Estimated cost: roughly $10

Things needed:

Embroidery hoops X2 one large one small
Box of crayons (I used a couple boxes because I wanted certain colors, but I bought them from the dollar store so still really cheap.)
Ribbon of your choosing
Sticker letters
Small square (for 'chalkboard')
Glue gun
Black paint
White paint


1. Plug in your hot glue gun so that it will be ready when you need it.

2. If you want a specific color order set it out now.  If you don't just set out your crayons.

3. Undo the embroidery hoops.  Place the smaller one (without the hardware) in side the bigger one.

4.(Sometimes the husband has a brilliant idea, this time he did and of course it was AFTER I'd already completed this.  If you're a bit of a perfectionist, obviously I'm not, place a bowl, or paper towel holder inside the smallest hoop. This will ensure that you have a perfect circle of crayons) Start placing your crayons around the small hoop.

5. Glue the crayons around the hoops placing a drop of glue on the crayons to meet the small and large hoops.

6. Once all the glue is dried, determine what side you want to be the top.  Place your ribbon there to use as a "hook".

7. To create the chalkboard, paint a small square black.  Once it has dried paint on the teacher's name and school year.

8. Place whatever saying you want around the wreath.

That's it.  It was pretty easy.