Barefoot Baby Sandals

This morning I got an email for a deal on these cute little baby barefoot sandals. Since I have a baby, I was interested.

Aren't they adorable?  When I clicked on the link, though, and saw that for $6.25 plus $2 shipping, I could own one pair of sandals, I thought again.  I know, I know.  That's not a bad price, but I'm cheap, and I started looking closer. I mean, come on, it is just elastic and a flower. Then I remembered this pink elastic I had bought last summer that I didn't end up using. Hmmmm. The wheels started turning. I had learned how to make some cute flowers out of fabric, so I grabbed my supplies.  All it took was the elastic, fabric cut into a long strip, a button, and needle and thread. This is what they ended up like. I was very pleased. And because I had everything on hand, it didn't cost me a thing. In my rummaging, I also found some purple and green elastic, so I guarantee that I will be making more of these!

4th of July Blocks

We made these cute 2x4 blocks when my SIL and family came down for a visit. We love to craft together so I just printed this cute printable out on photo paper and cut the wood. We painted, mod podged, and added some ribbon. Even my 4 year old niece did one!  So easy and cute!

Chalkboard Placemats

I have another Pinterest party coming up, and this time decided to do something I've been wanting to do  for a long time. When I did that craft fair, oh three years ago or so, one lady there was selling chalkboard placemats. I had never heard of chalkboard fabric, but thought that sounded pretty awesome. So I went online and ordered some. Now to be fair, I did try to make them. They just didn't turn out. I had a hard time with the chalkboard fabric bunching up when I tried to sew it. A few months ago, I saw a tip on Pinterest that said to put scotch tape over the sewing foot. It worked like a charm!  I'm going to get some chalk to put in the pocket and they will be all set to go.

Pinterest Party

I have a friend who is having a Pinterest party tomorrow. I am so excited to go and have been trying to figure out what I will make to take to it. I wanted to do something for springtime and finally settled on two wood projects. I made an Easter wood craft and a patriotic one as well. I think they turned out well. When I'm making something, I always worry it won't look good at the end. I have also noticed that a lot of crafts on Pinterest don't tell you how to make them, so I am including the dimensions for these crafts for any others who may want to make them and also for my own personal reference!
Fr the "He is Risen" one, I cut the first piece to 5", the second to 7", and the third to 9". I used the Monotype Cursiva font set at 3" for the letters.  For the patriotic one, I used the Snickles font, also at 3". For the wood, I cut two pieces at 4", one at 8", and the last at 9". I just used 2x4 wood for all of them.

Cupboard Glass

My husband suggested to use the image I used on our privacy glass by our front door on our cupboard glass. We have a corner cupboard that has a glass front.  I used my cricut to cut out the clear contact paper this time and that cut the prep time way down.  I just set my cricut blade to setting 2 and medium pressure.  It worked great!  It doesn't completely block out the view of the inside, but I think it looks good and does what we wanted. 

If you are interested in using the same stencil image, here it is.  You can make it bigger (like I did by my front door) or smaller (like I did here).

2x4 Snowmen

My girls were looking for something to do a few days ago, and we had three end pieces of wood from other projects I had done.  I gave them to the girls and told them they could make snowmen out of them.  They were excited and went right to work painting them white.  I had some socks with holes that I was going to get ride of, but had decided to keep for projects.  They picked some and we put them over the top and tied a ribbon around them for a hat. I cut the end off and then cut that piece in a circle, so it made a long piece and tied that around the bottom for the scarf.  They painted the faces on and we were done!  Such a quick and simple craft, and I think they are so cute!

Family Picture

I'm sure a lot of you have seen those huge pictures a lot of people have pinned on Pinterest that you can make for cheap. I wanted to check and see if I could really do it, and yes you can!  I was ordering something on Staples, so I checked it out.  You order an engineering print.  I got the 2 foot x 3 foot size for about $3.50.  I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but I figured for less than $4, it was worth trying.  I got free delivery and it came quickly in a sturdy tube.  Of course, it isn't on photo paper and they tell you not to do photos, but it turned out beautifully!  I love it! I had seen on Pinterest that people would put them onto wood.  That was cool, but I thought I would like to be able to switch out the picture now that I know how to get them for so cheap.  So I went to Wal-mart and found a poster frame to fit it for $16.  So for under $20, I have this huge family picture.  I put it over our full-size keyboard upstairs, so you can see how big it really is.

My brother-in-law was thinking of all kinds of ideas you could use these for, like printing out a picture of your child for a birthday party and playing "Pin the hat on _____" (fill in child's name) or some other article of clothing or body part to pin onto the child's picture.  You could decorate your walls with different pictures of your children for parties or anything!