Lately I have been really obsessed with my candle warmers. I have several throughout my house. Every bathroom has a cute plug in and my living room and kitchen both have a full warmer. Each one I put in a different scent and when I need a change, I just flip the switch and get…
Archives for November 2012
Snowflake Frame
I have a thing for snowflakes and snowmen. I just love them (but really hate the snow…). I love decorating with them for Christmas and winter. While I was in Utah, I was at Joann’s and the check out line was long. So of course I started looking in the bins. Those things are dangerous…
Fabric Presents on the Wall
Last night we put up our Christmas tree. I love that it’s that time of the year! As we were putting up the tree and my kids would not leave the ornaments alone, it made me realize that I wouldn’t be able to put presents under the tree until it’s really close to Christmas. That…
Motivate Me Monday #150
Hello!! I hope that everyone had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving. Ours was great. It was so much fun to be with family. We were in good company and the food was great too . What a great week! We successfully had 19 people in our house and it didn’t get destroyed! Here are a couple of…
How to Let Down Hems {Melly Sews}
Hello Keeping It Simple Readers! Happy Black Friday. Today I’m going to show you how to let down hems when you don’t quite have enough fabric. You’ll need: A seam ripper Twill tape, grosgrain ribbon or bias tape This is a pair of pants that I made Tater last year. The boy has grown over…
Christmas Snowflake pillows
You all know how much I love my Silhouette and how much a use it. I seriously use it for 90% of my crafts, especially for the holidays! Here is a pillow that I made with the flocked red and green heat transfer and then some silver glitter heat transfer. I just cut out some…
Thanksgiving Plate
I don’t know why I haven’t shared these with you yet, but here are a couple of fall decorations I did with vinyl. Super easy and quick! This is how I made it: I took a regular dinner plate. We got new plates a couple of months ago, so I’m using my old ones for…
Thanksgiving Place Settings- 2×2 Wood Turkey and Pumpkin
I know that it’s a little late for Thanksgiving posts, but I just made these last night and I couldn’t not share them! Plus who doesn’t love super cute place settings that are perfect for your Thanksgiving table :). Since we are hosting Thanksgiving this year, I wanted to make some fun place cards for…
Motivate Me Monday #149
Happy Sunday/Monday everyone! We are finally home from our week long vacation. It was so great to get out but I’m so glad to be home! We are hosting Thanksgiving this year for my husband’s family. There will be 19 people, 11 kids ages 8 and under. It’s going to be crazy fun! So if…
Turkey
I know that I’m sharing a bunch of crafts from last year, but I just had to share this turkey. I seriously love how it turned out and how easy it was to make! I have it hanging from a hook from my ceiling in my living room now 🙂 Are you getting ready for…
Thanksgiving Pillows
I love making holiday pillows. I know you know this about me. Well last year I had a lot more energy and motivation and made three pillows, just for Thanksgiving/fall! So I thought I’d share them with you. Fall Pillow Turkey Pillow Pumpkin Pillow I’m so glad that I made so many holiday decorations…
Spray Painted Shoes
One day I found a bunch of cute flats on clearance for $4. I ended up picking up 4 pairs (my shoes are all falling apart). I love how these looked but didn’t love the color, so I decided to spray paint them. I first taped up the inside with card stock and painter’s tape….
Rosette Lamp
When I was working on my craft room, I felt like the room needed some more light, especially when I’m working down there in the middle of the night (which I do quite frequently, I’m writing this post at 2:56am). Anyway, I wanted to make it super girly and cute. So I decided to put…
Motivate Me Monday #148
Hi everyone!! I’m in Utah for the week enjoying a little break from my boys and visiting friends. It’s going to be awesome! I have the week all scheduled out (had a night that I couldn’t sleep so I finally wrote up so tutorials that I did a month ago). I hope that you have…
Piping {Melly Sews}
Hello Keeping it Simple Readers! Today we’re going to talk about piping – what it is, how to make it, and how to use it. Piping is what you see in the above picture – the white line between the two fabrics. When it’s not sewn, it looks like this: It’s basically bias tape wrapped…
Cricut Mini GIVEAWAY!
I’m so excited for today’s giveaway. It’s pretty awesome and I think a lot of you will really like it! All of us crafters know that having an electronic cutting machine is awesome. And I think that everyone who doesn’t have want, really badly wants one. This is one of my favorite parts about blogging,…
I’ve been a slacker….
I don’t know if you’ve noticed lately, but I’ve been slacking with this blog. My post are late and they aren’t as regular as usual. Life has been crazy since our move in August. And it’s not slowing down anytime soon. November is going to be the craziest yet. This Sunday is my daughter’s 2nd…
Motivate me Monday #147
Hello everyone! How was your week? Mine has been crazy (like usual). Sickness came right after Halloween and still hasn’t left yet, so we really haven’t gotten much done. Hopefully we will get better because I have a lot to do this week! I hope that everyone had a great Halloween! I can’t believe that…
Post from the past
Now that it’s November, it’s time to start thinking about decorating for Thanksgiving! Here is one of my favorite posts I did from last year. Thanksgiving 2x4s
Halloween 2012- Lego Style!
I hope that everyone had a wonderful Halloween last night! We had a ton of fun! And now I finally get to show off our costumes that I made. We went as Legos! Since I like to do a family theme, I knew that this was something that my boys would agree on and my…