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Friday, November 19, 2010

It is so fun to make hats!

Cortney from Bouncin Baby photography sent me some more pictures of cute little babies. She used the hats that I made for her props and these pictures really make those hats and diaper covers look adorable!
Cute little pom-pom hat!

She also sent some more of the little visor cap I made.

I love this photo, he looks so absolutely peaceful!

You can kind of see the diaper cover that I made to match the hat in this photo! Thanks Cortney your photo's are adorable as always! Go check her out here!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Another cute baby hat!

Here is another cute hat on a very cute baby that I made for a prop for Bouncin' Baby photography.
If you have a new baby or know of someone who will be soon having one, you really need to check out her blog.





Here are some close ups.  These hats were made with a chunky tweed yarn and I used leather buttons to accent them! They were fun to make and they look so cute on the little newborns.


Here is one in a lighter tweed.

Guess what I got today! A brand new grand baby boy! These will look adorable on him!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

My Thanksgiving table

Halloween is so fun to decorate for, but if you decorate for Halloween then you can't leave those decorations up until Thanksgiving. I have usually just decorated for fall and just left everything up until Thanksgiving was over but his year I went all out for Halloween! I sometimes feel bad for the overlook of Thanksgiving because there is just a few weeks before you then put up your Christmas decor. I love the fall and all of the colors associated with it and so I will share with you my Thanksgiving table.
Above the table is my Dining room light and I decided to hang acorns and leaves from it. It was hard to get a good picture of how it looks but I just used some clear thread and tied it to the acorns and leaves and hung them from the light.


I have these two metal pumpkins and decided to do a pumpkin inside of a pumpkin and then decorated with berries, acorns, pumpkins and gourds.


I used the two lanterns I had on my piano and thought they looked great on the sides.




I used a french country print tablecloth which made it stand out more than just the dark table.

I painted some more pumpkins white and speckled them with dark brown and dark red paint. I painted the stems silver. I really like the white pumpkin look!


I added a garland and lights to the mantle.


These are actually two garlands intertwined, I really like the sparkly leaves on the one.


Another view of my light.



Don't overlook this thankful holiday and hope all of you have a very great day full of gratitude!



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Monday, November 1, 2010

Fall Arrangement!


I had a special order to make a fall arrangement for a dining room table, so I thought I would share it with you and how I made it! First you need to decide what colors you want to have and the container you want to make it in. I didn't get any pictures of the container with the florist foam in it but you fill up the container so they fit tightly into your container. If you are afraid that the foam will show, you add some moss to the top of the foam. Sometimes if your arrangement is really full you won't need any, but I usually put some on the top of the foam just in case. Then decide how tall you would like it. I decided I wanted to have a topiary like effect in the middle,( I secured the three hydrangea's with raffia in the middle) and then I decided to leave the rest quite low to the container. I decided to do this so if you leave the arrangement on the table while eating you can still talk to the person across from you.




I then started filling in the bottom with berries, flowers, fruits and whatever fall you want to put in there!

Here it is finished and as full as I wanted it to be, (you just kind of know when there is enough or where you need more by moving the arrangement around and getting a good view from all sides.)


Here it is on the dining room table.

Another side.

The other side.

It kind of looks like fall, don't you think?


Here is a close up of the metal container, (I fell in love with it!)

By the way, the person I made it for loved it!  Good, I took some pictures before it went from my table to hers!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Last minute Halloween ideas...

If you are looking for a last minute table topper or table cloth to set off your Halloween decorations, they are easy peasy to make!
The fabric store now has everything Halloween at sometimes more than 50% off, so just make a trip to the fabric shop and then if you want a square table topper just get 45 inches of the fabric (if your fabric is 45 inches wide) and then go to Target or some other place that sells the tinsel garland for Halloween and buy what you need to put around the edge of the fabric.




Just use pinking shears to cut around the edge of the fabric and then just use a zig-zag stitch and just stitch on top of the tinsel around the edge of your fabric.
I chose a cute sparkly spider fabric and found a black and green spider tinsel to add some bling to my table topper. Now if you do not sew you could probably use some double sided tape to hold it into place but it really is easy to just sew around the edges.
I like my eyeball lights here to watch over all who enters.

I then also found these cute eyeball, bouncy balls at Target and added some stretchy spiders!

I was going to put this big web outside but the weather turned up cold and nasty so I draped it across my baker's rack in my dining room and I think it looks great!
These stretchy spiders and bouncy eyeballs have been a big hit with my grandson's over the weekend, they have loved playing with the spiders and the balls. I didn't now spiders could find their way to so many places! Have a great week finishing up your Halloween decor!



Friday, October 22, 2010

Knitted pod!

I love this photo!!! and I especially love that she used the knitted pod that I made for her! I want to share with you this great photographer. Her name is Cortney and of course her specialty is babies and pre-baby shots of new mothers. I love the photo's she has on her website and you can check it out here!

She also has a blog that has the cutest pictures ever! Check it out here!
 If you live in northern Utah or southern Idaho, and you are expecting a new arrival anytime soon, you really need to give her a call. Thanks Cortney! You made this knitted pod look fabulous!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Oh, my Eyeballs!!

I was in one of my favorite thrift stores the other day and I had an idea! I first had thought of using some balls to make my idea but when I saw these I thought how great it would be if I could make them into lights!
I found these fixtures, sorry I had taken the round white globes off to wash them but you will see them later. Then I needed to find a wooden base to put these lights on, I found this assortment of wooden items and thought they would look great stacked.

Here are two of the wooden bowls stacked, glued together and a hole was drilled down the middle to put the electrical cord through. I bought two, 6 foot cheap extension cords and cut off the end with the plug ins on and left the end that use to plug into the wall. (I actually had some help with this part from my own personal Electrical Engineer, thanks Ryan!)




Take the end of the cord that you cut off and use some yellow wire nuts to attach the wires to the light.




This was the finished globes!

I used glass paint on the white globes and painted an eyeball. I used yellow paint and a red sharpie to make the eyeball veins.


Here are the bases that are now painted black and purple.


I tried them in the window at night to look out on all who might dare to enter!


Then I tried them on a shelf and it almost looked like a face with the Jack o lantern as the nose.


These were the original idea and I made these out of the $1.99 balls that you get in the super market. I used paint and vinyl to do the eyeballs.


Because these balls were already a swirled, blue and yellow, they were perfect for the eyeballs. I used paint and a sharpie on these as well to make the veins.


I attached black duct tape to the top to make the hangers and used some wire hanging stands that I already had! I love how they turned out and I especially like that the one pair of eyeballs light up!!



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