Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  I hope this holiday finds you safe, healthy and surrounded by those you love, or at least like.

Want to make a turkey shirt for your toddler or yourself?  Yea, ok, file it away for next year.  Or maybe you have a late Thanksgiving event this weekend.


Partial cast of characters:

1.  Sketch out the body shape with a disappearing ink pen (fabric stores have them), pencil, dress makers chalk, etc.  Or, trace your toddler's foot (with a shoe on).
2.  Paint up both hands and stamp on the fabric (I used 100% cotton) overlapping the body lines a bit.  Fill in areas with a paintbrush.  Let dry.
3.  Repeat with other colors.  Set paint per manufacturer directions.
4.  Iron fusible web to the back of a brown piece of fabric.  Cut a turkey body shape and fuse on to the background fabric.  You could sew this on.
5.  Iron fusible web to an orange piece of fabric.  Cut into a triangle shape (this is the beak).
6.  Take a piece of red ribbon and make a loop.  Secure end with fabric glue.  Let dry.
7.  Lay the ribbon in place with the orange beak on top.  Fuse to the body fabric.
8.  Stitch legs and feet with embroidery thread.  Or, sew on a sewing machine, use ribbon, rickrack, whatever you've got on hand.

I made the turkey on a piece of Kona 100% cotton.  Since this is a 1-holiday wear, I wanted to be able to save it.  Attaching it to the shirt with a quick basting stitch allows me to take it off and put it in her scrapbook.

The hair flower clip is a la a tutorial from A Girl and a Glue Gun. Gobble gobble.


Linked here: 5 Days...5 Ways, The Train to Crazy, Between U and Me, Fireflies and Jellybeans and Somewhat Simple

The (magnetic) spice of life

I've seen magnetic spice racks around and wanted one for a while.  Our kitchen doesn't have a lot of storage space so we try to maximize wherever possible.  I, however, am cheap, cheap, cheap and wasn't going to pay the prices I was seeing in the stores.  I knew there had to be a DIY way out.  One quick google search yielded lots of tutorials.  Some called for flashing and epoxy or glue and magnetics.  All good ideas but more work then I was looking for.


I found this magnetic sheeting that has adhesive on the back and it only required a j-roller or rolling pin to help adhere to the foundation material.  Next I found these tins (which I bought way more than I needed).   
Total cost for the magnetic sheet (and I only used 1/2 of it ) ~$25.00. 
Total cost for the tins (and I ordered 36 in 3 different sizes) ~$45.00. 


So far, I've only used 15 or so tins for the spice rack.  Total project cost:  ~$31.25 with room to add more tins.  Cheaper than the box stores, customizable?  I call that a win!


The magnetic sheet is super easy to install.  Wipe the surface clean with alcohol, peel the backing paper off and add some pressure.  Even easier since my dad and step mom did the install for me.  I don't have a j-roller so they used a rolling pin.  Two weeks later and everything is still perfectly in place.

Sorry, but I didn't think to take a before photo.

Love that the pepper container is magnetic!! 

I love my label maker.  My dad even got in on the label making act.

More room in the cupboard makes for a happy happier husband.

I don't know why I waited so long to do this.  Now I cannot wait to do the same in the sewing room.

Linked up here:  

Not Just A Housewife

Thankfully Thrifty

{Junk in their Trunk}

Blue Cricket Design

Look What I Made!

My Favorite Finds