Guest Posting a Tutorial Today + A Miss Lovie Jewelry Giveaway

I'm guest posting for Stephanie over at Luxe Boulevard today! You should definitely pop on over to see my tutorial on how to make those lovely pearl drop earrings!

If you don't wanna make them, you can win them!

And these!

Go enter the giveaway now!!

See you again soon for another wreath.



Easter Flower Onesie Dress Tutorial

Today I'm guest posting over at Kiki Creates' All About Easter Event! Be sure to go over and check out my post and everything else she has going on for the event, too! Such cute ideas!


If you're visiting from Kiki Creates, welcome!

Ready to see how to make my Sweet Easter Flower Onesie Dress?

I mixed two fabulous sewing tutorials to create this dress. 

Summer Onesie Tutorial from Running With Scissors

and

 Target Flower Pillow Tutorial from I Create It

I couldn't wait to try either one of those tutorials and I'm excited that they both worked for this dress!

Step 1: Gather materials.

• Onesie of a desired size. The tutorial is for a 6-9 month sized onesie. 
• 1/4 yard of fabric for the skirt part (and sleeves if you want). 
• Less than 1/8 yards of fabric for the flowers (3 different colors)
• ric rac or other embellishment for flower stems and hem of the dress
• matching thread (I used white on all flowers.) and pins
• water soluble pen
• circle template (a paint bottle worked for me)

Step 2: Make the dress.
Follow the directions on the Summer Onesie Tutorial to make the dress. She has instructions on how to make that sweet headband, and how to put the bird on, but I just used the dress directions. I wanted to add sleeves to mine, but ran out of time. It looked darling without them, but I love the look of them, too. I also did not add a strip to my skirt and instead sewed ric rac to the bottom hem of the dress. Embellish it how you want!

After I had the dress part made, I sewed matching ric rac to the bottom hem of the dress.

Step 2: Sew on Flowers

Once your dress is made, add the flower embellishments. Sew on the ric rac stems first.

Then use the  Target Flower Pillow Tutorial to sew on your flowers. 

First find a good item to trace circles with. My paint bottle seemed to be the perfect size. Use a water soluble pen to trace your circles above the stems. When drawing the circles for the flowers, be sure that some of the stem will get sewn under the flower. 

I tried one flower with the tube of fabric like the tutorial suggests, but it was a lot of work because the tubes were so tiny. I also thought the slightly frayed look might be cute, so I tried using just a strip of fabric.  

You can see in the picture above that the strip is about 1.5 in. wide and is folded in half. I'm not sure how long the strips were. I just cut the strip from a 45" wide fabric bolt and used the strip until I didn't need any more and cut the excess off when ready. 

As you sew, fold the strip over  towards the middle of the circle each time you get to the edge to stay within the circle. (Be sure to read the Target pillow tutorial for this step. She has great detailed instructions!)

After I finished each flower I sewed straight across the flower several times in different directions just to catch all those frayed edges and get the flowers to lay a little flatter. This step is probably optional, but I liked the way it made them look. 

If you want, add a sweet tag. I sewed this to the front and back of the backside of the onesie. 

Done!

To make the clip above, follow the steps to make the flower, but sew it onto a piece of felt, cut the felt out. Then cut out a leaf shape, sew it to felt and hot glue it to the back of the flower. Hot glue on an alligator clip to the back and you can clip it to any headband you want!

 Flower clip up close. 

Your sweet girl can wear it as shown or with the leaf more to the side. 

Sweetie.

Big thanks to my friend Rachel for volunteering her daughter, Adia, to be my model!

Enjoy! And thanks for reading!

Flickr Feature!

I just got this picture of this beautiful wreath off the Miss Lovie Flickr Group! 

Thanks, Sara for sharing!

My cousin, Sara, used my tutorial for the interchangeable flower wreath in this post to make this spring wreath. Didn't she do a fabulous job?! I love those colors. You can see more of Sara's craft and home remodeling adventures over on her blog, Living on Lynnwood.

If you've made something from my blog, I'd love to see it! Click on the link below or in my sidebar, join the group,  and upload a picture of what you made. I just might feature you on here!

Hydrangea Wreath

Know what I love more than making beautiful things?

Making beautiful things for other people.

My inspiration came from my friend, Dara, of Teach. Craft. Love. who makes beautiful wreaths like these:

Aren't those awesome?! I couldn't help but copy her idea!

Since I've been on spring break this past week, I've actually been able to make a couple wreaths (I'll post one more later this week), do a little sewing, and visit friends and family. I just love being a teacher! 

I made the Hydrangea Wreath for my Granny.

I didn't do a tutorial on this one because it's crazy easy. You can do this with any kind of florals. Always wait to buy them when they are 50 % off though. 

I simply took off the long stems on the hydrangeas and wired the blooms onto the grapevine wreath. To get all the little sprigs, I take a big sprig apart (as you can see in the picture below) and glue them all around.

I placed them all around the wreath and hot glued them down inside the branches. I held the sprigs down against the branches with one of the hydrangea stems I'd removed. Then I hot glued the letter on. 

The colors are so sweet. I'm kinda lovin that peachy color for spring!

Check out the All About Easter Event!

Go ahead, click that button. Everyone needs to go check out the wonderful Easter projects going on at Kiki Creates from now through April 14th!
So I'm sure you all know about the fabulous Kiki on Kiki Creates.  sourceThere she is.She makes amazing things like this:Flower Pillow by Kiki Createsand this:

Wreath by Kiki Creates
And does fabulous tutorials on beautiful things like this:Ruffle Duvet Cover by Kiki CreatesYeah, my jaw dropped like yours when I saw that bed, too. Beautiful.
Her guests make awesome things too! During the Easter Event she is featuring several wonderful bloggers' Easter projects Here are just a couple from the event so far:Butterfly Mobile by Rebecca from Simple is ThatCute Printable by the girls from eighteen25There's more on her blog now and there's more coming! Including my project!Keep checking out her event through the end of next week to see more wonderful Easter ideas, including mine! It's gonna be good. 

Ooh! Don't You Look Just Like Spring?!

Oh hey....

Like my new spring pin? 

Me, too. I kind of love it. 

Here she is again. 

I made it just like this one:

I really liked the idea of that flower, and the blue was perfect for my Go Cats Wreath, but it was begging for some spring-y fabrics. 

I did everything the same in my tutorial, except instead of hot gluing the layers and the center, I hand-sewed them. I sewed the layers together first (lay them how you want them and then stitch up the center several times). Then I sewed the pearls to the middle of the ruffled center part and then sewed it to the layers. 

 I did hot glue the felt back. 

Love.

I hot glued that alligator clip on there too-just in case I wanted to do this.

Or this.

While, the idea to put it in my hair may have been a good one, I felt like I looked like a 2nd grader a little bit with a huge 80's style scrunci. A cute scrunchie, but that look should probably be avoided.

 In love with this fabric. 

It reminds me of vintage sheets. After I made this, I went and bought more.

It's Moda-Fig Tree. 

I'm on Spring Break this week! Too bad I have to spend most of tomorrow finishing that crazy research paper. Then I'll be visiting family and friends. I am working on some gifts that I'll show you later this week.