One Simple Bliss

 The other day I picked up some felt squares for .25 each. I wasn't sure what I was going to make with them, and ended up making these flower hair clips. They are simple and sweet! Not to mention VERY easy to make! Material: Felt Snap clips Gems for center of flowers Embroidery Floss Hot Glue First you will need your flowers. I went online and printed these. Cut the paper flowers out so that you can use them to trace onto your felt. (To make one flower smaller in size, open your image in Microsoft Word and scale it down but selecting the image and dragging one of the corners in.) Next, I used a pin to pin my flowers onto my felt, and cut. You can take a pen and trace yours then cut, or do it this way. Once you cut them out, this is what they should look like. Once big one and one smaller one. Fold your big flower and make a small cut. This is where you will insert your snap clip. Slip your snap clip in. This will be the back of the clip. M...

Yesterday during Gia's nap, I made her this apron. Material: You will need some fabric/material, and some ribbon. If you don't have any fabric, you can use an old top that you don't wear anymore. You will need three pieces: one for the back, one for the front, and a small piece for the pocket. Here are my three pieces. I used a solid white piece for the front of the apron, a white piece where I added a bottom trim of the black and pink polka dot fabric. Then for the pocket I made a matching pink with black polka dot piece. Just measure how long you want your apron, and how wide, then cut your three pieces. Lay the front and back piece on top of each other, fold in half and mark your arm holes. Then cut along your line. (I measured my daughter's chest across the top to see where I wanted the arm holes to start, and then just made a backwards J-ish shape.) This is what it should look like when you open up your fabric.  Next you will want to cut out your neck and ...

The little one and I made heart dolls yesterday. They are very easy and fun to make! Great for a Valentine gift for the little ones.The hearts are made of fleece that I bought for half off, and the legs and eyes are out of felt squares that cost me 4 for $1. First thing you will need is a heart to trace. I printed one off of the internet to use.   Pin your heart to the fabric and cut it out. You will need two pieces of each color. Here are our hearts. We have two red, and two pink hearts.  We picked gray felt for our legs and black for the face.  You will need to cut out four strips for each heart. I placed the two gray felt squares on top of each other and cut my strips. That way I was cutting two at a time. So total I have 8 gray strips for two heart dolls.  This is what you should have once you are done cutting the hearts and legs out. Next I cut out my faces for the dolls.  I cut my eyes and mouths out and placed them on the hearts to see ho...

For my daughter's birthday, we ordered cupcakes instead of a cake (except for her cake.) To go along with the cupcakes, I made this cupcake tower. The entire stand cost me less than $10. First, you will need to get your materials. This is what I used: 14'' cake boards (2) 12'' cake boards (2) 10'' cake boards (2) 8'' cake board (2) floral block (I bought green, it is best to use white) three cans glue gun   (I purchased my cake boards at a cake supply store. That way I was able to buy singles instead of having to buy a package of 8 in each size. They cost 0.13 - 0.29 each.) The first thing I did was to cover the block with fabric. I used white fabric. I measured the width of the block and cut a strip. I cut it a little taller than the block so that I would be able to fold it over and glue the fabric to the top of the block.  Hot glue all around the edges on each side. One side at a time. Push firmly on...