Crafts

I've been trying to finish up some crafts projects the past little while and finally got some done.

But first, my daughter loves crafts like I do and on Saturday came to me asking me if she could do one. She exclaimed, "I want to sew buttons!" I mentioned a few simple flower projects she could sew a button on and she insisted, "No, not one button or flowers. I want to sew a LOT of buttons. On fabric." Not thrilled with the thought of her just sewing all my buttons on random fabric I came up with an idea.

I got her a strip of wide ribbon and my buttons. I taught her how to sew a button on and then let her go at it down the ribbon. We then folded it in half, I sewed down the sides and tada! Bookmark!

She was so excited! She now has her treasure with her scriptures and took it to church so she could show off her handiwork.

I also got some flowers on clearance at Walmart and have been wanting to turn them into barrettes for Abbey. I finally finished a few of them.

Then I decided, hey, she needs a place to put her new barrettes and quickly came up with a barrette holder to hang in her room next to her mirror. Though as I saw how few barrettes it holds, this will probably just be a temporary one as I work on making her a bigger one that holds more.

And last of all, my mom has been sending my sisters and I a pattern for quilt blocks once a month to be put together for a final large "Count Your Blessings" quilt by the end of the year. I finally finished the pieced blocks for the first few months. It feels so nice to have a few projects done. Now for the other hundred floating around in my head and stored in my craft room....:)