I attempted to make lollipops for the first and last time. I do not recommend cooking sugar to 320 degrees with two small children under foot. It was stressful and messy! I will, however, try this project again with some melted chocolates, since it is far easier. We used this idea from Martha Stewart to make heart-shaped “petals” for our flowers, which my five-year-old cut. I used the lollipop recipe from Martha Stewart as well, which can be found here.
OK – this counts, right? Some slightly disappointing banana nut muffins. I fiddled with the recipe too much. But the girls gobbled them up. These silicone heart-shaped muffin cups are nice in theory, but when you take the muffin out of the cup, it no longer resembles a heart. Might work with a smooth cupcake and I’ll definitely try to melt some chocolates in them.
But check out the Liberty of London fabric that came today. After contemplating this purchase for months, I bought these for the girls’ spring dresses from purl. I have some dresses made from this fabric that were mine as a child, but this is the first time that I have bought it. It is very thin and delicate and will definitely need a lining and some TLC. I am looking at my growing stack of fabric and realizing that I need to go make something!
Well, since I have many things to procrastinate and my house is a mess, I thought that it would be a good idea to craft more! Ha. So I am going to try to make a new little Valentine’s craft every day between now and February 14. I think that I can at least manage to make a card or bake some cookies, right? We’ll see how it goes. Anyone want to join me?
So I made these hair clips today. I just cut out a couple of hearts (hair-clips-template.pdf) and sewed them together with embroidery floss. I have never really done any hand embroidery before, so I had to draw dots with a fabric marker to evenly space the stitches. Do you see that those are supposed to be an x and o? I didn’t think I could sew a nice circle, so I used a button instead. Then I used a glue gun to attach them to the clip. All in all, a pretty simple and quick project. You can search Etsy for all kinds of hair clip ideas.
We haven’t really started making much Valentine’s Day stuff around here, but hope to start tomorrow. Here are some sweet little things available on Etsy.
Little Red Caboose: Matryoshka Dolls, $65 each.
Stacey Jean: Sock Monkey, $24.95.
Plants & Animals: Valentine Owl, $18.
I decided to see what all the fuss is about with these pincushions. Entire books dedicated to pincushions, tons of Etsy sellers featuring pincushions in every imaginable shape, and blogs with photos of….pincushions! So I gathered some stuff off the sewing room floor and made an easy one with some vintage ribbon:
Personally I am a fan of the magnetic pincushion because I can just snap them up when they are strewn all over the floor and you can throw your pins back on while you are sewing. So I will try my new pincushion and see if form beats function. But I’ll be thinking about creating a pattern for a pretty magnetic pincushion!
I found so many lovely and inspiring pincushions around craftland that I had to show you. Oh, and there are so many more! Click on each image for a link.
