Getting a little tired of hearts? I am. But I made this sweet little deer tee for my daughter. I used an American Apparel baseball tee with red sleeves. I’ve wised up and figured out that I should make things for the three-year-old first, then ask my five-year-old if she also would like one. She declined on the deer tee.
For today’s Valentine’s craft, I hand-stamped some linen hand towels. I used a little heart stamp from my daughter’s collection. I found it helpful to brush the paint onto the stamp with a paint brush so it didn’t bleed over. Using a fabric marker, I drew dots an inch apart so that I had a guide for my hearts. This was a super quick and easy project and would be fun with the kids, though mine weren’t interested today. All crafted out, I guess.
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.
