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FELT VASE

As most of you know (who read my blog regularly), I have a 3 year old girlie girl.  She loves flowers, pink, butterflies, dancing, hosting tea parties for her toys and dressing up as a princess.

Whilst Halloween shopping last month I found some green Daisy Reeds at Pier 1 Imports and thought they would look beautiful in her bedroom.  The only problem, I didn't want to put a glass vase in her room because undoubtedly it would be smashed in no time ... either by her carrying her vase of flowers up and down the stairs repeatedly or by her brother hitting it with his hammer.

My solution. To make a vase.

 

So using sheets of felt, fabric scraps, a button and embroidery thread I started cutting and sewing.

To keep the vase sturdy .. afterall it is felt ... I placed an empty 8.75oz plastic herb container inside.  That not only keeps her Daisy Reeds from falling over, but if she has some fresh flowers to put in her vase, we can put a little water in it too.

THE BIRDIE BAG

While the kids are at school, mummy gets her craft on.

I picked up the plain green, ready-made felt bag in the clearance section of (I think it was) Michaels quite a few months ago for 50 cents. 

Marisol is an avid collector of bags (a trait she obtained from me) … something that daddy is not happy about, especially when she goes from 50 cent bags to $500 bags in the years to come.

The plain green bag needed to be prettied up a little.

So armed with:

• the green bag
• a pink fat quarter
• white felt
• embroidery thread
• a needle
• black fabric paint
• and a paintbrush

I set to work.

I did a rough sketch of what I wanted to put on the bag.

I cut out a template and then used a fabric pen to draw the outline onto the fat quarter and felt before cutting.

Then I hand stitched the bird and her pretty wing onto the bag. 

Done!

THE PURPLE FAIRY

If I were to go to a children’s store on any normal day I would find purple fairy wings.  In fact, I’ve purchased purple fairy wings before … until I painted them black for Halloween.  However, for the past 2 weeks I searched high and low for purple fairy wings.  Do you think I could find any?  NO!   Not one single pair.

So I resorted to purchasing pink wings and pink ballet slippers and painting them purple so that Marisol could have an adorable fairy costume to wear to a fairy festival yesterday.

The result:

   

All it took was fabric paint in purple, green and a metallic pink gold to make these fairy wings and pink ballet slippers match her adorable tutu and headband which had the most beautiful little flowers on them.

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While on my recent vacation to Australia my mum had forewarned me that she had some bags of crafting supplies for me to go through.  She wasn't kidding.  It turned out that one of her best friends had passed on some bags of fabric remnants, thread, ribbons, binding and all kinds of other bits and bobs that her mother had used as a seamstress.  Mum knowing how much I love to take on crafty projects thought that I would love to take some of this crafty goodness home with me.  She wasn't wrong.  I delved into the depths of some of the most beautiful fabrics and ribbons and put together a lovely little pile of things to pack in my suitcase.

I can't wait to start using some of this fabric.