Felt Food: Strawberries

There are tutorials all over for strawberries.  Just google or go to pinterest and you'll find hundreds!

They are pretty simple to make. 

The most time consuming is sewing all the seeds on.  Good project to do in front of the television!

I saved some of my strawberry baskets from our local strawberry festival.  I thought my felt version looked super cute packed in the basket with a piece of plastic wrap over the top!

Have fun!

Cow Towel

So for Christmas, I made 3 cow towels to go with a sort of Farm Theme.  While towels are fun to make, dealing with the fuzz from cut towel material is NOT fun.  I tried to mitigate the fuzzies but using iron-on stuff, but the material is so textured that it didn't do anything.  

Crazy Little Projects has a whole bunch of towel tutorials posted on her website.

A cow is not one of them, but I found this great looking cow towel on etsy, not that I was going to pay $39 for a hooded towel.

I got my towels from Kohl's and JCPenny Black Friday sales, but couldn't find a black towel and ended up at Target.  They have the best ones, in my opinion, for the hooded part.  There's no decorative edge a couple inches in from the seam, and you can make your hood whatever size you want without that part getting in the way.  (If you go look at a hand towel, you'll see what I'm talking about!) 

My munchkin LOVES her cow towel, and I really should make her a couple more hooded towels before summer and pool season is in full swing!

Hans Solo and Chewbacca Shoes

Last year, for Christmas, I made my brother-in-law a pair of Darth Vader Shoes.  (See the post here) To say he loved them and wore them until they fell off his feet would be an understatement.  

This year, I went with Hans and Chewy.  

 It took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to do, but a quick search of etsy and you can find several sellers with the design I went with.

I think he likes having something that is not commercialized where someone else can go out and get the same thing!

I like very crisp lines (for the belt buckles, shirt, vest etc).  So I cut the design out of paper, and used spray adhesive to stick it to the shoe.  

Then I just painted around the paper.  Not only does the paper let you see the proportions on your shoe, it acts like painters tape!

Just in case you forget where the characters are from, Star Wars is on the back of the shoe.  Along with my tiny initials (which I'm sure have worn off since Christmas 4 months ago!)

I'm thinking next year, I'll do R2D2 and C3PO.  Hope Hans and Chewy can make it that long :)

Ribbon Sculpture Hair Accessories: Disney Princesses

These took WAAY more time than I thought they would.  From the planning stages (do i have all the right color ribbon) to mastering how to melt the edges properly (straight or curved).

When I did the Ariel, the mermaid, and Country Ariel in the last post, I mentioned the tutorial that I "followed".  I'll admit that I wasn't crazy about a lot of her princesses...so I went to etsy and find a princess that I liked and went from there!

Once you get the hang of the lengths for the body, head, arms etc. it's not that hard!

I made all of these princesses so they could be hair clips (as seen in previous post) or clipped to a head band.  

I thought it would be nice to have some variety.

Here is Rapunzel.  

And Snow White.   One of the tutorials had some pretty fancy sleeves, but, it seemed like more work than it was worth, so I opted for these simpler ones.

and Tinker Bell

Pocahontas, don't you just love the fringe?!

Here's Cinderella...took me a couple minutes to figure out how to make her dress pouf.  (you glue the ends together in a circle so it looks a bit like a bracelet instead of folding them in half.)

Here's Beauty again.  I didn't have skinny green for the rose, so I used black.  Ha.

And my favorite, but the most difficult to figure out her tail and hair (and that's after having made one already!):  Ariel.

btw:  if i were doing this project again, i would totally get the wood burning tool.

I cut two slices in the background print and threaded ribbon through so that each princess could be clipped to the poster.  I laminated it (using clear magic cover - clear contact paper found near shelf liners at stores like walmart and target).

I found the background here.