Valentine' Day Heart Garland

I love the holidays.  I love the changing of decorations around the house.  So to add to the decor I made a heart garland.

All it took was paper, watercolor, a hole punch and a sewing machine.
Step 1 - Paint one out of eight sheets of paper.  Paint both sides of sheet red
Step 2 - Create hearts with hole punch
Step 3 - Using red thread sew hearts together.  Use one red heart for every four white.  Sew 1/2 inch apart.
Step 4 - Enjoy!

Not including drying time this project only takes about 10 minutes.  Hooray for Valentine's Day.

February Cross Stitch

Here we are at the start of another month.  And here is another finished cross stitch project.  

Hooray!

To everyone an early Happy Valentine's Day.  

2/12

How I spent my Valentine's day

I'll have to say that my motivation has been low lately.  My life has had many changes of late and it has been tough dealing with all of them.  Most of my days have been spend online all day, watching TV or reading.  Not much action on the craft front I'm afraid.

Did I make anything on Valentine's day?  No!  I went to Disneyland instead.  Only one day a year they bring out all the Princes and Valentine's day is that day.  Off to Disneyland I went to play before work and took photos with the Princesses and Princes.

Prince Ali and Jasmine 

 The Giant Beast and Belle

Prince Naveen and Tiana 

 Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip

 Prince Charming and Cinderella

Snow White and the Prince

Three of those poor princes don't even have a real name, The Beast, Prince Charming and The Prince from Snow White.  It was great to see all of them.  The only couple I didn't get a picture with was Ariel and Eric. But I did grab a picture of them from a friend in line.

I suppose I didn't go the whole day without at least planning a craft.  I brought a piece of fabric to make a pillow out of.

I had the characters autograph the fabric.  I showed some of my friends from work and a couple of them suggested embroidering them.  What a great idea!  It would take forever but it would be awesome when it is done.  

Next week I'm off to collect more autographs in Florida at Walt Disney World with my mom.  We are also going to visit Universal Studios for Harry Potter.  I'm ready for a total geek out!

I'm going to make a new case for my Kindle before my vacation.  The first one I made ended up being too big and the elastic was not strong enough.  Another project for another day.

- Bryn

Valentine's pillow finished

 From the base work of the one fabric I was able to fill in the other colors as well.  At first I wasn't sure about the lightness of the pillow, usually it is not a enough contrast for my taste, but I went with it to see how it would end up.

 After starting to sew together the squares I realized that I was missing a row.  I planned it to be 8 rows by 8 rows and I only had 7.  Oh no!  Just a little bit more time with my rotary blade and a couple fabrics and I was back on track.

And the finished product, at least the front.  I looked much better after it was all put together.  

After another trip to the fabric store for some fabric for the back and borders and the pillow was complete!

I loved the pillow once it was done.  Again sorry about the lousy pictures, crafting at night will do that to ya.

And this time I remembered my craft tag!  Score one for Bryn.

Crafting has been a good distraction of late.  Although time usually passes by quickly when I am working on my computer or crafts but lately it seems to trickle by.  Hopefully this is a temporary thing.  I know things will get better soon.

- Bryn

Valentines day pillow

The day after breaking off the relationship I couldn't just sit around.  I had to do something.  And something that comes naturally to me is working on crafts. 

Valentine's day is around the corner so it would be the easiest crafts to make.  After breaking up hearts are not quite the items you want to be working with but I did it anyways.

I found a piece in my parents house that inspired me to make a patchwork pillow for Valentine's day.

 Blogger decided to change all my pictures sideways, oh well.  I went to my fabric stash after buying some fabric from one of my favorite fabric shop in Lawrence, KS, Sarah's and starting cutting the ever popular 2 1/2 in squares. 

 I started to draw out some different patterns.  I originally planned to use diamonds as a pattern for the pillow but the different angles of the heart precluded that idea.  I decided to go pretty simple and go from there.

I took a good amount of time laying out the initial shape of the heart with one fabric of the four that I had chosen.  

To continue tomorrow.  Crafting make the heart grow stronger!

- Bryn