A Need for GOLD shoes

My girls were asked by some sweet friends, and past RAs, to be the flower girls in their wedding. 

So we found the perfect dresses to go with the vintage wedding.

but when it came to finding the shoes we ran into quite a snag...

no off white or gold shoes to be found (at least in our price range)

 so the day before the wedding I got this idea to start crafting...

(here is the shoe half and half)

 I painted two pairs of shoes, that the girls already had, with gold craft paint

...and presto-change-o for

FREE $.99

{ready for a wedding}

I just had to add this in

the sign the girls held says

{here comes the bride}

the bride, Kendall, made it out of fabrics also used in various places around the wedding on burlap...

super cute touch

post #8 :: you're invited

one of my favorite things over the years has been to make the invitations to my kiddos birthday parties...

many-a-night spent hunched over a table or stool while punching, pasting and sticking things for their invites and then add one to their baby book

here is one of my favorites...

 I have neither tons of time nor tons of money so I take my bit of creativity, with a smidge of input from the kiddo and get two or three cute papers from the craft store, cut them up and past away.

 I also totally love brads so I try to add some bling with those

I picked some cute fonts, some cute words and printed this on my home printer on vellum and affixed them with those cute crystal brads

 they didn't look quite finished so I got out some cute stamps, 

some plain 'ol craft paint and added a "k" for Kirra

then I added a few silver dots along the side of her letter

{the lime green comes out a bit yellow in this pic, not a bumble bee party but a rock star party, smile}

post #6 :: little bear

over a year ago a dear friend 

(long story short she served ice cream at our wedding as a high schooler we didn't know, then "met" her again at FPU in the dorms while David was a RD, she was the first babysitter for Cohl 

and became a sweet friend)

anyhow she was pregnant with her first baby

so I really wanted to make something special for her

I found a pattern book with just the "special little someone" I was looking for

this little bear

**handmade with love for Ryan**

{the pattern calls for a tougher fabric so I used a new dish towel that I loved and stitched the eyes and nose and added buttons for the shoulders and hips}

definitely going to repeat this sweet little bear

post #3 :: multi...

I love, love, love to multitask

I also love multiuse

so in an effort to make one decoration for our St. Patrick's Day party

involve my kids

have it match my kitchen

and count down to our Legoland trip

{Legoland is discounted for homeschoolers}

we made this paper chain...

it's made from some cute scrap booking papers that have super cute patterns

every other strip was decorated by my kids, husband and myself {family time}

it has the number of rings to match how many days 'til we leave for our trip {so we don't have to count everyday 'cause they're excited}

it's green, which I LOVE, and we made it the day before our party

check, check, check

{multiuse}

our paper chain hangs in front of the bookshelf my grandpa made me for my high school graduation which now holds most of our homeschool materials

I am dying to paint it and maybe add some molding and detail to the doors

 so stay tuned

**side note :: one of my favorite multitask/multiuse things is when I have the dishwasher and laundry going while I am doing two or three other things...

post #2 :: big letters

I wanted to make something super cute and colorful for my girl's rooms with this one fabric I found. I loved every color in it, it's one of those that just makes you happy to look at.

I already had their bedspreads then found a paint that matched, but wasn't too girlie, I covered their letter and made a pillow cover too

first I got the large letter from Michael's, let the kids paint the letter {to involve them a bit} then cut different sizes of the fabric that I also used for the pillows and hot glued them on...I then hot glued ribbon, lace and other findings over the top of the fabric pieces where the seams were to make for nice edges and cover odd spots

 without a head board I felt that their pillow selection and letter needed to pop

this is all of the ribbon I had left