Here is a sweet little mouse bookmark with a long and useful tail! This one is made out of felt and sewn, but if you’re doing the project with young children, you can glue the felt pieces together or use card stock or construction paper. Whichever way you make him, I’m sure you’ll find he’ll …
Summer
Craft Basket – Fast to Make Using Recycled Materials
This quick craft basket is a great way to organize crafting supplies. Plus, it’s easy to grab for on-the-go crafting! It’s summertime. Time to head outside and find a shady patch of grass to stretch out on. It’s also a great time to grab your crafting supplies and “while away the hours” drawing birds and butterflies, …
Stay at Home Vacation
Beginning tomorrow I will be “off” for the next 2 weeks. Tim is on vacation and we are excited about spending the next couple of weeks AT HOME. Now, this may not be exotic, but we are so looking forward to it. We are locking up the cell phones (mostly) and using the net for …
Moving Outside
Being an obsessive person, I have a tendency to have a one track mind. And at this time of year, it is near impossible to keep me indoors. My gardens call to me, and it would be down right rude, not to answer. So, this means I tend not to craft as much during the …
Felt Flower Garland for Gnome or Dollhouse
Materials: Scraps of wool felt Embroidery floss Pattern Cutting out felt: 1] Make copy of pattern. 2] For each flower cut out 1 flower, 1 center and 2 leaves. (Note: the pattern has many flowers, centers and leaves. For a real quick cut out, tape individual flower pattern to felt. This keeps the pattern flat …
Felt Flower Garland…or, hmmm…a Necklace!
Although I made this very easy garland for the gnome house, Fairy picked it up, wrapped in around her neck and said, “Oh, Gammy, this is a beautiful necklace.” Hmmm, yes, that was my plan… garland for the gnomes, necklace or bracelet for Fairy! Okay, that wasn’t my plan, but I love it when designs …
Where are the fairies?
There are 6 flower fairies frolicking among the flowers. Can you find them? Spring has hit the Thicket and the flower fairies have returned! Britta has been busy getting the house ready for the warmer months ahead. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing various projects for the Gnome House. Although we are …
Little Treasures
Just a little sunny shot of Fairy enjoying her Treasure Pouch. She used it today on our Annual Family Girl Trip. She got to tuck some wonderful treasures in it including a jar full of purple shoe shaped beads (not sure why she filled a whole jar with shoe shaped beads when there were hundreds …