...Okay, I'm REALLY proud of myself! I'm on a freaking roll today with the crafty and cutsie stuff. I'm also functioning amazingly well with only 3 hours of sleep. It's nearly 12:30 am and I'm starting to get a tad tired. But I had to show off my accomplishments of the day. First, I threw together this cutsie quote card to take Visiting Teaching whilst I ate my cereal before dashing off to two incredible visits. I used the free paper and elements downloaded from Summertime Designs' amazing website. The quote comes from the December Visiting Teaching message. 
Later this afternoon I got a wild idea to try my very inexperienced hand at sewing...ish. Normally, fabric and needles and thread and I do not get along. But today I had a very rare, but nonetheless miraculous idea to dress up a bag I picked up from Wal-mart. What's even more miraculous is that it turned out to my liking! I cut out 2 flowers from fabric, used that Heat n' bond stuff (which, by the way, confuses me--how do you keep it from sticking to your ironing board????), whip stitched the flowers (look at me, using fancy words!), sewed on a button, and back stitched (confession: I had to look up the name again, I have no idea what I'm talking about) the leaves with white floss/thread. I believe I have just created a monster inside of me! I'm going to be heat bonding/stitching/appliqueing everything in sight!
This cute little experiment will be used to give to our newest Beehive, along with her manuals and music CD as a welcome into Young Women.
And, of course, the cat was there to help every step of the way.
Later this afternoon I got a wild idea to try my very inexperienced hand at sewing...ish. Normally, fabric and needles and thread and I do not get along. But today I had a very rare, but nonetheless miraculous idea to dress up a bag I picked up from Wal-mart. What's even more miraculous is that it turned out to my liking! I cut out 2 flowers from fabric, used that Heat n' bond stuff (which, by the way, confuses me--how do you keep it from sticking to your ironing board????), whip stitched the flowers (look at me, using fancy words!), sewed on a button, and back stitched (confession: I had to look up the name again, I have no idea what I'm talking about) the leaves with white floss/thread. I believe I have just created a monster inside of me! I'm going to be heat bonding/stitching/appliqueing everything in sight!
This cute little experiment will be used to give to our newest Beehive, along with her manuals and music CD as a welcome into Young Women.
And, of course, the cat was there to help every step of the way.
4 comments:
Katie I really like the idea for the new beehives! You are so creative! I would have loved to get something like that when I was entering YW!
You are very crafty! How neat!
Wow that is inspiring! You clearly have a knack for the crafty. The new beehive bag is especially awesome. I will have to make a mental note of that one.
The above comment is actually from me Natalie I am logged in as my husband I guess.
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