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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Miss Mustard Seed: Copy Me Challenge

You probably already know. Miss Mustard Seed has begun her Copy Me! Challenge. So, I am going to enter the post from here from a previous project that was totally inspired by her. You should go check it out all of the great projects at Miss Mustard Seed's

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Union Jack Pillow

Union jack pillows are everywhere. I don't know if you have been seeing them but I couldn't get them out of my head! I've seen some really cute ones out there in blog land. Seeing that last night we were suppose to get blasted with ice and snow, I decided it would be a great time to make one. Unfortunately, I didn't have the right fabrics to make it like the ones that inspired me. So, I did the next best thing. Drag out drop cloth fabric and craft paint.

It was a little tricky cutting out the union jack flag with freezer paper. Here is a shot of the freezer paper ironed on before the painting fun started.

Here it is completed.

For those of you who know the flag well, you can probably spot my mistake. Mistake and all, I love how it turned out. It did require a lot of craft paint and may not feel the softest but it will do the job in a pillow fight. When the weather lets up, I might wonder out and get fabric to make a different version. Maybe I'll do a little UK pillow display.

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Monday, January 31, 2011

Winter blues

I cannot tell you how tired I am of the snow and cold. To top it off, we have ice moving in tonight. I am tempted to do some tanning bed light therapy. Okay, not really, but I could use about 5 full days of sunshine. In all of my dreaming of spring, I decided to introduce a little bit of living flowers in my decor.

My flowers of choice are paperwhites just for the fact that they are white. I pulled out a couple of different things to plant the bulbs in.

It has only taken about 2 weeks to grow. I am thoroughly enjoying seeing them grow. It makes me really want spring to hurry up and get here!

I am especially enjoying them on top of my jelly cabinet. I had to rig up the wooden box thing with plastic lunch bags to plant the bulbs in there. I'm lovin' it! Seeing the green stems with the blooms just starting to poke out has me dreaming of warmer days ahead!