Storytellers March happening!

This month (and last) I had the goal to finish scrapbooking all of my kids 2010 photos. February took a large chunk out of the pile an so March was divided up into weeks. Last week was Abby's week. And, while I won't post them all or even a lot of them, here are a few.

This Easter page is created with the new Storytellers club March 2013 kit:

This vacation page is create with a no longer available kit:

Our Queens bath page is created with a unavailable 2010 kit:

This is made with a Feb 2013 kit, I love how it didn't have to be 'Valentiney':

Not sure when this kit came out, but it's 2012 I think:

Baby blanket

After making that blue scarf from this site http://www.naturallycaron.com/projects/bellflower/bellflower_1.html I really thought this would make a wonderful baby blanket. I have 3 sister/sister in laws all having babies in the next two months. One sells everything at garage sells, one doesn't want anything (she's having her 4th baby boy) and one would love and treasure this kind of thing. So guess who I made it for!

Brooke is having a baby girl an so I wanted to go with a soft yarn, soft color just right for a baby girl. This is what I came up with:

The picture of my foot there is so my mother could see how big the afagan was going to be.

It's spring!

We have had the longest snowiest winter that really needs to melt! My house is also north facing, so it tends to melt last.

I can't do much about the weather, but I can bring my moods up by adding color to our lives.

 One tip is get help (it takes a lot of little helpers :))

I saw multiple posts on how to create flowers out of coffee filters (thanks ointerest) and so I decided to give it a try.

First I dyed the filters in food coloring and water.

You can see how wet they are

 Next I cooked them in my oven 200 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

When this is all done fold the filters into quarters and cut a middle circle out leaving 1- 1 1-2 inches around the edge.

 On a 12-15 inch piece of tape fold the middle circle first and push on the tape.. Do this to two or three filters at once, spacing them out only 1/4 inch.

Then place the long strips on the tape, crinkling as you go. 

Roll the tape up, starting with the middle pieces (which will be the middle of the flower)

Create lots of flowers and hot glue onto a wreath.

Here is my outcome:

And here this is on my front door.

Here is the Easter wreath we just made for our entrance

Scarves galore!

For Christmas this year, I made over 25 of these frilly knitted scarves! The first few took about 4 hours each but after them I got the pattern down and they took about 1 hr 15 minutes. It's amazing what practice can do to your time.

The yarn is about 2 inches wide and so all you do is a very basic knit stitch back n forth. The instructions say to knit 6 stitches, but I like 7 or 8 to make the scar a little fuller. Most of mine were 7 stitches wide. Then you just knit the entire way, no purling, with a size 9 needle.


They were great to use as gifts and so much fun to make!