Easy flower hair clips

 

These are so easy to make. My daughter is loving these.  She is asking me to make them in multiple colors.

First I picked my material. Then I took a mason jar lid and traced it on the fabric.

 

You need about 6-8 circles depending on how full you want the flower. Cut the circles, fold the circles in half and then in half again.

 

 Then begin to bunch the circles on at a time.  They will begin to get full as you put more in.

 

Once you have as many as you like put a straight pin through to hold it while you sew it together.  I used double thread and went all the way through all of the corners about 4 times when you are done knot your thread to hold.

When you are done hot glue the bottom to a clip or a hair clasp.  Let dry and you are done. These are so fast and easy to do. Enjoy!

 

Shirt

I had seen this shirt made here several months ago and I have been dying to try it.  Finally, I was in target and they had some T-shirts on clearance for $2.24.  My mom was with me and she got a shirt in her size and so did I.  Then I bought the extra large shirt to use for the ruffles on the shirt.

 

I made a 2 1/2 inch heart, traced it on the XL shirt and cut them out 2 at time.  I used about 12-14 heart per shirt. After I was finished with all of the cutting I started placing each heart one at a time.  I hand stitched about 3 times to hold it secure.  Then started placing them next to each other.  The closer they are the fuller it will look.

I continued bunching them up and sewing until I got to the point on the neck that I thought looked good.  I am very thrilled with the finished product.

Can you tell I was taking the picture? Next time you are out look for cheap shirts that you can fix up.  I made 2 of these for $6.75.

My Baby

 

I need a mom moment.  I registered my baby boy Carson for kindergarten last week.  I must say this has been eating away at me.  I have been blessed to stay at home with my children, but now the baby is going to school. When I handed the registration forms to the school I felt a tug at my heart.  To be honest when I walked out of the school office I wanted to cry.  Many emotions were running through my body. We are blessed that our children go to such a wonderful school and I am so happy for him, I just need to work out my mommy issues.

Proverbs 22:6  Train a child in the way he should go,  and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Book Mark

 

I saw these on Somewhat Simple blog. 

They were so cute I had to try them.  I just used material that I had and put interfacing on each side of the fabric.
 

I cut the edges with pinking sheers. Put them together and sew around.  Place a ribbon in the top and sew it in.  My first try was ok. Next time I will be more prepared.  Hope you enjoy these.

What we had for dinner.....

 

My dinner all started with this bread.  Honestly, I am from the south and I was raised on biscuits.  Biscuits are what I make, not yeast breads.  I love yeast breads don't get me wrong, but I am just not good at them. But, I found this recipe here and it is so easy and wonderful. You really need to give it a try. 

So I thought we need some good soup to go with this. In my $5.00 dinner mom recipe book there was one for Pasta e Fagioli Soup(I love this soup at Olive Garden). I changed this recipe up so I am going to give you my instructions.

3/4 pound ground beef

2 carrots, chopped

2 celery stalks, chopped

1/2 onion, chopped

1 can (15 ounce) diced tomatoes with juice

1 (6 ounce) tomato sauce

1 can red kidney beans drained

2 tablespoons dried Italian seasoning

2 teaspoons garlic powder

salt and pepper to taste

1 cup elbow macaroni

In a skillet, brown the ground beef and drain the excess fat. 

Add the cooked ground beef, chopped carrots, chopped celery, chopped onion,, canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, beans and 2 cups of water to a large stock pot.  Stir in the Italian seasoning, garlic powder, and salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to low.  Cook for about an hour on low heat.  Add elbow macaroni and cook for about 30 minutes longer. 

Hope you enjoy!

Happy Valentine's day.  I have been behind on blogging, mainly because of all of the snow.  It can be really hard to be motivated with all of the snow on the ground. I wanted to share our family fondue we had for Valentine's.

 

  

  

This is my children's favorite drink.  It is just equal parts ginger ale and grape juice. I just made it fancy for valentines.

 

My older 2 being silly.

 

As you can tell they ate a lot of chocolate.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

 

Nanny Wrights sewing box

 

Today I was going through some of my crafting things and there sat my great grandmothers sewing box.   Its amazing to me everytime I open it.  It was in storage until a couple of years ago and then my grandmother gave it to me.  I have never been able to get rid of one thing in the box.  I am sure some of the material and trim has dry rotted, but it is a reminder of my Nanny.  She sewed so many quits and clothes for us growing up.  In fact I found the last quilt she was working on before she died. One day I will finish it. I think this box is a way of holding on to all of the memories of my great grandmother.  I learned a lot from her and I am blessed that I was able to have her in my life as an adult.  She died before Kevin and I got married so she was never able to see my children. I know that there is a part of her in them and I am thankful.