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Christmas Tree Farm Wood DIY Sign- Ruff Background Paint and Second Thoughts About Color Schemes
Hi everyone! I made some progress painting the Christmas Tree Farm sign. After my second thoughts staining the edge of the sign, I decided to proceed forward in painting the sign. I wanted the stain to be a red tone and the background of the sign dark green. From there, I would paint the sign’s wording and other decorations on it. Since the stain was more purple berry colored than red, I didn’t know if the green background would clash with the stain color. Even though I was worried, I decided to proceed forward in painting the background.
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Wood DIY Star Ornaments and The Success and Struggles to Paint Them Gold Like Dior Charms
Hi everyone! Last year, I decided to buy unfinished wood star ornaments. I had an idea to make them look like star charms that come with purchases made from the luxury fashion house Dior. I saw people online hand their star charms on their Christmas trees, which I liked a lot. Stars are a favorite shape and design, so having a tree full of them caught my eye. The only problem is the people online seem to shop at Dior far more than I do because they had many stars to hang on their tree! In order to have star charms to hang on my tree, but not go into…
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Christmas Tree Farm Wood DIY Sign- Staining the Edge & Second Thoughts On the Stain Color
Hi everyone! Last year, I purchased a DIY Christmas Tree Farm wood sign from Michael’s Crafts. At that time, signs advertising Christmas trees meant something special to me. (And no, it doesn’t have to do with Taylor Swift’s song!) I saw the sign multiple times when I would shop at Michael’s. I really liked it more than other finished signs, so I decided to purchase it and decorate it myself. Even though I started working on it last year, I finished it this year. I wanted to talk in blog posts about the process I went through to decorate the sign and the thoughts I had a long the way!
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Wood DIY Ornaments from Michael’s Craft Store
Hi everyone! It may be October, but Christmas is coming soon. For the past few years, I’ve been collecting wood DIY ornaments from different places. Usually, my favorite places to shop for them is at Michael’s Craft Store and on Amazon. (The Joann closest to me doesn’t usually carry the DIY ornaments in the style I want them to be in) I began collecting these ornaments as a way of adding a more personal touch to my Christmas tree without spending a lot of money. After collecting these ornaments, I decided to start working on decorating them. Before I do, I wanted to show what the ornaments look like before…
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Dollar Tree Sailing and Ocean Themed Wood DIY Ornaments
Hi everyone! A few years ago, I decided to start creating more customized home decor. I wanted to do this prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but decided to after the pandemic started. What spurred my desire to make customized home decor was my worries about finding new decor made out of higher quality materials. I also wanted to do this in order to have more things I made and can display around my house. Earlier this month, I went to the Dollar Tree to see if they had any new books for sale. (I like to shop there for books) While there, I found the summer inspired decorations. They looked…
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Sewing Project List for the End of Winter 2023
Hi everyone! Spring Solstice (AKA the beginning of spring) will be here next month. I am both happy to see warmer temperatures come back, but I also despise the warmer temperatures. Living in Arizona is not fun during the summertime! Even though summertime will be no fun due to the heat, I always look forward to wearing cute, light weight clothing. This year, I plan on making myself more clothes than I buy. I’m not sure if this will work out the way I plan, but I am hopeful I will have the clothes to wear more cute spring and summertime outfits than in previous years. Even if it means…
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New Flannel for a Quilt and Plans for It- Part 1
Hi everyone! Back in December, Joann Fabric and Craft store had a great sale on flannel. I wanted to make a flannel quilt for years, but I never purchased the fabric for it. When I saw the sale, I decided it was time to purchase flannel for quilts. In my order, I purchased four colors for two quilts. The first quilt is going to be red and white while the second quilt will be blue and light blue marble. I’ll talk about the blue and light blue marble fabric in a future post. As for the red and white, I wanted to talk about it and some ideas for quilt…
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Navy Sweater: Knitting the Body Is Finished & Ribbed Knit at the Bottom of the Sweater
Hi everyone! After I published my last post about the navy sweater, I decided to finally finish the body. I had to put it down for a few weeks to let my hands rest. Around the time my last post about the sweater was publish, my hands felt much better. So, I decided to finish knitting the body of the sweater.
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Navy Cardigan Progress- Mistakes, Fixes, and What Needs to Be Completed
Hi everyone! In my last post, I mentioned the white cardigan is not the only cardigan I am working on. A second one, made out of navy blue yarn, is also a work in progress, but is more finished than the first one. Despite problems with the sleeves, I am very happy with the progress on this cardigan. Between the white cardigan and this navy one, I think the navy cardigan will be finished first.
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White Cardigan Progress- What Needs to be Finished & a Yarn Dye Lot Mistake
Hi everyone! As I write this, I’m starting to run out of things I knitted but never talked about online. Still, I have two more projects that I would like to talk about. The are both cardigans, but I never finished either of them. I used the same knitting pattern for both cardigans and the same yarn, but not the same color yarn. In this post, I’m going to talk about the white colored cardigan. I’ll talk about the second one, a navy blue color, in a future post.
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