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By on February 15, 2014 in Pinterest Pin-along, Sewing and Crafts

 

IMG_1816 IMG_1817 IMG_1820So sorry to get this post up so late today.  I am currently at the library due to a bad snow storm last night taking out our internet.  I called our internet provider and they could not fix it over the phone…again.  It seems anytime we have a bad snow storm, I can almost expect to be without internet.  Knowing that someone out there might be looking forward to this post, I somehow got down our road (very icy and slippery) and once I was on the main road it was a breeze to get here.  It is very quiet and warm in this library so maybe it would not be a bad place to come once in a while 🙂

Yesterday we had such a great time celebrating Saint Valentines day.  I will share that tomorrow but today’s Pinterest inspired project is Valentine related.  I never know what to make for Poppa, he is a sports guy and I just don’t get inspired to make sports things.  I saw this pin and just loved it right away.  I secretly worked on it a few nights this week once Poppa had gone to bed.  He loved it.

I love how sweet it makes our bed feel 🙂  The pillowcases were aquired at a thrift store for .50 a piece…woot!  They looked brand new and after a washing and iron all they needed was a saying.  I picked a font that I liked and then printed it off at the size I wanted the words to be on the pillowcase.  I put the paper inside the pillowcase and just traced the words with a pencil.  Then put the pillowcase on an embroidery hoop and got to stitching.  They are now my very favorite thing in our room.

So what did you make this week?  I can’t wait to see it.  Please post a link to the pin that inspired you in your post 🙂

To see my Pinterest inspiration board for todays project, click here.  Oh and if we aren’t friends on Pinterest you can follow me by clicking on the “P” bunting flag at the top right corner of this blog.

Here’s what to do.

1.  Pick a pin you have pinned from your Pinterest boards and do it.

2. Take a picture of your project or progress and blog about it or post a picture to flickr.

3. Then come back here on Saturdays and post a link to your blog post (please make sure the link you post is to your Pin-along post and not your main blog)

4. Don’t forget to link back to the Pin-along  so others can find us and get encouraged too.

5.  We all love comments and encouragement so please leave a comment here and visit at least 1 other pinner and leave them a comment  too :)
Fair enough?

Below is the link up tool.  Let me know if you need help!

You are invited to a Pin-along party.  Bring along all your Pinterest ideas and pinned projects and make them a reality.  Don’t just pin it, Make it, Bake it, Do it and then Share it!


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hoops for my Valentines

By on January 28, 2014 in Sewing and Crafts, Uncategorized

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First, let me say thank you!  A great big thank you to all of you wonderful mommas who jumped in with the Real food on a real budget blog post.  You really blew me away with your comments and ideas and I am so blessed to have so many women who care about other women.  We all have so much to share and I am so lucky you have chosen to share here.  Already, I picked up so many ideas and we have not even begun yet but I will save that for Friday’s post.  I think I will also post many of your ideas if that is OK with you and please keep them coming.

And now onto today’s post.

Growing up my momma always got me a flower or balloons on Saint Valentines day.   She is cute like that and naturally I thought all mommas regarded their babes as their sweet hearts on that special day.  Somewhere along the line I found out that I was a lucky girl and so I too give my sweeties something special on Saint Valentines Day.  As a much younger momma, also much poorer, I would line up at the local party shop in Miami for their annual .50 cent balloon sale, heart shaped of course.  My older children still remember getting those balloons.  Balloons that would spend their days tied to a bed post until they could not hold themselves up any longer and would be relegated to the playroom as volleyballs.

I have given them chocolates, love notes, pillow cases but this year with all this time spent by the warm fire, I decided to do some embroidery.    With really only two weeks left until Valentines, I have been pulling the needle and thread.  My girls, including Alex who already saw hers, will be getting these little hand embroidered hoops to hang (if they choose to) in their rooms.  I hope it will be a reminder of my love.

I’m really not sure what to give my boys but I am sure whatever it is, they will love it as they always do, or at least they pretend really well 🙂  I’m thinking of something edible since that saying is probably true.  You  know, the one about the fastest way to a boys heart and all.  Yeah, that.  Any ideas out there?

I have also decided to offer these little Valentines to anyone who wants to order one (or two :).  I am starting to gather the funds necessary to build a new farm so once again like at Christmas, I am offering my handmades.  You can find the details at the Facebook page if interested.

I am working on finishing a new cowl I started designing a few weeks back.  Hope to see you here tomorrow for some knitty goodness.  Right now, I am off to visit the beautiful Nicole and see what wonderful handmades are being posted there today.

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