Crafty runs in my blood

I love making crafts. I brings me to life somehow. I get on a roll and make tons of stuff, then i get over it and don't make anything for a week or so. Well I am itching to make some new stuff. I want to share my inspiration with you all.   Like........

This

And This......

And one more.....

What projects are you up to lately? I have a lot going on right now with my family and summer time. It's a full time job trying to keep three kids busy. I am wanting to try one of the linky partys here any advice for me on how to get started. How do you make a button for people to grab? 

Have an awesome day!

Pinterest

I am in total love with Pinterest. This place is amazing. I am pinning everything that I love.

You have to be invited to participate in this amazing place. SO I am giving away 4 invites to of course 4 lovely commenters! Because I want to share the love with you all. I'm sweet like that, just don't tell my husband i am sweet. : ) Just kidding.

Here are some of my pin's. 1, 2, 3, 4. Just a few of the things I love.

Something else.....

My aunt painted this wonderful little picture for my many moons ago. And my mom has been carrying it around from house to house for me for all these years. Well it made it to my house just a few weeks ago, and now my daughter has it. She gets something that was made special for me as a child.

Please excuse my photography skills on this one it was a dark room.

My aunt also made me a sweet little tea cup when I was two, and just a few years ago I was reunited with it also. Such precious little gems to me. I love handmade items and especially ones made just for me. I am a sentimental sap.

Enjoy your weekend and don't forget to comment for a Pinterest invite.
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YO-Yo

I gave it a go with a yo-yo. I have to say it was really easy and much faster than i expected. My daughter was in need of some really cute clothes. I am always making clothes and bows for others and hardly have time for her stuff. SO i made time and made her some really cute stuff. First a tutorial on how to make a yo-yo cause I know y'all want one with there being so few on the internet. ; )

Cut yourself out some 8' fabric circles. No need to be perfect as you can see mine are not. Make smaller circles if you want to stack or just need different sizes.

Set your sewing machine to the longest stitch then overlap a little.

Looks like this when pulled tight.

I embroidered a shirt for her. Snagged it at Walmart for $4.

Hand stitch it to the shirt.

Here's the finished product. I am really happy about how this turned out especially for my first time doing this!

I had an extra one so i made her a hair clip. I just hot glued a alligator clip to the back and hot glued a button on top.

Thats it so simple yet so pretty. Enjoy! Let me know if you find this tutorial helpful to you.

Skate craze

That word craze means wildly insane or excited about something. I would hardly say that i was all those things about skating but my kids were. My husband had a pretty good time to. I decided not to skate due to the fact that one fall would have put me in bad shape. (I have back issues) So I watched. Im telling you the adults at the skating rink are hilarious. As soon as a pair of skates hit their feet they are blasted back to the 8th grade. I don't really people watch but if you do thats the place to go. There was a man there in a see-through muscle shirt. He was the best to watch. I could be seen laughing out loud for no apparent reason to bystanders. One couple in there late 30's were skating one behind the other holding hands. Haha, see I told you it was hilarious.

Anyhow on the the children's fun.

Gabe got ahold of 1000 tickets and snagged these babies. They light up.

Check out those socks. Sweet girl knows how to rock out the skating (all her idea) She had a hard time at first but by the end she was dancing while rolling.

K was rocking and rolling the whole way through. He loves skating. He even made new friends which is not surprising the child can make friends with anyone. He gets that from me.

The karate chop to keep upright. I love this one.

Watch out here comes dad. The kids requested this fathers day weekend activity and he obliged. He's such a good sport.

What will you be doing this fathers day weekend?

Other news!

I will be giving away some free items form my Etsy shop once i hit 100 followers. So hope on over to the follow button and get yourself signed up.

Have a great weekend!

CHS sale

I had a wonderful time over at CHS this morning selling all my monogramed hair bows and headbands.

They were a huge hit. I hope to make it back out there in July.

All the cheerleaders were so cute doing there routines the worked so hard to learn all week long.

Please excuse my absence i have been having technical difficulties at my house with the internet. I am super irritated at the people at Cox.

Have a good weekend and happy fathers day to all those daddies out there.