2 handbags, 1 little deadline

4 days before Mother's Day I decided these would be great gifts for two of my dear friends who just spoiled the heck out of me for my birthday.  I don't know how, but somehow I got them done, and even quite happy with the finished products!  Happy Mother's Day Deb and Lynn!

I used a brooch pin to attach the flowers to the fronts of the bags.  I was really not happy with how the red, white and blue flower turned out so I switched it out with a blue rosette to match the linning.

April's out of the box bouquet of bracelets

I'm contributing again this month to Out Of the Box Sampler, and literally worked on these little beauties all month long!  At home and work- making fabric flowers, in bed making fabric flowers, in line at the bank - yes flowers, catching a table of one business breakfast/brunch - iPod and making flowers.

so now I have a bouquet of flowers .... what to do with them? (besides, headbands, necklaces and corsage pinbacks? Oh ya and a hat.... )

but I digress, for next months OOTBS I am giving away samples of a few of my necklaces, some headbands, but mostly I have made 21 bracelets that each have a handmade flower attached.

a bracelet alone is fun....thus the "sample" part of the sampler

however bracelets in bulk is an awesome wrist corsage!  I wore some to church on Sunday, and got lots of compliments... now to make some for my Etsy and Funky Finds stores!

 Let me know if you want to order any!
xoxo
j
ps. can you tell at which part in the story my real camera died and I had to resort to the cell phone camera... sorry corsage pics are lame!)

fabric flower-rama necklaces

so you already know I'm addicted to making fabric flowers, right??

I put them on pinbacks and added them to necklaces!  aren't they cute?  If you want to wear them without the necklace, just pin them to something else, easy as that!  

(I gave this one to Tennielle for her birthday this week, Happy Birthday girly)

now I just need to list them on Etsy, and Funkyfinds... does anyone else dread that part of the creative process?

fabric flowers and lilly pads

lesson:

making fabric flowers can be addictive!

This is just what I've come up with since Monday night (yes last night Monday night)... not bad

I cut out strips and strips of  old hand me down t-shirts that were given to me and this is what I came up with!

yes this headband is huge on her head, but she was the only one willing to hold still for a picture, I was thinking more along the lines of and adult  bridal head ;)

It took me longer to do this one that it did to do every other piece below.... combined!

I ran into this tutorial and took the fabric flowers and ran with it, then when I couldn't do it her way, I changed it to my own way.!   I plan to do a tutorial on that soon.

These are my fabric Lilly Pad hair clips, aren't they cute?!

I'm going to give away one lilly pad with each purchase (over $5) at my shops until March 15th!

Each Lilly Pad is unique, the green pad is puffy with cotton in the middle, and the fabric frog print flower curls in toward the center.

So go buy something over $5 at my Etsy Shop or my FunkyFinds Shop and get one free!