May 5th, 2011 -- Posted in family, life as a mom |
So this was a craft idea we had this year for both birthdays (my mother celebrates hers in April) and Mother’s Day. I ended up making 3 arrangements with my son, who is 6, and they all turned out really beautifully (and different!).
Here’s what we did for these great gifts…
Supplies:
- Clear Flower Vase (if you don’t want real glass, get a plastic one)
- River Rocks or other stones/faux gems/decorations
- Fake Flowers
- Flat Sheer Ribbons
Steps:
Have your child help you wash and dry the vase and fill it carefully with rocks/decorations. They can make layers if they want. Then stick in the fake flowers in the middle. Cut them if they are too tall. Tie the ribbon around the edge of the vase. My DS came up with the idea on his own to have the ribbon at the same height that the rocks come to! Have them put a little finger on the first knot as you tie the bow so it stays very tight. You can layer up two colours of sheer ribbon for a nice effect. Leave a long enough “tail” after tying. Cut the edges on an angle.
There you go! Professional looking floral arrangement at a fraction of the price and one that will last all year ’round! We got most of our supplies at a big craft store and at a grocery store so it is fairly easy to find what you need to make these gifts. My son was able to help out at age 6 and I might suggest you could go a bit younger, such as 3 or 4 depending on your child’s patience level, but not into toddler and preschool age levels.
If you do try out these crafts, I hope the gift recipients enjoy them very much! We’ll be delivering the rest of ours over the next couple of weekends and are hoping for some positive reactions. 
April 12th, 2011 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness |
Don’t you love it when two fave hobbies intersect? I already had the pleasure of creating some “I love scrapbooking blinkies“… So I figured with my new hobby of knitting, I should create some blinkies for that as well.
For these I wanted to create, of course, a little ball of wool and a set of knitting needles. It was very fun to design and assemble in the graphic sense… and I’m happy with how they turned out.
The first batch for this theme is in 150×20 size (”regular”/small size), and includes 14 blinkies. Next I would probably consider doing the 150×40 “Big Blinkie” size. There are two different background “blinking” patterns (light and dark), a couple different hearts. The colours are purple and teal, a fave combination of mine lately that I have used in knitting too!! And as much as I love the wool ball, it’s not in all the blinkies. Here’s a few of them:
The rest can be found on this new page on the KStar Freebies site, as well as the codes to copy and paste:
“I Love Knitting” Blinkies
Stay tuned as I’ll definitely be creating other hobby-related blinkies for crafting activities like Baking, Crochet, Card-making, and of course Stamping!! And if anyone has any suggestions feel free to drop me a line!
November 9th, 2010 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness |
I’ve added another batch of blinkies to one of my fave blinkie styles (in the 150×20 collections): my Squiggle Blinkies. There are now so many, I’ve had to stretch the collection to a second page. The new blinkies have added colours: a light green, a darker pink (than the original light pink), and a darker blue (than the original light blue).
Most of the blinkies created were sprinkled into categories such as TTC (Hoping for a Boy and Hoping for a Girl), Baby Dust, Pregnancy**, and Twins/Triplets/Mulitples, which have more pages now added to accommodate the larger number of blinkies!
Visit this page for the complete listing of all blinkie pages (of 150×20 size blinkies).
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