Shrinky dinks

Shrinky Dinks!!! Who remembers them!?! I remember doing them when I was younger with my parents. They are so much fun! One of my friends I work with showed me a bracelet in the Country Living magazine, using Shrinky dinks! She was going to make one for another friends' birthday. It's soo cute, here's the website.... go check it out! There's the instructions and tutorial for you. ....So I got excited, went to Hobby Lobby got some shrinky dink paper and went to my parents house (right down the road) and was all excited to print off those sheets for the bracelet! Well they have a laser printer **DO NOT put shrinky dink paper into those kind...they melt and turn to a hard plastic!! lol. Needless to say mom and I were pulling out shrinky dinks for a while. Make sure to use a inkjet printer! lol.
Here's the bracelet::

 So I ended up playing around and made a few anyway....

Happy Shrinky Dinking!!!

~Have a fabulous weekend~

Beautiful Flower Pins *Tutorial (DIY)

Beautiful Flower Pins (DIY) Tutorial!

 I made all of these to give out at my wedding shower to the people who helped out and people I love! I think I made about 15 total, ok here's how you make them ::

Start by choosing some pretty fabrics

Draw circles on the fabric, I used a solo cup and doubled the fabric, so when I cut it out I'd have double the circles.

 Then you go over to your ironing board, fold the circles in half & iron them, then cut carefully on the line, that you creased, to make your half circles.

 OK, so now those are ironed and cut.....

Then your going over to your sewing machine, your going to fold the halves into half and then sew along the edge you cut. *Make sure you put the good side of the fabric inside out (fold to the inside) then sew.

 If you look carefully in this picture, you can see just a short little line that I sewed. (Don't forget to back stitch a couple when you first start and at the end of each one) and you can just keep them all on a line together til the end. (Like a necklace.) lol.

Trim off your pieces of thread, and pop out your petals::

 Then you need to hand stitch the rest. I put 10 petals on the bottom, and 6 on the top. Once you pull tightly they should scrunch up to look like this. Then connect your starting petal to your finishing petal.

 After that, start your second flower which will have 6 petals, this one will be your top flower. Then sew the two flowers together.

 Then add a fun button of any sort for the middle!!

Almost done!!! then on the back side, I just took a small piece of fabric and got some pins from Hobby Lobby and hot glued them on!!

Waaalaa Finished project!!!

*Now you can wear this on your shirt, purse, or pin it on a cute pillow!

This is how I packaged them up!

I found this lovely idea & had to make these from:: Sewn With Grace

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HIGH 85

Today:: sunny + 85 = VERY Happy!!! I'm so excited about this warm weather!! I know the rest of the week is going to cool down to 50s and 60s, but today is going to be absolutely wonderful!! Yesterday Luke helped me get a bird house (hotel more like) up on a post in the ground, I was pretty excited we got it up! It has 18 holes for the birds, all different rooms of course. I'll try to take some pictures today! Also before I go, last night we made these steak burritos.....sooo good! I'll put the recipe on later too! Going to get outside and enjoy this weather!



Wedding Shower

A few creative things from our wedding shower this past weekend!! Thank you so much everyone!

We had such a great time!

This one was from my sister, Heather, I thought it was sooo cute!

 One of our gifts was: old vintage dishes, a pan, a cake/pie server and a pastry blender....with a recipe card that gave us Strawberry Short cake. She said she thought that would look beautiful in the bowls!! I can't wait to make that! What a cute idea, thanks Jane!!

 A cute little something my mom made to put on the chair I was sitting on, while opening gifts!!

 Present from my mom, along with the vintage looking card box she created, it was sooo cute!! And it was perfect for holding cards!

Presents!!

Mom also got us "Toasting Glasses" for our wedding!!

A gift from the girls =) with gifts cards to get my nails and hair done for the wedding! How sweet!

A quilt my grandma made us!

 A frame my mom made, and she also made a journal book for everyone to sign!!

 Some old dishes that were Luke's grandma's that we got

 Frames from my mom, and she had a hanky embroidered

 Very cute!!!

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Bird watching

This morning Jerry and I went outside, with the sun shining and the birds chirping, it looks like its going to be a beautiful day! As we were walking around in the yard I noticed a couple of small birds on the feeders. They were a Black Cap Chickadees, they were so cute....one of those times I wish I had my camera out there with me! And to get a picture of the beautiful sun coming up through the trees :) I'm sure I'll have plenty of opportunities coming with spring on its way in!

Jerry really seems to have interest in the birds as well... haha.

Pretty tree::

Happy WEEKEND!!!

We have lots to do today & our Wedding Shower is tomorrow!!! We're super excited :)