More Scarves, Stitching ,Spring and Hobby Lobby !

 Good morning ! Hope you have had a great week !
I have been making more of these infinity scarves..This time with a baseball applique! Aren't they too cute !?! These are for a blogger/instagram  friend ..They were her idea , but I am going to steal that idea and make a football applique for myself :)  I have 2-1/2 done ..2-1/2 more to go !

 I finished up the September With Thy Needle and Thread Wordplay.. I left out those little orange designs, and added another person and some more of the wave design.. I think I am going to do one more row of the wave design in the top left corner...

Stitching on March right now, I am not loving the burnt orange color and think its going to be replaced with another color of green..

While at Hobby Lobby to get more navy yarn for those scarves, I wandered to the clearance section at 90% off ! These pillows were $99.00  for $9.99 ..

 And this lamp...$89.99 for $9.00 ! I think I am going to use it in the spare bedroom that we are getting ready to repaint and decorate ! Isn't it fabulous ! Love the little rusty flowers !

I have been Springing up the house even though it has been below zero ! So cold ! Our village workers came yesterday and removed the huge pile of snow from our yard .. I wonder if its because we are supposed to get more snow this weekend ??? 

I love this wrought iron tiered basket I got at an Estate sale.. I filled it with tulips from Michaels , made a chalkboard sign , and added a burlap bow. 

Have a great weekend ! My daughter is off today so we are going Estate sale shopping ! Hope we can find some great bargains :)
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DIY Ceiling Medallion Wreath With Book Page Rose

 More book page crafting :) ! I saw this wreath on Pinterest and knew we had to make them.. ! My daughter and I went to Menards, the ceiling medalion was under $10.00 ..They have a couple different sizes , so you could even make larger or smaller ones ! Book pages are free if you have old books and the ribbon I got at Walmart .. Here is the step by step tutorial  .. from Pretty Handy Girl.

 I hung mine from this shelf with pegs in the kitchen.. My daughter hung hers in her living room .

 I have to admit that the book page roses were a little hard to make and we threw away the first one , and I got plenty of hot glue burns .. But the good thing is its only paper !

 I took down all the winter decorations last week and started to add a  little bit of spring..

 The silver tray chalkboard went from winter to chicken :) Lots of chickens on top of the hutch

 A little silver pedestal bowl with a tiny grapevine wreath for a nest .. I got these birds at an Estate sale last week , there were 4 of them for $6.00

  In the hutch there is a birds nest sitting in a little pedestal bowl with some little book page strips added ..
I hope you make a ceiling medallion wreath ! They are beautiful !

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February Stitching

 Good Morning ! We are having a nasty weather day here in the Chicago area.. snow, freezing rain, and rain! Last night I finished this Country Cottage Needleworks February Cottage. I changed all the colors, it was supposed to be alot of pink .. I wanted to display these two together so... this is what I came up with..

 I bought this little square frame at the Goodwill for $1.99 ..It is actually a mirror. I painted it off white and then dry brushed with gray paint. I wanted it to look old and worn.. I used some of that laminated burlap in the cream color and glued it to cardboard to put in the center of the frame.

 I added a magnet to the burlap and one to the back of the stitching. I am going to stitch all the months and just change them out in the same frame. I have July and August finished :)

 I made a twine flower and glued it onto a burlap flower shape that I cut out of the laminated burlap.I also made a covered button from ticking for the center of the flower.

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Easy Chocolate Cake With Strawberries, Raspberries and Candy bars !

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Last week was one of my sons 21st birthday .. So I came up with this cake full of strawberries, raspberries and hershey bars ! I made a regular devils food chocolate cake in 2- 8 inch round pans.

 I sliced up a container of strawberries and left a few whole ones to place on the top. I added the raspberries and about 1/8 cup sugar .. I chopped the hershey bars I used 8 of them into small pieces.I beat a carton of heavy whipping cream until it was stiff in my mixer.When the cake was cooled, I added 1/2 of the strawberries and raspberries, to the top of the first layer. Then dolloped on some of the whip cream, then added the rest of the strawberries and raspberries ..!/2 of the chopped candy bars, more whip cream , then the other layer of cake.

 I used the whip cream then to frost the whole outside of the cake ..then added the rest of the chopped hershey bars and the whole strawberries for decoration. It tasted amazing and was so pretty too !

My daughter and I also made a trip to the Good Will store.. I found 2 different sets of great winter salad/desert plates, one is the 12 days of Christmas.. the other is snowmen.. A really cute salt and pepper snowman set , Santa mug , the cute little oval mirror will be a chalkboard.. and a rusty lantern ..  

 I spent $13.00 for it all , looked up the 2 dish sets on Ebay , and the snowmen plates were $19.99 each ! The 12 days of Christmas I found for $29.00 .. I think I got some really cute things !

 We had another snowstorm yesterday .. I had to enlist everyone to help shovel :) The youngest grandson loves the snow!

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Spring Book Page Wreaths DIY

 Good Morning ! Hope you had a great weekend !
Yesterday my daughter and I decided to make more book page wreaths , this time for spring ! If you missed them we made book page tree toppers and wreaths ..Lots of them ! If you need instructions on how to make the book page wreath  they are here ..We use cardboard for the base of ours...( its free if you have an old box :)

 So we made the wreath , and after we got two layers plus filled in any empty spots , we cut a circle of cardboard and glued it to the middle to layer our flowers on.

 I got this burlap at Michaels that is laminated so its stiffer and doesn't ravel.. we just cut flower shapes and made these little rolled roses out of strips of paper .. Just cut your book page into about 3 strips longways, crinkle and fold it , then start rolling tightly ..hot gluing as you go..

 I used 4 strips to make this size rose. Then glue the book page rose to the cut out flower burlap shape , and glue to the cuircle of cardboard.

 My daughter decided she wanted coffee filters behind her burlap, these are unbleached coffee filters, and we just crunkled up the bottom stapled it and glued the burlap and paper rose to the top.

 Aren't they just fabulous and almost FREE !

 Mine is hanging in the dining room window from a piece of burlap, hers is going on her bedroom wall..

 Last night I started the process of changing over from winter to spring decorations....Even though more snow is expected today , I am just ready for a change! Hope to be back later this week to show you some spring changes !
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Granny Square Blanket Finished !

 Good Morning ! Hope you are having a nice weekend !
I finished up the granny square blanket I was working on , using up my scraps. I did the join as you go method to connect the squares , so it went really fast. There's 180 squares .. I used mostly red heart acrylic yarn..

 Don't you love the springy colors :)

 I had trouble deciding on a border , I didn't want scallops or the big ruffle I've been using and ripped out several before just trying something and loving it ! I think this is my favorite border ever !

 I did a row of single crochet around the whole blanket , then 2 rows of half double crochet.

 I attached the yarn to the first row of half double crochet and did a single crochet around the post , chain 3 all the way around. This makes little tailored ruffles. Then for the second ruffle row I did sc , chain 3 in each stitch around the 2nd row of Half double crochet.

 I finished 2 cross stitch pieces...silent night from Country Cottage Needleworks, and another Prairie Schooler Santa for my Santa tree.

 Yesterday my son who is at the University of Kentucky texted and said to watch for him on ESPN college game day show .. So we turned it on and I thought how are we ever going to find him in a sea of thousands of people .. there he is even waving to us :) He's in the grey and that's his dorm mate from last year behind him.. Too funny ! They were all over the TV! Its nice to be able to see him when hes so far away !

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