Featured on The Creative Crate

I'm so excited - one of my crafts was seen at The Creative Crate! Click here to see the post where my Burlap Wreath can be seen. I need to get busy crafting again this week . . . I have a plan for another bow for Harper - if it rains tomorrow, I'll be bow making - if it is sunny, I'm headed to the pool . . .

New Front Door Wreath

I first saw the burlap wreath idea on Tater Tots and Jello last year. I made one right away and it hung on my front door for a whole season, until it was tattered and faded and I had to throw it away. Then, last summer, I made one for my classroom door. I had been looking for a long time for a new wreath for our front door - whether one from the store or a homemade one...but honestly, I couldn't find one I liked more than the burlap wreaths from Tater Tots and Jello. So I when I went through my fabric bin and saw all the green scraps I had and scraps from the cushion I made for our front porch, I decided to just make another one for this summer. Here are my circles ready to glue on the wreath.

And the finished product hanging on our front door! I love it. I love how the colors are a little darker than the first one I made, so I don't think it will fade as fast.

Earring Holder

Yesterday while in Hobby Lobby I found tons of clearance frames. Usually the clearance frames are really beat up and have lots of scratches, but not yesterday! They had tons of cute frames. I probably spent 20 minutes deciding which ones I wanted to buy. I bought one for Harper's bow holder and one to make an earring holder for myself to hang in our master bedroom closet. I'd been wanting to do this for a while. I went with a chocolate frame and bought a small piece of burlap from the fabric department.


You just cut the burlap to fit in the frame. Then spray A LOT of heavy starch on it and iron it so it gets stiff. Then you hot glue the burlap into the empty frame - pulling it very tight as you go (you want it to be tight so when you hang the earring on it it does not sag). Then I added some ribbon I had to hang it from.

Then I cleaned out my old jewelry box - one I have had since college - and put all the earrings on my holder. Here is the finished product! I love it. I think it almost looks like a decoration. I would have hung it in my master bedroom, but Will probably would not want to look at my earrings all the time. It's that easy and cheap! The more earrings you have, the bigger the frame you need!

Back to School!

School starts Tuesday! I've been working feverishly in my classroom to get all the things ready for my new kids! I'm excited to meet them tomorrow at Meet the Teacher Night! They all come up to school and bring their school supplies to stock in their desks. It's so fun to get those first impression of them. Some of them are really excited and some are nervous, it's cute either way. Here is a shot of my classroom.
This summer I spent some time leveling my books by reading level. So each reading level has a color coded label on the book binding.

They are organized in color coded baskets by Chapter Books or Picture Books.

Here is the wreath I made for my classroom door. I used to have a cute crayon wreath, but it had faded so it was time to update!

A Triple Set

As you can tell (because I have been crafting), the husband has been gone again this week...

This week I have been working on a set of three small spring wreaths to hang on my arch grid in our family room. I bought three foam wreath forms at the dollar store. I covered the wreath form in burlap (long strips about 3 inches wide). I used this tutorial to make these fabric flowers. I alternated two kinds of fabric. They were very similar to each other.



I hot glued the fabric flower to the wreath and then hot glued a yoyo fabric flower in the middle (you could also do a button).



I used some green gross grain ribbon I had to hang the three small wreaths on my arched grid (once the flowers were hot glued on).

I couldn't get a good closeup shot.

I thought about covering the whole thing in different kinds of fabric flowers, but I kind of liked the simplicity of this for my family room.

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