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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Fabric ABC Fun!

Here are some cute sets of fabric alphabet my daughter made for her nieces and nephews.

It all started with this trial set that we have in our family room, created with black and white fabric scraps.

From there it branched out to one set for each of our "married with children" children.

Animal Print

Chevron

Bunting Love

Fish and Flowers

Puzzled
(though I didn't get a finished pic, I'm just using the scraps here)

We had fun choosing and purchasing the fabric for each of these sets - we didn't want to stop. However, this project does require a lot of time, so for that reason we were happy to be done for awhile since there were other things in need of our attention.

These would make a cute garland in a play room or child's bedroom. Clip them on some ribbon or twine with clothes pins so they could be played with and rearranged to make names or some fun words.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Hearts

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:21

It's time for hearts, well, it's always time for hearts, but Valentines Day is coming up ..., and so is a 34th anniversary (one place my heart can be found is with my husband), so hearts are definitely in order right now ... and this little garland of hearts hangs nicely on this cabinet found here. It looks like a great way to remind us to look into our hearts and find what is really precious to us.

A good man out of the good treasure of his ^aheart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the ^bheart his ^cmouth ^dspeaketh. Luke 6:45

Monday, January 13, 2014

Lovely Wedding Looks

Here is a great wedding look at Green Wedding Shoes

Check out their complete photo collection for this Romantic California Barn Wedding.

Monday, November 25, 2013

Grateful Garland ..., Bottled Blessings ..., Grateful Hearts

I think it would be fun to do something unique with our Thanks Giving moments on Thanksgiving Day. Some families take turns telling each other one thing they are thankful for as they sit around the table. I have posted (here) about a vase we filled throughout the month with pieces of paper rolled up in a clear vase, each had something that we were thankful for written on it.

It's always good to be thankful.

Here are some ideas that I thought were fun and exciting and different than I have done before. They are not in any special order, and I haven't yet decided which is my favorite. When selecting these ideas I had in mind that dinner guests would each participate in the giving of thanks, but this could be done as a daily or weekly thing through the month of November, or just once at the beginning of the month and then used as décor for the rest of the month. Here are some great ideas.

Grateful Garlands

Let each guest write something they are grateful for on a piece of cloth or ribbon or tag or other item and tie it to a string or rope or ?, creating a garland.

I found this look on Pinterest.

and this next look is found here

Thankful Tree

This idea comes from Simply Vintage Girl.

The Cooke Family showed her version of a Thanksgiving Tree, and had this cute bowl of paper tags too.

Hanging Mobiles

Write on each of the leaves and hang on a mobile like this one from Enjoying The Small Things

Paper Spinner

Create a spinner - make the opening whatever size you need for the number of guests you have, and let each guest turn the spinner to find a place to write one thing they are grateful for. The host could then read each at the table if you so choose. This look is from Tip Junkie

Grateful Board or Wall Display

Each guest could write on a chalk board with chalk, or on a poster board or sheet of paper with a marker. From This and That Creative

Or write on pumpkins and place them in a frame to display like this from My Blessed Life. Instead of PUMPKINS written at the bottom it could say THANKS or GRATEFUL.

Place mats

Simple paper place mats make a great place for each guest to write on. Seen on pinterest

Bottled Blessings

Much like I did with our vase of blessings, fill a jar like this from Martys Musings.

The good old paper chain garland can be a fun idea too. This can be seen on Pinterest. It could be strung in the middle of the table to add to the décor.

Give Thanks!

The Tablescaper has a nice look using a name card look.

Maybe you would like to give each a little match book notebook that they can take home, and make sure you tell them you are thankful for them on the first page, and maybe add one of their awesome character traits or talents that you like about them. Their names could be written on the front of the matchbook or on a tag attached to it so each gets his/her own book. These are seen on Lasso the Moon

buy them - like these from Easy

or make them like these made from paint chips as seen Hardly Housewives

FYI - years ago I bought some from OTC, but I looked today and only found these on a quick look, but they could be covered with pretty paper.

Maybe you'd like a different book, like these cute homemade books seen The Long Thread. If you choose, each guest could decorate their own as part of the activities of the day.

GIVE A HEART

Okay, this might be my favorite, mostly because I like the idea with these hearts. It is very thoughtful and creates thoughtfulness within your family.

I posted it here, not to be used the way they use it at Lasso the Moon, though I love that way, but to give each of your guests a heart. Maybe you could pin a tag to it with something written on it that would tell them how thankful you are for them. But, don't overlook the way they use these hearts, because it's pretty awesome! It's a great way to help create A Grateful Heart.

Happy Thanks Giving!

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wedding Decor

We had some time to kill one day while waiting for an appointment, and enjoyed looking at some wedding décor.

We took a few pictures to remind us of the looks we saw. The photos aren't very good - we were using a phone and just sitting and visiting while we snapped a photo here and there. We just wanted to remember the look not take a perfect photo.

In this photo we liked the crystal garland (not the bigger white garland, but the smaller double swag behind it).

Though not very noticeable, there is a gazebo (with some greenery) in the left of the photo, and we really liked that too.

This next photo shows a large bookcase or shelving unit with decorative hooks attached to the upright boards and a chandelier hanging from one of them. I liked that idea, and it looked better in the room than it does in the photo.

Another thing in the next photo is the white bark branches - they too looked better than they do here.

We also liked the painted cement floor seen in the above photo and this next photo. (sorry, phone photos just can't make the look as appealing as it really is.)

Then there was this backdrop - quite lovely.

The sheer fabric had been sewn to create vertical tubing or casing all the way across the width (with the seams running vertically). Then each tube had a strand of lights threaded through it.

(I probably didn't explain that very well.)