Clothes Pin People

On Saturday the kids were feeling a wee bit stir crazy.

We are currently without vehicular transportation.

The weather is freezing us out (or rather in).

And it is only February.

So we have no where to go but upstairs, downstairs, downstairs again, or downstairs one more time.

In case you didn't follow that,

we live in a 1950's quad.

Oh yeah.

We are cool like that.

Back to the stir crazy part.

I went to my designated craft storage space.

A.K.A "the yellow room",

(so named because I painted it yellow).

As I was noting my supply stash,

I had some childhood flashbacks of making 

toothpick people,

clothed with embroidery floss.

I rounded up some necessary doo-das,

gave a few instructions (or are they "destructions" when kid crafting?)

Then I left the kids to their own devices.

I think they turned out pretty cute.

The cool-o-roonies even made their clothespin dolls their own abode.

Not too shabby.

I wish I had a pom-pom pillow.

Check out the size of that medal she is wearing.

I wonder what she won?

Felt Toys

I found this fantastic book a few years ago.
I had great plans for this book.
I was going to make a lot of fun toys.
Somehow it just never happened.
That book just sat around taunting me.

This is the book.

My girls have been begging me to make that deer for years.
This Christmas I finally did it!

It was a lot of fun!
I used this tutorial.
It made a huge difference to use packing tape when cutting out the pieces.
Now I have the pieces stored in an envelope, ready to make more!

I already have some tiny dogs cut out and ready to sew.

JOY

One of the things that I get to do is work with 8 to 11 year old girls.

We get together twice a month and do activities.

This month I had the girls make joy magnets.

We talked about what brings us joy.

Kindness.

Family.

Friends.

The gospel.

The Lord.

Serving others.

And don't forget cookies and candy...

We talked about how we are responsible for our own joy.

I made this for the girls.

Always put Jesus first, serve Others and You will have JOY!

I used my digital Jolly Christmas paper pack to make the quote and the magnets.

Here is a great tutorial showing how to make your own magnets.

http://blog.capscreations.com/2012/06/glass-pebble-magnet-tutorial.html

Have you figured out what you are doing for your neighbors for Christmas?

This is my gift to you.

Make some JOY magnets.

I think they will make perfect neighbor gifts!

What do you think?

Molly Dolly Pattern

I did it!

I finally finished the Molly Dolly Pattern and it is in my etsy shop.

Come on over to my etsy shop and get a pattern!

You have plenty of time to make a Molly Dolly for your special little girl for Christmas.

If you do get Molly Dolly Pattern, let me know and I will send you some Thanksgiving journal cards.

Thank you!!!

Sophie's Teddy Bear

For my new baby niece.

The pattern for this bear can be found on ravelry.