In the spirtit of the holidays I decided to try to do some more "homemade" type gifts then getting suck into the consumerism around Christmas...that and funds are pretty tight with the upcoming nuptials and all.
Anyways...
I decided to make those super cute flower pins for the females in the fam!
They are all over etsy...
You can wear then on a sweater or a jacket...
(fabulous finds)
you can pin them to a clutch or an over the shoulder bag...whatevs..
(Davie and Chiyo)
I have to take a time out from our regular scheduled programming and just say that I love the clutches in Davie and Chiyo's etsy store so much that I make pretty similiar type clutches...BEFORE I came across the store! Really though there is like a million duplicates on etsy...so I'm okay. They aren't EXACTLY the same...
OK...back to what I came to write about!
The flower pins I am making. I haven't completely finished them but I wanted to show you one that is about 90% done. My very first one I might add.
I found the tutorial on wise craft. It may not be Marths Stewarts tutorial but she has one...I just could follow this one better.
I took this pic with my iphone, so please excuse the quality.The colors are actually blue and brown the family member that I am making it for absolutely loves these colors and the material is corderoy and the blue flower motif is a raised felt type material. Its got a lot of different textures going on. I like it, its not my style exactly but its perfect-o for her and really isn't that all that really matters:)
I decided something as I was writing this post
(hey! I can do 2 things at 1 time!)
I'm going to have a series on here called...
"If Martha can do it, so can I....maybe"
I will take a turorial found on the web or maybe in a book and try it out myself.
I'm not naturally crafty. It does not come easy...I have to work very hard at it! So we will see if a "normal" person can do thesey so called "easy crafts"
I can see it now.....
it just might take the world wide web by storm!
Better get back to the pin making...its 18 hours until gift opening. Yikes!
Happy Holidays!
Cam
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