Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Two Projects from the Weekend


This weekend I went to the baby shower for a good friend's future grandbaby. Her son is in the Army so I thought it would be fun  to make some camo-bibs for the little girl. You can learn more about these bibs from the first time I made them.


On Sunday afternoon, I made these ribbon trees with the girls. Mine is the middle tree, their trees flank mine. Fawnda at Fireflies and Jellybeans has a good tutorial for these. The girls used straight pins to attach their ribbon. I used hot glue.

I made a serious mistake when I made these with the girls I sat criss-cross applesauce on the floor. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving our whole family found itself watching  YouTube videos (we watched silly videos like Ray Stephens, Homer and Jethro, the Royal Gaurdsman etc). I sat criss-cross applesauce on the floor with K (who ways over fifty pounds) on my lap. I stretched something out of shape and aggravated it again on Sunday when I made these trees! :) I guess I am getting old.

P.S. The Styrofoam trees were from Dollar Tree. The straight pins and most of the white ribbon was from my stash (I bought a couple of rolls of white/off-white gross grain at Dollar Tree. I wish I hadn't, I didn't need them).

I will be sharing this at:

9 comments:

  1. Love the trees! So simple and elegant!

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  2. The trees are lovely. My daughter would really enjoy making one. Hopefully you feel better soon. I am feeling my age a bit as well.

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  3. The trees look fabulous Melissa. I know your girls will grow up and be great crafters like you.

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  4. Very clever Melissa....I bet she loved them!

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  5. I love those cute little trees!! I would have bedazzled them a little though

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  6. Those ribbon trees are adorable, that is a great project! I know what you mean about not being able to let the kids sit on you for long periods of time, I always pay when I do that.

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  7. I love those trees! :o) I'm thinking LittleGirl would love to raid my ribbon stash tonight. Thanks for sharing!

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  8. The ribbon trees are really pretty, a great way of using up stashed ribbon too :)

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  9. The trees are beautiful and I think I just learned a new US expression - "criss-cross applesauce". Hope whatever you stretched is now better!

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