Every year we host a Gingerbread House Making Party and I’m always trying to come up with new ways to decorate. This year with the help of some great friends, we made some paper pinwheels and hung crepe paper in stripes. It added a burst of color so we only Read more…
My husband talks often of how when he was a kid he would tie a blanket around his neck and run around pretending that he was a superhero. So, when I saw this tutorial – DIY Superhero Cape Tutorial, I knew that I had to make one for our son. Read more…
There are times when it’s fun to think about little girls clothing and it’s great since our son has a good friend who is a girl that I can give to. So, when I found this tutorial – How to make a no-sew tutu it sounded like a great thing Read more…
This was the last year that we figured we would get to decide what our son got to be for Halloween, and in keeping with the geeky theme that was set for previous years, we decided on Sonic the Hedgehog. It worked well because right before Halloween we let him Read more…
Boys love to imitate their fathers and our son is no different. He really loved wearing his dad’s fuzzy slippers around the house, even though he could barely walk in them. So I decided that he really should have a pair of his own. To make this I bought some Read more…
This was a fun project to conceptualize. A friend of mine was having a daughter and one of the hosts of her shower asked if I would make a name banner. I thought it would be fun to base the design off of the shower invitation which featured two polka Read more…
Another popular trend with Felt Food is tea related items, so I wanted to make some fun tea bags. Using my newly received first sewing and embroidery machine and finding embroidery files online, I stitched out each of the different foods and titles onto the felt. The colors and kinds Read more…
My previous workplace gave Toms Shoes as Christmas gifts to all of our clients. The clients had the option to select a custom designed shoe, and these were a pair that I made for a man. The stripes are made out of felt and adhered using permanent spray adhesive. These Read more…
In an effort to try to help raise money for my friends who are serving in Israel, I decided to make a set of felt food that was inspired by food found in Israel. This was a fun project that involved a bunch of research. In the end the items Read more…
For my son’s 2nd Halloween we wanted to continue the geeky theme that we started for his 1st Halloween. Our son was just a little over a year old and just started walking when he dressed up as Steve Jobs. This was a year before his untimely death and we Read more…