Quick and easy garland

I made this little garland to hang from a shelf at the office. It was so quick and easy, but looks so cute.

I just put some holes in a few playing cards and ran some twine through them. Then I tied short pieces of various ribbons in between cards. Done!

I put it up for Valentine's Day (I put the queen of hearts in the middle), but it could be for just about anything depending on the ribbon. And what a great way to use up little bits of leftover ribbon!

Dress garland

Do you make things for other people, but have ideas in your head of how you want that same thing for yourself? I do it all the time.

I don't know how many orders of these little paper dresses that I've made and sent out. From the moment I bought some of this red gingham ribbon, I've wanted to make a garland for my mantel. It's taken a couple of years, but I've finally made the dresses and put them on a garland......and it's decorating my very own mantel.

I'm thrilled with how it turned out.

I should do things for myself more often. LOL

With all that said, though, I do have a set available in my shop. The clothes pins on the garland are natural color, but you may choose any color ribbon you might like if you're interested.

Heart Garland

Here's another quick project that I did.

I just took some scrapbook paper and glued two sheets together so that I had a pattern on both sides of my heart. (If I had been willing to make a trip to the craft store, I could have bought a single sheet of double sided paper.)

Anyway, I made this using my newly formed double sided paper and it only took one 12 X 12 sheet to make all of those hearts. I just cut the paper into strips about an inch wide. I didn't do any kind of exact measuring.

Then I folded the strips in half to make the point on the heart.

After that I just folded them in towards the center and glued the two sides together in the middle to make the heart shape. 

Once they had all dried I hot glued them together and just used my string to hang them on either side and across the middle. Here's a close-up:

I like the way it turned out, but I think there needs to be more stuff up there to keep them company.  Don't you?

July 4th decorating

I had seen a patriotic flag garland quite some time ago. I saved the picture to my computer but at some point along the way all of my 'favorites' for the internet got erased so I don't know who's idea I started with. (I hate that!)


Anyway, sometimes I actually get it together and actually do one of those projects that has been patiently waiting for me.

The little framed piece in the middle is an ant with a slice of watermelon stitchery.

Here's an up-close of the flags.

It was soooo quick and easy!!

I cut rectangles of red ticking that I had on hand, and used pinking sheers around the edges. Then I cut smaller squares of denim from a pair of old jeans and sewed it on.

To string the flags all together I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Then, in digging through my stash, I found a cafe' curtain that I had bought at the thrift store. It was plenty long enough and I loved the red gingham. I just cut the bottom off of the curtain, very close to the hem (so I wouldn't have to stitch it again) and sewed the flags to it.


So quick and easy and I just love the results!