winter wreath

My wonderful neighbor has decorated her house in blues, silvers, and blacks. I was very excited to make her a present for Christmas in these beautiful colors. I love when people decorate with these frosty wintery colors, but they don't match my house AT ALL so it was fun to have a reason to buy and craft with these magical colors.
The first one had a little ribbon/lace rosette and the next one had a super sparkly silver poinsettia. I gave Dandi the one with the poinsettia and I gave my neigbor the one with the rosette.


I got the wreath from Dollar Tree and just spray painted it black. The sprigs were super cheap at Joann's. I wound black ribbon at the base of the sprigs to secure it together and then used a black twisty to attach to the wreath. Then I just put the flowers on clips and clipped them to the sprigs. I wanted everything to be removable so that I could make fun Halloween things and other holidays decorations to attach.
I have one wreath left and I think I'll have to do something sparkly and wonderful that matches my house (greens and browns).

I linked this post on a fun blog I like to visit-- Sumo's Sweet Stuff.

Felt Flowers

I am making these cute flower clips and pins to decorate goody plates for teachers. So easy and fun. They would look darling on head bands too.

Style #1

I used some poster board to make pattern circles and then used them to cut out 5 large circles and 3 small circles.

Stitch each petal with a running stitch beginning on the back side, coming up, back through, up, back through to gather the petal.

String the petals together, stitching each petal the same as before.

Finish it off by stitching it the last petal to the first petal and tie off.

Do the same with the small petals.

Stack and stitch or hot glue together. Put a button or bead in the center if you want and then attach it to a pin, clip or head band.

Style #2

Cut two strips of felt, the smaller one being 3/4 of the height of the larger.

Cut petals, whatever shape, (for poinsettias make them more triangular).

Use a running stitch to gather the petals.

Gather and stitch the ends together. Tie off.

Do the same with the next strip of petals.

Stack and stitch or hot glue the layers together.

Add a button or bead to finish it off and then attach it to a pin, clip or head band.