St. Patrick's Day Garland

This weekend my crafty friends got together for another fun day of crafting. This time we made St. Patrick's Day Garlands. I feel LUCKY to have friends that like to craft, enjoy good food and visit and laugh while creating. Jennifer, far left, found us a cute example to go by but there was no tutorial....so if, this was your post, let me know. Your picture was so cute, I want to give you credit!

It's so funny how we all look at an example and then make it our own with the fabrics, materials, ideas, etc of our choosing. Since I like vintage thing and love ephemera, I turned my garland (above) into a more vintage-y version.

Our hostess made us a St. Patrick's themed lunch with Irish Stew, Green Soda Bread, and Green Peach Ice Tea. Cheers to you Denise and Jennifer!

And here's the Hostess with the Most-est...Fredna. She always throws a great party and everything is so coordinated. I should REALLY get her involved in Blogging....she'd be awesome at TableScapes. She's also an expert seamstress and can whip up the cutest pillows and drapes.

Here are some of the items I pulled together to create my garland. Here is work in progress for some of the other ladies project.

The crafting table....where the creative juices were flowing...........

And here's my finished project.........I have a little bit more tweaking to do. It will go up on the mantle soon.

Are YOU lucky enough to have friends that like to do crafts with you??? Or do you prefer to work alone? I enjoy seeing every one's own personality emerge when I'm with a group...and of course, the girl talk is priceless. What's said at the crafting table----stays at the crafting table! RIGHT!!??!?! LOL!

Valentine's Scrappy Heart Craft Day

My fellow crafter friend, Kathy, discovered a fun and easy tutorial on "Little Birdie Secrets Blog". She was so excited to try the heart wreath that she made one and THEN shared the little secret with us. February was my month to host the craft day, so I jumped right on this craft...it was PERFECT for us. Above is my finished wreath....isn't it sweet?

Basically you need a Styrofoam heart wreath, a yard or so of fabric, some glue and a pencil or small screwdriver. The tutorial called for a pencil but I guess we are BRUT'S and kept breaking the pencil. So we used small Phillips head screw drivers.

Here is part of the group at my kitchen table, cutting and punching away. Basically, you cut 2 inch square pieces of fabric, wrap the fabric around the pencil, stick the tip of the fabric in the glue and JAM the pencil into the foam.

Here are some of the finished products....Fredna, on the left used a primitive fabric with a maroon background and tan hearts. By the time it was put together, it looked like Victorian dried roses. Jennifer, in the middle, used a fabric with a white background with red, and two shades of pink hearts; and Kathy, used red and white polka dots. We had fun seeing the color the wreath turned out to be.

My next project is to try and make a Valentine Garland. What kind of craft are YOU going to try this Valentine Season!?!?!?!