Good morning, and welcome to the month of May! This year I thought it would be fun to take the month and focus on Moms. So whether you are a mom, you have a mom, or you just like moms, stick around and see what we’re going to do.
In the meantime, why don’t you check out the easy drop earring tutorial,
and my somewhat hilarious attempt at making a necklace holder.
Do come back tomorrow, though! This is going to be fun!
If you’ve been by here in the last several days, you’ve probably noticed that the blog looks different. During a routine software upgrade on Wednesday, my WordPress theme decided that it was tired of coping with changes and stopped working correctly. I scrambled to find a new format that would work, and I’ve been slogging my way through code ever since.
I haven’t got things quite the way I want them yet – though it’s starting to look better – but if you’ll give me a little patience I should be able to get things running somewhat smoothly again very soon.
In the meantime, please enjoy these pictures of cherry blossoms I took while I was in Japan. The trees should be getting ready to bloom right now up where we were…we’ve traded them for cactus flowers and somehow it’s just not the same.
You may have noticed a pair of projects in my Easter basket reveal yesterday that you haven’t seen on the blog. (Surprise! It’s because I haven’t blogged about them yet.)
I am of course referring to the chick and the duckling in eggs.
I wanted to make Tommy and Teddy something similar but different for their baskets – a chick and a duckling, each with their own egg, seemed to fit the bill.
You can see that the eggs are made a bit differently – the first one, I made to open on the side. When I went on Saturday night to make the second egg, the very last piece of sewing to do for Easter baskets the next day, I found that I didn’t have a large enough piece of felt to make two whole egg pieces. Ack! So, I improvised. I cut out the largest piece I could get, with the missing end artfully zig-zagged, and then cut another piece to finish the end and matched up the zigzags. I actually like this way better!
If you’d like to make a little chick or duckling of your own, here’s the pattern (for both)!
You Will Need:
Just click on the pic for a printable pdf.
Enjoy!