Repairs

Trying to figure out why my blog went crazy. I need to keep out of the Html screen.

Edited***
It's back to normal. I don't know what I did or how I fixed it, but it's better. :)

Happy, Happy

The first time I saw banners in a Pottery Barn catalog, I was smitten. I started making my own in felt and thought they were so much fun. I came across some $1.99/yard fabric, and veered off into a whole other direction with my Happy Birthday banners. Well, after more than a year, they're BAAA-CK! I was asked to put together a kit for a group of ladies, and well, the fabric ones were just too complicated for the money they wanted to spend. So, re-enter felt. And, you know what? I love them!! The colors are so bright and cheerful and I love that I can embellish them in ways that are just much more complicated with fabric.

There are two versions, one with white letters and one with multicolored letters. I am thinking of making a new one with a bunch of hand embroidered embellishments and designs. Hooray for Felt!!!

Trick or Treat

When I went back through my posts, I couldn't believe that I had never posted about my Trick or Treat blocks! I have been making these for a couple of years and I love them. It started when my sister had some left over 2X2 posts from building her new deck. I knew I could do something with them, so these blocks were born. First I cut them to size, used the router on the edges to give them a "face", and did a three step paint treatment using crackle medium. Then I printed the letters off my computer, hand cut them out and mod podged them on. I actually used mod podge all over the block to give them a glossy finish. I decided the blocks looked kind of plain, so I started making the figurines to go on them. They are sculpted by hand out of polymer clay and then I actually used mod podge on them as well, for that same glossy finish.
Here are some closer views:
Just right for a not-so-spooky Halloween decoration. ;)
check out more mod podge projects here: