A little Competition!

Sooo.. One saturday, rainy, yucky lazy day it was. Lizard and I decided to craft.

I need to make some flowers, hair bands, barrettes and such for a fundraiser for Alley Cats and Angels. If any of you locals want o donate, let me know!

Anyway, I decided to show Lizard how to make a rolled felt flower, since she refused to do the rosettes.
(Love you Liz!! I know you are reading this)

Here are mine!

Cute. Lizard came up with using the two colors.

 Here are hers!

I think she one up'ed me!!!

Gotta get that child a hobby ;-)

What do y'all think?

Cherie

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my first upcycle

Hello My dears,

How have you all been doing?

This week has been busy and tiring for me. So much so that last night I had to stop moving around and lay in the bed in pain from my hip all the way down to my ankle. Nothing was helping, it happens as I have a bad hip that i may want to get looked out.

But earlier in the week I did do my first upcycle of a t-shirt that had a couple of oil stains and the shirt didn't fit right. Walmart t-shirt that stretch out weird after washing, which is probably why it was in the back of the closet.

I never did take any pictures of the process that I did for the shirt. There are soo many tutorials out there. I know that Kimbo over at AGAGG. Though I didn't exactly follow any directions. I mostly had something in my head and went with it, which is not something I usually do. STEP OUT OF THAT COMFORT ZONE, Cherie.
First start hacking at the shirt, literally people. Just take a pair of scissors to it. Of course there was a plan and I drew it out first.
Cut the neck out.
Cut off part of the sleeves. I wanted something to go to my elbow.
Pinning my fingers trying to make neat seams all around, sewing, making a few rosettes from the left over sleeves and Voila! The newest cardigan in my collection!

Don't mind the faces... it was a little bright outside!

Whatcha think? Step out of that comfort zone gone wrong or do it again with another shirt. I have many many shirts that have something on them ;-)

Hugs!

Cherie

Back from a long weekend

Hello there my darlings, my dears!

It has been one whirlwind of a weekend. Full of wedding stuff, walking, cooking, cleaning and just down right tiring. Pot Luck bbq's are the best. There was soo much food. I would like to thank everyone that came.

The wedding was short and sweet. Our Judge had a serious southern accent. Took all I could not to start laughing. Seriously, how does one make the words North Carolina into a 8 syllable word?
Pictures were taken in one of the parks downtown, remind me to wear regular shoes when walking downtown. Kitten heels are not fun. Feet are still hurting.

This weekend I didn't get any crafting done. NOT A BIT... seriously jonesing for some sewing, hot glue, burning my fingers making flowers.

Speaking of Flowers, a lot of people asked how big was the flower that I made for my wedding was. I hope this helps.

Don't Mind the Hair... weather was not cooperating.

So I started reading my list of blog feeds I had from the weekend and found out that Shannon over at ShannonMakesStuff LOVES my wedding flower. I am so proud. Giddy actually :-)

Thinking about creating a Etsy store to start selling my flowers and hair accessories. Still debating and for those of you that know me, know I do that A LOT.

Well hopefully this week will be low key.

Hugs,

Cherie

a new day.. another flower

Hello my darlings, my dears!

Ahhhh antibiotics are a wonderful thing! I can breathe, though a bit sniffly aka... sinus infection is breaking up. EEEWWWW.

On a better note I am making hair accessory and flowers for my dress. I also made a boutonniere (I made to look up the spelling of that word... I think spell check was laughing at me) for Handsome Man for the WEDDING!! A thought just popped in to my head: Do I need to make one for Monkey Man?

He already wanted me to do his nails... ahhh the life of a young man in a house full of girls.

My hair will be swept to the side and this will be in the back/side of my head

Blush colored dress, a little plain, had to add something to it.

For Handsome Man

We are getting down to the wire.

Lots of cleaning, lots of preparing. Pedicures and manicures for me and the girls. We do our own here in the Dragonfliez house. Hair cuts for Monkey Man and Handsome Man... we do those here too. Jane of all trades here and trying to save as much money as we can.

We are just going to the court house to get married, but we have a photographer for after to take some beautiful pictures of us in downtown Raleigh.

Hoping for Beautiful weather, but NC weather I think has it out for us here... forecasted scattered storms! Rain is a good thing on the wedding day, right?

On a sad, sad note:

MY Dreaded stairs!!! I am so not happy. the paint bled through the painters tape, but not the frog tape.

Not good. do i take a dremel to it? do I just paint over it with a chocolate colored paint? HELP!!

Until next time,

Hugs!

Cherie

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P.S. Happy Mother's day to all of y'all.