Richelle's Creative Corner

Lower Case V

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Lower case v for vulture:

Capital V

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Capital V for Violin:

Lower Case U

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Lower case u, for unicorn:

Capital U

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Capital U for Uncles:

Skirt

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:00:00 +0000

I bought a cute blue stripey t-shirt from the dollar store a while back because I thought the fabric was really cute. The shirt was a size 4x, but I knew it would work to turn into a skirt. I had made a couple skirts from t-shirts last year, and I was in need of something cool and comfy. I did the shirring on the top like in this tutorial. With the super high temperatures we have been having here, and with my growing belly, it is a really comfy skirt. I paired it with a red shirt and wore it for the 4th of July:

Lower Case T

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Lower case t for tiger tail:

(Yes, those are supposed to be stripes on the tail. My 3 year old was having fun with all my different colored pens)

Capital T

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Capital T for train:

Dino Shoes

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:00:00 +0000

My Brother and Sister-in-law had their first baby, a sweet little boy, about a month ago. I made him some little Dino shoes with matching receiving blanket:

I also made him some little penny loafers.

He ended up coming almost 6 weeks early, so he is very tiny. Hopefully he will grow into his shoes before too long!

Mickey Mouse Shirts

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Our big family vacation this summer was a trip to Disneyland. I thought it would be fun to make some matching shirts for us to wear. I bought some red t-shirts from JoAnns, and used freezer paper to stencil a Mickey Mouse on each of our shirts. Here are some of the shirts in progress:

Since cutting out the stencil is the hardest part, I didn't really want to cut it out more than once. I ended up using the same stencil for all four shirts. It worked pretty well. The paper was pretty caked with paint by the end, and I had to trim down a couple of the tight spots, but it worked. One of the shirts close up:

Here we are, all ready to go the first day to Disneyland:

Lower Case S

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Lower case s for stars in the sky (or space):

Capital S

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Capital S snake:

T-shirt Dress

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000

A couple of months ago, my friend asked me to help with a sewing project for the teen-aged girls at church. We made t-shirt dresses, like the one from Tripping Over Joy, here. I made this one for myself as a practice before showing the girls how to do it.

I made my waist high enough to leave room for my expanding belly. I also left my dress long. A lot of the girls cut theirs to knee length, which looked really cute, too. I wish I had gotten a picture of some of the girls' dressed, because they all turned our really cute.

I also made a little flower to pin onto my shirt with leftover fabric from the skirt. I used this tutorial, although I just cut circles instead of flower shapes.

Lower Case R

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Lower Case r for rocket:

Capital R

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Capital R rabbit:

Different Kind of Creating

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0000

It has been a while since I have posted here. I haven't totally disappeared off the face of the earth, just been preoccupied. Most of the month of March and April I didn't do too much crafting because I was feeling sick from the other creating my body was doing.

I had to borrow this picture from This Little Project. I thought it was pretty clever.

We found out we are having another boy, due mid October. My boys are super excited to get another brother!

May and June we had a couple big vacations, so I didn't get back into the blogging habit. Now that we have a free summer, I hope to catch up posting the few things I have made the last couple months, and hopefully I can post a little more regularly some fun crafts and things that we do this summer. I made a list of activities and crafts to do with my boys this summer, so I will share some of those. If you want some ideas of the fun activities we have planned, you can check my Kid's Activities Pinterest board here.

Here's a quick craft we did for the Fourth of July. I got the idea here, although I think it was linked to from one of my pins.

Hope you had a happy Independence Day!

Lower Case Q

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:15:00 +0000

Lower case q for quilt:

Capital Q

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Capital Q for quail:

Valentines

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:47:00 +0000

We had a fun Valentines and were able be a bit crafty with some presents.

I saw this idea on pinterest, and thought it would be fun for my son's Kindergarten class Valentines. We just have the star muffin tins to make the crayons, and we just put them with regular Valentines (that I got on clearance last year!).

The best part was my son was so excited to do his Valentines, he didn't complain about all the writing practice he was getting. :) He even made this card for his teacher:

I made these for my husband and put it in a recycled heart box. The recipe can be found here from Kraft..

I saw these cute origami heart valentines via pinterest, and made a couple for each of my boys.

Lower Case P

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000

A little penguin, p, covered with penguin stickers:

Capital P

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:46:00 +0000

Capital P for puppy:

Two Babies

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:35:00 +0000

I had two friends that had babies lately, so I made them both some little baby shoes, my favorite gift for new little babies!

Some baby girl shoes:

And some penny loafers for the baby boy to wear to church.

A while back, I bought a Groupon to Cherry Hill Designs that I used to buy some iron-on labels to put on things that I make. These shoes were my first chance to use them. They are pretty cute!

Here is the boy's one, although I couldn't quite get my camera to focus on it.

Lower Case O

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:39:00 +0000

An orange owl for the lower case o:

Nook Cover

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:04:00 +0000

I was the lucky recipient of a new Nook for Christmas. I had been thinking it would be fun to make a cover for it.

Here are a couple patterns if someone want to try to make one totally from scratch: from Urban Threads, and from Chica and Jo.

I remembered that I had this little portfolio notebook thing, that happened to be the exact size for my nook. I think I got this at Goodwill for less than a dollar. Its just a cheap notebook holder from some company. So check your local thrift store, or maybe you have a freebie from some company lying around!

To change it into a Nook holder, I sewed elastic onto the corners of one side. It was a little bit flimsy, so I inserted an extra layer of thick card stock in the pockets on each side. The card on the left side was sticking out a bit, so I covered it with fabric. I also glued on a piece of scrapbook paper over the little pocket that had a company's name on it. Then I sewed a little strap with a snap on the end on one side, with the other side of the snap on the top of the cover.

Outside top view were the snap is attached:

Outside back view where the strap is sewed on, and if you look really closely you can see the little lines where the elastic was sewn:

All ready to go with my Nook!

Capital O

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:04:00 +0000

Capital O for ostrich.

Catapult

noreply@blogger.com (Richelle) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:16:00 +0000

I ran across this project on Pinterest the other week, and knew it would be something my boys would like. We made these little catapults to shoot pom poms.

Of course we had to make two, so we could have a battle.

With the puff balls as amo, no real harm can be done!