Bunting tutorial

Ok you guys I am like at crunch time for Ethan's second B-day party. We have decided to have a party for him next Saturday! Yep that's like 8 days! What do I have done so far ummmm the bunting that I am about to show you how to make! So I am totally a last minute person. I guess I work best under pressure (nope not a procrastinator). To relieve your mind I have the party all planned out in my head :)

 Well I have decided to go with Cars as a birthday theme. He loves Cars and really there is a bunch of cute stuff you can do. First thing I made is these cute "race flags" (bunting):

 Supplies needed:
 Ruler
 hot glue gun
 sewing machine
 two different color fabrics
 felt
 ribbon

 First you are going to cut out your triangles ( I cut out 12 for Ethan Sailer and one space in between). my triangle where six inches on each side and 5 inches at the top. Six in each color. Then I cut out same number of felt.

 now line each piece of fabric with felt:

 Sew the two pieces together just on the sides (make sure to use coordinating thread):

 Now trim the excess as close to the stitch line as possible (be careful not to cut the stitch otherwise you will have to sew it again. Umm not like I know from experience or anything):

 Do this like a hundred times and iron down each piece. now measure out enough ribbon to have all flags hang from it. Heat up your hot glue gun in the mean time. Now put a strip of glue on each top of the flag and attach ribbon. Spread out evenly and alternate colors. Now you have your very own party banner/bunting/ race flags!

 Why blue and red you ask? Well I am not one to use something just once so I am going to hang this in Ethan's room when his party is over. It will look great with his nautical decor!

 

Michelle

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Ethan's Room

Being that it's Ethan's Birthday month in all. I thought it would be totally appropriate to do a post on his bedroom. Actually I can't believe I haven't done a post on it yet. His room is super duper cute. I guess it was before blogging, so that's probably why. Any ways we did a contemporary room with a splash of nautical (our last name is Sailer so it just goes). Here are some pics of his adorable room (too bad he never sleeps in it! We co-sleep. Oh well it gets plenty of play time :)

Hope you enjoyed a little tour of my baby's room! Like the paintings in the room? You can buy those custom at my Etsy shop HERE! Thanks for stopping by :)

 

Michelle

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Faux roman shade

Faux roman shade? yeah um one that actually doesn't do anything, but look purty. Yep a big fat fake, that's what I made. I am pretty proud of it too! I am going to try something new here today how about a after picture before the boorrringgg tutorial. Sounds good? Good!!

 Close up of the fabric so you can see the design:

 This is the new curtain that's in my laundry room. I guess you kind of noticed with the WASH sign and now this, that my color scheme is gray and yellow. Alright now on with the tutorial:

 Supplies:
 Sewing machine
 One yard of fabric
 one yard of fabric for lining
 one roll of coordinating ribbon
 hot glue gun

Ok so the thing is I did the liner at the end after I hung it up and decided It would look better with one. Sooooo you could do one now by fitting the two pieces of fabric together and hemming or you could be difficult like me and wait until the end.

 So hem the sides and the bottom about 1/4 of an inch in. Iron down and sew a straight stitch

 Now do the top and fold it down 2 1/2 inches (this is where the rod will go to hang up the curtain).

 Now measure out three folds to make four sections. I measured 6 inch spaces and added 3 inches in between to where the fabric will fold under:

Now pin everything at the creases and down the center of the lines:

 Sew down each horizontal line and then at each fold vertically

  Now measure out two strips of ribbon for the sides and one for the bottom. Use your handy dandy hot glue gun to apply them to the curtain. Make two bows out of ribbon and glue those as well. Now you have yourself a faux roman shade :)

 

Michelle

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Cool dude tie shirt

I decided to try yet another applique, for my son this time. I thought he would be the cool kid at the playground with his very own fake tie on a t-shirt. Oh ya! Watch out for the coolest two year old, like ever!

 I bought a plain T at Walmart for $3.00, got some interfacing, and some plaid fabric.

 I then cut out two pieces, the "knot" of the tie and the "tail" of the tie (sorry no pics because I am a slacker ).

 I then sewed on the tie with a zig zag stitch all around the edges. After that I ironed on the interfacing under the tie inside the shirt.

Here is the end result:

 

Yep he knows he is a cool dude!

Michelle

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A sign for the laundry room

I have officially started decorating my laundry room. It is all starting with a little sign to hang on the wall. Most normal people probably paint the said room before decorating. Not this girl here! I like to make the decorations first (most likely because I hate painting walls, yuck!). So here follows a tutorial on how to make a sign for the laundry area (or really for any room if you change the words on it)

 Supplies needed:

Mod podge
white acrylic paint
rub n buff silver
 wood letters
 piece of wood ( I have a bunch of leftovers from our board and batten project)
 scrapbook paper, 2 sheets
 ribbon
 decorative tacs
hot glue gun

 First cut out the scrapbook paper to fit the wood board and mod podge it on:

Now paint all the letters in the white acrylic paint:

Now let it dry (don't worry acrylic paint drys pretty fast!). When dry sand down the edges a bit and rub on the rub n buff with your finger and buff it with a piece of cloth or paper towel:

When finished with all the letters, use your hot glue gun to adhere them to the board:

 Now take a strip of ribbon and tie a bow at the top. Take the ends and put them on the back of the board, use tacs to hold them in place:

 take the decorative tacs and put them on the sides of the board to dress them up a bit:

 Now the finished product:

Loves it!! O.K. now i am a little motivated to start painting the room :)

 

Michelle

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