Paper Circle Garland

I have been slowly working on decorations for baby girls birthday party. Well that's not true. I started working on things, in particular this garland then stopped working on anything and started other projects. But I better get back in gear soon as her birthday is July 1 and the only thing I want to work on in the days leading up is food!

I purchased a circle punch with plain edges that I believe is around 1.5" diameter. I used a variety of  pink, orange, yellow and white papers I had on hand to punch out a massive variety of circles and started sewing them together on my sewing machine using white tread and a larger stitch. 

How to fix a Hardened Brush

So if you follow me on facebook (which you totally should here) you will know that I posted about a month ago that another brush had bit the dust. I had done some painting but apparently not gotten all of the paint out of the brush leaving it crunchy, clumpy and crusty. 

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I Can Craft That: Hemming Curtains

So window coverings and I have had an agreement for some years. They are difficult and I agree not to argue with that. For years we lived in apartments where the windows go right to the ceiling and right in a corner. How in the world is one to install window coverings when the ceiling is concrete and there are metal headers???  So we have had the most basic coverings that had a tendency to fall down. When we moved into the house we are now in I thought for myself FINALLY I can have blinds AND curtains! *Happy Dance*

Unfortunately the budget is REALLY limited. I have double rods in the living room/dining room for sheers on the inside and decorative curtains on the outside. In both bedrooms I have a single rod. Off to Ikea I went for affordable drapery. I got thicker curtains for the bedrooms to block some light and cotton sheers for the living room until I could find the decorative ones. Problem with Ikea Curtains are they need to be hemmed. I am not a great sewer by any means and Ikea Curtains have been the bane of my existence. You cant just chop 4" off the bottom right across and call it a day because they are not even. ARG!!!

So I left them unhemmed, got some cheap blinds for in the master bedroom (we have a street light right in front of our bedroom) and called it a day. But the list of to do around the house is getting so long that I thought I should start to tackle a few of the things that I can do with no assistance. 

So here is how I hem Ikea Curtains. Ill start with the sheers first cause I did better pictures of them and better finished. 

First I started off by taking off the tab tops. I loath tab top curtains. I think they look sloppy and show too much of the frame and window and are just bla. 

Made it onto Ikea Hackers

Just a quick post to share with you that my Ikea table Enhancement made it onto Ikea Hackers! Go check it out!

I Can Craft That: Diaper Clutch

When we are going out for a long period of time or to someone's house I generally take my daughters large diaper bag which houses diapers, soother, change of clothes etc. However if I am just running out, going for a walk, dr apt etc I take my diaper clutch. I got a cosmetic bag from a grocery super store. Sparkly and pretty, but cheap. Within 2 months the inner liner has ripped, and its really not large enough to house it all. 

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