Patriotic Wreath

I've been wanting to make a wreath like this since last year but never got around to it.

I went and found red, white, and blue yarn, wood stars, and a styrofoam wreath.  There are a ton of yarn wreath tutorials on Pinterest.  Putting the yarn on the wreath is the most tedious part but it takes about an hour or 2, depending how OCD you are like I am to have it perfect. 

I then got pearl colored paint, and gold paint, and just played around with the colors for the starts.  I like how they turned out, looking a little distressed.

All in all, I love how it turned out!  Just in time for Memorial Day!

Re-usable Birthday Banner

With my daughters 2nd birthday coming up next week (What?  When did that happen?) I wanted to make a birthday banner.  Then I got thinking, why not make one that I can use for everyone's birthday?  So I looked on Pinterest, gathered ideas, and began.

I went to JoAnnes Fabric and found 7 fat quarters.  I made a pattern triangle, and I was able to get 2 triangles out of each fat quarter. 

I had my quarters folded in half so that I have a piece for the back.

Next, I sewed right sides together to form the triangles.  Turn inside out, and sew closed.  (I kept the opening at the top because when you sew it closed, you won't see it when the binding is attached.)

I picked up some binding, laid out the triangles, and pinned the binding to the triangles.

Simply sew the triangles to the binding and voila!  I then cut out the letters on felt and hot glued them to the triangles.

And there you have it... super easy and the best part is that I can re-use it!