St. Patrick's burlap bow

First of all, I am not a model, I don't proclaim to be and I absolutely hate these pictures of myself, but this is what you get!
Second, sorry about the little blur spot on all of my pictures. I didn't notice it until they were all taken and uploaded! I'm too lazy to redo them!

Anyhow, here is a tutorial for this burlap bow! It is a fun bow to make!

To make the flowers for the bow. Start with a square piece of fabric. For bigger flowers cut a bigger square, or smaller for smaller bows.

Fold in half

Then fold in half again!

Then fold the bottom right corner up to meat the top left corner. It should look like this.

Then take your sissors and cut a half circle

It should look like this when you are done cutting. Sorry it is such a small picture.


After you unfold it, it should look like a flower.

Then I did some with burlap. Doing different sizes so I could stack them.

Here it is after I layered them.

Now Glue each layer on top of the other.

I took my clip and covered it with ribbon and hot glued it to the back of the bow.

Then I took a button and covered it with Elmer's glue and then sprinkled glitter over it. I let it dry and then glued a gem on.

This literally took me 5 minutes!

This would look so much cuter on my daughters!!!

Zuppa Toscana

I got this recipe from my good friend and tried it over the weekend, and it was so good!

Zuppa Toscanna

1 lb. Ground Italian sausage
1 lg. white onion
2 tsp. garlic puree
7 cubes of chicken bouillon
1 1/2 lb. potatoes
1 1/2 tsp. ground red pepper
4 Tbs. Bacon pieces
8 cups water
2 c. heavy cream
1/4 bunch of kale

Directions:
Saute sausage and crushed red peppers. Drain and refrigerate while preparing the rest. In the same pan, saute the bacon, onion, and garlic together until onions are soft. Add the bouillon and water to the pot and heat until it starts to boil. Add your sliced potatoes and cook until soft. Add the cream until just heated through. Stir in the ingredients from the fridge and add the kale at the very last.
The soup was very thin, so I thickened it up with some corn starch, and it was perfect!
Very good recipe!!

Levi apron

I saw these denim aprons over at A girl and a glue gun and of coarse had to try it out! She does some amazing things!

This is mine that I made and if you want the tutorial click here

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Then I had to make some hot pads to match with the left overs!

They are super fun!!!

Birthday card ideas

I love to make cards, so I have decided to post card ideas every so often. So, here is the first
My grandma and sister had birthdays coming up so here is the card I did for them.

I used my silhouettte for most of it. It makes it super easy. I cut the actual card and candles with my silhouette, and then just layered different paper, with the candles on top. Then I used brown vinyl to cut out the "Happy Birthday", just because I didn't want to bother with pasting each letter on. Yes, I am lazy! Then I added some ribbon, and that is it!

St. Patrick's Rag Wreath

If you want to make a cute, easy and inexpensive St. Patrick's day wreath, then you will have to try this one.

Just take a styrofoam wreath, I actually ended up using a wire hanger shaped into a circle and I wrapped some batting around it. I wanted mine a little bit bigger. And I picked out 2 kinds of fabric.

I took my solid green flannel and cut it into strips.

Then tie it around your wreath.

Then I drew a shamrock on some card board and cut out 4 of them

On 2 of them I covered them with white felt and added some buttons

And on the other 2 I covered them with some green shamrock fabric.

I went to Joann's this morning and I found this cute shamrock thing (I have know idea what to call it). All there St. Patrick's day stuff was 50% off and stacked with my 10% off coupon, it was a great deal! I thought it would be cute in the middle of my wreath.

I also found these cute little glittery hats to add to my wreath! I hot glued everything on.

I love the way it turned out!!
And it hardly cost anything!

Just a reminder to go vote for me!

I just wanted to remind everyone to go vote for my decorative plates! I know I won't win, but I still don't want to embarrass myself! So go vote, and you can vote every 24 hours until Friday!

vote!!

St. Patrick's Brownies

I wanted to make some St. Patrick's Day treats, and these were perfect.

It you like chocolate and mint....then these babies are for you!

Mint Brownies:

2 c. butter-melted
3/4 c. cocoa
2 1/4 c. sugar
6 eggs
2 c. flour
1/8 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla

Instructions: Combine all the ingredients and mix well. Pour into a sheet cake pan and cook for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

Mint frosting:

4 1/2 c. pwd. sugar
1/2 c. butter- melted
5 T. milk
5 drops green food coloring
1 1/2 tsp. mint extract

Spread frosting on cooled cake. Then melt a bag of milk chocolate chips and pour over the mint frosting. Chill.

Sweater purse

This was such a fun bag to make. I took an old sweater and turned it into a purse!

I found an awesome tutorial Here, she does an amazing job walking you through step by step. It was pretty simple!

This is what mine looks like on the inside.