There's nothing I hate more than pinning a pattern and cutting out the fabric when I'm doing a project. I absolutely love my rotary cutter and mat. It saves me so much precious time! If you have yet to take the rotary leap, I highly recommend you jump in as soon as you can! I promise, you'll never look back! It's also great for those with bad hands!
You have to hold your pattern down in one spot when you're using a rotary cutter and mat; that's where pattern weights come in. Just plop them down on top of your pattern when your cutting, and it wont move around on you!
What you'll need:
Half to 1.5 inch strips of fabric or ribbon
Hot glue gun and hot glue (high temp is best)
Washers- you need 2 per weight (I got the biggest ones at Home Depot I could find. They are zinc coated)
Start off with 2 washers. Place a dab of hot glue on
one of them and place the end of your fabric strip on it. Put hot glue around it in a circle and place the other washer on top, sandwiching the end of the fabric strip between the washers.
Now begin wrapping the material around the washer going through the hole.
And keep wrapping....
And wrapping until none of the washer is showing.
Place a small dab of hot glue and lay the excess material on it. Cut away the extra....
Twitter is so hugely popular, and is actually a great little social media platform. Who'da thunk that posting short little blurbs would have taken off so much? I've been on it for a while, but still have so much to learn when it comes to what all the darn symbols mean. Sometimes it looks like someone is speaking gibberish on their posts. So I've decided to finally learn the lingo, and let you all in on it!
Before we really get started with all the info, you'll need to set up your account. It's so simple I'm not even gonna walk you through it. Just follow the steps and you'll be great! But if you just can't figure it out, here's a great tutorial on YouTube
Now that your account is all set up, it's time to change the appearance of your profile. You'll get to a page that looks something like this. Just follow the links on the right to set up your avatar, and change your profile appearance.
Now your all ready to send out your first tweet!
The Jargon (click the term to see Twitter's definitions):
Tweet: The little 140 word message you send out.
Hash tags: A hash tag will have the # symbol followed by a word. For example #etsytreasuries might be one. it's a way for twitterers to post things according to a topic. Popular hash tags, get moved up to "trending topics."
Mentions and Replies: Just like on facebook, you can mention someone in your post by putting the @ symbol in front of their username. You can also reply to a tweet by doing the same. Twitter keeps up with replies and mentions under the mention tab on your account home page.
ReTweet: Shown in the tweet with an RT in the message.
Following: Following is pretty straight forward. It simply means that you choose someone who you'd like to see their tweets! Don't forget to follow @lillybunns!
To get noticed in Twitter, it's a good idea to follow lots, retweet, and mention lots, and do hash tags on the trending topics.
I hope that clears up a few things for you. Twitter can be such a great way to communicate with others, and publicize yourself to the world!
It's 64 days until Christmas! Woo-hoo! I love the holidays. There's nothing like getting together with family and friends and celebrating the birth of our savior!
A Christmas tradition I absolutely love was going to my Grandmother's house and making various crafts and cookies and candy. Every year we would go down too her house and she, my aunt, and my three brothers and I would sit around the dining table creating lots of little Christmas goodies. Christmas is still synonymous with peanut butter balls for me! I'm so excited that Lilly is now old enough to participate! I'm especially excited that we will be in South Carolina this year for Christmas--at least that's the current plan--so she will get to do it the way I did--around my Grandmother's table!!
This year will be very crafty for me! My business is in full swing this year and I'll be doing my first craft show! I'm so ready to get started on all of my Christmas crafts for the year! It's going to be a handmade Christmas this year. I'll be making or buying handmade gifts for everyone on the list and Etsy is certainly the place to do it!
I'm thinking these great ornaments by The Quilted Turtle done with pictures of Lilly, Steven, and I would make great presents for Lilly's grandparents and great-grandparents.
The Quilted Turtle Photo Ball
I'm also in love with Glitter Ball ornaments. And they are SOOO easy to make. I'm thinking I might do those for the Aunts and Uncles. GameCocks colors anyone? This you tube video has a great tutorial! The creator of the ornament pictured has a fantastic tutorial as well using stamp pad re-inkers, but I love how cheap doing it with pledge is! I do love the idea of using scrap-booking rub-ons to add an image to the front. I haven't seen a blog tutorial on how to make them, just videos, so I may make one and try to post next week. I'm thinking about selling them at my craft show and offering them to be personalized with monograms!
Love this with the rub-on! Stampin it up comes highly recommended!
I'm definitely going to be posting lots of tutorials (mine and link-loved) and yummy recipes over the next few months! There's no time like the holidays to get Crafty! Got a tutorial or recipe you'd like featured just let me know or post in the comments section!
Start off with 2 washers. Place a dab of hot glue on
