Craft With May

The presents are wrapped, the house is decorated, and we are ready for celebrating! I’d like to take a moment to share a few glimpses from around our house. Also, I encourage you to take a few minutes to walk around and capture some photos of details this holiday season you might otherwise not notice. You never know when that’ll make a great scrapbook page photo!

Due to Jason’s work schedule we’re celebrating everything a day early this year. So Merry Christmas Eve!! (tomorrow will be our Christmas)

I love this reindeer I got a few years ago…

the girls are crazy excited that the fun has really begun and that waiting is nearly over for the (carefully guarded) gifts under the tree.

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas- I’ll be posting photos, crafts, and more prizes all winter break!

That’s right, one of you can have my book paper + pixels AND a copy of the Memory Makers “get organized” special issue! It’s got an exerpt from my book in it and a digital layout featuring my dear miss E. That’s reason to share and celebrate for sure.

Just leave a comment here to be entered.  WINNER DRAWN!

PS- Mary Kunze you won the special  winter prize- so e-mail me (mflaum (at) comcast (dot) net) to claim your prize!

being that it’s winter solstice, I thought a snowy winter prize would be in order!

A fabulous fiskars circle punch, some Heidi Grace stickers & letters, some fibers, AND a winter-licious little box of See’s chocolates. To enter, just leave a comment here. Winner will be drawn next time I post…

I decided to draw not 1, but 3 winners from the last prize!! So all 3 will get packages inspired by my christmas (BPS) layout! Congrats!!

Jingle, Shalah, and Kari- e-mail me (mflaum (at) comcast (dot) net) to claim your prize.

I’ve been a busy girl, and I’ve got lots of holiday cheer, craft inspiration, and prizes to post this week. Starting this (rainy) Sunday afternoon. Stay tuned…

I had this idea to get Miss E a big pillow (14 x 28) and then sew a cover for it that included pockets that she could stash things and create little sleeping bag-like arrangements for her various animals and ponies. It took about 2 1/2 hours and really wasn’t that hard since it was all simple straight stitching.

I cut two pieces of 16 x 30 fabric (approximately)  and then I took the piece to be on the front and used it to start pinning pockets of various fabrics to. I didn’t measure- just eyeballed and pinned. Once I was happy with my choices I took them all off and sewed the tops (folded over once so it won’t frey). Then I arranged and sewed the overlapping ones (this took some thinking) so that all the pockets would be fully open on the pillow, but also sewn down good.

Then piece by piece I stitched (sides and bottoms- as needed) to the pillow itself. you can see that on the edges of some I used pinking shears instead of folding edge under. Once done, I put inside-out with the other 16×30 piece of fabric and sewed 3 sides together along marks I made to help me get the right finished size. Then I turned it right side out, put it over the pillow, and stitched (with machine- yes a little sloppy of me) the final side closed. To do this I just folded the raw ends under and then stitched. Not quite as pretty as it could have been- but it totally works. (and was much faster than hand sewing!)

I couldn’t help myself- I already gave it to her. My reasoning? She’s going to get lots of Christmas presents so it’d be more apreciated now.

and yes, she LOVES it!!