Monday, February 28, 2011

Eighties Party

Saturday night we went to an 80’s birthday party for Chris’ cousin Erin. We had such a good time and it was fun to see everybody dressed up. I had to post some of the pictures of everybody in their Goodwill 80’s clothes.

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                            Chris and me

We had a lot of fun with this backdrop and all of the table decorations(the guitar).

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Chis, Kim, Erin (the birthday girl), and Ashley

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                Ashley, Ruth (Grandma), Erin

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                   Kim and Brian

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                           Ruth

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                Ashley and Kim

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                                Kim and Chris rocking out

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This party was a lot of fun and I can’t wait for my next 80’s party!

 

Janna

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

My latest Obsession

I started sewing when I was about eight years old. I remember sitting at Grandma Mayme’s sewing machine making simple skirts and shirts for my Barbie dolls. Of course they weren’t very good, but they made me happy.

I haven’t sewn very much in the past twenty years, mainly because I didn’t have a sewing machine. Well my sweet fiancé, Chris, bought me a new sewing machine for my birthday. I have had fun getting back into sewing, and there is so much I don’t know, but I am having fun.

I have made several cell phone sleeves,including some for the girls at work, three camera strap covers, and a laptop cover.

These are some of the cell phone sleeves I made.

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Here are the camera strap covers I made. I got the idea for this one from Kevin and Amanda.com.

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This is the first one I made and it’s not very good.

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Janna

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Coffee Filter Wreath Tutorial

I was asked to do a tutorial on my Coffee Filter Wreath so here it is. I had planned on doing this, but I hadn’t gotten around to it yet. I used white coffee filters and glitter on my first wreath, but I am using the brown filters and silver glitter for this tutorial. Ever since I found the brown filters I’ve been wanting to make a wreath with them and I thought they might show up better in the pictures. Like I said in my previous post, this is a simple wreath to make, but it is pretty time consuming.

First thing you need to do is cut your filters. Make a cut down the filter and cut out the middle section.

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Until you have this…

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It doesn’t have to be perfect because nobody will see it.

Next, you cut your coffee filter strip in half.

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Do this about 50 times and this step is done..

The next step is to apply your glitter. I like to use two paper plates, one for glue and one for glitter.

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Dip the filter in the glue, then the glitter. It takes about two hours to dry before you can put it on your wreath.

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Next, you wrap your glittered filter strips around your form and hot glue the ends in place in the back.

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After you have worked all the way around your wreath, it gets a little tricky. You have to tuck the last few strips into your first strip. See where my thumb is pointing in the picture? If you cut the filter there, it makes it a little easier to stick in at the end. I didn’t like the way mine looked, so that is the spot where I put the ribbon.

This is what I am using as a wreath form. It is a pipe insulator. I got a pack of four for three dollars at Wal-Mart. Mainly because they didn’t have the styrofoam wreaths, but they do work pretty good.

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When I glued the ends together it melted pretty bad, but I covered the rest of the wreath in masking tape and it kept it from melting.

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If any of you guys try this wreath and have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Janna