Gifts for the little one

Today's crafty funness consisted of a couple of cute projects. Remember the painted wood box from the previous post? Well that was transformed into a headband holder! This idea was borrowed from my friend Julie (check out her blog- I Was Dreaming When I Wrote This) who saw it on YouTube. All I did was take quilt backing and wrapped it around the handle. I then covered it with fabric which (don't tell anyone) but I just hot glued. Then I had some colorful buttons that I decided to stick all around it.

Miranda is getting her first loose tooth so we have to prepare for the Tooth Fairy's visit. I created this box for these upcoming visits. The stamps are ones that I received from a Unity Stamp Co. grab bag that I purchased awhile back. I tried my hand at embossing for the first time- I know, how can I be a real scrapbooker yet never embossed but it's true. I found that I LOVE embossing! All of the stamps are embossed with Martha Stewart embossing powder (they were on clearance at Michael's). I then added a few random embellishments that I had and a ribbon to keep the tooth fairy's gift safe. On the inside I made a space for the tooth fairy to write what dates she visits on to keep track of my little girl and how quickly she is growing.

Fun for all

Today my daughter and I enjoyed a crafty kind of day. We created Valentine gifts to give to family and friends and Miranda had a great time painting a wooden birdhouse and the beginnings of a future project (that's all the info you're getting on that one at this point. You'll just have to keep checking for future blogs).
Our Valentine gift is an idea "borrowed" directly from a Pinterest post I saw. A 7 inch zipper is used and all you have to do is bend the strips to form the shape of a heart. A little hot glue is what keeps it in position. We decided to add a little bead charm onto the zipper pull and finished it off by gluing  a pin back to it.

 

Miranda decided to glue her hearts onto paper and add her own drawings. She also wanted to keep the long stems on the light pink heart because she thought it looked like the breast cancer ribbons and that the two represented both me and her. She is so creative and thinks of things that I never would have.