5 Friday Finds

Hope everyone had a great week. Mine was busy with studying for my exiting exams. I did, however, find time to go to a knit class and a yarn tasting! That was fun.

Well, here are 5 things that I found in cyberland this week that I though you'd enjoy!

25 collections to start for your daughter! Such great ideas.
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this pretty scalloped nail tutorial posted by Meredith at One Sheepish Girl

super easy and very pretty braid tutorial at The Beauty Department

gorgeous chevron baby blanket knit pattern from The Purl Bee

a lovely photo of Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly from the movie High Society that I watched for the first time this week. such a great movie.

Guest Post! {Vertical Heart Garland with Goodknits}

Goodmorning everyone and happy Monday!

 

I'm so excited about this guest post! Today we have Lisa with us from Goodknits and she's going to share with us a great Valentine's tutorial on how to make a "Vertical Heart Garland". Her blog is lovely and filled with great photos, tutorials and knitted/crocheted pretties. And you HAVE to check out her shop which has the most beautiful doily blankets I've ever seen!

So, to not waste any more time, here's Lisa!



Hello there! I'm Lisa and I blog at Goodknits. I like to share easy DIYs, patterns (knit & crochet!), recipes, and photos of my home and life with two kiddos. Things are always interesting with two little boys and a bunch of yarn!

Last week, I shared a 5-minute crochet heart pattern on my blog and today I am sharing a simple tutorial for turning them into a vertical garland. I hope you like it!





First, the "anatomy" of the 5-minute heart. The spaces at points a-d will be where you will be inserting your hook for the garland.





Step 1: Inset your hook into space a and pull a loop through.
Step 2: Insert your hook into space b and pull a loop through the heart and the loop on your hook.
Step 3: Insert your hook into space c and pull a loop through the heart and the loop on your hook.
Step 4: Insert your hook into the stitch at point d and pull a loop through the heart and the loop on your hook.
Step 5: Chain 1, over the top of your heart.





Chain 5 (or however long you would like the spaces between your hearts) and then insert your hook into space a on your next heart and pull a loop through. Repeat the steps for this heart and each subsequent heart on your garland. Mine is only 4 hearts, but you can certainly make a longer one! I've even used a single heart with a long chain to wrap a gift. It was SUPER sweet.





I hung my little garland in the window, today. The cool breeze had it swaying. Whatever you decide to do, have fun with it and be sure to stop by and show me your projects!

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Thank you for having me on your blog, Lindsey!

Anthropologie Inspired Snow Globes

Has anyone else seen these pretties at Anthropologie?

Well...I thought they were beautiful, and I decided to make some!

Anthro is selling them for $18 to $38, and I made them for about $4 each!! Great, huh?!

Here's my version...

You will need:

1. mason jars

2. Christmas decorations to go inside

3. white glitter

4. hot glue

First, you take the lids off of the mason jars and hot glue your Christmas decorations on the underside of the lids the way you want them.

Then, you pour your glitter into the jars.

Next, put a little bit of hot glue around the rim of the under side of the lids to secure it on the jar.

Screw your lids back on the jars and turn over to let the glitter sprinkle over your decorations!

Put out to enjoy!!

Felt Flower Tutorial

Many of you asked me yesterday how to make the flowers I put on my wreath, and if they were easy.

The answer is YES! they are easy!!

I followed a tutorial from Little Things Bring Smiles, which is a beautiful blog by the way!

In her tutuorial she shows you how to make all of these different shapes of felt flowers.

And all I did to make the flowers bigger than the ones shown here was to combine two flowers that I cut out.

After I rolled one flower, I took the second flower I cut out and kept rolling on the same flower.

This will make more sense when you read the tutorial! :)

Other than that, I just cut my own leaves in the shape that I wanted them and hot glued them all on!

Hope this helps!!

Yarn Wreath

While we have been moving the past couple of weeks, I made time for one craft ;)

I was dying to make a yarn wreath for the fall.

I decided to go with a carrot orange yarn, and used brown and cream felt for the flowers.

Here's how it turned out...

I LOVE IT!!

It's the perfect addition to our new little porch.

Now I just need a few pumpkins :)



Yarn Letter

I wanted to share this fun craft with you all that I did over the weekend.

A YARN LETTER!

It's so simple and easy, and allows for you to do whatever you want to it to make it your own!

All you do is buy a letter for your initials at any craft store, and then wrap the entire thing with your color of choice of yarn!

You can then decorate it however you want. I embellished it with a crocheted rose that I made!

So pretty to hang somewhere!!



Virtual Coffee

If I were having coffee with you today...

I would tell you about the cute new mug I made yesterday.

It's perfect for this southern gal to sip her sweet tea in. (tutorial here)

I'd tell you how my grad school starts again in a couple of weeks!

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We'd probably end up talking about each other's weekends, and how I spent mine taking care of my sick husband...

...by making him a big pot of homemade chicken noodle soup! Yum!

I'd tell you about how it would have been Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday on Saturday, and how I'm such a big fan of hers! (I have all of the I Love Lucy seasons :))

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Then I would tell you how I need to take this guy to get a haircut!

I'd end by telling you I'm off to do some errands since I don't work today...woohoo!