My Creatively Random Life

When I was going through my ribbon stash for Cat this morning I came across this awareness ribbon and it reminded me that I need to get my butt in gear and do some fundraising for my walk in September.  With that it mind I whipped this up.

Today we were going to a party and once Cat got dressed I thought she could use a belt to go with her jumper.  Since she was wearing black and red she picked out the cherry bows to wear.  I thought vaguely that I had some of that ribbon left somewhere so I went digging through my ribbon stash. Sure enough after about twenty minutes I found it, (if any one would like to come organize my ribbon stash I will pay you in cookies er bows) I also located some belt hardware which was a definite plus. The outfit in question Materials: 7/8's ribbon (3" more than waist measurement) 1.5" webbing (4" more than waist measurement) 2 2" D Rings 1 1.5" belt tip liquid stitch needle and thread that matches your ribbon pliers to close belt tip Measure your ribbon and webbing, since Cat's waist measures 21" I used 24" of ribbon and 25" of webbing. Apply Liquid Stitch to the back of your ribbon from edge to edge along the entire ...

Sunday morning I got up against my better judgement (as I was feeling horrible after sleeping for almost 11 hours) and went over to Yorkdale to participate in a WEWC training event.  If you stick with reading my blog you will soon discover that I support my share of charities, most of them local.  Sick Kids, Heart and Stroke, War Amps etc.  But this is my big one, where my time and energy goes...not just my money.  In March of 2009 I lost a dear friend and co-worker to breast cancer.  She was one of the most inspirational, full of life women I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and I am a better person for having known her.  In 2010 I walked the weekend for the first time, partially in her memory but also for the other women I know who have been through this.  Patients, friends, loved ones, family.  I also walk because I never want my daughter or anyone else to lose their life to something so senseless.  Crabtree and Evel...

A couple of weeks ago my friend Mike and I were out for dinner and I was very excited about some new ribbon I had ordered (not that I need any more) and I was telling him about it while he ate.  Even though he had been there when I ordered it.  I was debating between ordering premade bottle caps to match it or just getting the images and making my own. For some reason this intrigued him and he wanted to know what exactly one did with bottle caps and ribbon.  Not having any photos of my own handy I did a search of the Etsy app on my phone a came up with a quick example of some bottle cap bows, they were cute but not show stopping. Now, my friend is a real lover of beer and I don't mean your regular run of the mill beers.  Since I started hanging out with Mike he has introduced me to the wonderful world of craft beer (by introduced I mean talked me into trying as I usually don't like beer but I was uneducated as to how good beer can be) so I probably should ha...

 I haven't been feeling so great, so that combined with work, and the kids has lead me to get behind on my ever so lofty goal of a craft a day for March.  Lucky for me I have no problem with doing more than one craft project a day to get to thirty-one by March 31.  Here for your pleasure is project two for craft month a crochet hair tie from my own imagination. This is my first attempt at writing a pattern for someone else to interpret so if it makes no sense please let me know as I have a few others in the works and they are a bit more complicated.  Materials: A small amount of worsted weight yarn Size G hook (4.00mm) Elastic Band Abbreviations: sc- single crochet sl st- slip stitch sk- skip dc- double crochet Pattern: RD1: 39sc in elastic join with sl st RD2: 1DC in same st, ch 8, sk st, *(1dc in next st ch 8 sk st)18 times, ch 8 join with sl st to top of first dc

Yesterday I got several e-mails telling me that March is National Craft month, (how did I not already know that?) which of course made me very excited.  After all it's an excuse to craft....everyday...for a month.  Like I don't already do that.  However, I will take any excuse to take on a new project (or twelve) and I have a huge craft supply stash.  So I thought that I would take this chance to do some stash busting projects and see what cute ideas I could come up with for materials I already have on hand.  For day one I took it easy and made these cute hair clips for Cat from some little wooden button dolls I got in my Christmas stocking.  Materials: 4.5 inches grosgrain ribbon, alligator clip (I use double pronged for Cat cause she's got crazy curls), wooden doll (came from the dollar store originally) Heat seal the ends of your ribbon so they don't fray, I used a lighter but you can use fray check or a wood burner as well. Using a hot...