Sharing some Creativity from one of my Fiance's groomsman!

My fiance is a Cable Lineman so he just happens to have a bunch of Cable Spools around the office. One of my fiance's groomsman Jon Percenti had a fantastic idea to create decorative tables out of the cable spools!! Awesome right?!! Contact Jon through my Facebook page for pricing and details.
I'm so using some of these bad boys at our wedding AND a few for home decor!
Check them out.....

Tips to become an Extreme Couponer

Good morning! It's time for Thursday sharing time! Today I'm sharing a link I found with tips from TLC's Extreme Couponing. In order to achieve my goal of staying home and becoming a full time crafter I have been thinking of other ways to supplement our income. The biggest expense we have in our house hold of 2 adults, 2 kids and 3 furry felines (LOL) is GROCERIES!!!! Check this link out from TLC. At the end there are more links to other related subjects. If your an extreme couponer in the Austin area I would LOVE to hear from you! I plan on looking up my local grocery stores today and finding out their coupon policies and reward cards. ALSO I'm not ashamed to say I will be looking into how these people find recycling cans FULL of coupons LOL!

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/5-extreme-coupon-tips-for-normal-people.htm 

Turkey Clip Instructions

Want to make a Turkey clip for your little princess turkey? I documented myself making one for my daughter last night.

Here is what you will need:

3/8" Brown Grosgrain- One 7" length, one 4.25" length, one 3" length, ribbon to line your clip.

3/8" Orange Grosgrain- Two 3.5" lengths, one 5/8 length

3/8" Red Grosgrain- One 3.5" length, one 1.5" length

Alligator Clip

Scissors

Lighter

Hot Glue Gun

Start by pre-cutting all of your ribbon to the lengths listed above. 

Then line your alligator clip with Brown Ribbon, remember to heat seal your ends

 Now take your 7.5" length of yellow ribbon and make it into two loops, like a figure 8. Dab a small amount of glue in the center to hold the loops together.

 With the two orange pieces and the red 3.5" piece form single loops and glue them to the yellow piece like so...

Now carefully glue your two orange loops to the yellow figure 8 and your red on e in the middle. It should look like a fan

 Now for the body you need to take the longer piece of brown ribbon and make a small loop at the end. The small loop should be around 5/8" wide at the widest part. Then make a big loop with the tail and glue it as well. Like this...

 With the shorter pieces of brown you are going to make loops like this. Start with the 2nd longest brown glue it to the back of the first one and then do the same to the smaller one. The smallest one should be in the middle.

 You should then have two pieces like this...

 Now it's time to glue the "feathers" to the clip.

 Now flip your body over and glue it to the feather like this.

 To make your beak take you 5/8" length of orange and cut it into a V shape. Heat seal the sides with your lights.

 Now take your 1.5" length ribbon fold it in half and glue it.Glue your red ribbon to your beak and your beak to your turkey :-). Cut your goblet to your preferred size.

 Spray your Turkey with your stiffener mix and in the morning your princess with have a beautiful Turkey upon her beautiful head!

FabricWorm: Christmas Stocking Tutorial

I have been searching for a great stocking tutorial today and stumbled along this beauty! Check it out.... I'll document my journey of making the stocking and post it soon :-)


FabricWorm: Christmas Stocking Tutorial: Here is a fast and easy stocking pattern, just in time for the holidays. It is a great way to make a really special gift with some of the f...

Ribbon Hair Tie

Want to add some JAZZ to your plain hair tie? It's super easy! I'll show you...
Supplies- A Hair Band and several colors of ribbon of various sizes.

I start off with my largest size ribbon first. For this hair tie I cut two pieces or 7/8 ribbon 19 1/2 inches long. Then I folded each to cut in half to give me 4 pieces of ribbon. Tie each of the pieces on to the hair tie.

 Pull the knot tight like this.

 After you have your big filler piece in start playing around with your other ribbon cutting them at the same lengths and fill in the blanks. You can make the hair tie as full as you want it. Remember to cut your ends at an angle and heat seal. If you take a look at our page I have some examples of what the finished product looks like.

XOXO,

Jess

Butterfly Boutique Bow Tutorial

Happy Veterans Day! Yesterday I made two small butterfly bows for my daughter to wear to school today and I would like to share it with you. This is my first "tutorial" post. If you have any questions let me know.
Since I was making a Veterans Day bow I bought Red White and Blue striped ribbon. This ribbon is very stiff which is a pain to work with BUT a bonus after your done because you don't need as much fabric stiffener. So be careful manipulating your bow the more you bend the more it looses it's stiffness.

I wanted to make two small bows for pigtails so I cut my ribbon to 16 inches. Heat seal your ends with your lighter.

Then fold the ribbon in half to make a crease.

Next pick up one end and put the tail right over the crease like this.

Repeat with the other tail end. It should now look like a figure 8. Keep your finger in the middle holding down the ends and use your other hand to pull the loops up and measure. You want both of your loops to be even sizes.

Now while hold down the middle with one finger and with another pull in one loop to the center. Make sure these two loops are even as well.

Repeat on the other side. Then slide you hand under the bow and pick it up carefully. Squeezing tight to the middle of your bow.

DON'T LET GO :-). Now pinch the sides of your bow together like this. While holding tight to your bow manipulate the ribbon how you want it. Then take your craft wide and TIGHTLY wrap it around the center and cut it with your wire clippers.

Wa-La

Now you need to make a knot. Heat seal the end of the ribbon then make a loop like this.

Pull the ribbon through to make your knot.

It should look like this. And one end is still attached to your ribbon role.

Now place the knot on your bow over the wire. Flip your bow over and dab your hot glue under on the covered clip.

Do the same with the other side of the ribbon. Cut your ribbon and the base of the clip and heat seal.

Here are my two bows....the one on the right is the one I "manipulated" too much LOL. That's OK get your Fabric stiffener and water mix and fix it up :-).
Now your princess it ready to support our troops!  

Thursday is for Sharing!

Good afternoon! Today I would like to share my awesome lip gloss find at Ulta! Actually I've had it a few weeks and decided to try it today. It scared me at first...it looked so red when I got it home. But TA-DA it's not red it's perfect and I've gotten compliments all day :-). Check it out at Ulta. It's by Ulta the color is 10.

P.S.!!! Guess what? The Brother Project Runway Limited Edition Sewing Machine is on sale for $49.99 at Walmart for Black Friday!

Last nights Crafting

I put together some Christmas bows last night to put in the Salon where I currently am selling my bows. Soon I will have them on Etsy I also have a craft show coming up SO EXCITING!
Here are a few I would like to share from last nights crafting...

Wedding Planning Goes High-Tech- My News interview!!

Well I wanted to share the link to my Fox News interview for Wedding Planning Goes High-Tech. I sent in an email to our local news and they picked me to interview! Awesome right?! Check it out.....

http://www.myfoxaustin.com/dpp/video/Wedding-Planning-Goes-Hi-Tech20111103-ktbcw?CMP=201111_emailshare

XOXO,
Jess

My wedding Blog on The Knot

http://maholickbaker.ourwedding.com/

XOXO,
Jess

Successful birthday!

Hi everyone! Well yesterday I had a very successful birthday! Lots of celebrating on the weekend then yesterday a nice dinner with my daughter and fiance. And I can't forget my awesome gifts!
I recieved a b-e-a-u-tiful hand crafted neclace from my daughter with her name on it ;-). An AWESOME new orange chair for my soon to be new craft table & my fiance went to get my new sewing mahcine but I couldn't decide what to get!!! Singer or Brother! My decision is made and I'll show you pics when I pick it up. and then you will get to follow me on my sewing adventures.  

XOXO,
Jess