DIY Felt Christmas Tree

Guys.

This is seriously the easiest and cheapest gift you could ask for.

A felt Christmas tree.

Remember when I made this table cover play house for my kids?
It left me TONS of leftover felt.

So, with a few cookie cutters and free templates I printed off, I made a bunch of ornaments.

Here's what you need.

1 yard of felt.  

The good thing is that felt is so wide, that it comes folded in half.  So buying the 1 yard gives you enough to make 2 trees.

Scraps of felt and/or fabric

Velcro (loop side only)
Fabric glue or hot glue

Any embellishments you want!

Total cost to make 2 felt trees?  $7.00!!!!  

And that includes the velcro and new felt pieces for the ornaments!

It's pretty self explanatory.  If using fabric, you'll need some kind of stabilizer so it's not so flimsy.  I just used scraps of iron on stuff I had from an applique project I did ages ago.

So.  Grab some supplies, pull up your favorite Netflix show and knock out a few trees for some of your favorite littles.  I promise they'll love you for it!

Halloween Bags

You may have noticed that the blog has been kind of  quiet as of late; that would be because I was super busy trying to get last minute costume orders done and in the mail; not to mention getting my own children's costumes ready in time for a big party this weekend.  Throw in there an unexpected sick day (or two), and there goes any and all time for blogging.  But.  I'm back.  And today?  I'm sharing the Trick or Treat bags I made with my kids.

Let me first say how excited I was when my son came to me and asked me if we could please make bags this year.  Yes!  Of course!!  And I immediately started making mental checklists and plans for these adorable Halloween bags for them.  That was my first mistake.

My son already knew exactly what he wanted.  (Which, I might add, was nothing I had even thought of).

He wanted to draw his own pictures on his bag.  AND he wanted to pick out his own fabric for this bag.

So, that's what we did.

 We went to Joanns and bought a few plain canvas bags, a set of fabric markers and the boys each picked out a Halloween fabric that they really wanted.  When we got home, I set everything out for them and let them have at it.  It kept them busy for quite a long time!

The spent so much time figuring out what they wanted to draw, what colors to use and how to make their bags just perfect.

 In the end, I ended up with 3, hand designed Trick or Treat bags for less than $15.00.  They're not the prettiest bags, but I love them because they are my children's very own bags.  So cute.  And something that we will hang onto forever.

OH!!  Our winners of The Great Paci Clip Giveaway!!

Congrats to:

Holly Mitowski

Laura Bustillo

Vicki Lesage