February's Craft: Button Monograms

Once again this particular craft was inspired by Pinterest... who woulda thought? The link to that is right here.

I changed it up a little and here's how you can do it too.

What you will need:

Canvas

Paint and paint brush

Buttons

Glue

Embroidery Floss, A needle, and scissors

Step 1: Paint your canvas and let dry fully.

I wanted the pink one's textrue to resemble cake frosting. and thankfully, I managed to get just that!

As you can see, I started this craft back in January (note the unfinished cork birdhouse). But that is because I was using oil paints and if you know oil paints, you know they take a while to dry.

For the Blue I went with a technique I've used a lot in the past, but stil love. (I painted this one the weekend ater the pink, to allow for ample setting time before I hung the pink up to finish drying.)

And there it is, drying over my abysmally disorganized desk.

2. Lay out your letter (or if you want to do a different design, that's cool too) and glue buttons in place.

It was like a strange sort of puzzle.

The first attempt at a layout for the B did not work at all. It's got button issues as well as being too far down.

The glue is important if - like me you don't plan to sew all of the buttons on.

Step 3 - Sew buttons on. (You can do a little or a lottle, or all.) I did a few here and there.

I'm not sure why this ended up being so grainy.

Christmas Time Was Here....

Since we’re saving up for a wedding and to buy a house next year, most of our family opted to give us stuff toward that, and I am ridiculously thankful for that. But I thought I’d talk a little about the things we did get for Christmas….

(Please ignore the packing mess behind :/)

• Earl got me that lovely camera bag. I’m absolutely smitten with it. And the Where’s Waldo travel book! (I bought the Colbert book for myself :P)
• I got Earl a Zombie Head Cookie Jar and a (Not-lego) kit to build the Daedalus from Stargate Atlantis. And then I technically bought him half a PS3 – he used gift cards he received through training for the other half.
• My mom gave me the third and fourth Koontz Frankenstein Books (She hasn’t finished the fifth one yet,) and a packet of Pencils, erasers and a sharpener.
• Earls Dad got us a 1000 piece puzzle of Las Vegas – we sent him a picture of it the next morning. :D

• Earl’s mom got us “Smart Ass” A trivia board game. It looks really fun… and possibly very silly.
• Our Friends in Colorado sent us  a tin of Tea from the tea house in Boulder  and “Bubble Talk” a game that seems very much like Apples to Apples… but with pictures instead of green cards.
• My little sister got me that AWESOME purple French Press.
• My Dad and Stepmother got me a glass tea pot warmer (and potentially burglar bludgeon. IT IS HEAVY!) and a novel by Lynn Austin, and they got Earl Lego Set from Pirates of the Caribbean.

Lucy got a squeeky stuffed Reindeer (Notice she's in the back waiting for me to toss it)