I just discovered Hobby Lobby.  I know, I know.

I sort of went crazy in there.  It just had EVERYTHING and was so CHEAP!  I wanted to make a couple of items for my Mom’s birthday and decided to make some for myself, too.

They’re imperfect, remember.

First up, we have yarn-wrapped letters.

I used chip board letters instead of the papier mache ones and it worked really well for me.  The first letter I made for my Mom didn’t turn out as well as these ones and let’s face it, they’re all flawed.  The process was rather painstaking but really quite simple.  All I used was yarn, the letters (I used chip board letters instead of the papier mache ones and it worked really well for me), and a hot glue gun.  I just snipped short pieces to wrap around the edges that wouldn’t get wrapped, and then just wrapped and wrapped yarn.  They don’t tell you this in the tutorials I’ve seen, but there are always some spots that you just CAN’T wrap.  For those, I snipped longer pieces of yarn to hot glue in place and then wrapped over the edges.  You can see what I mean if you look for the looser yarn on the below letters.

I’m going to mount them on the wall in my kitchen but I am still deciding exactly where to put them so for now they’re just going to light up my windows!

I also made these candle jars.  Well, they’re really only for LED flameless candles, but they still look pretty!  I just dipped strips of fabric in a glue/water solution and then applied them, facing outward, to the inside of ball jars.  At first it was really hard, but by the end I was a pro!

Aren’t they cute?

So that’s me continuing on my way of doing things for fun but not spending a ton of time on them.  I completed these in two days just using time after Ida went to bed and while she napped.  Speaking of, I hear her squawking now for her dinner!