Boot Cuffs

My sister has EVERYTHING. And by everything, I mean everything. Literally, I don't think she can cram one more thing into her room. Did I mention she lives with my parents and she's 25? Crosses my fingers for her moving out one day. But she did, however, mention well...text me a photo of boot cuffs that she wanted. Unfortunately, they were crocheted. I know, crocheting is supposedly really easy but I just don't want to learn. My wife thinks it would be really cool to be able to say "I knit AND crochet." I just don't really want to. Laziness I guess. SO I knit my sister a pair of boot cuffs and with the extra yarn, I made some for my grandma. We'll see where she wears hers! ha. I tried two different patterns. The first pattern is from here. Very simple but the effect didn't show up as well on this fluffy yarn.
Pattern:
row 1: *k2, p1*
row 2: *k2, p1*
row 3: *RT, p1*

The second pattern is just your basic k2, p2. I think it looks much cleaner with the yarn choice.

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It's a Bird!

Dusting this badboy off... Sorry for the neglect, friend. Life takes over and before you know it you have no energy left for blogging. I did get a little crafting in last week. The wifey and I got invited to two(!) white elephant parties. I saw this Flamingo on Pinterest and being a person who loves to glue things to things, I knew I had to try it. So simple. I ordered a 2-pack of flamingos on amazon.com. I'm going to do a charity craft sale this spring and I saw Walmart and Lowes have whole flocks of flamingos for pretty cheap so that may be the best way to go. Without further ado, I present my bird.

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Christmas Cheer

I just finished my next to last piece for my Seussical Mantel! I altered this printable from Inviting Printables (the pink letters were red) and mounted it on two pieces of poster board. I think I will still need to attach it to something sturdy (i.e. Amazon.com boxes) to make it stand up right.

Whimsical Seussical Mantel

 

At last! Well, almost. I have one more piece to put together. It may be a little overwhelming but you can't possibly overwhelm an 8 year old with Christmas decorations. It melted my heart when she said, "Kort, you're the best at Christmas Spirit." Exactly what I was going for. But then she went on to tell me that the outside of a house is more important than decorating the inside...my measly strand of lights isn't cutting it.

d.i.y. branch tree

 

That d*mn tree branch isn't going to scratch me anymore! For the past few months, I've been running into a low hanging branch on my way to the compost bin. I was in desperate need of a nice limb for my buffet table decor so it had to go. I spray painted it gold and hung mini ornaments from it. What do you think? Kortney=1 Evil Branch=0.

Very Grinchy Christmas

 This was a crazy idea... it might work as a whole. I traced a picture of the Grinch on plain white paper then tore tiny pieces of paper, tissue paper, and cotton balls to cover it. I made a frame using an old cardboard box and covered it in green duct tape. I need a little work on my scissor skills. lol Must fix that straight edge, now!

Seuss Felt Stockings

Okay, so I didn't recycle these. But they only cost .60 each. That's fair, right? We are celebrating Christmas at my inlaws so we are taking our massive tree with us. (Whew!) Does anyone else start to feel a little claustrophobic with a huge tree in the house? This year we are putting up a few small trees and keeping it simple. We couldn't have maroon stockings to go with our theme so I whipped up some quick felt stockings, and by quick, I mean quick. I hot-glued these. :X Is that a sin? It should be. I've been known to hot glue costumes together while wearing them.  I traced some stocking printables and cut the shapes out and made another piece for the backing. I think they are kinda cute.

Recycled Reindeer

I saw this Reindeer on BHG and fell in love...only I needed mine to be on drugs or something. I feel really bad when I buy new decorations because I have...so...much...stuff. But making them from items I already have is totally acceptable. The tutorial is on BHG.com so I won't reinvent the wheel. It's perfect. Cut, decorate, glue.

 

I cut too many of the U shaped pieces (only need one).

A little scrapbook paper and modge podge. 

The original: