Paper flowers

My latest project with Brianna came from a really great blogger, Ashley over at Little Miss Momma. I found her while blog browsing. You know..where you start off looking at one blog, then you spot something neat that takes you to someone else's blog, and so on and so on until you've wasted most of the day.

So while over at Ashley's blog, I found this tutorial for an oh-so-cute idea! She used paper flower embellishments and made a fun little arrangement. I didn't take step-by-step pictures since she had them. But I did take a picture of our final product.

It was such a fun and creative project. We loved it so much that we made another one for a friend and she loved it as well. She couldn't wait to get it home :)

Edited to add: We didn't realize at the time, but we ended up buying the same exact flowers without knowing so.

Bringing back an old past time

As a young child, I used to enjoy making bracelets out of embroidery floss. I actually had no clue what a person would use that string for OTHER than making bracelets. What on earth could someone make other than for my fun?...lol.

And for the past couple years I've tried to explain them to my daughter. But she always had other craft ideas that she wanted to complete. Like painting misc. wooden pieces to put in her room. But recently some friends of ours had starting making the friendship bracelets and shared some pictures with us. Of course at that time she got interested in them.

We first went to Wal-Mart to try to find the embroidery floss. Unfortunately their craft department lacked the supplies we were looking for. I was looking for the individual skeins, but only found a couple kits prepackaged for kids. The one we came home with had 7 skeins of floss, and advertised that it came with instructions on how to make the bracelets.

Brianna made several from those, but quickly ran out of string. We replenished her supplies at Michael's. I should have know to go there instead of Wal-Mart in the first place. It sucks being new and not knowing where everything is just yet. But never fear, we came away with enough floss to make TONS of bracelets, and then some...lol.

my first attempt at a chevron pattern for myself

and my latest new pattern attempt, the top bracelet is a criss-cross pattern

So for the past few days, we've been making tons and tons of bracelets. I think I may need to find a 12 step program for her... :) She's been calling all her friends to ask for their favorite colors. She's such a giving child! I love her for that!