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How to Make Iron-On Rhinestones. Loose Leaf Tea? Make Your Own Tea Bags! Like many of you, I LOVE loose leaf tea.

Loose Leaf Tea? Make Your Own Tea Bags!

However, I'm always looking for cute and creative solutions to use my tea. These D.I.Y. tea bags are super cute. I think they would make amazing gifts! Here's how you can make your own... Supplies needed: Coffee filters, Scissors, Sewing machine, Loose tea leaves, Stapler, Embroidery thread, Paper for tags (construction paper, old book pages, etc.), Optional: Spices (pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, ground ginger, etc.) Step 1 - Cut two coffee filters into a rectangle. Step 2 - Stitch the filters together on three sides, leaving one of the smaller sides open. Step 3 - Fill the teabag with the loose tea leaves. DIY suede and gold leaf business card holder.

I can’t stop looking at this gilded, magical thing.

DIY suede and gold leaf business card holder

Seriously. I made it, set it on my desk for a few days to see how it held up, and couldn’t stop saying to Mr. Lovely, “Look at this thing!!” That’s how much I love this little business card holder. Now, to be fair, Martha Stewart provides the template for the holder, but good old Martha didn’t cover hers in gold! For starters, gather your materials: 28. Ready for a new DIY that’s perfect for winter?

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Dress up your iPads with a sweater from your own closet! Shop vintage or maybe you already shrunk a sweater you love? Time to use it in another way… what you’ll need: • sweater made of wool or with at least 50% wool content • piece of heavy drawing paper • ruler • pencil • scissors • pins • yarn • yarn needle • toggle button • iron with steam setting. DIY Lavender Bath Salts. How to Make Tea Cup Candles. Skip to Content October 19, 2011 How to Make Tea Cup Candles Almost two years ago now we took our first try at making Soy candles in baby food jars.

How to Make a Wine Gift Bag. Oh wine, how I love thee.

How to Make a Wine Gift Bag

And how I love the anthropologie-rumpled look of this cotton-linen blend Heather Ross fabric for a gift like this. I imagine toting it to the park for a picnic where all the ladies are wearing forties-inpired high heels while casually sipping Malbec as the sun sets. Or you know, a last minute dinner party gift, maybe with a few pretty wine glasses. Learn How to Sew a Wine Bag after the jump… And remember to leave a comment, because our favorite commenter is winning that super cute key fob set! Mod Podge Vase. This little Mod Podge Vase project is a super easy way to display some of your favorite fabric around the house.

Mod Podge Vase

This one is covered in Anna Maria Horner Little Folks Voile Coloring Garden Dusk. Monogram Mugs. Friends!

Monogram Mugs

I’m so pleased to share our first gift DIY of the season. Maude made these fantastic monogrammed mugs over the weekend. Don’t they look terrific? The idea came when we saw these fun initial cups at Anthropologie and remembered our kitchen was lacking in hot cocoa mugs. DIY Natural Room Scents. Don't miss my follow-up post to this one withNATURAL ROOM SCENTS FOR DIY GIFTS & CENTERPIECESCLICK HERE This post was featured in the April 2013 issue of Woman's Day magazine.

DIY Natural Room Scents

Here's the thing. I'm married to a man who hates artificial scents of any kind. That goes for air fresheners, candles, perfume, soaps and anything else that is scented. We buy unscented everything. Turns out that King-Man may just be ahead of his time. But, the air in my house gets stale sometimes. There is a simple, all natural, truly lovely solution. Keeping the supply list simple. Quilted Camera Case. Quilted Patchwork Bib Pattern And Tutorial « Sew She Sews's. * I just started a flickr group for any projects made using my tutorials.

Quilted Patchwork Bib Pattern And Tutorial « Sew She Sews's

Please feel free to stop by and post your finished or WIP! *Bibs made using this pattern may be used for personal use only. It has come to my attention that my pattern has been stolen and was being used along with my tutorial and pictures for a for profit class at a sewing shop. Not cool. If you want the PDF for the pattern, email me. Quilted Christmas Booties. [ Close Privacy Policy ] Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights Revised and posted as of March 4, 2013 Prime Publishing, LLC ("Company," "we" or "us") reserves the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time simply by posting such revision, so we encourage you to review it periodically.

Quilted Christmas Booties

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Distribution Partners Website operators that license our ad serving technology pass information to us so that we may serve advertisements to you. Tie Dye Summer Tote. I’ve done it!

Tie Dye Summer Tote

After all these years of fearing the mess, the unpredictability, the “looking like I just left a Phish concert,” I’ve tried tie dye and I am hooked! The Lazy Quilter: Easy Half Square Triangle Trick. I do so love the idea of quilting. But in actuality, the precision is not something I naturally excel at. Quilted & Piped Letter Tutorial. To Do List- Swap Quilted Magnets with a Tutorial! Done! – Needle and Spatula: Quilted Wine Tote Sewing Tutorial. I am excited to share the tutorial for this wine tote bag that I mentioned earlier! I had fun playing around and coming up with the pattern. I have seen lots of patterns online for wine gift bags, but I wanted to make something that was more of a reusable wine tote, inspired by this BuiltNY tote . One of these would make a great housewarming, hostess, or holiday gift, but it would also be great to make and keep for yourself.

Kitchen Confections in Moda's Vintage Modern: Patchwork Placemats. Today we start a brand new series of beautiful kitchen tutorials in Bonnie & Camille's Vintage Modern collection for Moda Fabrics, which is hitting the fabric shelves right now, both in store and online! We call the series Kitchen Confections because each one is a delicious bite size project with plenty of sweet style. "But, aren't 'Vintage' and 'Modern' mutually exclusive? " You ask. Patchwork bolster pillow tutorial - anthro inspired. So glad Ellen from The Long Thread asked me to join in her HandMAYde series this week. Handmade Holidays. . .Quilted Coasters. Manly Laptop Sleeve Man-gift of Man-dom. We love to give handmade gifts, right? But they are not always appreciated by the men folk.

A Statement Patchwork Clutch. Miniature Patchwork Pincushions. These little pincushions are the perfect gift for any quilter friends. Waiting. Here's a picture of me waiting in the Radcliffe library for my date with a boy named J.D. His short stories are brilliant and have been published in The New Yorker, but I fear, entre nous, that he may be a little too misanthropic for me. Speaking of fiction, don't you love the outfit? Ruffle Pillow Tutorial. Re-purposing: Tshirts into 5-strand-braided-headbands. Recycled T-shirt Shopping Bags.