Quick note...

I have my first follower...yay me (haha no pun intended) Anyway makes me happy to realize someone is reading this and possibly enjoying it enough to follow me! Thanks you made my day!

Hopefully be posting the Christmas wreath tonight...its gonna be good...at least in my head it looks awesome.

Happy Saturday!

-Tori

Ribbon Storage

So if you are like me then you have tons of ribbon, you don't have a decent place to put it and you are constantly winding it back up. In my organization of my new craft area I have used simple little baskets to make my ribbon easy to use.

My ribbon bin runneth over...I make tons of little hair ribbons for this ribbon monster

The Monster

Super simple idea of just pulling ribbon through the holes in the baskets and then you have

which works well for me cause I can just pull out and measure the length I need...

I got stacking baskets and use the bottom one for all of my hair accessories, clips, brads and all that good stuff.

Fun easy and done in fifteen minutes...only cost $5 too, instead of those fancy holders you can pay $15 for at Joann.

Happy Organizationing

-Tori

Time {not enough of it}

So in the quest to get normal everyday things done...cleaning, laundry and baby watching (omg she started crawling...why did I encourage this?) I haven't been able to create anything new. I have gotten as far in the craft room to see a drawer of unstarted/ half finished projects start to form, but I can't seem to make myself sit down  long enough to start them or finish them. (or finish cleaning up the room. ha) So instead while the baby took a nap, I took a pinterest break.

I find myself saving a lot of things like little sayings that make me laugh inside.

This is my craft room.

Fun projects to come up...

Really love embroidery right now...ever since the somewhere over the rainbow post.

Need this too...

It took me 50 minutes to make this post happen, only because I got on pinterest to find recently saved pins and got stuck looking up four hundred other things. 

Have a lovely night.

Happy Pinning...

-Tori

p.s. don't stay up too late...

My craft room

So it was always my thought that I would have a place of my very own to work on my ever growing collection of crafty items. We moved into this huge new house from a tiny apartment and this is what I got...

a spare room with a queen size bed, a chest o'drawers and another chest o'drawers that includes a mirror.

This picture is after my husband decided to throw all my stuff up in the room to get it out of the garage.

So instead of blogging I have been working to clean up this room. Which hasn't gotten very far with a husband, baby, and company coming over to have dinner...but I'll get there. Also notice the funky color of the room and then the trim...yellow?! Who had this house before us? 

Anyway back to the grind,

Happy Cleaning!

-Tori

My first tissue paper poms

So I have been wanting to try these for a while seeing as it was one of the only things left I wanted to do to the baby's room, but just got around to it because I kept forgetting to buy tissue paper. Anyway, I had one failure and two successes. Here goes...(and my pictures turned out horrible)

Add scissors to this and that's pretty much all you need

First one I did was two different colors so I alternated them

Then accordion style fold them as a group, about 1 inch folds. my paper was rectangular in shape so I went short side to short side...if that makes sense to you

You end up with something that looks like this. I forgot to take a picture but fold it in half to find your middle and then staple...I used three staples lol

Cut your sharp corners off of both ends...I don't reccommend doing it like this just because I didn't like it in the end and you'll see here in a minute what I mean.

Then you simply start pulling the tissue paper piece by piece out and up towards your stapled center. For one sided (half circle) pom ( it wouldn't really be a pom then?!) just pull to one side, for a full pom pull half the sheets towards on one side and flip over and pull the rest.

This is what I ended up with the first time I tried it, and didn't like it. The cut was something I didn't like either, not dramatic enough. When I really started thinking about it, it reminded me of the tissue flowers on sticks that you use to get from the fair...just stick a dow rod down it and you got a huge paper flower...my mind is running with ideas.

Anyway my little poms turned out much more how I thought they should, note to self use more then 6 sheets of tissue paper on a very large pom or you end up with what there is above. 

I did the same process with my little poms except where I stapled the first time I cut it in half and 6 sheets worked out perfectly.

I used cuter paper with those too... Not sure what I'm gonna do yet. I really like the flower idea but I really love the poms, gotta figure out how to use both in her room.

Happy Crafting.

-Tori