Felt Valentine's Day Fortune Cookies

I made Serenity some felt pink and red fortune cookies for Valentine's Day tonight.
These are so quick to make (no sewing!), and cheap - it'll only cost you pennies!
Great little gifts for your kids to give to their friends too!

I found the Valentine's Day Chinese take-out box in the $1 section at Target.
One piece of craft felt was 29¢ at Michael's, and it's big enough to make 6 fortune cookies.

For a cute Valentine's Day gift:
Scrunch a sheet of pink and red tissue paper and put them in the take-out box.
Now put 6 red and 6 pink fortune cookies on top.
Total price?
Less than $2!

Materials needed:
1 1/2" red & pink felt circles
1/4" white twill tape
glue gun & glue stick
lighter or fray check
pins
(I pinned a circle template to the felt to cut my circles)
(Sorry - I've left a few things out of my picture!)


Cut pieces of twill tape around 1 1/2" long and apply fray check or use a lighter to seal the ends.
Glue the twill strip at a slant to the top half and kinda off to the side of the felt circle.
Next, apply a thin string of glue to the top part of the circle as shown by the arrows in the picture:


Fold the circle in half and pinch until the glue sets.
Fold again in half in the direction the arrow is pointing in the picture:


Add a strip of glue halfway down the inside of the fold. 

Pinch until the glue sets.
{I used a clothespin to hold it in place, and went on to the next cookie until I got to this step again. By then, the glue on the first cookie had set.} 



Holding the felt cookie just like I am in the picture, fold back the top.


Pull back the fold you just made, and add a dot of glue.


Pinch until the glue sets.


All done!


I hope y'all like my newest felt food!
I tried to make them as kid-friendly as possible - Serenity is three and still kinda rough with her toys!

Substituting the twill tape for some Valentine's Day ribbon would be really cute - I couldn't find any at Hancock today, but maybe I should check at Wal-Mart or Hobby Lobby.

Michael's had plastic Christmas take-out boxes on sale for 64¢. 
I bought a couple of red striped ones that could pass for Valentine's Day boxes, and they are more durable than the $1 ones I got at Target.

Or you can use Lit'l Brown Bird's Passion's Felt Chinese Take-Out Box tutorial to make your own Valentine's Day take-out box!

Also, using 1/4" red ribbon with the pink cookies and 1/4" pink ribbon with the red cookies would be beyond cute - don't cha think?!

UPDATE:
I used twill tape in the fortune cookies 'cause I was going to transfer little Sweet Tart Valentine candy sayings to them (just like you'd do to make your own clothing labels), but then I decided to just write them instead. 
Well that didn't work at all, the ink bled everywhere. 
Who knew? 
I've never used twill tape before, so I certainly didn't! 
I ended up leaving them blank 'cause I thought that was cute too.

Anyway, tonight I tried to print little sayings on some fabric sheets I already had - but after twenty minutes of trying to get ONE sheet to go through my printer, I finally gave up. 
I could've tried ironing freezer paper to the back of muslin, but since the fabric sheets wouldn't go through my printer, I figured that method wouldn't work either.

So I ended up just cutting the fabric sheets into 1/4" w x 2" l strips and wrote the Sweet Tarts sayings in pink and red ink - and that method ended up being the quickest and easiest to do!

Whatcha' think?



More felt foods I've made:
Pop-Tarts
Felt Bow-Tie Pasta
Felt Agnolotti Pasta
Felt Tortelloni Pasta and Tin
NO-SEW Felt Cheese & Spinach Ravioli
Felt Eggplant Spinach & Tomato LasagnaI hope y'all like this latest felt-food addition!

Have fun!

Turn Socks Into Long Sleeves

This is a very easy project and it's a great way to practice sewing knits!

I got some short-sleeve tees on sale a while back at Target for less than $3, and I went to town buying 'em up!
And then just recently, Target's long socks went on sale (THREE pairs for less than $5!), so of course I had to buy a bunch of them too!
I was planning to sew some "baby legs" to go with Serenity's CC dresses.

but...

Make It and Love It has a wonderful tutorial that shows you how to make sleeves and add length to a short-sleeve t-shirt. Very neat - and it gave me an idea today to try something!

So I grabbed the last short-sleeve shirt I had left and got to work.

Materials needed:
1 pair of long socks
t-shirt
pins


1. Try the shirt on your Darling Stinker to measure how long you need the sleeves to be, or measure a long sleeve shirt to get the correct length.
2. Pin the sock to the sleeve - I used a lot of pins 'cause I was nervous about messing up! I used a lot less pins on the second sleeve.
3. Using the same colored thread as the t-shirt, sew a wide zig-zag stich around the sleeve - make sure to take your time.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for the second sleeve.


That's it! How easy was that?! So simple - it's perfect for beginners and people like me who need to practice sewing some simple knit projects!


This shirt is a 4T so it's a little big on Serenity - but that just means she'll wear it longer!

Total cost: $4.50

Those are my costs - but you can do it for free using tees and socks you already have!

POST-IT-NOTE :I would like to give a HUGE thank you to Ruffles and Stuff and One Pretty Thing and bebeblog and MaxxSilly for linking this post!

And check out Everyday Chaos to see the sweetest shirt she made for her daughter using my tute! She added the most adorable trim!



Have fun!

So Many New CCs!

I'm posting pictures from the past six months or so of Serenity wearing some of her newest CC dresses!

It's been quite a while since I've posted pictures of Serenity in her CC dresses - but you can see a few of the newer ones in my GWMG posts too!

CC dresses are Serenity's absolute favorites - not only are they the most comfortable pieces of clothing in her closet, they come in a huge array of kaleidoscope colors and prints - no two are ever the same!

To me, courtneycourtney clothes represents childhood like no other!

Okay, so here we go (in no particular order), my Darling Stinker posing in her adorable, funky, and totally unique dresses from CC!



















Serenity is always thrilled when she gets a new CC dress in the mail! We've gotten so many, she instantly recognizes the packages from CC and screams, "That's my dress!"- and as far as I know, she can't read yet - da little stinker!

Go check out courtneycourtney's Etsy store to find a fun and chic dress for your Darling Stinker!

While you're there, check out courtneycourtney's 5 years worth of positive feedback and adorable pictures from hundreds of tiny satisfied customers!

I hope y'all enjoyed looking at the pictures!

POST-IT-NOTE: Serenity's flower leggings are from Little Lilies over at Etsy. They are well-made and so cute!
Most of Serenity's shoes and boots are second-hand from Ebay. You can get some awesome deals on little kids shoes at Ebay, and since they outgrow them pretty fast, they are usually still in great condition. Her Fancy Nancy and red glitter shoes are from Target.
Serenity's little jacket vests are from Ebay too - but the pretty multi-colored sweater was a Christmas present from my baby sister, Paige. She got it from KMart and I LOVE it!


Have fun!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Will you be having black-eyed peas, ham, and cabbage for your New Year dinner?

Ever wonder WHY we eat or do certain things or sing "Auld Lang Syne" on New Year's day?

Check out this really neat site explaining it all!


Happy Holidays!