banana sushi

I heard about this Banana Sushi from the "friend" magazine last year. We made a valentines edition. Wrap a thick slice of banana with a strip of fruit roll up (or fruit by the foot) and put some sprinkles in the center!

felt valentine heart clips

I just made these for M. and they are super easy and fun!

How To:

1. cut 2 red circles out of felt. Mine are 1.5 inches (generally you want to cut the circles just larger than the clips you are going to cover- but I had large clips on hand and didn't want to go to the store for smaller ones, so my clip ends just hang out.

2. cut 2 pink hearts out of felt.

3. center heart on red circle and stich around with a machine embroidery stich (of course you could do this by hand if you don't want to use the machine.) The embroidery stich is usually located at the same place as the regular stich, (it's indicated with the 3 gold lines, under the regular stich) all you have to do is switch the length to "stretch" (hope that makes sense) but I love this stich. it tripples over so it makes the threads pop out. cute.

4. cut a hole in the back piece of felt. slip the aligator clip through. (again, ideally your clip would be enclosed, but I was lazy)

5. put top on sandwiching the main part of the clip inside.

6. hand stich around edges of circle with 3 strands of embroidery floss (I like to do this with the clip open so I make sure I don't stich over the outside part of the clip) ALSO**** if you are making a set, make sure your clips face 2 different directions so that your clips will be right side up when pinned in your hair!

7. when finishing I don't like to tie the knot near the edge in case the extra thread pokes out so I thread the embroidery floss through the clip and have it come out near the center and knot it off there.

I posted this quick so let me know if it doesn't make sense :)

spring

Who knew it was spring? These little beauties have been blossoming all over town! Can't wait for the warmer weather!