Hoppy Easter From The Rodriguez Girls!

Freebie Friday - Mother's Day Printable

I wonder if this phrase ever worked for a mother...

For Freebie Friday, I hope you enjoy this adorable printable. I'm planning on printing & framing mine, and displaying it on my kitchen hutch.

Now if only I could get my toddler to understand what it means...

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Earth Day + May Day = Fabulousness!

I have a confession. I'm not a fan of trash crafts for me. I'm all about using trash items to make crafts with Isabelle - that just makes financial sense and those types of projects don't need to last more than a day. But when it comes to making a gift or something for the home - I'm a snob.. Until today!

CSI's theme this week was all about reuse/recycle in honor of Earth Day. I searched my studio high and low. I came up with fabric remnants, an old yarn spool, and a Rx container. Sounds like the start of a bad joke, right? For some reason I've been keeping my plastic Rx containers for a craft, and this one is perfect!

And what we will be making with my treasures?

A shabby chic May Day door vase!

Don't you just love it?? It reminds me a sunny parasol. It's super easy to make and no one would ever guess it came from items that would have otherwise been trash.

What will you need?

*fabric strips

*a tall Rx plastic bottle

*a yarn cone

How long will you need?

less than an hour

What do you do?

1.) Cut your fabric into strips and run them through your ruffler. Don't have a ruffler? Well immediately put it on your to-buy list and in the mean time you can do a basting stitch down the center of the strips and gather.

2.) Roll a few of the strips up to create shabby roses.

3.) Hot glue a ruffle strip across the wide top of the yarn cone - this will be the handle.

Hot glue the remaining ruffles around the cone in your desired pattern.

Hot glue shabby roses to the top.

4.) Place Rx bottle in cone and fill with water. Add flowers and enjoy!

Pretty ol' flowers from my own garden...
And you can push the handle to the back and use it as table vase.

Love it! And if this dumpster craft snob thinks that it's adorable, I'm guessing you do too..

WoW #16 - Details for #17

Did you channel your inner Punky Brewster? Mixing patterns can lead to great results! Just ask my toddler, Isabelle. She is a big fan of mixing it up.

For this week I tried to piece my first circle. Piecing by far is not my favorite way to quilt, but I'm trying to find love for it. The circle was a bit fiddly,but I'm pretty happy with the end result. In the project I mixed a few stripes, a few polka dots, and some batiks. The center is a fabric

covered button to pull it together. Oh and of course I had to add some free motion quilting in there.

What did you do this week? Kathy created some adorable spring folded fan flowers!

I think these would be fabulous in a vases all over the house. I loved the mixed prints and button centers.

WoW Challenge #17 - Mother Earth

With Earth Day this week, let's create something in honor of our home. You can focus on recycling, nature, etc. Maybe try your hand at gardening or find a great new use for your soda cans.

Want to join in on the WoW fun?

Submit your link below before midnight (MTN) next Tuesday.

Want more details, click here for the original WoW post.

Iron Craft #16 - Pinch Your Pennies!

This week on Iron Craft, the challenge was the theme of money. Well considering the economy and the resurgence in using coupons, I decided to sew a coupon organizer. I will be writing a review for this pattern on Sunday, so come back if you want to hear the nitty gritty! For now you get some pictures - being thrifty can be pretty darn pretty..

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