Ten-Minute Aprons. Ha!

Pinterest Day again, last Saturday.  Melissa and I had shopped for some cute dishtowels for the last month or so, to do this project.  Dish Towel Aprons.  The original poster called them Ten Minute Dish Towel Aprons.  We challenge!  We each made four, and it took at LEAST 30 minutes each.  I brought my sewing machine with me so we could both sew as quickly as possible.  We brought our dishtowels and headed off to Jo-Ann Fabrics to get some ribbons and trims.  That took more time than we thought, because they didn't have the best selection of "by-the-yard."  It also didn't come cheaply.  I chose the entirely wrong ribbon for mine.  See that big spool of wide satin ribbon I got?  I didn't like it after I'd bought it.  It was too slippery to work with, and it puckered and pulled.  It was sort of pricey, but I had a 40% off coupon (LUCKILY!) Don't get that kind.  No matter what you see in the original blog post.

Here are some of the trims we bought, as well as some notions.  That green grosgrain ribbon Melissa bought was PERFECT for this project.

We followed the instructions in the Pinterest post, but made a few customizations of our own, and here are the finished aprons.  Some we used just one towel and some trim and some we mixed and matched, adding pockets from different towels.  Don't you just love the orange pom-pom fringe???  Also, we oriented our dishtowels the WIDE way rather than what appears to be the LONG way.  The girl who made the originals apparently used dishtowels a little bit bigger than ours, OR her mannequin is anorexic.

We LOVE 'em!  I think July Pinterest day was a SUCCESS!!!!  All I have left to do is iron and wrap them up as gifts.  Melissa made two for her daughter and her neighbor to take to college with them.  The others she plans to to pair with a cookbook and give as bridal shower gifts.

Oh, and we had a great lunch at a place called the Dog Haus, in Pasadena.  Hot dogs served on grilled Hawaiian rolls, tater tots and homemade cookie ice cream sandwiches. MMMMmmmmm....  What will we eat...I mean, CREATE...next month?

Days of Pinterest Past

Melissa and I had our latest Pinterest Day and she asked me why I hadn't blogged our projects for awhile.  Well....I don't know!  I haven't taken pictures of all of them.  Sadly...I can't even remember all of them.  I guess that's why I need to blog them.  Since last posting, we've done a lot.  We generally have some failures and some successes.  Here are a few:

• We met to work on our Christmas projects.  I tried to do a crocheted scarf and paper pinwheels.  Fail.  I can't remember what Melissa worked on.  Emily joined us and did some embroidery.
• We made some fudge and some orange creamsicle truffles.  YUMMMMMMMMM.  Success!  The hard part was not eating it before we gave them to friends.

Melissa does tax work and is unavailable to me until April 15th.  So I had to do Pinterest alone.  I had some leftover candy melts from Christmas.  First, I melted three different flavors of candy melts from Michaels and grabbed a sleeve of Ritz crackers.

Then, I dropped "blobs" of the melts on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper and put a cracker on each blob.

Once those dried, I peeled them off and this is what they looked like...

Next, I laid the crackers out and put a small scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of  half of them.

Then, I put the lid on, and they were ready to eat!  I wrapped them in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer, where they did not stay for very long!  Quite tasty.  I highly recommend this project.

By the end of April, with Melissa BEGGING for a Pinterest Day--free at last!--we did beading...

Don't you just love beads?  They look so pretty in their boxes....

Here's what we made:

In May, I made a maxi skirt and Mel worked on a pillow.  No photos, please.  My large booty wouldn't have it.

In June, we did watercolors.  For the first time ever.  We had FUN. I'd had a box of watercolor paper greeting cards for a long time.  Years.  It was time to bring them out.

We used fairly cheap watercolors and brushes...

But, watch out!  If you use the cheap brushes, you must be sure to have a pair of tweezers with you to remove the stray hairs that end up in your masterpiece.

Here are some of our creations.

July's Pinterest Day will be aprons made out of dishcloths.  I'll be sure to take pictures!