Cutest Easy Sock Snowman

 

How cute are these to make with the little ones?!!!!!!!!!!! For this craft, you'll need a pair of old socks that are crew length, or longer, rice, rubber bands, map pins with heads, buttons, any left over fabric if you want for a scarf. 

 

First, cut off the top of the sock from the foot. Turn the sock inside out and attach a rubber band tightly to the top of the sock. Then turn the sock right-side out again. Fill the sock with rice. Make sure to pack it down as you go so the sock gets a nice round base. Rubber band the top of the sock closed and put another rubber band 3/4 of the way to the top for the head of your snowman. 

 

Now, decorate! Tie a scarf around your snowman's neck and add eyes, nose, and buttons. Use the toe of your cut socks to fashion a stocking cap. Or you could use colored argyle socks to create hats and sweaters for your snowman. You can either sew or glue on your buttons, and add embellishments - twine, bows, ribbons, etc - as needed. This is such a quick and easy craft - 10 minutes tops - that it would be simple to create a whole family of snowmen for your mantle!

 

Thanks niece Kathleen for posting this on Face Book!

 

My Krafty heart to yours!

NEW WATERCOLOR LEAVES AND TABLESCAPE

I am enjoying the Fall here in Central NY so much!  I cannot go out without picking up the wonderful colored leaves and then draw and watercolor them!  Here is a group I finished this morning.

 This is the photo I took first before drawing the leaves.

And this is the drawing with watercolor added:



 Now I have 3 completed, trimmed and ready for framing.

Here is my table with fall leaves allowed to curl up and decorate the lace tablecloth.  Fall colors are just so pleasant to see!  Pls send photos of your creations and thanks so much for visiting!

 

MY KRAFTY HEART TO YOURS...

OCTOBER

Wow!  Has it really been since May that I last posted???  I sold my home in SC and moved back to my hometown August 6th.  I bought a cute little 2 bedroom with small yard and love being back among friends and family here!  I waited a year and a half after losing my sweet Bill and still wanted to come back, so here I am.  Loving the Fall here in Central NY!  My sis-in-law gave me 2 well-worn, but good wicker chairs and a table to use on my patio.

I bought 2 cans of brown spray paint at the dollar store and spray-painted over their faded brown surfaces. Loved how they came out!

Next, I found 2 chair cushions on sale end of season in Walmart and a vinyl place mat to match and wah-lah! Love it!

 

I really love the way they came out!  I did not notice until taking these pictures that the backs of the chairs do not match-ha!  No matter...

 

And I finally got settled in enough to get out my sketch pad and have been sketching the gorgeous Fall leaves I pick up from the yard!

 

 



This will make a nice seasonal wall hanging when framed.  If you cannot draw, TRACE several leaves onto sketch paper.  You don't even need to put in the veins, just color with crayons or colored pencils like you did in elementary school and you will have a treasure for your wall, too!

 

So many crafts, so little time!!  Come back for more crafting!

 

 

Painted Doily on Gourd

I finally got around to painting a doily on one of the gourds I raised a few years ago.  I love the way it looks and will finish it off with some flowers around the bottom and top.  So much fun!

 The paint is really black but I enhanced for the photo and made it blue.

Looking down on top of the gourd.  Gourd is about 7 1/2 inches high and 5 inches in width across the largest part.

I will post when I get the flowers painted on.  Fun project!  I thought about really crocheting a doily just to set down over it but I love this look.

Thanks for coming.

My Krafty heart to yours...

Edging for the dishcloths/napkins

I started the edging with 2 single crochet and then a picot but tore it back out.  I decided to try just a simple shell stitch and it looks much better!  I love the colors of green and blue trim.  Just adds that extra touch.  These are large enough to use as Napkins and would make a lovely housewarming gift.  To see more info go back a couple of posts.

Reject of picot edging. 

Using  size 1 steel hook and # 10 crochet thread. 

So cheerful, just love them!  I am doing the solid color Yellow ones next with white edging.

Thanks for coming and come again soon.  Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day!

My krafty heart to yours...

GREAT GRANDDAUGHTERS ARE WONDERFUL!

Bouncing Sofiah on my knee about a week or so ago to a little sing song and she loved it!  You will have to turn the sound way up to hear it and this blog is the only one that it would fit on-LOL!

Link to post your items for sale

Every Thursday, Beverly at How Sweet the Sound lets you link your blog to the Blog Shop so you can attract more people to your blog and sell your items.  You can add your Etsy Shop if you like, also.  This is a great idea.  Spread the word and link up to sell your hand made items. Thanks!  I will be linking my Kraft Blog and Etsy Shop today. Beverly also has a link to embed a button on any of your blogs sidebar like the one in mine.  Thanks, and happy crafting!

My Krafty Heart to yours...

To get the button link to put on your sidebar.  Copy and paste into your gadgets 3rd party option.  Good luck! 
Button embed can be found on 

http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/03/blog-shop-week-thirteen.html