Craft room oranizer

I've been snowed in all weekend, so I've been trying to find projects to keep me busy that use materials I already have in the house. I got the idea from The Fabric Floozie, but I mostly just free handed it instead of following directions (I've always been more of a jump right in person )   I used fabric left over from some curtains I made in college, and some white fabric from my mom's stash. I used a decorative stitch around the pockets, because I'd been wanting to try that feature of my sewing machine.

I haven't sewn the separators into the top 3 pockets yet because I'm trying to decide on what will be stored where, so I can make the pockets the correct sizes, but knowning me it will be weeks before I decide on that.

I don't have a dowel to make a hanger for it, so I'll have to hang it after the snow melts.

Awesome bathroom decoration out of a paper towel roll

I Started with these cut up paper towel rolls

Hot glued them together (using clothes pins to hold them till it cools)

To make this to decorate a boring wall in my 1/2 bath

I'm debating between leaving it this color, or painting it white for more visual pop.

Sorry about the glare, they are right under my bathroom window.
 
I love it, but I keep wanting to use more paper towels so I can add to it!

I'd also love to have these on my fireplace, which is very boring, but it gets way too hot, they would probably get all singed in 20 mins :(.

 From a tutorial at The How-To Gal ( check out the last one on that page, it's soooo pretty )

Welcome to Daisies & Dogwoods!

Ok, decided if I was going to change the name, best to do it after 10 posts instead of 100.
Here's the explanation I gave on the old blog for the new name:
So after a little thinking, I realized there were 2 problems with my otherwise acceptable blog name:
1) I think the words Silky & Dogwood are pretty, and they are pretty together, but the actual Silky Dogwood plant, not so much so. Looks wise, it's the unprettiest Dogwood I've seen. So I could get graphics on the page to match the name, but then I'd hate them.
2) Silky Dogwood, being a simple plant name will always have 100000000 research/information items show up in a search before my blog.

Soooooo, in a move that I'm hoping with solve all of those, I'm switching to the prettier to picture, slightly more unique to search - Daisies and Dogwoods!

Ruffle Scarf

 made this ruffle scarf out of an old T-shirt using the tutorial at vermillion rules!

Skinny Jeans (for free!)

I've been looking for skinny jeans for a while, but for a small girl, I have really muscular legs, and I always end up looking like my calves are about to burst the seams.  So I found myself, a girl with not a single pair of fashionable skinny jeans, with a few pairs of flare legged jeans I never wear, because they were too short (not dragging the ground = too short when it comes to me and flares) Since skinny jeans shouldn't be as long, I thought I'd give refashioning my flares into skinny jeans a try.

Here's the before pictures for the 2 pairs I did:

 I turned them inside out, pinned them up the way I wanted them to fit, then stitched them up, leaving me with these:

They are both a little too long, but that's been a problem with all the ones I've tried on in the store too. I may hem them later, or I may just wear boots over them so it doesn't matter.

Repurposing More Jewelry

I inherited a ton of jewelry from my Grandmother that is not my style, but is still very pretty. I have come up with a few ways to use some of it around the house. Here is one of my favorite.

I started with this frame (paint left over from an old unfinished project)

and this pin

I took a piece of paper, balled it up, flattened it back out and sponged some coffee on in, all to make it look like old parchment.

After it dried, I wanted to print some text on it to make it look like an old timey letter.  I did a lot of Googling, and had no luck. I finally just Googled old handwriting or something like that and came up with.... the Declaration of Independence. I cropped it a ton, so that the words wouldn't be super super tiny.

I cut out the paper the size of the frame and opening, and Mod Podged it on. It is not as shiny as it looks in the picture, blame that on a cheap camera.

After that, I just glued on the pin, and I have a nice decoration that I think I'll hang on the wall beside my stairs :)

Haiti Person Finder

This Google gadget to the right is a way to find people missing in Haiti.

It can be embedded on your own page. If you have a page, please add it.

Info on adding it can be found at google public policy