wired ribbon yoyos yo!

How much fun are these? I found 2 rolls of fabulous wired ribbon for $1.50 each and fell in love. (The patterns and the price, could. not. resist.) I've been making lots of little yoyos recently for various projects. Been gluing and sewing them to everything...don't stand too close or you too will get yoyo'd.


mmm, yummy ribbon.



To start, I cut an 8 inch piece of ribbon. This ribbon is 2 inches wide, perfect for 1 inch yoyos.



I scrunched up the edges so the wire stuck out and pulled. The wire slips right out.



I folded the ribbon in fourths and used a 2 inch circle template I cut from chipboard (this one is well-used!). Now, you could trace around the template with a marker, or you can do what I did...



..and just go for it!



I used some Fray Check around the edges of the circles because they wanted to unravel when I went to gather them. Once it dried, I simply ran a single stitch with a needle and thread around the outer edge.



I pulled on the thread ends, gathering the fabric into the middle, tied a double-knot and cut off the extra thread.



I sewed buttons on 5 yoyos and hot glued them to a headband (dollar store, 4 for a buck!). Here is my beautiful daughter modeling the finished project. She's looking down because she's text messaging. As usual :O)




I hot glued some rhinestones to the centers of these and added them to my dollar store black birds. (These started out cream colored so I took some black spray paint to them. ah. much better.)



Each spool of ribbon measures 3 yards, that's alot of yoyos for pennies a piece. Loves it!

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been busy

Life moves along and sometimes you lose track of things...like your blog. Working on my mom's new blog (located here) has renewed my inspiration and here I am, writing on my own blog again. Looking at my galleries, I think of all the things I've made since my last update. So many projects I don't know where to start! I'm not limiting myself to just paper these days. I have a growing stash of fabrics I've had to find a place to store and I invested a whopping $3 on a new glue gun. It's a cute little guy :O)

I know where I'll start...one of my dogs ate my pin cushion! Max (the lab) decided it looked tasty (tomato shaped, he's not the brightest crayon in the carton) so he took a bite. Did you know those pin cushions are full of sawdust? I didn't either. SO, I needed a new pin cushion. I had an empty almond can (thanks becca!) and fabric left over from another project*.


I covered the outside of the can with some self-adhesive fabric from my scrapbooking stash. I cut a circle of cardboard the same size as the lid. I hot glued a fluffy blob of fiberfill stuffing onto the circle. I cut a circle of fabric approximately 2x larger than the lid size (ended up being 6 inches across) and centered it over the fiberfill. Next I hot glued the edges of the fabric to the underside of the cardboard, creating a fat pillow with a cardboard base. Have I mentioned how much I love my new glue gun? It's low temp so I can manipulate the glue with my fingers (or press fabric directly onto it) without burning the heck out of myself. Of course, this only holds true if you don't touch the TIP of the glue gun. ouch. cuticle burn.


Once I had my fat pillow/pincushion top, I cut a long strip of fabric (3x the perimeter of the lid) folded it in half along the length, and hot glued as I gathered it to the underside of the cardboard, creating the ruffle.

I filled the can with aquarium gravel to keep it from tipping, then hot glued the lid on. I hot glued the padded pillow/cardboard piece on top and here we go!



*Fabric remnant is thanks to my amazing sister-in-law Tracy! She made me an awesome-wicked-cool ribbon board using this fabric, and gave me the leftovers so I could use it for other projects. Now, my pincushion matches my ribbon board! and I still have gobs of fabric left.

SO, I will try not to be a stranger, in fact, you may get sick of my posting projects soon. Just a warning.

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