20 Minute Tuesday | DIY Faux Chalkboard

One of my favorite items at my daughter's Horses and Hairbows party last month was the oversized menu board behind the food table. Everyone at the party commented on it and wanted to know how long it took me to letter a chalkboard with that much detail. Well here's the secret - I didn't hand draw a single letter and that's not even a real chalkboard! 

Camping Pillow Tutorial | Ann Kelle Fabrics

I am back with another fun sewing tutorial using my great new Ann Kelle fabrics. Have you had a chance to make your sidewalk chalk apron yet? Hurry, hurry summer is coming! Although I am calling this a camping pillow, I don't plan on going camping anytime soon. Insects and I are not now and never will be friends. However, this pillow is also great for road trips, sleepovers, and everyday fun. So don't feel you need to be planning a trip out to the woods to make this pillow!

Southern Craft Academy | Sponsorship Opportunites

TGIF! Just wanted to share a little information about Southern Craft Academy and its sponsorship opportunities.

If you have an etsy or online shop that you'd like to promote via swag bag or partnerships with our craft weekend take a look at this "flyer" I created and drop us an email at southerncraftyacademy@gmail.com 
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20 Minute Tuesday | Jeweled Hair Ties

Summertime and livin's easy...unless you have long, thick hair and live in the south, like me. Summertime if great but it basically means big hair that just gets pulled back in a pony tail within an hour of starting my day. Hair elastics have been my staple "bracelet" for years and now that I have 2 little girls with long hair, it's a hair elastic party on my wrist. Since we need them close at hand, let's at least make those hair elastics fun and pretty! Enter the Jeweled Fold Over Elastic hair tie!

DIY Chalk Apron | Ann Kelle Fabrics

I don't know about where you live but here in North Carolina we experienced a longer than normal winter. The chilly, and very wet, weather kept up inside for far too long this spring, but now that it's starting to warm up it's hard to keep anyone inside, which is a great change of pace! 

Just because we're outside doesn't mean that either of my kids want to give up drawing and coloring, though, they just take up a new art medium - sidewalk chalk. It's fun but it's messy and the chalk is always rolling down our sloped driveway. When Ann Kelle was generous enough to send me some of her new fabrics I took one look at the cute outdoorsy patterns and knew that we needed a sidewalk chalk apron!

Happy Mother's Day

I hope that all the mothers out there had a spectacular Mother's Day today. It really is the toughest yet most rewarding job in the world!! 
I had started this printable on Friday but never got the chance to put it up because we had such a great family weekend filled with getting DIY projects done, local farm league baseball games, sleeping in, swinging at the park, a little shopping, and a whole lot of giggling. 
You can right click on this and save it for next year, it's 4x6 so it would make the great front of a card or fits nicely in a frame!

20 Minute Tuesday Follow Up | Painted Mason Jar

A quick follow-up from this week's 20 Minute Tuesday | Painted Mason Jars. I took about 20 minutes today, maybe less, to paint yet another mason jar. This time the jar was to hold an orange and blue Gator ribbon topiary so I painted some fun orange and blue stripes on the jar using Martha Stewart craft paint that I already had in my stash. 

Just tape off some stripes with washi or painter's tape, dab your paint on with a foam pouncer, and peel the tape off while the paint is still wet. I also painted a daisy jar topper that I had in my party stash to match, it's holding my topiary in place without having to use unsightly styrofoam. 

Go Gators and bring on football season, I can hardly wait!!!