Snowflakes on Pillows

Here is a super easy and super fun way to add a little holiday cheer to your holiday decor.

I went to Ikea, which we happen to have here on the island, can I get a Woot! Woot!. 

Anyway I went to Ikea and picked up some pillow covers.

Using a line drawing printed from the internet I traced the snowflake onto some freezer paper.  I just taped the drawing up to the sliding glass door and traced the shape.  Then using a craft blade and cutting mat I cut the image out.  Use a hot iron to attach the freezer paper to your fabric.  

And with fabric paint and a stencil brush you just dab away. Let dry for bit then just peel the freezer

paper off of the pillow cover... be gentle to make sure you don't peel any of the paint. 

Two coats of the paint left me with this lovely snowflake.  And I liked it so much I decided to make more.

So I pulled out my silhouette Cameo and bought a couple of snowflakes on sale at the Silhouette store.  I put my freezer paper onto my cutting mat and cut out several more snowflakes.  

Which I think turned out to be pretty darn cute. 

I love my snow-flaked pillows. 

Ho! Ho! Ho! 

Journal

My oldest son is working on a project for English class.  They have just finished reading and discussing The Great Gatsby.  For his project he has come up with the idea of creating a personal journal of one of the characters from the book which was kept during WWI.  My son is a creative thinker.  He is also a history buff.  When he came to me with this awesome idea I thought it was fabulous.  Then he asked if I could create the journal for him to write in using the voice of the character from the book.  He really wanted authenticity.    

He desired a leather cover.  Hand bound pages. This journal was a gift to his character from his mother before he left for the war.  

Hmmmm,  suuure?.?  Well, this is the best I could come up with.  And really I am pretty chuffed with it.  I started with plain old chipboard. The think kind that comes in paper packs.  

I embossed it.  I inked it.  I distressed it.  I did everything in my power to give it an aged, leather look.  

I even hand stitched the pages together.  Devotion. 

And wrote in my practiced script a dedication from a fake mother to her fake son.  

My boy is adding entries into this diary using information he has gathered from the time period and using the voice of the character from the book.  He will doing an oral presentation of the journal tomorrow.  I have my fingers crossed for an A (for the authenticity of the journal, of course.)

Have a good one, 

T.