Cyber Monday

Happy Cyber Monday!  I made a list of 5 things I use personally and can definitely recommend

1. Remote Control for Plug Ins - I LOVE these for my Christmas lights, but the rest of the year, I use them for lamps!



2. Small Glass Pyrex Dishes - I love glass storage so much more than plastic. I use this size for leftovers - especially leftover pico de gallo or guacamole.  And I use them in the fridge when I have 2 TBSP of butter left from a stick.



3. Roku - I have a roku tv, but I've bought my parents a stand-alone roku - it opens up a great world of watching Netflix on your tv!



4. Katie Daisy Calendar - I love this artist's style and have her 2018 calendar and have loved flipping the page every month to see a new quote and blend of colors.



5. Aveda Style Prep - this is the stuff you put in your hair before blow drying and it makes such a difference.  I have thick, coarse, wavy hair naturally, and most days I plan to straighten my hair and this is the best start to making my hair smooth and shiny.



Comment below - if you could recommend five products, what would they be?

Noah's Ark and Rainbow Quiet Book Pages

The Noah's Ark page was one of the easiest to make - I used Microsoft Word to make a simple pattern for myself.  (I set the page size to 9x9) and then created this pattern with shapes.

For This Project You'll Need:

blue or gray felt - sky

blue felt - water

dark brown felt - middle piece

black felt - for the inside

light brown felt for the boat/roof pieces/ramp pieces - I found this textured felt at JoAnn Fabric

scissors

sewing machine

animals - see below

Sewing steps:

FIRST - sew on the ocean piece (to the sky/background piece) - I sewed around the edge first and then sewed a few wavy lines in the middle and I love that it adds dimension and looks like waves

SECOND - Sew the dark brown middle piece

THIRD - sew the black piece (this will be what shows when the ramp is open)

FOURTH - add the boat and roof pieces - on the boat top, I sewed about an inch down and two inches on each side. to make a pocket where the animals could stand and left the middle open)

FIFTH - sew the ramp, just across the bottom (you cold add felt or a snap, but I just left it plain, felt sticks to each other fairly well)

I had planned to create little, intricate plush or finger puppet animals, but I was feeling the need to simplify where I could, so when I found these felt animal stickers at Michaels, I thought they were perfect.

I wanted to create a rainbow page opposite the Noah's Ark page, since it's part of the story - I decided to make it multi purpose - a zipper to practice and a pouch to store the animals.  I cut strips of felt to make the rainbow and sewed each to an 8x8 background, then sewed that to a 9x9 page background.

Planning to make your own Quiet Book - get started with a felt assortment:

Pie Weaving Quiet Book Page

This one came together really easily.

For this Project you'll need:
a background page of felt (mine is 9 x 9 and white)
2 sheets of tan felt
1 sheet of red felt (or whatever filling color you choose)
pinking shears
scissors
sewing machine
hot glue gun




Step 1:  Cut out a circle with your filling color of felt.  Mine was 6.46 x 6.46 (I created a circle template in Word.

Step 2:  Cut a freehand crust, that will fit around the outer edge of your filling circle.

Step 3:  USING PINKING SHEARS, cut out six strips  - two long and 4 short (the long will be the diameter of the filling circle, then measure on your filling circle for the short pieces).

Step 4:  (Optional) I cut out little red circles - making it a cherry pie!  I think it adds a lot of dimension.

Step 5:  Sew everything together.  The filling to the background page.  Then pin your six strips under the crust and sew around the edge of the crust, using a zigzag stitch REMEMBER TO SEW ONLY ONE END OF THE STRIPS.

Step 6:  Hot glue embellishments to your filling.

This page introduces weaving to your child and is good practice of fine motor skills and logic.

Planning to make a Quiet Book - get started with a pack of felt: