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Warm Cozy Recy-Mittens

Warm Cozy Recy-Mittens

First go to the thrift store or search your closet for either wool or cashmere old sweaters that no longer fit or have a few holes or you just don't like anymore to wear.

Here I choose a pink cashmere cardigan that had a few holes in it and I washed it in hot water and dried it on hot in the drier to shrink it up and make the knit nice and tight to sew. This is called felting.

Step 2-
I made a temp-plate and traced out 2 for the back mitten shapes and 2 for the front mitten shapes. 

Step 3-

I cut out my mitten shape out of the sweater. I chose 2 from the back of the sweater and 2 from the front of the sweater using the pockets in my mitten design for a cute extra special unique boutique look.

Step 4-
Pin the back and the front together matching up edges and placing the outside on the inside. Sew together and turn inside out.

Step 5- 
Turn in side out and cut any threads. Here you see the back hand of my mittens with the pocket from the front of the sweater and the front (palm) of the mittens. 
Note the nice cuff from the edge of the sweater.

Step 6-
I decided I needed a little bling so I hand stitched a few beads using silver metallic thread on the edge of the pocket from my stash I already owned.

Now my mittens are all done and for free! 

Cute and warm and soft. 

I can't wait to enjoy them later today.

Tuesday To Do's

It's a chilly Tuesday here and it has been raining for 2.5 day straight. The sun is coming out and everything has grown inches from the rain. I am very excited about this. The big kids are off to school. One early because she had chorus this morning and the other on time via bus.

Now that the house is quiet some what , I still have my 5 yr old preschooler who is home preschooled and will need his lesson, yet I sit here thinking what I should place on my to do list and pray I have the energy and strength to keep up with my normal to do's since I am still fighting and awful chest and sinus cold along with still healing from my radiation burns from my cancer treatments. Depression has shown it's ugliness along with headaches such two nasty side effects from my post cancer medications.

Yesterday I made bread and breakfast muffins. Today my daughter requested pancakes to be made and froze. She likes to heat them up and serve herself in the morning.

I need to clean my son's room and organize it so his new bunk bed can be set up on Thursday. He doesn't know yet that he is getting a big boy twin bed. He is going to be so surprised and so happy. Me on the other hand will be filled with tears as I see my little boy, my last one, so tiny to me, sleeping in a big bed not his toddler bed no more. I wish often they could stay small just a little longer than they do.

Gardening-

hmmmm not much here today since my wonderful husband helped me weed and plant on Saturday before the rain. We planted 8 basil, 2 boxwood basil, 2 rosemary, 4 dills, 1 orange, 1 apple mint and a row of butter leaf lettuce. The rhubarb and the asparagus is coming up that we planted a week ago. That is very exciting.
I do have 2 apple trees to relocate that are still small so I guess I will do that for gardening. I was thinking one on each side of the stone steps leading to the berry and herb garden would look really nice in the backyard.
Maybe if the yard dries up enough I will cut the grass in the afternoon.

Crafting-

I am hoping to work on my hand quilting and finish up the area in the hoop. This would finish one of the many blocks on the Oak Quilt and I will be able to move the hoop over. I do need to take time this week to get the April B. O. M.'s done because May is just around the corner.


Chores -

Bible lesson
bill paying
laundry
dishes
cleaning of the kitchen table and counter
sweeping and washing of the kitchen floor
putting away winter blankets from the living room and placing out the summer ones.
decluttering the living room floor from toys and vacuuming
cleaning the 2 bathrooms
feeding the animals including the chickens
and making dinner.

One thing that is nice is that archery for my oldest is cancelled today so I don't have to play taxi today and I get to just stay home and keep chugging along but I do have to play detective today and find the missing Boy Scout day bag.

Well let me begin my day and I will report back later.

Mama Oak

D.I.Y. - Kitchen Scouring Pad Bird In a Nest Christmas Ornament

 Kitchen Scouring Pad Bird In a Nest Christmas Ornament

First you will need.

A glue gun and some glue sticks,

 a metal scouring pad,

 a clothespin and

a craft bird and a few leaves.

(this is a cluster/branch with all of it already attached)

I separated the cluster/branch to see what I had to work with.

Then generously apply the hot glue.

Add the leaves and berries the way you like them to the center of the nest. The bird will hide the center of the unfinished ends.

Glue the bird on with a generous amount of hot glue in the middle of the nest and on top of the unfinished ends.

Apply hot glue down the side of the clothespin.

Glue clothespin sideways to the underside of the bird nest so it will clip on to your tree branch with the bird facing you.

And there you have it!

 A Kitchen Scouring Pad Bird In a Nest Christmas Ornament.

 D.I.Y.