A Christmas Star

A couple of years ago a dear friend of the family made an origami star out of $1.00 bills. It was so cool! I decided it would be a great Christmas ornament if done in yellow paper.

I was right! Isn't it cute?

I just cut some paper the size of dollar bills and then followed the video I found.

Enjoy!


5 Dollar Origami Star -

You can turn the sound down as it only has written instructions. The music is just background.

The Finished Products

I told you I would post pictures when I got finished. It just took me a while. :-)

Patchwork Hearts

I recently made this pillow to give a friend for her birthday. Her daughter wanted to know how I did it. This tutorial for making the heart is for Amber.

Cut a heart out of tagboard slightly larger than you want the final size to be.

Cut out various strips of fabric.

Start sewing those strips together.


Iron the seams open.





Trim off excess.

Repeat the process.









Keep sewing on strips until your patchwork piece is large enough for your heart.





Turn your fabric to the seam side and trace your heart onto the back using an ink pen.




Cut out.


Turn back to seam side and baste down about 1/4 inch seam.


Turn over and iron flat.



Draw in the white area what you want to embroidery. (You can write it in black on a piece of paper and trace it.)


I cut my fabric to the desired size before sewing my heart on. If you do this, center your heart on the fabric and pin it. You also just pin it to some fabric and cut it out later.


Place in a hoop and sew on with a button-hole stitch.





Then use a stem stitch to embroidery your word.

I added a flower to mine.
Here are some other ones I've made.










When I've turned the one with "Friends" into a pillow I'll post it too.

Proverbs 4:23

"Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life." ~ Proverbs 4:23 NLT

Our church's Jr. High Girl's Sunday school teacher hosted a lock-in this weekend. The topics were dating, abortion, marriage, being God's princess, and STDs. Heavy stuff for 12 - 14 year olds, until you realize that some of those 13 year olds have friends in their class at school who are pregnant. Normally I would think these were topics for parents to teach, but unfortunately it isn't a perfect world, and most of this country's 12 - 14 year olds aren't getting it, at least not from God's perspective. I was asked to discuss dating. If I was a really good blogger I'd post my lesson. (But I'm a very busy blogger, so I won't for now.) We were asked to give each girl a small gift symbolizing our talk. I made small pillows with hearts embroideried on them. I sewed a pockest on the backs placing a card with Proverbs 4:23 in them. "Guarding your heart" was my theme.

I made 15 of these. Only eight girls attended, but I just wasn't sure how many to expect. This is a sampling. I was going to make them all the same, but I got bored and started changing this and that. I had so much fun making these. (Can you see why I haven't had time to blog?)

This is my favorite one. I still have it, though I really didn't hold it back on purpose.

Be blessed!

Drewe Llyn