Pillowcase Aprons

Dear Girlfriend,

Guess what I made? Last Sunday, our craft in Sunday School was fingerpainting with chocolate pudding. The kids had a blast and no, there was no dripped pudding on their good clothes, because I made aprons out of pillowcases for all of them! I found the idea online, but since that website has disappeared into cyberspace, this 2 part video shows a similar way of making the basic apron also.

You know our room is decorated with Veggie Tales, so I hit several thrift stores in advance looking for pillowcases in the colors of the characters – I found lime green ones, pretty yellow ones with daisies (thot the girls would like those), deep dark purple and a bright red and green plaid which the boys liked best – you know, Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber look swell in those colors!

Since I have 8-10 children, ages 3-6, in our preschool and kindergarten class, I didn’t know how long to make each neckband to go over their heads, so decided to just make ties instead (Update: see the above video about sewing one long tie). The girls didn’t mind lifting their hair to be tied into their aprons and hubby helped the boys with theirs.

While I was looking for the pillowcases, I also found about a 1 ¼ yard of bright yellow Veggie-Tale party material that was just enough material for teacher to have an apron too and I made Mr. Helper his own as well from the leftover bits and pieces from the ten pillowcases. I backed his apron with white fabric and topstitched it down the front. I didn’t whipstitch the ends of the ties, but just tied them in simple knots.

After painting their pictures, pudding goatees around their mouths came next! LOL! Remind me next time to bring spoons. One little boy nearly dipped his whole fist in the pudding cup to get enough to lick off! My sweet hubby came to the rescue with spoons he dug up somewhere and the kids happily sucked their pudding down. They had a rip-snorting good time!

Will write again soon.

DJ

Flat Items for Frugal Scrapbooking

I have a list somewhere on this blog of flat ephemera (paper scraps) that I can use on cards and on scrapbook pages. I’m really not into bumpy scrapbooking, but thought I needed a list of other items that would give a little more texture to a page. So here’s my reference list =

atc’s & tags; back stitch; bandage gauze; bicycle license plates; bread-bag tabs; bubble gum or candy wrappers; business cards; blanket stitching, calendar, junk mail, & magazine images; cheesecloth; chicken wire; chipboard puzzle pieces; clock/watch faces; clothing labels; coffee filter snowflakes; cork strips, craft sticks, crimped or crumbled paper, crepe paper bows, crystal laquer, cupcake papers, dental floss, dried tea & spices, dry or heat embossed diecuts, dog tags, drywall mesh, egg dye dippers, embroidery floss, embossed foil, embossed paper, empty teabag envies, empty sweetener bags, envelopes (new & used), eyelets, fabric, faux wax seals; feathers, fibers, fine jewelry chains, fingernail decals, flat charms or earrings, flattened soda cans, foreign coins, game score cards, game markers, garden seed packets, glitter, index or recipe cards, ink-tinted baby wipes or used dryer sheets, keys, lace, leather, library pockets, maps, masking tape, metal conchos; metal-rimmed tags, metal foil tape, mini-file folders, modpodge or glaze, needle threaders, one-layered silk flowers, paint chips, paper packaging images, paper clips, patches, playing cards, pogs, pop can tabs, postcards, produce bag stencil, punchies, rayon seam tape, reinforcement stickers, ribbon, rickrack, rubber stamped images, running stitch, safety pins, sandpaper, sequins, silk leaves, silhouettes, slide or coin mounts, staples, storybook images, suede paper, sewing measurement tape, screen mesh, stickers, sticky notes, thin twine, ticket stubs, torn paper flowers, toy money, travel brochures, tulle, twill tape, used postage stamps, UTEE clear embossing powder, vintage ladies gloves, washers, watch crystals, wire stitches, zigzag stitch

Pinterest

Did you know that you can find if someone has pinned something from your blog on Pinterest? I didn't know what that even was until this morning when I went to visit MerryMade Cards and Crafts blog. Pinterest is an online pinboard. I just had to have a try and my search came up with one of my creations pinned there. . . my honeybee bulletin board. I'm so tickled somebody thought enough of it to even pin it up! :)

So all you have to do is:
type this URL into your browser:

pinterest.com/source/YOUR BLOGS'S URL/

Mine is:

http://pinterest.com/source/thefrugalcraftyrushdlady.blogspot.com/

Have fun.