Saturday, November 20, 2010

Update and Felt Owl Mobile

UPDATE

Hey Everyone, It has been a busy past month for me. The move went very well and we are getting comfortable in our new home. We just LOVE Portland. I personally am thrilled to be out of Bangor finally. Everyone is so much nicer and polite here, not to mention so much more diversified and cultured. I finally feel at home and I just love our new place. It is slightly smaller than the apartment we left in Bangor but surprisingly I hardly notice. It is plenty of room for us. I have been busy unpacking, organizing. and decorating the past few weeks so I have just recently been able to start some projects. Here is one of the first ones so far.....don't worry there will be more to come!




FELT OWL MOBILE

So if you don't already know the twin's nursery is owl themed. Right now owls are all the rage so it is very easy to find cute owl stuff for nursery's...but if you don't want to spend a lot of money and still want something cute you should try this out! This is a very CHEAP and EASY project that I am certain anyone could do.

Supplies needed include: Pencil and paper (for making patterns),Various colored felt, embroidery floss, small amount of poly-fil, Scissors, Hot glue gun/glue sticks, straight pins, wooden or plastic ring, ribbon(optional).

You will have to make your own pattern but owls are pretty simple, a  good trick to use is to fold the paper in half and draw only half the owl body using the crease as the middle. This ensures that it will be symmetrical. It is also a good idea to try to find images on the web to give you a better idea of what it should look like. You don't even have to do owls. Really you could do anything bears, lions, cars, rocket ships. Whatever. Once you have your patterns all cut out you can pin them right to the felt and cut out your pieces. Then you just hand stitch along the edges with your embroidery floss, stop before you make it all the way around to put some poly-fil in and then sew the rest up. Use hot glue to glue on any outside pieces like the eyes. You can wrap the wooden ring in pretty ribbon if you want. then just string all the finished pieces with the embroidery floss and tie to the ring, Use some more embroidery floss to hang.

22 comments:

  1. That is adorable, I love the colors! Also, nice lighting in your photos, they are coming out a lot better!

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  2. Thanks Yeah...my camera options kinda suck right now. The past few blogs I have done I used my cheap 8 year old digital camera which has seen better days. My Nikon DSLR which I used for these photos is half broken because I am clumsy and dropped it. The flash is broken, my shutter speed is slow and touchy and so is my focus. Also if something is too close it wont focus at all. In order to get is fixed I have to mail it to the Nikon Manufacture half way across the country without having any idea how much it is going to cost to fix. So I am kinda nervous about sending it before I have a few hundred put away for the repair cost. :(

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  3. :( My $550 camera is starting to crap out on me too. I don't really want to pay to get it repaired, I'd rather buy a newer version. Your camera seems to be doing the trick though, for what it's worth. Maybe Jesse can get you a new one for Christmas!

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