Getting Creative on the Fly

image and craft by Leslie

Have you ever been in a bind and the answer came in such a flash that you couldn't stop believing you actually had an amazing idea that fast?

Well that happened at my house over the weekend!  Woot woot!

Reagan was heading out for prom and her date called to say he was running late because he was waiting in line to get her corsage.  You should've seen her expression while she was on the phone.  Like, "holy batman!  I forgot to buy him a boutonniere!"

If you remember this craft I did  in January, that was the epic flash I had!  Make this into a boutonniere- and we did it in about 10 minutes with paper, ribbon, leaves from a bush in the yard, and a hot glue gun (reminds me of the song from Mary Poppins "with paper and string, you can make your own kind of wings...").

It turned out her date thought it was the coolest thing.

What do you think?  Would you have done it?

Maybe I'll start a new boutonniere trend!!

Project for April

This is a copy cat pillow of an Anthropologie pillow that costs $78.  I had everything on hand, so it cost me zilch.  Nice huh?

Back in January I had some goals.  Trying hard to keep them up. How are you doing on your goals?  I'd love to see what you are up to.

This pillow wasn't very hard.  In fact, it was kind of like baking- when you throw in a little of this and that.




I love the hot pink.  Below you can see all 5 pillows I made to recreate a master haven  noteworthy of Pinterest, with a little bit 'o me in it.  Creativity is coming back y'all. The best part, I maybe spent $5 total, most of this stuff I had on hand.

pictures from simplymusicwise.blogspot.com