What is this?

My sister loves yard sales and if she sees something I would like she grabs it, she is so sweet! Anyway she found this at a yard sale yesterday and she didn't think to ask the lady what it was.
It can't be a plant hanger because who would want to cover up the beautiful crystals with leaves and it can't be a candle holder can it, if you were to put lets say a large tea light in it where would the wax drip to?
The first person to tell me what this is and a link to a picture will receive a squishie with their favorite colors and theme and a silkie!
Whatever it is it sure is pretty though, isn't it? lol

The tin my mother made!

I've made a couple of tins lately and my mother just loved them so she decided she wanted to make one. She picked out the colors and silkie and I pieced the block for her (she's having a hard time figuring out how to piece) and she embellished this little tin. Isn't it pretty! I love how she did the inside with the floral motif! A few years ago I bought her some sre kits that she had worked on but never put them together. She cut out the sre that she did and glued it to the inside of the tin, I just love it! I also love how she embellished the outside, now I know where I get my talent from, lol.

I finally finished the block for Donna's pillow

I don't know if you remember but if you go back through the posts a little ways you will see this little girl silkie and a picture of my friends living room. Donna wanted me to make her a pillow. Well I got the block done and told her that I wasn't that great at sewing things together and I was hoping the pillow came out square with nice corners. Donna said that she was good at sewing pillows so I'm sending her the block and fabric for the pillow and she's going to put it together! I was so happy because when it comes to the sewing that's when I get nervous, lol. I hope she likes the block for her pillow!

Tin I made for CQI Tin Swap.

I finished the tin for the CQI Tin Swap. Every time I make one of these I love making them more and more! I need to collect more tins, lol.
I printed out small silkies so she could use them to make inches if she wants to or she could use them for whatever she would like.
I hope the lady I made this for likes it!

Altoid Tin for a Friend

I just finished an Altoid tin I made for a friend of mine. She wanted a little pill tin for her vitamins. I've also been working on another tin for a tin swap I signed up for on CQI.

I love covering tins it's so much fun and they sure end up prettier then what they started out as, lol.

Scripture Bookmarks

I had so much fun today making bookmarks! I made a small gift for a friend of mine and wanted to add a little something extra in her package so I thought I would fiddle around and see if I could come up with some bookmarks. I think they turned out pretty good.

I would like to share these bookmarks with my online friends so if you send me your email address I'll email you the bookmark on Word and all you have to do is print them on card stock and then cut them out or you can print them on silk and back them whatever you would like to do. If you want to print some out, just send me an email at jphillips777@comcast.net .

How to make a Coffee Can Footstool

First you need 14 coffee cans and some duct tape.

Tape the cans together. Tape the top and bottom first and then the sides.

Now tape the two stacks of cans together.

You can use cardboard but for the top I used an old rotary mat. If I could do it over I would make sure it was cut more to fit the edge of the cans but the mat was hard to cut so I was sloppy.

Tape the round cardboard or whatever you used for support to the top and bottom.

Hot glue batting all the way around.

Picture of hot glue as you are gluing the batting.

When you get to the edges just butt the edges together with the hot glue.

Picture of batting glued all around. Now for the fabric.

Make sure your fabric is long enough to come up and around the top and bottom. Lay your fabric out and put the cans on it's side on the fabric. Bring the fabric around the cans, fold in one edge so it is not raw and hot glue the seam down side. Then stand it up and evenly glue the fabric on the top and bottom.

Picture of the fabric hot glued on.

I cqued a piece for the pillow that will be on the top of the footstool. I made the round block 4" bigger then the top of the footstool.

Cut another piece of cardboard that you will use to make a pillow and cut a little door in it.

Now hot glue the pillow piece onto your cardboard. I did four sides and then kept putting a dab of glue in the middle of the loose fabric until the little gaps got smaller and smaller.

Now stuff fiber fill into the hole (hopefully you made the hold big enough to put a clenched fist full of fiber fill in it, lol, after it's stuffed duct tape the hole shut.

Hot glue your pillow top onto the top of your footstool and add trim around the sides.

Cut a round piece of fabric and hot glue it on the bottom Your Finished!

Here is a picture of my new footstool! This foot stool is very sturdy if you aren't stingy with the duct tape. I saw this project on HGTV years and years ago and this is the fourth one I've made.

This is the first cqed one. I didn't bother with the seams because I figured with all the sitting and foot resting that will be done, I didn't know if embroidered or lace seams would hold up. If you make one of these please share pictures! Have fun and save those Coffee Cans!