Teacher Appreciation Tissue Box Cozy Gifts

Today is National Teacher Appreciation Day!

I made these adorable cake tissue box cozies for my daughters' teachers, to show them how thankful I am for all of their hard work and dedication bettering their education. I used Twinkie Chan's FREE pattern as a base pattern to create all of these.
The chocolate cake was created from the original pattern. Instead of mini 5mm pom pom balls, I used mini buttons as sprinkles.

The party cake was created using the the same pattern; with the exception of the strawberry pink icing, and white icing piping along the edges. I also added a few cherries on top.

The rainbow layered cake was slightly different from the rest. I used the original pattern for the white icing and icing piping along the edges but did something a bit different for the cake part. I crocheted rainbow layers with white icing in between each layer. I hot glued mini pom pom balls on the top to resemble sprinkles.

These were so much fun to make! I know the teachers will love them.

Making Ornaments and a Kitty Dress

Xiera and I made a few sweet ornament gifts to give to her teacher this week. For all my crocheting friends; I found the Christmas Tree, Snowflake and Sugar Cookie patterns all free online.

Normally I would hand sew all buttons and beads on myself, but I thought it would be fun for Xiera to use fabric glue to glue the buttons onto the tree, sequins onto the snowflake, and beads onto the sugar cookie. They turned out super cute! The sugar cookie is my absolute FAVORITE! It almost looks good enough to eat.

Also this week I finished the cutest dress for a baby Sphynx kitten a customer of mine is getting as a gift for her daughter. I used one of Xiera's stuffed kitty cats to model it for me. ;)



With love,
Lindsay

Gifts From The Heart

Today we received a package in the mail from my grandmother-in-law, the girls' great grandmother. We were all so excited to find individually wrapped gifts inside for each of us. Sweet Grandma Marge hand crocheted slippers for all of us this year!
They are all just adorable!

What I love most of all are the little cards attached to them. Each card has a saying on them with a biblical quote that holds a meaning for each slipper's color.



These are all truly special and we will treasure them for years to come! I simply adore mine!


If you are reading this Grandma Marge, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

With love,
Lindsay