Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’ve been on a linen kick lately. I’ve got a nice long scrap left over from a baby wrap I made for a relative several months ago, and I keep coming back to it. It stays out on my sewing…
Posts tagged gifts
My mom’s birthday gift, and a defense of my fabric hoarding
My mother’s birthday was earlier this week. This is a woman who has already has everything she needs and most of everything she wants. I was stumped as to what to get for her, until she let a little hint. Earlier this year, her purse…
Snappy Composition Book Cover – FREE PATTERN
Is it weird that I get more excited about back-to-school sales than Christmas sales? I get a little giddy piling my shopping cart full of glue sticks and crayons and notebooks. And it’s all for me me ME – I do a separate shopping trip…
Leather & Elastic Cuff Bracelets – TUTORIAL
I know y’all are thinking, “Does this Orange Bettie lady ever make anything besides bracelets?” I do, I promise. But after I made the scrap fabric bracelets, my mind just wouldn’t let go of the idea. I have some scraps of the softest leather in…
Embellished scrap fabric bracelets – TUTORIAL
I am sooo excited to share this project with you today! That’s because it takes a couple of my favorite things and puts them together. One favorite thing being fold over elastic. It looks like ribbon but it stretches. It’s candy colored magic, I…
Easy DIY Elastic Band Sunglasses Case – Free Pattern
My favorite way to welcome summer is to buy a new pair of (cheap) cute sunglasses. There’s just something so fun about a new pair of sunnies to wear when you’re hanging out at the pool or just running errands in the bright summer sun. …
Upcycled Leather Belt Bracelet – TUTORIAL
DISCLAIMER: I received free products from Goodwill of Arkansas in exchange for writing this post. Though this is a sponsored post, all opinions are my own. I think I may have found my new favorite thing to do with old belts, and that is turn…
Rice filled heat pack with handles – FREE PATTERN
My father-in-law is impossible to buy for. He has few wants and simple needs. And on the occasion that he does want or need something, he goes out and gets it for himself. So when I was trying to figure out what to get him…
Tutorial – Business Card Wallet with Fold Over Elastic Closure
This afternoon I whipped up this cute little business card wallet. And then I wanted to make another, and another, and another. Simple little projects like this are so satisfying to me! With as much running around, and here and there, and juggling priorities that…
Tutorial: DIY scrap fabric coasters
So… a tutorial. It feels like it’s been FOREVER. I’d actually taken most of the photos for this tutorial way back around Christmas time but had forgotten all about it. Major injury will do that to you, ha! Anyway, I’m happy to be back to…