messyart: Little box of crafty love

Little box of crafty love

Little Miss Molly (the Mr.'s neice) turned 9 this year. She's really into making things, and mentioned to me she wanted to learn to sew. So for her Birthday this year, i bought her a book for children on making crafty things, and made his a little box of goodies to go with it.

I filled the box with some felt. some pretty fabric, ribbons, thread in different colours, a little jar of buttons and embriodery threads. Then i made a little place for her to store her sewing needles and pins on the top of the box.

It was easy enough to do. I cut out a heart in red felt and glued it to the box. Then i cut out a smaller heart in pink felt, and making sure i ONLY placed glue on the edge of the pink heart, i glued it to the red heart. It would have been much better to sew the pink heart onto the red heart, and then glue it to the lid, but as always, i left it till the last minute and needed to make it quickly. I stuck some pretty pins in and viola!

Since i mostly raided my stash of things to ill the box with, really, my only cost was the book that went with it, and the box itself.

I might have to use this idea again over Christmas i think, I have a few little girls i know of that would love this! Which makes me think....OMG, is it that time already??? Time to start thinking of Xmas gifts already? Really , it's only 17 or so weeks away. Now thats scary!