Superhero Bean Bags

I was invited to a first birthday party for a sweet little boy, Baby Jack! His parents, a few friends and I recently had a Super Hero Night where we all wore our Super Hero shirts to dinner and bowling.

Super Hero Night

I used this night as the inspiration when deciding what to make for Baby Jack. I came across these while searching for baby boy gifts and knew I had to make something along these lines. She made them as hand warmers and I wanted mine to be bean bag like and durable enough for a toddler.

Superhero Hand Warmers from Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy!

I cut all the pieces out all the pieces using a mixed nuts can for the circles and free-cut most of the designs. I did use images of the Superman logo and Batman that I printed off the internet and sized down. I used my machine to sew a web of black thread on the background of Spiderman's face.

I hand sewed all the embellishments on using a small blanket stitch around the edges. This was the most time consuming aspect of this project.

One the tops were all hand sewn, I sewed the front and back together, right sides together and turned them out and they were ready to be filled.

Since these were for a little guy, I opted to put my filler inside a small segment of panty hoses (I used lentils since I had them in my pantry!). Putting the filler in the nylon will help prevent spillage and makes it SO much easier to sew the opening up.

Finally, I sewed up the opening and gifted them on Jack.

The finished bean bags

They were a hit! He loved them,

Week 32: Hoards of Glass (November 14-20)

Over the past two years I have amassed a collection of beach glass in all colors, shapes and sizes. It has been sitting on the shelf in pretty clear containers just collecting dust and I have always wanted to do something with it, but just wasn't sure what to do. Well, a couple weeks ago there was a Craft Fair here on island and I fell in love with a couple pieces of framed artwork that were created from beach glass and pottery. I inquired about purchasing one, only to find out that it wasn't for sale. Even though I am a little lacking in my creative abilities, I decided that I could make my own version of it. For the last week I have had glass spread out on my coffee table being sorted and manipulated. After several sessions of changing pieces in and out and deciding what looked best, I was happy. Over the weekend I put together 4.5 framed pieces of artwork (one needs some more glass to finish).

In Kwaj style, there are no shadowboxes around so I purchased some inexpensive picture frames at the PX and made my own shadowboxes with duct tape(silver since there is no black to be found!) to hold everything together. I will be sending these to family as Christmas Gifts and I hope that they understand that I have limited resources and did the best I could:)

The first finished piece. It will be going to my parents.

My second piece, it will be going to my brother and sis-in-law. I had fun with this one and FS was great as he helped me find the best pieces with just the right color.

This will be going to my other bro and sis-in-law.

I was just playing with glass (maybe my new favorite evening activity) and this just sort of appeared in the pieces. It will be going to FS this weekend as a Thanksgiving gift.

This is a work in progress. All the rest are 5x7 and this one is 8x10. It needs more glass and will hang on my wall when complete.

My duct tape shadowboxes. Not the prettiest back, but it works!

I am excited to go to Roi this weekend and get my beach glass hunt on! Hopefully there will be lots of glass to be had and great memories with friends.