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Today I have a project to share with Valentine's Day in mind,

for all those crafty girlyfriends. A vintage style candy jar

with a pin cushion topper. It is fantastic for buttons later on!

I wish I had a jar full of candy hearts to put inside, but a store run

was not in my day yesterday. hehe

Ok so I am going to give you the bare bones, (not a quilter) version

of a how-to. Using every day supplies. You just need a jelly jar,

a lid, ring, cardboard, cotton balls, sewing machine, & fabric.

I used the Samantha Walker Wanna Be A Cowboy fabric in PINK (of course)

did you know SW makes several amazing fabrics? Well she does

that's why I used this. :) Anyways you need just about a half fat quarter

in all, not much really. You will want to make a ribbon with the fabric, and make

it about 20" long, and a ruffle as well about 12" long.

Don't worry about getting the stitches perfect,

it's that cute hand made feel you are going for.

Just cut the cardboard slightly smaller than the lid. Make sure it's not the

same size. I made my first one the same size and it would not fit in the ring.

**shhh** don't tell anyone LOL I totally freestyle like 99% of my crafts

and it usually bites me in the butt half the time LOL

Now you can totally be a pro and use batting, but I did not have any

and babysat a friend the day I made this so I used cotton balls instead

and to be honest they work perfectly fine. The less dense balls are better.

Just hot glue a bunch of cotton balls onto the cardboard only.

Really pack them on well.

Then cut the fabric into a circle a few inches larger then the cardboard

circle. (don't worry you can trim later) Carefully and SNUGGLY glue

the fabric over the top, really stretching and securing, gluing underneath.

Then adhere the fabric piece in the ring to make sure it fits! LOL

I had to trial run this twice....if you glue it in the ring first then it

ensures a nice fit. THEN you can glue it to the lid when you tuck the lid

up into the ring. The lid and ring should be one piece, so when you

twist it off later it all stays together.

After you finish the pin cushion, just add your ruffle and ribbon.

Fill jar with candy or buttons and give with a smile! :)

I hope you enjoyed my project today and here I have one more quick

project for those digital scrapping friends I have *wink*

My sweet boys sleeping.....

being me, I am a couple months behind always LOL

I used the Kokeshi Paper Pack lines that can be found here

Kokeshi

The next stop on the blog hop is the incredible AJ Otto

http://thewillowgarden.blogspot.com/

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WOW, that is 13 chances to win!

Have fun and please share if you make this project, I would

love to see it! Thank YOU for popping by, without you I would

be so lonely. :) Happy Hump Day!