Wrapped headphones

I hated using my iPod earbuds mostly because every single time I went to pull them out of wherever they were last stuffed, I would spend way too much time untangling them.  It didn't matter how neatly I put them away or how I wound them up, they would always be a knotted mess. Then I saw this on Pinterest, and I knew what I had to do!
All I did was tie a simple friendship bracelet knot with one skein of embroidery floss, and viola! Pretty pink headphones to match my pretty pink iPod.  Now, I didn't wrap all the way up the split wires to the actual earbuds, so it only took me a couple of hours.  (I prefer actually being able to use the sliding piece.)  But, I'm guessing that if you doubled up on embroidery floss and with a little more time, you could finish covering all of the cord.
And no more knots! The cord is now too thick and doesn't have the tacky/rubbery cord exposed to tangle itself! Hooray!

Spare Grocery Bag Container

Still love Pinterest. I stumbled across this handy dandy tutorial on the pinboards. Some people in this world are far more clever than I, and lucky for me they post their genius ideas for the world to see.  We have need for grocery bags everywhere in the house, namely because bedroom and bathroom trashcans need liners.  I thought my mother was clever for rolling up extra grocery bags really tight and stuffing them in old Kleenex boxes, but this is a zillion times better.  And cuter.  I will be making one for the laundry room and the bathroom and the car.....

Ribbon Wreath!

I love Pinterest. It suits me very well because I'm not very imaginative.  I execute crafts much better than I create them from scratch, so Pinterest, with all of it's already conveniently compiled beautiful craft ideas, is my new best friend.  I was inspired to try this ribbon wreath when I came across a photo from She's Kinda Crafty.

The project supplies are pretty simple (which is what intrigued me):
1 straw wreath form
1 roll of extra wide white floral ribbon
6-8 rolls of ribbon of your choice
Scissors
Ruler
Sewing machine
Hot glue gun

Also, lots of patience.

I started by wrapping the straw wreath form with the extra wide floral ribbon.  I have no picture of this because it was a messy ordeal.  I'd never worked with a straw wreath before, and now I know.... until it's covered in ribbon, work with it outside.  Straw goes everywhere.

Then I set to cutting my colored ribbon into 4.5" pieces.  I used two 1.5" varieties, four 1" varieties, and a 5/8" ribbon that filled in any small holes on the finished wreath really well.  I had 30-35 cuts of each ribbon.

Then each piece was sewed into a loop.  I simply folded each ribbon in half and fed them through the sewing machine one after the other giving myself about 1/4" allowance to glue the loops to the wreath.

This is what they all looked like when I was finished.  SO MUCH RIBBON!

It was almost sad to have to cut the loops apart.

The final step is gluing the ribbon loops to the wreath form.  Simply part the ribbon below the stitched enclosure and put in a bead of hot glue (watch your fingers!).  Glue ribbons to the wreath form in bunches.  Spreading out and working all over the surface at one time will make for a lot of awkward little holes to fill in.

And after a little over three hours gluing ribbons to wreath, here's the final product.  My Cavalier blue ribbon wreath! I hope you like it as much as I do. :)