Southern Scraps

    Felt is a fun medium to work with and it's one of those textures and materials I'm drawn to during the winter. Here are 7 fabulous projects to make from felt .

Yikes! Tomorrow is Dec. 1! 24 days til Christmas, less if you need to have gift ready ahead of time. Before I freak out too much, let's take this last day of November to look back at projects from Novembers past. Some of you have never seen these, and I tend to forget about them myself so this has become a fun little feature for me. These were popular (I need to make more for some stockings). Felt flowers     I also made a felt yarn wreath.       Embellished pumpkins     Mini cone trees (I'm using these again this year.)     Painted rattan balls     Treat bag toppers   It looks like November is full of fall projects and decor with jump start on Christmas. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Happy Labor Day fellow Americans! For many, this marks the end of summer and  everyone starts gearing up for fall. For us southerners, it means a few more weeks of hot weather and fall won't be a thought until late September or October (maybe.) Nonetheless, I can't help thinking of fall decor and what better symbol to last from fall to Halloween through Thanksgiving than the pumpkin. Here are 15 ways to decorate a pumpkin. You knew they wouldn't escape washi tape- from Real Simple   Flannel pumpkin by The V Spot   No sew burlap pumpkins     Duct tape pumpkin from The V Spot     Book page mod podge pumpkins       Die cut felt flower pumpkin     Book page pumpkin   Fabric strip pumpkin   Fabric decoupaged pumpkin     Chevron pumpkin     Dryer vent pumpkins     toilet paper roll and twine pumpki...

I had some fun this week playing around with felt flowers. Most of these flowers I have made before, but not with felt. I tried two variations of the pom pom. I made this one with the usual method of folding circles in quarters and gluing them around a circle. This one I made by scrunching my circles, as shown here.

I took some inspiration from A Couple of Craft Addicts  and made my own ruffled flip flops.