Pincushion

I was sewing one day and got tired of my pin cushion, so I found a pattern here and tweaked it a little. Here is what I came up with.
I used only scraps and things I already had on hand. I omitted the flower on top because I didn't have any corresponding felt in my stash. I also added about 1/3 cup of uncooked rice at the bottom of the cushion to give it some weight so it wouldn't move too much when I pulled a pin out.

I love it and it makes it more fun to sew when you have darling accessories!

Really inexpensive wall decor

It's fun to remember how cute this room was, before we squished two babies into it! This is Parker's room, a couple of years ago. This wall is huge and I needed something big to fill it, and I had a budget of... nothing. So, I cut the letter's of his name out of large sheets of cardstock. I chalked the edges of each letter and hung them on a clothesline with clothes pins. After about a year, humidity made the letters curl a little, and at that point I would have re-created the process, but by then I had some other ideas and another baby to fit in the room. Anyway, I figured that, for a wall treatment that cost $0, a year is a good run! It bought me some time until I could do something else.

Is it too early?

The Halloween fabric at JoAnn was too cute to pass up. So I bought this, this morning:
And made this, this afternoon:
Is it too early to start putting up Halloween decorations?