Great Things-Sweet Pea Sewing Patterns & Giveaway!

It's another exciting Monday with our "Great Things" series.  We are excited to share with you, Sweet Pea Sewing Patterns! 

Cheri of Sweet Pea Patterns has great sewing patterns!  These are not your average patterns.  Each pattern can easily be printed on your home printer.  Included with the pattern is a step-by-step picture tutorial.  If you are new to using patterns, this is as easy as it gets!  I wish all patterns had pictures for each step to help me along the way.

Jill bought five of her patterns and can't wait to add them to her to do list.  You'll see them in the future, for sure.  Check out all these cute shoes you can make!

Bella Baby Crib Shoe

Retro Baby Sneakers

Reversible Mary Jane's

Reversible Seamless Crib Shoe

Super Slouchy Baby Boots

Aren't all these just the cutest!  The boots are a must make!

If you don't have little ones to make these shoes for, what a great item you can make for gifts or even sell!

Now for the best news!  Cheri has been nice enough to do a giveaway for all our fabulous readers!  How does FIVE free sewing patterns to a lucky winner sound?  I think that is awesome!  For those of you wanting to improve your sewing skills, this is a great way to start off with some fantastic shoe patterns.

Here is how you enter to win the 5 free sewing patterns:

*Leave a separate comment for each entry*

1. Mandatory entry: Subscribe to Our Seven Dwarfs by email (must be verified to win) or tell us you already receive our emails. (We are getting close to another special giveaway if we increase our email followers, hint hint!)
2. Visit the Sweet Pea Patterns shop and tell us your favorite patterns.
3. Follow Our Seven Dwarfs via Google Friend Connect (click follow on sidebar).  Then tell us you are a follower.
4.  Like Our Seven Dwarfs on Facebook or tell us you already do. 
5. Share this giveaway on Facebook, or Twitter.

That is 5 chances to win 5 free patterns!  Remember, you don't have to do all 5 entries, but it sure would make us happy and increase your chances.  Make sure you leave a separate comment for each entry! The giveaway closes at 11:59 pm (EST) on Saturday, April 9. We'll announce the winner on Sunday, April 10th.

Good luck to you all! 

Little Polka Dot Etsy Shop Winner!

We would like to thank Becca of Little Polka Dot shop for sponsoring our giveaway this week!  We love all her banners and other fun products!  We appreciate her generosity!  Thank you for making Great Things!

If you're not our winner, make sure to check out Becca's shop for something special for all your needs.  I just noticed these Toddler leashes (not the kid strapped in a leash) and think they are a fantastic idea!  Check them out.

You'll also want to check out Becca's  blog for added inspiration!

Now for our winner...

#31 katja9_10 said...

I love the Home Sweet Home banner on Little Polka Dot.

Congratulations to  Katja9_10 !  Please email us at oursevendwarfs@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Monday is another Great Things Day!  Make sure to come back and check out what we are highlighting and giveaway!

Have a great week!

Easter Projects We Plan To Do

We are so easily inspired by crafting genuises. We see their beautiful work, and we gather the supplies to COPY CRAFT them!  Here are some ultra fabulous ideas we plan to make this Easter.

Jellybean Bark-So cute and easy!

Val So Cal

A Peep Bunting!  This wonderful lady even provides a pattern for the Peeps!

Dana Made It

This wreath is adorable and a great way to use up leftover yarn.  Jill has plenty... Shannon will be buying yarn for this!

The Sweet Survival

This crafter has two fabulous ideas... stuffed bunnies and an Easter egg made from buttons!

Auntie Lolo Crafts



 This is a must on Jill's to make list.  She loves Cadbury Eggs!

Here are two resources:  Group Recipes Cadbury Eggs & Instructables Recipe

If you love Girl Scout Cookies, then you will love these!

Homemade Girl Scout Cookies:  Trefoils, Tagalongs, Samoas & Thin Mints

Samoa Bars Recipe

If you have something you think is a must make for us, please let us know.  In the meantime, a crafting we will go!

Another Great Giveaway from The Vintage Pearl

If you didn't win our Vintage Pearl giveaway, here's another chance to be a winner!  She's giving away 5-$100 gift certificates for her birthday. Are you kidding me?  Watch out, Jill and I are in this competition too.  We want to win.  Their stuff is AMAZING!
http://thevintagepearl.blogspot.com/2011/03/happy-birthday-to-me-big-giveaway.html
We're sharing the information with you because we love our sponsor, The Vintage Pearl, and we love our readers.  Good Luck! (Don't forget to tell them in your comments that we sent you!)

The Easter Projects We Did Last Year

It was this time, last year, that our crafting madness began.  We were totally inspired by this wreath:

Capture the Details

Here are Shannon's variations:

A centerpiece full of plastic eggs and adorable chicks.

A very sweet sheep wreath. This wreath has the little flowers, they're just hard to see in this picture.

A chick version.

Look at these adorable Easter pops....

Oreo Easter Pops

Smores in a jar are great!  Shannon used organic graham bunnies, instead of Graham crackers. She also used pastel marshmallows instead of Peeps.  However you make them, they make great gifts!

 Creative Gift & Party Ideas

Chocolate dipped Peeps are so cute!

The Stories of A to Z

We also made freezer paper stenciled t-shirts for the kiddos.  Here are GraciAnn's and Mariella's.

Here is a picture of Jill's boys in their shirts.

 Jill helped a friend of hers make shirts for her boys as well.  I really like the first initial inside the bunny.

Free Easter/Spring Printables Galore!

Do you have your printer ready?  We've looked up and down and all around blogland for the best printables!  Now, we have them ready to share with you!  Just click the link of your favorite for directions on how to download and print.  Enjoy!

from Eighteen25

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from Landee See, Landee Do

from The Giving Madam

from the Simple Crafter

from Agape Love Designs

from Everyday is a Celebration

from Perfect Expressions

from Holiday Snob

My Carrot Seeds Sign-A Tutorial

I need some cute Easter decorations. I've been trying to think of something new and creative to make.  I had a vision of a carrot seed packet. Easter makes me think of rabbits. Rabbits eat carrots.  So..... Here's what I came up with.

I started with a piece of 3/4 inch thick, birch plywood.  This was a scrap piece of wood I found in our garage.  It's 10 3/4" x 12 1/4".  I painted it an antique white. While the paint was drying, I cut "Carrots" and "10 c" on my Silhouette.  The font was "Tiranti Solid Letter".  It was 162 pt. font.  The dimensions were 2x6".  I used the same font for 10c.  It was 98 pt. font.  I cut it on vinyl.

While I was working on my sign, my girls were painting signs of their own.

I lightly dry brush painted the sign with a dark brown.

Using a pencil, I drew carrots on the board.

After I painted the carrots, I pulled the vinyl off of the paper.  I used the vinyl as a stencil and painted it in with brown paint.

See how the vinyl makes a great stencil?

Here's the sign drying.  The only step left is distressing it.

When it's dry, I get out my mouse sander and sand away.

This is my finished sign.  It's a new Easter decoration!  I had all the materials for this so it didn't cost me a thing. Plus, it didn't take long to make!  My kind of craft: cheap and easy!