Birthday Box!

My sister's birthday was this past week and I live relatively far away. So I mailed her a birthday in a box. It was just a plain cardboard box on the outside and I filled it with confetti and candy and blown up balloons.

The best thing about the balloons is that they add a lot of joy and take up a lot of space without weighting too much which makes the shipping a lot less. To ship this whole 13"x 11"x 9" box only cost me 5 bucks.

I had several good quality happy birthday balloons around so they didn't cost me much and I also had some random candy from a birthday party bag that I went to the week before. So all I had to do was buy a bulk pack of fun sized twix, which is one of her favorite candy bars. The confetti was just some shredded construction paper.

I wrote the instructions on how to refill the package
and pass it along on one of the inner box flaps

Hope this gives someone some good ideas =) post again soon =)

Birthday Yarn Bomb 2

          I continued my tradition of yarn bombing on my birthday with this on Wednesday. I started it Tuesday night at 9 pm and had it finished and up on the pole by 3 am. Its not my best work, because the 22 looks kinda funny. 

          I sewed them a distance that looked appropriate while i was making it, but when wrapped around a pole the 2's got kinda far apart. 

          The balloons are pretty cute though. I started by chaining 3, I put 3 stitches in the stitches on both sides and one in the middle. 

          Then I only expanded in the end stitches: 

                  2nd row= *1 sc, 2 in next*

                  3rd row= *2 sc, 2 in next*

                  4th row= *3 sc, 2 in next*    Continue until the balloon is the size you wish by increasing the red number by 1 each row 

If you would like to see my first yarn bomb you can find it here. Post again soon =) 

Happy Birthday to me!! :D

I made a cute little piece of birthday cake :) I will hopefully be putting up a pattern soon. Post again soon :)

Yarn Bombing

               I've been wanting to yarn bomb for a while. So about 3 weeks ago as a birthday gift to myself I finally did it =) I started by picking a target, a pole in front of the building I live in. This way I would see it frequently and so could everyone else. Unfortunetly, since I live on a campus there is not any time when everyone is asleep and the coast is clear. Because of this I had to change my plans last minute and change to a more secluded location. The pole I measured was slightly thicker than the pole I eventually used so the yarn bomb was a little loose when i got it on.

                 This is a few pictures of me working on it right before I finished. I didn't take any pictures before this point because I forgot =) This is me sitting on the floor, on my yellow rug =)

Then I attached a note to it. Its just a folded index card that I punch a hole in using a hole punch. I then made a slip knot on the card and then made another slip stitch on the actual yarn bomb itself. This way it could not be removed as easily unless you have scissors which most people don't carry with them around campus.

You can see what both sides say above =) It rained two days after

 it was posted it and the note fell off, but i found the note

 and had 5 yes's in the like collum!!  =)

             


This is a picture of it all finished just as I'm getting ready to go attach it. I brought with me one long piece of black yarn, that I was doubly sure would be enough cause it's better to end with extra then to run out in the middle. Also I bought a large tapestry needle, that was already threaded and two friends =)

       These are all pictures of it as soon as it went up. Just a Tip: You don't wanna wait until morning, even though it gives better pictures, because it may not be there in the morning and then you may not get any pictures at all =)

              And this is the next day in the sun light so it's a better picture =) The yarn bomb is still up now and its been almost 3 weeks =) I may take it down to wash it and move it to a different pole soon =)