Sis Boom Day Dreams

Simple Projects

Here's two Easy Peezy Projects!!  The votives I ordered from Quick Candle  so easy so fast and real cheap....great for weddings or big affairs.  So I sponged brushed on mod podge and craft glitter and voila!  Then I put about 2 dozen across the mantle lit them and added friends and an ordinary night buy the fire took on a magical glow.  The next project was once again exploiting the uses of
coffee filters!  I took the smallest filter about three inches in diameter dyed them pink with a crystal light powder (no food coloring in the house) soaked them for an hour ,make sure you pull them apart so they are a bit easier to use when done drying and so they get saturated with color.  Drain and let dry for two to three days or more.  Find a round wooden wreath shape about an inch or two wide. Then take that filter fold in half and half and half again until it looks like a flower and hot glue around the wreath base.  Make them tight together so it looks full add until it's got the look you want!  Some seambinding ribbon to finish off!!  Show me yours would love to see.

Coffee Filter Skirts and Cupcake Holder Hats

This is where you get to see the everyday banal objects performing different tasks!!  I like to see the world upside down and make it work for me!!

Pass the Pedestal

Do not let the kids use this as a frisbee!!! How fun are these little doo dads...I found round cork at Ikea for hot-plates and had my wonderful seamstress ladies come up with a way to create a platform to exhibit special little trinkets well lookie what they fashioned...put a nice amount of fluff over the cork and then pull this bathing cap looking thingamajig over the whole thing...How fun !!! Then I took a crown that I made and Voila! A pedastal fit for a Princess...You know you want to make one and have no idea what to do with it but they are great to look at...oh go ahead use it as a frisbee I'll never know...Oh and the tablecloth is the new Georgie Bouquet .......Blessings, Jennifer

....and they're off!!!

Bell Bottoms is available on ebay!!!! Use the sidebar to go direct to Sis Boom Sellers on ebay. I love seeing that because that means its shipping......so keep checking our other suppliers if you need all under sidebar on places to buy...then I had few fabrics from Mod Girls and Bell Bottoms made into the most luxurious of quilts...by
The Little Red Quilt House !! They are the best! Ship Janice or Mark the owners of The little Red Quilt House your fabric and they can make any size quilt!!! And that's how you make these without breaking a sweat....so how cool is that little box fabric as a binding...

More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys

OK folks living in and around New York City. I'm going back to the place that started it all for me...Tinsel Trading. Terri Ventura of Dime Store Daze has asked me to come teach a class and I couldn't be more powered up!!! Tinsel Trading for those of you who don't know is where I got my first taste of vintage millinery and have been hooked ever since.
Marcia Ceppos having inherited the store and inventory has created a contemporary visual feast that salutes her grandfather everyday! Definitely read about us on her website. She has no idea but at every Javits show I would stalk her booth because it inspired me so!! Plus she's just the nicest and most interesting person to talk to. Imagine inheriting a basement full of treasures...It's a dream come true!! Sometimes when I'm upstate I fantasize about finding a barn with loads of goodies from the early 1900's but then I wake up....So for now I get to teach at the most fabulous findings store in NYC.
Below is a sampling of the project we will do...Glittered die-cuts from Maya Road add to the festivities. Crepe Paper in Pink because I love pink and paper to complete the project. So check the calender and sign up soon, classes fill up and I want to meet and greet you...
That's April 26th a Saturday don't miss it...

See right through!

Happy Monday folks, I've developed another fun banner project that can be done in a few hours by just a simple prep. For this one use pictures, letters, mementos, to create a one of a kind inspirational banner or hanging scrapbook... Once again, we use the iron on backing, then sew clear contact paper to surface in the center just like a picture frame, sew around the sides and bottom, leave the top open to pop in your computer printed letters or pictures," I love the exposed stitching" This is quite simple if you just use rick rack to sew pieces together and don't want to tackle with any pipings. The nice thing is it's Versatility...create for any occassion. I think this one steals the show! Thanks for coming by...oops almost forgot the font is called Coffee Tin!

A little Birdie told me!!!

Fun with the new line begins with shapes...look at these fun circles!! We know Stores are always looking for ways to display fabrics in their shops so clients can see the scale and how fabrics work together...well look at this grouping. The bird template is from Maya Road. We simply traced the bird onto fabric and ironed it on to a fusible webbing so that we could use the bird for just about anything...For the circles, Just get yourself a round cardboard circle, cover with a round piece of fabric a bit bigger than the cardboard....hot glue edges to back of cardboard, cover those edges on the back with a round piece of flannel which just gives a nice finished look....This is great for coasters too!! These circles are great to have around the shop for inspiration! Buyers pick up the circles and carry them around to create their quilt stories..... I also like creating banners to show different snippets of fabrics in an arrangement...Share with us how you display fabric and what has worked for you....As always I love when you all drop by....have a great week.

A little stitching or not!!!

Well folks we had a winner for the check book cover couldn't believe it was Wendy Updegraff from Popin but guess what never a loser at Sis Boom look at my next fun project!!! Squares of fabric ironed to an iron on fusible and then adhered to felt! Glue down to ribbon or sew on a binding and get felt letters from Michaels with the peel off backing and stick um right to the front of each square...ok say you love me!

No Sew

Just a quick one but then mine always are!!! This is so easy and fun...get yourself some posterboard 14" by 4 1/2" to be exact but you can vary size depending... Cut a piece of fabric twice as big and wrap around posterboard clipping away any excess and glue down. (I only use hot glue I refuse to be slowed down by drying times) and fold your fabric tightly around all sides and glue into place. Next fold in half and if you have any trims, pom poms work best ,glue to the inside bottoms now (be certain that both sides are glued down to the inside cardboard and let dangle......what you'll have are letters that you can just slide right on to the ribbon one by one. I glued mine in place by just hot gluing the inside top centers of each posterboard letter. Then for fun I used a scallop shaped die-cut and pre-glittered letters.....and of course these are the new Sis Boom Bellbottoms I was chatting about!!! The possibilities are infinite......so go crazy.

Pin Ball Magic

I did these for Country Living Magazine about 12 years ago and people still call me around the Holidays for them....so simple...spray paint gold or silver styrofoam balls (the hard ones)....take a pearlized pin ,pierce a big a faux glass bead and then a sequin and pierce it through ball.....go around the whole ball when complete put in a pretty bowl or a bird cage (because they are tooo heavy for the tree) and make merry!!!