Category: Love

Queen For A Day Throne

Dress up a dining room chair for Mom on Mother’s Day. This inexpensive, stylish idea comes from crafts.kaboose.com

What you’ll need:

  • Standard white pillowcase
  • 4 brown paper grocery bags
  • White craft glue
  • Scissors
  • 2 spools of colorful ribbon (we used purple and yellow)
  • Sequins in a variety of colors
  • Pencil
  • Gold paint pen
  • Colorful craft jewels
  • Colorful pom-poms
  • Pink and silver glitter glue
  • Pattern

How to make it:

  1. Start with an ironed pillowcase. Insert the four paper bags inside the pillowcase. This will keep the glue from seeping through the fabric and sticking to the other side.  (See photo.)
  2. Print out the pattern. Cut out the crown and position in the middle of the pillowcase.
  3. Using your favorite font, print out the word”QUEEN” in big letters and place it above the crown. (See photo.) Then cut out each letter individually and place back onto the pillowcase.
  4. Pipe white craft glue around each letter and remove the patterns. Place sequins on the glue. (See photos 1, 2, 3.)
  5. Use a pencil to trace around the crown pattern. Remove pattern and trace pencil markings with gold paint pen. (See photo.)
  6. Decorate the crown using pom-poms, and glitter glue to write “MOM”. Outline the crown with silver glitter glue.
  7. Line the outer edges of the pillowcase using pink and yellow ribbon, adhering with white craft glue. Decorate corner by tying a couple of bows and gluing them in place. Glue another bow toward the bottom of the case, under the crown. Glue craft jewels in the bottom corners to cover up the ends of the ribbons.
  8. Decorate the bottom border of the pillowcase using colorful craft jewels. Glue smaller craft jewels in a line between the word “QUEEN” and the crown. (See photo.)
  9. Allow everything to dry completely before removing the paper bags. Place pillowcase over the back of Mom’s chair.

Tips:

  1. White craft glue will wash out, and there are far too many attachments on this project to run the risk of washing it – for more durability use fabric glue and hand wash the case.
  2. Carefully fold the pillowcase and store in a zipper storage bag until next year.
  3. Sequins can be purchased by color or in variety packs.

How to Accept an Apology

Reblogged from Hitchedmag: This article will go over some tips on how to graciously accept an apology. As a reminder, an apology should contain some key components such as sincerity, remorse and the acceptance of responsibility, as well as an action plan for the future. Although there is no guarantee that the person apologizing may not offend you again, there is value and healing in forgiveness; and accepting an apology is a critical step in moving forward in your relationship.

1. It won’t happen overnight. Just because you receive an apology doesn’t mean you are automatically ready to forgive and forget. You can acknowledge the apology as an outward attempt of goodwill even though you are aware that there is much work to be done to reconcile the issue.

2. Be aware of your body language. When listening to the apology avoid crossing your arms, rolling your eyes and mumbling “You bet you’re @#* your sorry!” under your breadth.

3. If you are not yet ready to accept an apology, a better option might be to say, “I appreciate your effort to acknowledge your mistake. It is going to take some time for me to process what has transpired.” Honesty, without the sting.

4. Allow the person making the apology adequate time to speak without challenging, interrupting or criticizing what the person is saying.

5. Listen and watch carefully. Your intuition generally tells you if the apology is sincere. If you sense the other person is just going through the motions don’t disregard you own feelings and overlook your own good judgment.

6. If the person is a repeat offender and you have no intention of forgiving or forgetting, tell them and give them the reason. “I can’t accept an apology from you based on your past track record.” If you are, however, still hopeful that the relationship could be worked out with some counseling or other help, give the person specific steps you would require in order for them to gain back your trust. Be firm and specific with your demands.

7. Don’t accept an apology that contains the words “but” or “if you would have only” in the content. This type of an apology is not an apology at all, but an excuse without remorse and an attempt to justify a wrong-doing.

8. Quit rehearsing the past. If you have decided to accept an apology, time has passed and the offense has not been repeated, stop bringing up the offense every time you get in an argument. It is damaging to yourself and your marriage to continue to harbor ill will and hurt feelings over a mistake that is behind you. Focus on the present and future rather than the past.

9. Keep your business to yourself. Although friends and family mean well and are more than willing to give you advice, you are the only one that can make a decision whether or not to accept an apology and forgive.

Click HERE for possibly the most important piece of advice in this article!

Yarn Love Message

To make this you will need: wire reinforced clothesline (available at home improvement & hardware stores), yarn & wire clippers. Clip off a length of clothesline and shape into the word, LOVE. Tie yarn onto beginning of word and wrap around wire.

When you reach a point where two wires cross each other, wrap yarn around both wires to stabilize the design and hold the word in place.

Wrap yarn all the way to the end of the word and tie a knot to secure. I left about two feet of yarn hanging loose at the end because I liked the way it looked.

From cfabbridesigns