• Ornamentea: Baker's twine, glitter, tons of felt stuff and containers;
• Metal cans and other metal containers;
• Flour sacks;
• Japanese craft books;
• Japanese Kawaii Fabric;
• Colorful envelops, tags, buttons, etc...;
• Vintage enamel flowers;
• Fabric yo-yos;
• Brazilian chitas (fabric);

Hectic days. Tons of ideas and no much time to put them in practice. I am moving sewing stuff to another room. I hope by the end of this week I get my little space organized to start and finish some Christmas gifts! Right now I need to go back there and help my hubby with shelves for the closet...

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And mommy loves to collect fabric!!!

" Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and...the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."

_ Samuel Johnson, The Idler.

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If you use tacks like the one below, you can glue two pieces of cork together, like I did...

On the photo below (not the best, but...) you see my 2 squared pieces of cork and the fabric. You will fold the fabric on the back and use hot glue. Don't forget to iron on fabric before to start this project and do not leave wrinkles on the front side. Pull it as much as you can. It has to be tight, be gentle with the cork!

You can do a nice hem for it, I did not. I was in a rush, I've been really busy with my children lately, they are full of energy, my home cleaning never ends and I don't have a maid. Ha!

Are you doing all right? Ok, now you take the magnet sheet and fix it the adesive side on the back side of the bulletin board. It must be smaller than the cork's size ( like half inch), because you don't wanna see the edges of the magnet showing around the edge of your bulletin board. I hope my English is not so bad!! Ugh! Do not glue the edges of the magnet, leave at least half inch free of glue, because you will need to stick the ribbons underneath the magnet sheet later.

Time for ribbons. Choose the sturdy ones. Satin ribbons are no good. They are suppose to hold your grocerie cupons, cards and whatever you stick on the fridge. To keep them on place, just use a pin while you attach them on the back with hot glue.

Attach ribbon underneath magnet sheet...

Finally the back of your bulletin board will look like this...

Last, tacks!

Voilà...

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It's available at my Etsy shop!

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These images above were taken last week around where we live (Flagstaff, AZ).

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More fabric flower tutorials? You might wanna take a look over here , here, here, here, here, here and here for great ones! Phew! Thanks Google, you make my life easier! Ha! Just bookmark them and have fun! You can make hair pins, brooches and decorate all sorts of projects with fabric flowers! I have another tutorial for a different fabric flower (also from japanese designers) and I will post it later...actually the list of tuts grows longer every day, I just need to organize my time at home, as always!

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