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Handmade Tuesdays [Handmade Pact]

Welcome to Handmade Tuesdays! If you have no idea what this is about click here to read about the Handmade Pact. AND please link up any tutorials you may have! They do not have to be tutorials done today but can be tutorials done in the past (the only thing I ask is do not link up the same tutorial every week. Use a different one

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I’m Cheri from I Am Momma – Hear Me Roar. I have an easy handmade gift idea for you today.

This is my handsome nephew. He is COOL. So cool that the kids attack him when he walks into preschool. BUT, he just got even cooler. See the manly cuff on his wrist?

See it now? Yeah. That’s what we’re making today – cool cuffs for cool kids.

Here’s what you’ll need. I bought this belt at D.I. for a buck. I think I can get a few bracelets out of it. The hardware I found in the leather section at Hobby Lobby. Of course, you need floss, too. Wouldn’t be a Cheri project without it. Lastly, you need snaps.

1) Cut a strip from the belt about an inch longer than the circumference of his wrist.

2) Sew a straight line down at the edge. You want it to fray a little, but not to come apart.

3) Insert heavy duty snaps. The directions are on the package.

4) Hand sew floss on the edges. I made it two strands thick, so it would be more visible.

5) Insert brads where you want them. This is what they look like.

Shove them into the fabric and then fold the ends over. I used a hammer to get them folded in tightly. I didn’t want them to stick up at all and irritate his wrist. This is what the backside will look like.

That’s it!

I love how it looks on his little wrist.

Want your little guy to look this cool, but don’t want to make one? No worries. My sis and I are selling little boy leather ones in my Etsy shop – Roar.

Thanks for letting me join the Handmade Pact, Kristen!

p.s. the thumbs look blurry because I changed the size. I apologize!

I will have it right next week!

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Promote The Handmade Pact

Do you have an imaginary world?

Because Monkey does! In her world everything costs only $1 and the best part is the money is those plastic beads that you iron together. The glow-in-the-dark ones are worth a million each! I could pay off everything I needed to so fast in her world! And get this… cell phone plans are 3 cents a month with a phone only costing 30 cents! I think this world is our world’s answer to the problems!

The president of the world is a giant pink monkey named Mr./Mrs. Fluffy Pants (not sure which, it kept changing). This giant monkey makes all of the rules which my Monkey then dictates to me to write on her chalkboard. I will share some of this world’s rules…

You must wear a dress/skirt at ALL times (if you are a girl of course).
You cannot wear black. It is ugly.
You must act fancy at all times. Nothing less will be accepted.

This world is so popular that there is a waiting list to get in. And when someone is exiled from the world (as her cousin eventually was. And her sister who was never given a chance to do anything wrong) someone else gets in. You have to have a membership card too. Pretty intense.

“Yes, hello how may I help you? This is the Fancy Nancy Princess Palace.” I still don’t know who was calling her on her paper cell phone. She typed it into her paper laptop.

When her cousin refused (at first before he was exiled) to join her world she said… “I know my world isn’t real but I choose to use my imagination. My world is the best world ever. Maybe you should try using your imagination.” True words of wisdom spoken by an 8 yr old. I think I want to live in her world.

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Also in her world this is a perfectly acceptable outfit to go to Target in. Notice the paper crown, tie dye scarf and pink blanket tied around her waist. Also decided on were the yellow socks (no shoes of course).

The backside looks even better, don’t you think?

Although this was a perfectly acceptable outfit once we got to Target her cousin talked her out of wearing it inside. I would have liked to see the looks. After allowing both to pick out two items at the dollar section (a crown & princess gloves for money of course). I was declared, “the best babysitter ever. Well, actually really our only babysitter ever but you are still the best.” Yeah I think my mission was accomplished for the day, don’t you?