Riot and Frolic

This lovely post might seem short and it will involve lots of links for minimum work by your's truly.  That's because my darling husband has run off to LA (it's for work, relax), leaving me home alone with my two ladies.  It has been great fun so far, but not what you'd call relaxing.  I don't sleep much these days because of the spring-time (there are things to do!) and large belly (what am I? six and a half months preggo? something like that), and naptime for them is SUPER-productive time for me.  So I'm in high gear.  

As promised, some projects involving yo-yos…

Sew them on a t-shirt.  

I love using contrasting colors, but black-on-black is always good!  The shirts above are mine, but this link has a nice tutorial on yo-yo making, if you haven't had enough already, plus the projects at the bottom of the page are just my style.

Newspaper yo-yo?  Awesome.  I don't make cards, but how cool would this be on a card, or as a bow on a gift?  Here's the link: newspaper yo-yo.

Tea towels are fun.  Who can't use them?  Why not make them pretty? My 20-something cousin got one from my mom for Christmas and was genuinely excited.  I always call them dishrags, but tea towel sounds so great, especially with all the British hubbub this week.  Linkage here: tea towel yo-yo.

 
I've seen necklaces like this on Etsy for a long time.  I looooove the monochrome. It just looks swanky.  Like English Wedding Day swanky.  I'm just saying, English Wedding will still be cool for at least another day.  Learn how to make it: yo-yo necklace.

I love garlands or banners or whatever you call them (there's a word I'm looking for that I'm not finding…).  I made one for Georgia's birthday and it makes the whole dining room festive.  A yo-yo one?  Easy.  Great for kid's room. Here: yo-yo garland.

Love hair doodads.  This site doesn't have the most explicative how-to, so here's my short instructions: make yo-yo, add cute button to center, slide a small piece of fabric or felt into the bobby pin and make a bobby pin and glue sandwich with your yo-yo and the piece of fabric.

There's a lot of other projects out there.  Just google "fabric yoyo projects" and you'll get about 764,000 results.  Some of them are neat, and some of them are… special.  

Okay.  One baby is awake.  And this babe looks sleepy.  

Nice.