Meet the Team...Kate!

Well, I figured it was about time I formally introduced myself. As I mentioned in my Muffin Recipe post, I love to bake! I also love photography, crafts, writing, all things design and art...the list goes on. Sadly, I never seem to have enough time for all of these things...but hopefully this blog changes that! 

This is my incredible other half, my husband Mikie. He's always making me laugh, inspiring me, supporting me, encouraging me. He's my everything! (and this is our epic hero/heroine shot, taken by the lovely Jess!) We've been married ALMOST a year (time flies!!). I'm in my early/mid twenties, and have been writing/crafting/baking/doing some sort of art for as long as I can remember. 

My husband and I currently live on a farm, but we are looking to start our own little home. We have a pet lizard. She's an albino leopard spotted gecko, named Skwisgaar (because I thought she was a boy for 2 years). We really want to get a baby hedgehog, and if we do- you better believe you're going to be spammed by endless photos. 

It's always been my dream to do what I love, and maybe make a little bit of money to survive from it. I hope this is the start of that, but in the very least it will be me having a ton of fun with some of the best ladies I know. That's something, isn't it?? 

I think I said everything else in my other post, so I will stop myself from boring you with more silly details about my life. Thank you, whoever you are, for reading our posts and helping us to make our little dreams come true! 

*don't forget to check out our instagram! @sewsweetshop

DIY Paper Flowers

Another snow day in the northeast has kept me home bound again. So I figure what better to do than to craft!

If you've spent anytime on pinterest, which I suspect you have, you've seen these wonderful paper flowers.

Well, a few years ago I was asked to decorate for a wedding, the bride was in love with the idea of paper flowers.

So there I was tasked with making bouquets, boutiners, corsages, center pieces the whole nine yards. I didn't know the first thing about making paper flowers, and I've always been terrible at origami, but after reading a lot of different blogs, and a lot of trial and error, a whole wedding was decorated and beautiful!

Well my friends, if you're ever asked to decorate a wedding, or you just want to make yourself some pretty flowers that wont wilt and die on you here is a quick little how to for you!

Theses roses are by far the easiest to make.

Depending on the size you want, start by cutting out a round piece of paper, and then cutting a spiral from the outside in.

Starting rolling inward.

When it has been rolled all the way in, depending on how you want the flower to look, tight little bud or a larger bloom, you can release the spiral a bit.

Glue the bottom of the flower, and hold it all together tightly.

And there you have it!

This next one takes a little but more work. I generally make these between 4-6 petals large.

Here are the steps.

Fold the paper into a triangle.

Remove the excess paper, you are left with a small square folded into a triangle.

Fold each corner into the top.

Now take each corner and fold them open.

Take the tops and fold them down.

And then fold them in on themselves

Fold the paper in half end to end.

Glue them together. A hot glue gun works much better, however today I was working with regular white glue so I used these clips to keep them together while they dried.

After these are dried glue them to each other until you have a full flower.

The end result can be beautiful!

With a little bit of creativity you can make these into bouquets, boutiners, corsages, anything you need!

I hope these DIY's were helpful! 

Happy crafting everyone!!!

Welcome to Sew Sweet!

Welcome to the first of many blogs about our little shop Sew Sweet!

We're just a group of girls living in New England with a Kitchen Aid some gusto and a dream.

                (Meet the team from Left to Right- Hannah, Angelica, Heather, Jess and Kate)

This has been the winter of snow. I know what you're saying, yes most winters involve snow, however what I mean by thing is we in the last 3 weeks have received way over 60 inches of the white stuff!
"The snowfall in the past 30 days in Boston – which is currently at 60.8 inches – has shattered the previous 30-day record of 58.8 inches set on Feb. 2, 1978"
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This grand snowfall has lead to many many snow days trapped inside with our imaginations, and though the wonder of group text a business plan was hatched!

Sew Sweet is a dream of ours that we hope to see play out in the future. We plan to combine our mutual love of sweets, coffee, tea, art, clothing, reading, and all things pretty into something everyone can enjoy!

Our overall business plan is to someday have a shop full of everything you could want. Consignment full of new and old, art, a hodgepodge of anything that strikes your fancy. Complete with a delicious bakery featuring vegan, gluten free, and just regular ole treats. Something for everyone!

Were hoping with the start of this blog to get our name out there and start out right!

Here you will find fun new recipes for delicious treats, new DIY ideas, style tips, beautiful art work, books we love and lots and lots of kittens!

We hope to catalog our journey in starting this business to show to the fun and difficult ways that it all works.

Have any ideas? Comments? Questions for us?
Please leave them below! We would love any and all feed back you have!

Sew stick around (see what i did there) There is more to come!!

~Hannah