Picture Perfect Pin Cushion

I'm sure you have seen these all over blog land but here is mine

 J I made one because I needed a few minutes of sanity from my 16 month old boy. So here are a few quick steps to make your own.



One choose a picture frame and take out the glass. (the glass you are seeing is my desk)

Second choose your fabric and cut it to the right size

Line up your batting and your cardboard with the fabric

Then put inside the frame and get ready to hot glue…I put the picture frame between my legs so the fabric and batting would be able to push through the opening

Then hot glue all the sides down

Put the back on again and you are good to go J

I went from normal pin cushion to awesome decoration/pin cushion

Thanks for reading again J

Easy Christmas Bow

So I would never say that I am the crafty type or that I can come up with awesome projects but the other day we were putting up the garland on our staircase and I decided that I would try and tackle making some bows to put up with the garland.  Now I wish I could take the credit for making up this bow but I can't.  I also cannot find for the life of me the site that I found the directions on.  So I hope my instructions are easy enough to follow.  It didn't take me very long to make these.  All you need is some ribbon (I used wired ribbon I haven't tried it with regular ribbon), scissors, glue gun, and your two hands and maybe some kind of ruler (I used my cutting mat).  So First I cut out the ribbon in 4 lengths

I know this is only 3 but the 4th one should be at least twice the length of your longest piece.
Then you take your longest piece and tie a knot in the center and set it aside

next you take your three other pieces and hot glue them into loops

 then hot glue them all together

Now they are going to look a little smushed but its ok we will go back fix that later
now you take your longest piece that is not hot glued yet and put the knot in the center of your smallest ribbon loop

then wrap it around and tie a knot in the back and straighten out your ends so they look the same on the front side.  Once you get them how you want glue the knot down in the front and back.

Then trim the ends like this so they have a finished look to them (or at least that's what they said in all the videos I watched lol)

Then fluff your bow to your liking 

Then hang your bows :)  mine went onto our blah staircase (it was blah with just the garland)

Before:

After:

Thanks for reading :)



Why Third Culture Mom?

I'm sure you are wondering why I've named my blog Third Culture Mom so I'll explain a little.  I am what people (who give groups of people names) call a Third Culture Kid (TCK).  Third Culture Kid means that I came from one culture and grew up in another culture which was not my home culture/ passport culture.  I do not totally fit into the culture I grew up in and I do not totally fit into my passport culture so I fit into the group of a third culture.  You may be wondering now what culture I grew up in and what is my passport culture.  I grew up in Manila, Philippines and my passport country is the USA. 

I have labeled myself a Third Culture Mom because firstly I am a mom and because we (my family) are missionaries in the Philippines and so therefore I am raising my son in a Third Culture Mom.

So here is my family:

I plan on posting about many different things here on this blog as I am still learning how to sew and I am trying many different projects.  I hope to share some of our ministry here in Manila and some about our lives a missionaries.  Please stop by and check out what is going on here at Third Culture

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