No Sew Pillow

I saw on Pinterest this cute project for a no sew pillow. Lily has been really into making things lately, so I thought this would be a good project for her. All we needed was material (they used felt on the pinterest page but I used fleece), scissors, and cotton batting. I originally wanted a sheep pattern for the pillow because Lily loves sheep, but I couldn't find any, so we went with rainbow material instead. She loved it! :0) She also liked how easy it was. All she needed to do was cut and tie it together!

First of all, can I just cry over how old she looks here?? She will not listen to me and stop growing!! (Neither will her brothers, Zach is creeping closer and closer to being taller than me.....)

First, Lily & I decided how big she wanted the pillow and then made allowances for where the ties needed to be to put the pillow together. I doubled the material so she could cut both sides at the same time to make them the same size. Then she cut the material.

Next, she cut little strips all around the pillow about an inch into the square.

The next step was tying all of those strips together so that the pillow will stay together.

We ran into a problem though. This material shed SO bad. So we took it apart (she hadn't done much at this point) and I washed it. Lily even got the vacuum out and vacuumed up all of the shed pieces!
After it was washed and air-dried, we started again. It was MUCH better!!
I helped Lily do some of the tying because she couldn't get it tight enough, but she helped a lot.
When she only had 4 pairs of strips left, it was time for her favorite part; stuffing it with the cotton batting:

Then she tied the last strips together.

All done!!

  
She loves how soft and snuggly it is. :0)

Ribbon Bow Holders

Lily has a lot of bows....A Lot!!
She has three bow holders in her room:

She also has a basket in my bathroom full of other bows, headbands, and hair-ties.....
Even though she has all of these, I felt compelled to buy this lot of different colored bows. Look at all those colors!!! :0)

Obviously, I needed somewhere to put them. Originally, I was going to make one like the first one, in a frame. But, I realized she really doesn't have the wall space for that. So, I went with two more ribbon ones. Lily picked out princess ribbon, and I found these cute pink sparkly fairies for the tops on Christmas clearance: 

All I had to do was hot glue the fairies to the ribbon and then cut the ribbon to the length I wanted.

The fairies happened to have little holes at the top, so I nailed two small nails into the wall and hung them up.

Lily was super excited to get new bows and bow holders!

I still didn't get all of the new bows on those two ribbons either. I had to stick some on the other bow holders. I think she might not need anymore bows....for awhile anyway....  ;0)