Saturday, December 13, 2008

Baby Barrettes


Last month I made a ton of cute hair barrettes for baby girl. I had a lot of fun! I think my favorites are the lady bug, and the flowers. They look so cute in her hair.. or what little hair she has :) I pretty much used a lot of things I had laying around and bought a few extras. I went to a scrapbook store where I could buy ribbon by the inch to cut cost since I am only making them for myself right now. The flowers were from scrapbook supplies and some were those adhesive ribbons that you can just peel and stick. No hot glue gun required!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Finished Items!!


Hooray! Finally some completed projects. I took a few pics with the bad camera though :(
Here is the completed blue dress, it is too big for her to wear now but hopefully next spring or summer will fit. Currently her big bear is wearing it!





I also finished her Owl Jumper.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Craftiness is in the air

Ok, so now I am overloaded with projects and can't seem to focus on just one! I finished my eye pillow but didn't end up taking any pictures! Ughh, I will make another soon. Right now I am working on a dress for my daughter who is 11 mo old. It is blue gingham and almost complete! I have gathered up some material for two other dresses as well. One is a brown corduroy and I am going to modify the pattern of the blue dress to make it a bit shorter and use as a jumper with pants for the fall. I also am going to try and make a pillow case style dress out of the owl material which is sooo cute!


I was bored with all the white in Babys room so decided to make a picture! It ended up being huge and I hope I can find a way to hang it so she wont pull it off. I wanted something natural looking with a lot of color so a tree came to mind. I used foam board for the back (not sure if it was a good idea since it curled inward from the paint) and scrapbook paper for the tree and leaves. I added some fancy stamps to fill in the blank spaces and give it a girly touch. The final part of my idea is to add an owl and a little hole on the trunk. Also, originally had an idea to hang little framed pictures from the branches but not sure if I will end up doing that. It may be a bit much.

Hmm, what is all this material and felt for! Check back soon to find out! :)

Friday, May 16, 2008

Patiently Waiting

Today my sewing machine should arrive! I have been wanting one forever and now it is almost here! I have no place to put it yet and no projects ready to go so I don't know why I am watching out the window for Mr UPS man to bring me my new toy. I guess it is the anticipation and eagerness to start all the projects I have been dreaming up the last few years. The projects I am planning to create are:

  • Pretty Dress for Cj (I actually have the pattern already!)
  • Fun Baby Shoes
  • Lavender and Camomile Eye Pillow
  • Sexy Apron for all the cooking I do (HA!)
  • and my biggest project, a Play House for CJ
There are a few other ideas I have but those are going to be a surprise! Oh the suspense!