Fabric love...

I love to buy fabric. It is a problem because if I get fabric that is too cute, I don't want to make anything out of it. I am content to just fold it and put it in a pile and look at it. Anyway...check this out! My friend is having a giveaway on her blog.

Cherry Lane Textiles (I wish I knew how to post a picture of the fabric, but I don't...so just go look at her shop. It is awesome!)

Seriously...this fabric is so yummy! I am crossing my fingers that I will win this giveaway, although I NEVER win any giveaways I enter. I just love this fabric so much I may have to order some today! You all should look at her shop and get some too! I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

So many things...

...to do before baby comes! I have gotten a lot of projects finished and taken pictures of them finally so this post is just going to be a bunch of pictures of things I have gotten finished in the past few weeks.

I really wish that I could be organized enough to take pictures right when I finish my projects and post them right away, but that never happens. So here are a lot of pictures that have been sitting on my camera. The lighting is not very good because I usually take the pictures at night while Sadie is asleep.

I saw these on the here and knew that I had the felt and needed to make some before Easter. Mine didn't turn out nearly as cute as hers did, but I am still happy with how they look.

I just wish that I had brown paint for the eyes and nose, but I didn't want to go buy new paint, so I just used blue. They are still pretty cute I think.

I finally finished the curtains for the second window in our living room. That window has been bare ever since we moved in 2 years ago. It took me a little while to get used to them, but I think I am starting to like them now.

These are the curtains that I made for our room. Again, they have been bare for the last 2 years because I have just been so lazy. It is really nice to have those white blinds covered finally. And it keeps the room really dark in the mornings. It is nice! Just don't pay attention to the uneven-ness of them...he he he.

Here is a little baby crinkle toy that I made for the baby boy coming here in a month or so.

It was super easy to make and I hope he will actually like it and play with it!

Here are some little hair clips that I made for Sadie. All I did was take satin material and cut different sized circles and singed the edges with a flame on a candle. I nearly burned my fingers about a dozen times. But I like how they turned out.

Oh...and can I just say

I have the best husband ever! When I figured out that I had sewn 8 of the 9 snaps on backwards on the apple page of Sadie's quiet book, he was like "what can I do? How can I help?" (I was pretty upset. Really, I was about to throw the whole page away.) So I jokingly told him he could sew on the rest of the snaps onto the tree because I was done for the night. So he actually sewed one on! It was awesome. I love him!

And it is the best one on the whole page!!! :)

Big Puzzle Blocks

Here is another one of Sadie's birthday gifts that I made for her. I got the idea for these in a parenting magazine of some sort. Of course, they were really expensive and a lot cuter, but I think mine turned out ok. Except for the fact that I couldn't get them to look like actual cubes. The just look like blobs. Oh well. Does anyone know how to make fabric blocks that actually look like blocks? :) Next time I think I will just put foam inside instead of stuffing them.

Little Chicks

Big Blue Whale.

Red Girraffe

Quiet Book- Finally done

I have been wanting to make one of these for the longest time for Sadie. I started it while I was in Arizona for Christmas vacation, but I was working on it frantically to get it finished all the way up to the day of Sadie's birthday. I finished it during her nap that day. Sheesh. It took a lot of time, and now I don't really want her to play with it much because I don't want to ever have to make another one. :) Just kidding. She has loved playing with it so far. I try to keep it hidden during the week so that it will be a novelty on Sundays during church.

Anyway here are some places that I got my page ideas from. I pretty much just copied a bunch of different pages that I saw other people had made.

http://thethornocks.blogspot.com/2008/12/quiet-encyclopedia.html
http://craftingchicks.blogspot.com/2009/09/quiet-book-i.html
http://naptimejournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/quiet-book-pagesyou-asked-for-them.html


So a big THANK YOU to all of those who shared their quiet book pages on their blogs so that I could make mine! :) Now onto the pages.

Zipper lady bug. Sadie loves to count the black circles.

Oven/ cupcake page. I like this page, usually there is a fork and a spoon in the purple pocket. Sadie loves to play with this one.

Car page. I wish I could have made the road a little more exciting. Maybe I will draw some trees on there or something. ran out of time.

This is probably my favorite page. I think I found it on the crafting chicks link above. Sadie loves the finger puppets, so maybe I will make some more!

Pick the apples. I hated making this page. It was really simple until I had to sew the tiny snaps onto the apples. I had 8 of the 9 snaps sewn onto the apples when I realized that I had sewn them on upside down! AHHHH. So annoying. So I had to walk away from it for the night and finish it the next day. Now that I think about it, it is pretty funny. Not so much at the time.

Flowers and shapes page. Fun.

Eventually I may make some new pages and swap them out. It will be a while though. Sadie seems satisfied with what is in the book now. So I will just let her enjoy it and enjoy the peace and quiet at church! :)

First one down!

Remember all those old t-shirts from my last post? Well, my first (and second) projects are done! I only took a picture of one of them so far so I will post the others later. Anyway, here is a cute little skirt that was super quick and easy to make! And I think it looks so cute on my little girl!

Yes, it is snowing outside today, but we are totally ready for spring and summer when it comes. Maybe I will make a pair of leggings that she can wear under the skirt so she can wear it now. Well, she does wear it now, but only inside.

And, I got three pages of my quiet book done today during her nap. Hooray! I am loving this 2 hour nap thing!

Finished projects and starting new ones

I have been finishing projects left and right because I feel so free now that I finished all of the jumpers for a lady in my ward. I don't feel guilty working on other projects because I know that I have them all done! IT is so nice. Anyway, Here are some of the crochet projects I have finished up.

I finally decided that with only about 3 months left, I better get started on making some little goodies for my little guy. Here is a little sweater that I made that is just waiting to get some buttons sewn on. I think it turned out really cute.

Then I brought out this project that has been sitting around for about a month like this and finished it in about 15 minutes. Seriously, why do I wait so long to finish these easy little projects? I don't know.

This is what it looks like now. With a little matching flower for a hair clip.

I made all of these hearts while my little girl was sick this week. We did a lot of sitting on the couch so I brought out my yarn and made lots of hearts. I saw these on a this blog and fell in love with all of her free patterns. But I decided this was a good one to make since valentines day is coming up and everything.

So I made this little one to hang up in our bathroom or somewhere and I also made on that I draped along our mantle. I will have to take a picture of that one later.

I also started these other projects that will keep me busy for a while. I have been meaning to make these things for such a long time and i finally started them and am so excited about them.

This is going to end up in a quiet book for my daughter. Her birthday is next month so hopefully I can finish it by then. I'm hoping it will keep her busy and quiet during church! I will also post where I got all of my page templates from after I finish the book.

I went through my closet and found all of these shirts that I don't wear anymore or that were given to me by my mom and brother. There are like 20 of them in all. Some I will make into clothes for my daughter but most I think will be pants and shorts for our little guy coming in April. I'm excited about this project too because sewing stuff from old t-shirts is easy and something that can be picked up and finished really quickly.

So that is what I have been up to this past week. Hope everyone has a great weekend!