Big News

We had some news to share with friends and family so I decided to make a shirt for Sadie to share it in a fun way.

I started out with a plain white t-shirt that I got at DI. Since I got it at a thrift store, it wasn't exactly stain free. So I mixed some fabric paint and water and put it in a spray bottle to "die" the shirt before I used a freezer paper stencil to write the message that I wanted on the shirt.

I think it turned out really cute and she still wears it a lot...mostly because she doesn't have many long sleeve shirts and it is getting cold. And yes...I am expecting! We are so excited to have another little one running around our little house. I'm about 18 weeks along and we can't wait to find out what we are having!

Baby gifts long overdue!

While I was in the middle of sewing all of those jumpers from the last post, I realized that 2 of the babies that I still owed baby gifts to were getting older. They were already 2 and 3 months old, so I needed to start on something quick. I took a couple nights to make these super cute skirts from MADE. I just love how they turned out and I wish I had three little girls to wear them. :) But I don't, so I kept one for my little girl, and gave (still in the process of giving) them to the little girls I made them for!

I will definitely be making more of these skirts as my little one grows up!

And this one is for my friend Katie. She is so creative and has made lots of cool things so go over and check out her blog. Surprise Katie...now we just need to meet up so I can get it to your adorable girl!

Whew!

I finished 6 of the jumpers and finally have all of the cotton fabric ones done! Woo hooo. That was a lot of sewing. I still have about 5 more to do out of courderoy but I think I will take a short break before starting on those ones because I have some things that I have needed to make for a long time. Also, Christmas is fast approaching and I have lots to make!

What I've been busy with...

A lady that I know asked me to do a project for her. She wanted new jumpers for school because she teaches kindergarten and needed some cute new jumpers. So she gave me an old jumper to use as a pattern and a lot of fabric and let me get to work. I have all of the cotton fabric cut out and ready to sew but then she gave me more fabric for winter type jumpers. Anyway, so that is what I have been doing every night. I really enjoy doing it and I'm getting paid for it which is even better. So I just hope I can get them all done so she can start wearing them all the time!

Here are eight of the jumpers all cut out and ready to be sewed. This was after I finished 2 of them.

This I believe was the fourth one I sewed. I forgot to take pictures of all of them, but you get the idea.
And this was what she wanted for her halloween costume. She is going to be mother goose and so this is what we came up with. She will also have a hat and a stuffed goose to go along with it. Anyway, 5 down...11 more to go I think. :)

Sister in law's baby shower!

My sister in law is having a baby boy! And I got to go to her baby shower this last weekend. It was really hard for me to think of something good to make for her little boy because...well...he is going to be a boy. ha ha. But yeah. So I had to look around for something good and I found it here. I thought these were so cute and they looked very helpful in the task of changing diapers or giving baths. I don't have a boy, but I have heard from friends that when you change their diaper you need to take cover! So I used the tutorial on Make it and Love it's blog.

Here is how mine turned out.


I hope they are helpful Evan and Shanna!

Baby girl dress!

Our downstairs tenants had a baby a week or so ago and she was just so tiny! Barely over 6 pounds. Anyway...I decided to make her a cute little dress as a gift. I found the pattern on someone else's blog and will link to it soon, I just need to get on another computer to find it. It is super easy and cute. I love it.

I have also finished a few other things that I need to blog about, but I can't yet because I am givin ghtem as gifts...so you'll just have to wait!

This is the tiny dress. It is size 1-3 months. I can't believe that Sadie was once that small!

I also included a crocheted sweater and some cute hair clips. I hope they liked it!

Apology and bean bags

I know. I am a bad blogger. It's not that I haven't made anything to blog about, it is just that I don't like to download the pictures off of my camera onto the computer. And lots of times, I just don't take pictures of the things that I make. So, to the one or two people that read this blog, I'm sorry. I will try to do better.


Anyway, I saw the idea for these bean bags here. It is one of my favorite blogs to look at because she comes up with some of the cutest ideas. My friend Katie made her own version of these bean bags from leftover t-shirt sleeves. I love how she used stitching to make the letters! Anyway, So I was going to make 26 bean bags and put all the letters of the alphabet on them, but I never got around to putting the letters on them. And, I only made 22. I might someday still put letters on them, but I kinda like how they are right now. I used squares that my mother in law had given me from her huge fabric stash. She makes "I spy" quilts and had a ton of fabric squares cut out that she let me have. I was going to (and still might) make an I spy quilt because I still have lots of fabric squares, but now I have "I spy beanbags" Sadie loves them. I ask her to find one with stars on it and she looks through them all until she finds the stars. They will be great when I start teaching her colors too!