Mr. Potato Head

I saw this post over at Make It and Love It (one of my favorite blogs) and knew I had to make one for Sadie for Christmas. I hadn't had much experience working with felt and let me tell you, I didn't really enjoy it. It was so hard for me to cut it straight, to sew it together and make it look nice. I think it would have been easier for me to just use regualr material, but it was good experience for me to work with felt since I want to eventually make some felt food things for Sadie to play with.

Anyway, here is how mine turned out...it didn't turn out nearly as cute as her's did, but I am happy with it and I think Sadie will enjoy it too! But don't tell her...it's for Christmas!

I still need to make arms for it...who knows if I will get that done before Christmas or not!

Here are some of the other things I made for my potato head dude.

I will probably try to make another one sometime since I have more than enough felt left over...

I have lots of other things that I have been working on that I need to post about, but I can't because they are Christmas presents. Maybe after Christmas I will show you all what I made.

Baby shower gifts

My old roommate Lindsay is having a baby and was in town from Denver this past weekend. While she was here, she had a baby shower. It was so great to see her and I just am so excited for her and her husband. They are going to be such great parents! Here is what I made for her little one.

I used freezer paper stencils on the onesies and I crocheted the flowers for the hair clips. The only problem with making things for people is that I always want to keep them for myself! :)

Hairclips. You bet I will be making exact replicas of all of these for Sadie!

I got the template for these little birds at the Martha Stewart website. There were lots of animals to choose from.

This was also from the Martha Stewart website. Next time I will go over it 3 or 4 times so that the paint is even. There are a few spots that are kinda splotchy. Oh well.

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!