I
like white for babies, because it is easy to nappy-san it clean and all
babies look sweet in white! I also think green and white is nice, as
then you can add a bit of pink or blue if you want later on.
:)
PS. You are so strong not finding out!
What a lovely giveaway! If I ever have a son I feel sorry for him because I have a gigantic stash of "girly" fabrics.
I thought that participating in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day would be the perfect way to celebrate my 2 yr blogiversary. I have met and been inspired by so many of you, I felt this would be a great way to give back. As most of you know, I am expecting a surprise baby in September. Since I don't know the sex yet, and would love to do a little sewing, all I would like to know is your favorite gender neutral fabric. Help me out here! I am a mom to 2 girls. Girly fabric is the only thing I have!
The prizes, yes prizes, are below:
3 half yards of Japanese fabric and a cute felt mushroom.
A stawberry pincushion, Japanese house quilting book, and another mushroom.
A spool doll, mushroom, and Nicky Epstein's Crochet Flowers book.
Winners will be picked Sunday, May 31 at 12:00 midnight central time.
Good luck and be sure to check Sew Mama Sew for a complete list of giveaways!
Have a great day ya'll!
Do you ever feel like your life is a dream? Like things are just going way too good? That is exactly how I feel lately. With the house and the baby, I feel like everything is falling into place. Yeah, I know, talk to me in August when my ankles are swollen to 3x their normal size. LOL.
We spent the weekend mowing the farm. This is a pic of the girls walking up our abnormally long driveway.
And yes, if there is a mess to be had, she will find it.
Does anyone remember this chair?
Yeah, a year later I finally finished it:
I also made some mushrooms:
You can get the pattern here.
And be sure to check in tomorrow for a giveaway to celebrate my 2 yr. blogiversary :)
Have a great day ya'll!
I finally took down my Valentine's Day banner and put this one up for Memorial Day. Made from wool felt embroidered with letters and joined together by buttons. I used some scrapbooking flowers on the ends and baker's twine as hangers.
The past week I have been plagued with an abscessed tooth. WORST. PAIN. EVER! i am behind on answering e-mails and will get it done soon. I promise.
Before the tooth pain got excruciating, I managed to do a few things. I attended honors day for Paige.
She got a trophy for being on the Principal's list (all A's) and a medal for being in the top 10 accelerated readers points. This mama was about to burst with pride! Her daddy now owes her a new bike, the result of a promise extracted from him when he was half asleep. When we picked her up from her classroom, she looked at him and said, "Pay up."
I also tried this dress from Sew Hip magazine.
So easy and so cute! P wore it to church Sunday and it looked so warm and summery.
This pincushion.
I got the patten for the strawberry pattern online, but can't for the life of me find it.
Last, but not least, I managed to finish my Monday Mini. The pics are a day late, but, my dentist worked me in for an early root canal. After the pain of the weekend, I was almost gleeful to go.
The sun has finally started shining around here again, and the footings on our new house are going to be dug tomorrow! Yay! I think I am going to take some embroidery and some coffee and go outside to enjoy it right now!
Have a great day ya'll!
I see that my post a day in April turned into three whole posts. April turned into an extremely busy and crazy month. T-ball started in earnest and I apparently took for granted how much time coaching a team takes. Then. at one of our first games, right before her at bat, P got a stomach virus. We labored through that for about a day, when B came down with strep. Then P got strep. So we were sickly for about a week and then house stuff took over. Which reminds me that I still need to share a pic of our finished plans with all of you. Things are finally settling into a schedule and it seems like I just now have time to do other things.
I managed to start a spiderweb quilt. I have actually added a few more blocks to it since this pic. The blocks are very time consuming, but the result is so worth it. This will most definitely be an ongoing project. Maybe I'll be done by the end of the year!
We have played outside the handful of days it hasn't been raining lately. Seriously, it has either rained or been very cloudy for the past three weeks. It has us singing rain, rain, go away...
I scored a whole set of my favorite vintage Pyrex bowls from Goodwill for $15.00. Soo exciting!
I crocheted a bunch of flowers using Rose Hip's wonderful pattern.
Then I sewed them onto some square and made a simple nine patch mini quilt. I love how it turned out. Kinda like pop art. This is also my first try at free motion quilting, which was harder than I thought.
That's it, and this time I promise, I won't be so scarce :)
Have a great day ya'll!
I am trying to post as much as possible this April to get myself back into the habit. I have been through a sewing slump lately. It makes me sad to look at beautiful fabric and know I have no plans for it. If only that would keep me from buying it. So, I am jumping back into sewing and crafting.
I haven't made a kid's garment in forever, which is odd because that is all I used to make. I wanted to do a shirred dress because they are simple, sweet, and fast. If you haven't ever used shirring before, please check out Sandi Henderson's tutorial. I know it looks kinda scary at first, but the results are well worth it. Once you do something once, it's always easier the second time around.
Jennifer Paganelli's new Flower Power line is to die for. So sweet and romantic. This little dress has halter ties. Maybe K can wear it to church tomorrow, so I can get some modeling pics.
That's it for today. I have all day ball and a birthday party to get ready for. Maybe Brice can take me on a date afterwards. I'll need it. Have a great day ya'll!
I started on these yesterday and took pics along the way. I think this project would be perfect for a quick, fun project or even for gifts :)
Supplies Needed:
-Jelly Roll Strips 24" long, or a strip of fabric 2.5" by 24"
-Craft thread
-Crystals or buttons for center of flowers
-Hot glue gun
-Skinny dowel rods
-Some leaves from from faux flowers
-Floral Tape
1. Press all strips in half lengthwise. Iron the ends in about 1/4".
2. Using craft thread, make a running stitch down the length of the strip.
3. Pull thread to gather strip as you go. The final result should look like this:
4. I didn't get a pic of this, but I will explain it as best I can. Spiral the end of the strip on itself, not directly on top of the strip, but kind of staggered. Do this until the whole strip looks like this:
TOP:
BOTTOM:
5. Sew buttons or crystals into the middle of flower.
6. Get the dowel rods, leaves, and floral tape. Start wrapping the dowel rod with floral tape using a spiral motion. Wrap the stems of the faux leaves with the tape.
7. Hot glue the flowers onto the top of the dowel rod and TADA! You have a beautiful flower. Make one or a bouquet!
Please let me know if you have any questions or need the steps explained better. Thanks and have a great day ya'll!
I know I have been severely slacking this year. We have been extremely busy this past month. I am going into my 5th month, the house breaks ground this month, and we are coaching t-ball, which is hilarious. So-my goal for this month is to do something creative everyday, and then blog about it. I hope I can live up to my challenge.
Some crafty things lately:
Retromama's awesome Egg tutorial. Very easy and very cute.
I glittered some birds from wally world and attached them to a basket from there also
I also finished my doll quilt swap 6 quilt. I really like it, but color thread should I quilt it in?
That's it for today. See ya'll tomorrow!
I cannot express the amount of excitement there has been around my house this weekend. We got hit with our first snow of the winter! What was supposed to be only 2 inches ended up as 13.5 inches, the most this area has gotten since 1968! We spent all day Sunday playing and sledding, even driving by the new house site just to look:
We have had a blast! Probably hubby and myself more than the kids.
I did finally finish my Sew Darn Cute project on Friday.
I was really happy with how it turned out. I can not wait to try more projects from this book. I will have to get another pic after it is matted and framed.
While poking around on top of my refrigerator this morning, I discovered some forgotten about Sculpey. I had looked at a tutorial ages ago on how to make cupcakes from clay and decided to try my hand at it. Here is my pretty pincushion with my cupcakes mixed with GigiMinor's. Mine are the swirly ones.
Thanks so much for the great feedback about the doll tutorial. Please send me links or pics of finished dolls. Have a great day ya'll!
This has been a crazy week for us with VBS and the end of t-ball, so I have to do a quickie winners post.
Fabric Winner:
For gender neutral i tend to use spots, ginham and stripes. Michael miller have some cute boy prints as well.