Other Stuff

Here are some of my favorite things I did this year. Before I started I’m a mom not a professional.   

M’s baby blanket I crochet him (and him of course…best ever). I took the picture because his poor little hat wouldn’t stay on his head it kept covering his face and he didn’t even care.

 

Eight is great sugar cookies

My pregnancy induced skirt sewing extravaganza (I think I made about 15-18 skirts here are three.

I also made 3 matching dresses this is my littlest (girl) dress.

Some of the birthday cakes.  Okay so Spiderman didn’t turn out that well but it was my first attempt at a 3D carved cake and it was painful but luckily it was for a 4 year old who was just thrilled.

Swimsuit cover-ups.  This is the other shirred project I borrowed from my friend Sharon over at This Thrifty House.  I added the ruffle to the bottom of mine.

Some of my earings.

High chair face lift is on this blog but I still LOVE how it turned out!

Scrunchie Scarf

  Like all good things my next project started at church.  My friend was wearing a really cute Scrunchie Scarf, so of course I asked about it and she told me where she got it and how much blah, blah.  Finally I couldn’t stand it anymore and I asked if I could see it…and upon closer inspection not only was it cute but it also appeared too be super easy to make AND it was!! Thanks to my awesome friend Sharon over at This Thrifty House who taught me all about Shirring from another project she did and let me steal the idea from this summer.  This scarf took me like 5 minutes to make and it was $1.00.  I gave these scarfs to my daughters for Christmas and they love them.

UPDATE: Check out the Scarf I made for myself HERE 

All you need to make them is a scarf and some elastic sewing thread.  Because this was going to be a trial run I got my scarfs from the dollar store.

I used my machine and the elastic thread to sew two lines down the middle of the scarf.

Then I added a little flower that I “borrowed” from another project.

all done!

For the brown one I thought it would be cute to all some ribbon to the shirred part.  I really like how that turned out and you can use the ribbon to cover up the elastic thread. 

You could also add a ribbon rosette.  The dollar store scarfs aren’t long enough for me but they look super cute on the girls. But you could easily do this to any fleece scarf (or you could sew two dollar store scarfs together). I was also toying with the idea of doing a layered one with more than one scarf shirred together on top of each other.  Anyway this is a project I’ll defiantly be playing with.

Here is a picture of it on one of my cuties.

Scrunchie Scarf

Like all good things my next project started at church.  My friend was wearing a really cute Scrunchie Scarf, so of course I asked about it and she told me where she got it and how much blah, blah.  Finally I couldn’t stand it anymore and I asked if I could see it…and upon closer inspection not only was it cute but it also appeared too be super easy to make AND it was!! Thanks to my awesome friend Sharon over at This Thrifty House who taught me all about Shirring from another project she did and let me steal the idea from this summer.  This scarf took me like 5 minutes to make and it was $1.00.  I gave these scarfs to my daughters for Christmas and they love them.

UPDATE: CHECK OUT THE SCARF I MADE FOR MYSELF HERE

All you need to make them is a scarf and some elastic sewing thread.  Because this was going to be a trial run I got my scarfs from the dollar store.

I used my machine and the elastic thread to sew two lines down the middle of the scarf.

Then I added a little flower that I “borrowed” from another project.

all done!

For the brown one I thought it would be cute to all some ribbon to the shirred part.  I really like how that turned out and you can use the ribbon to cover up the elastic thread. 

You could also add a ribbon rosette.  The dollar store scarfs aren’t long enough for me but they look super cute on the girls. But you could easily do this to any fleece scarf (or you could sew two dollar store scarfs together). I was also toying with the idea of doing a layered one with more than one scarf shirred together on top of each other.  Anyway this is a project I’ll defiantly be playing with.

Nutter Butter Revisit RUDOLPH!!

I always thought Santa could use a little friend so here is what we came up with today! I’m glad so many of you have like the original Nutter Butter Santa's.

Santa & Rudolph together again!

Friends & Neighbor Christmas Treat Bags

When I saw this idea in Woman’s Day last month I knew I would be doing it for our friends and neighbors. What could be easier than using a brown lunch sack and adding ribbon with a cookie cutter?  We changed it up a little bit the original idea used a scalloped circle instead of the snowflake in the middle but I thought that it was a little bit beyond my kids abilities so we made snowflakes!  You fill the bag with whatever you want (a cookie mix might be a nice idea).  3 down a lot more too go!

Wondering about the cookie cutters? I got a box of 20 cookie cutters at Michaels on clearance for just a couple of bucks! Awesome

P.S. If you’re my neighbor feel free to act surprised