Visiting Teaching Craft

 I wanted a close up of all the ones I made because I had so much fun making them, but I was lucky to get these ones.  I wanted to make these so I got together with a few friends to do them.  We had fun and it was nice to do for our ladies we visit.  On the back is the message for March.

Birthday Bash Decor

 I can not wait to use this again!  Pinterest again!  Everything but the crown was from Pinterest idea's.  I do love how this turned out.  I think if I were to ever make another one, I would make sure that I put some glue in the middle of the paper I put on the tops.

 I spent so much time putting together these cupcakes.  i took the time to put each color in baggies and to make sure that you could see each color on the sides and then look what happened when I cooked them.  They did look cool but I was sad that they did that.

The frosting was amazing!  I had so much fun.  The only difference I would do next time is put less color on the bottom of the bag and put the color father up the bag to make it last longer.

 This was fun.  I like to decorate my kitchen for my kids birthdays and this was super easy and made the room look special.

 Here is the birthday girl!  I made the crown for her to wear to church so that everyone would know it was her special day.

Visual Motivation

I can blog something!

I made these with a friend the other day and she sent me the pictures that she took with her phone.  My phone takes crappy pictures.

LOVE this idea.  I'm hoping it will help me with my goals.

I love the glitter stickers we found!  I don't have a close up of mine but mine are the smaller one.  I think they are awesome and I can't wait to move over my rocks.  It will be hard to only weigh myself once a week.

I did get talked into just starting out small.  One goal at a time.  When I reach that goal, I'll add more rocks.  I'll get there.  That is what I keep telling myself.


***Here are mine.  I wanted some close ups so you can see how cute the rocks and the glitter letters are.

LOVE THEM!!!!

Baby Things

Now, I am waiting to post this til my friend that I made all this for has gotten the package.  But I have time right now so I'm making the post.

This is the knot dress that I have fallen in love with.  I have made it so many different ways.  This time I put pleats in it instead of gathering it.  But I wanted a bit more with it so I made these shoes and pin-wheel hair bows to match.

I got the pattern for these off of SewMamaSew site.  LOVE this site.  I wanted them to match the dress and the pleats are perfect!

I found these on Pinterest and have been dieing to make some. I can not wait to make more for my girls!

Another Pinterest pin.  I have to say that this went together so very well and I think I may make some into headbands for little girls and not just neckties.  I'm making more of these for my neighbor that is having a boy and has 2 older boys.

Here is a not so good picture of them all together.  The dress is a size one so it will have to be for next year but I made a few other things that the baby will be able to wear this summer.

One of my babies favorite toys was this tag blanket.  She LOVED it.  So I'm making more.  It is such an easy thing and since babies end up eating their clothes or bibs or socks, this is just as good.

Can not for the life of me find the link that I got this from.  It was with a blanket but I just wanted to make the hat.  I really hope that it fits.  I made 3 bows for this hat and went with this one.  I like it.  Found it.  Here.

My friend asked for this on Pinterest and so I made one up.  I think when I make it again that I will make it wider and put a bit more batting in it.  I'm making some for my doors, one for my babies room and one for mine.  Then I can still shut it but my baby can open the door when she gets up.

This is a boppy cover.  My friend asked me for two things.  A boppy cover and a hooded towel.  This cover is the one I had on my boppy.  I didn't get time to make a new one before I had to send out her package so I did this..

I made my own pattern.  After I'm done with my daughters birthday clothes I'm making, I'll make her a new boppy cover and a few other little dresses that I wanted to do. :0)

This link on Pinterest was so very helpful in making this one.  I loved how well she walked me through the steps and how easy it went together.  I wanted to make it special so I had a neighbor put the "Princess" on there.  This is my new favorite flower to make.  Super easy and super fun!  Found it here.

This is my favorite pattern of all time.  I make this baby dress for all the baby girls I know!  Love the patten, the lace and how summer-y it is.  I got this bow idea from Pinterest too.  Got to love Pinterest. :0)

These were so much fun and I can't wait to finish up the rest I want to make just for her and then I can get started on the other projects I need to do for other friends and their babies and the few I have planned for my daughter for her birthday. 

I'm so glad that she got the package so quickly!  Love you Bonnie and can't wait for your baby girl to get here! :0)

Lace-Bottom Tights

So I bought these tights last year to make for my baby.  Now I'm super glad that I bought them big.  I wanted to have some leggings without feet on them and couldn't find any for a good price.  So I bought some tights and some elastic lace and cut off the feet.  It took me a year to figure out/ make time to finish them up.  Now I can't wait for warmer weather for her to wear them with all her cute little dresses and sandals.

Cute huh. :0)

Dog Bed

I decided to make my dogs a new bed in hopes that I could get them to quit sleeping on my bed and in my bed and taking over my bed.

I had this material left over from my husbands "snuggie blanket".  Don't ask.  But the dogs love to sleep on it and he doesn't like to share it.  He works most nights anyway and I get to sleep with the dogs by myself but when he is home at nights the 4 of us just don't fit well.

I put it up on my bed in hopes that if I got them to sleep on it then I could move it to the floor and have them still want to sleep on their bed.

For the stuffing we bought some cheap pillows and took out the stuffing and used that for stuffing.  My daughters thought it was a big pillow for them to play on. 

The dogs loved it.  More so the little dog.  When I moved it to the floor the next night, Walle, our little dog, loved it!  Eva, the bigger dog, just got back up on the bed.  Walle loves having this huge bed all to himself.  I enjoy having Eva still sleep at my feet.  She keeps them warm. :0)

Fabric

Well, I have a few projects on my to-do list and before I could go fabric shopping, I decided to do something that needed to be done.  Go through all my fabric boxes and see what I have.  I had bags and boxes and fabric just sitting downstairs, not in my fabric boxes.  All from previous projects.  So I pulled it all up and look at what I found.

I can't even tell you how impressed I am with my haul!

I could almost name every project these fabrics are from.  Look at these bags.

 One is all interfacing.  This one is all notions.  Zippers, buttons, thread, bias tape, you name it, I think its in here. :0)

 Lace, lace and more lace.  Some of this lace is 6" wide.  There is a navy blue that is just to die for and I can't wait to sew with it.  I will never have to buy lace again!  And anyone looking for lace, you know where to come. :0)

 This bag is just scraps.  There are too big to throw away but to small for clothing projects.  They happen to be perfect for hair flowers and other little project though.

 This pile is just my cottons.  I have denim, silky, sheer, knit, furs and any other fabric you could name!  Oh the projects I saw!

I have so much that a trip to the fabric store is out of the question. :0(  But I did get a lot of project ideas.  Some for all the friends I have that are having babies in the next few months and some for my girls.  Let the sewing begin!

I'm in Love

Found this when I woke up this morning.  My husband loves me. :0)

Valentine Cupcakes

I am a sucker for cupcakes.  You can eat one and not feel like you are eating the whole cake.  But it sometimes is hard to stick to just one.

Another Pinterest recipe.  I got it here.  I used the Marshmallow frosting from here.  This frosting is just like my mom's 7 minute frosting.  So good!

I wanted to take some to our Sister's night this weekend.  Of course we got so full on all the other goodies that we had there that we forgot all about the cupcakes til we were leaving.  One of the sisters had left so I had one up for grabs.  Big mistake.  I'll be taking a bunch to her today. :0)  They were a big hit.  I will be making more when it really is Valentines day.

Wreath Making

 I went on vacation with some amazing friends this last weekend and I took stuff to craft.  Thanks to some willing friends and some fun times, we made some really cute wreaths.

Tara and Steph.  Love these ladies!

 This the the wreath that Steph made.

 This one is mine.

 Tara didn't realize that we were making flag wreaths and wrapped her wreath in all white so she made this.

 Love her flowers!  Some are from what I found from pinterest and some are all Tara.  LOVE it.  Now I'm going to make me a spring wreath.

I love this little white one.  I took a picture so I could remember how to do it later.

Love how they all turned out and I love crafting with friends.  I think I want to make a craft night with these ladies a monthly thing. :0)