Some things I've made and baby update

Baby will be here before we know it, and the kids start school in 13 days. And I'm not really ready for either.  But I have made a few fun things lately, not as many as I would like....but better than nothing at all. 

Whipped up this hat last night for our soon to be little pumpkin. Who btw still has no name! It's crochet and was super fast to make .. The pattern can be found on my pinterest board titled crochet. 

I am now selling these darling laser cut wooden necklaces and magnets in my shop!  

I whipped up this vintage sheet bunting a week ago.. Love how it looks in my shop window.   Thinking about making some for fall.   

The beginning stages of the nursery makeover.  It's still in progress.. Which is making me nervous with only 7 weeks until my due date. 

I will try to post more nursery photos as soon as we get it done.  

And here's a belly shot from a few weeks ago. 

I've been wanting to do a post for such a long long time. I finally just made my self do a quick one with whatever photos I have on my phone. 

 

Made it and Cut it...

I had been letting Grahams hair grow out and it was starting to be a bit unruly looking all the time. So... I decided to try buzzing it off.  I also made him a real cute pair of shorts... as you will see.....

BEFORE hair cut..

 And After...

And in the cute new shorts I made him... I made him a pair out of this fabric earlier in the summer and they were too small.... see first pair here.

AS for the new short hair... he looks cute.. but I think I like it a bit longer.

I love the shorts and so does he, I used this tutorial. I want to make him some more... we'll see if I get around to it... I'm in the middle of a couple big projects...

Summer = Sewing

I still have a million and one things to blog about from the past few months, but this is an easy quick post.... and what I have been up to lately.


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Ruffled Pillow Cover.

 I actually did a tutorial on this on the VS blog... check it out.

 Pretty sure it will not stay white for long in this house!

I got Graham some sheets at a garage sale and there was no pillow case but two top sheets, so today I quickly whipped up a pillow case out of the extra top sheet.

I made Graham these shorts because I got the fabric at fabric store for $1.10.  I used this tutorial. and added pockets... Only problem is I didn't follow my gut and make them a titch larger.. They are too narrow for Graham's liking so handed them down to Karson.. Hope they work for him...I have enough to make another pair...

Hoping to make the new ones tomorrow.

Next on the list was a cape for my boy.. he saw them at Six flags last week and I said NO WAY to buying one but I would make him one.... I loosely followed this tutorial... I did use her template for the batman emblem.

Cheesy happy boy.

Gwen, Made this head band

Emily made the Aqua one and I make the yellow one... I used a tutorial and can not find it at this moment. UGG.

WAY Over Due Bee Blocks

All three are made from vintage sheets.

This block is uber time consuming... Never will I make a whole quilt like this!

A cute little skirt for Scarlette... she is such a pain when I want to get a picture. 

Stinker!

Her skirt and a skirt for Gabby.

Hope to get more projects done in the next few days and a bunch of vintage sheets and other goodies added to the shoppe! I also added a few more Grad pictures to this post.

DIY Birthday Gifts

We had two birthday parties to go to last weekend for two different two year old's.  I went to target and tried to find a gift and everything was sooo boring or plastic and crappy... so I decided to make their gifts.

Party Number one....

Home made play dough with the recipe to make more and a vintage cookie cutter to play with.  Also a couple pairs of big girl panties- which I didn't make.

I made her a skirt and added a cute flower to a top I bought to match the skirt.

Party Number two...

Tatum(the birthday girl) LOVES duckies... she even takes a giant rubber ducky to bed. So I decided she needed a soft ducky blanket to snuggle with. She also got play dough, cookie cutter and panties.

Here is sweet Tatum with her new blankie:)

Here is her cute outfit.The skirt is actually made from a sheet... not a vintage one surprisingly... it is one from pottery barn teen.

I am super happy with how everything turned out, it felt nice to give a thoughtful gift.

First Quilt Finish of 2011

One of my goals was to finish more quilts than last year, well today I finished my first quilt of the year. And that makes me even with last year.  Which means I only need to complete one more to reach my goal... sort of.  I would really like to finish more than that! 

I decided to make my brand new niece a quilt for Christmas. Yes, I know it is after Christmas, but this is the first time I have seen her since she was born Dec. 7th. My sis and the kids came over today and since I waited until the last minute to finish this quilt, I finished stitching the binding on about one minute before she walked through the door!

I actually took this photo as my photo of the day. I have seen a few bloggers who have done this and I though That sounds fun, I am going to try to do that~

I made this quilt in a couple of days, which is record speed for me.

I was in love with this quilt & this quilt, which were my inspiration.

Hard to see in this photo, but I hand embroidered her name on the quilt before I quilted it.

A little vintage doily added on the back.  I used vintage sheets for the front- except the orangeish one is from the shabby chic collection at target that I found at the thrift.  I backed it with pink flannel.  For the quilting I did random lines vertically and horizontally, which was a new technique for me.  I also free motioned hearts randomly throughout the quilt.

This is the first quilt that I have made for someone outside of my household.

Here she is taking it for a spin:)  And yes, that is her hair ... not a hat!  

Made it....

I only made one of the kids costumes this year...

Scarlette Grace was little miss muffet.

It is an adorable costume if I do say so myself:)

Clean Start-Home Makeover-Napa

We finished the home make over, and here are some picture taken by Indra... you can also read her blog post with all the details.

Here is the family room before....

In Progress.

Me with the lamps.

Getting things ready to put the room together, I am putting a cord cover on the chain of the hanging light.

After... My favorite thing is the blue table, it turned out so cute. It was pretty ugly before it was painted:)

Another view of Before....

After:)

I made the three large pillows and the small toile one:)

On to the kids room:

Before...

After.

Before...

After.

I made the duvet cover, the curtains and curtains for the closet as there were no doors.

I whipped up the curtain tie backs on the spot as we were putting the room together.

It was a fun project and the family seemed to really appreciate it.

There are a ton more photos on Indra's blog... go check them out.