02-25-2015

Nursing Cover [baby boy]

This is the second nursing cover that I have made and thankfully it went easier than the first one! Sadly, I do not have photos of that one. Anyway, these are pretty easy to make and are great new mother’s gifts if you know they are going to be nursing. I used this tutorial from Craftaholics Anonymous.  The fabric is from Hobby Lobby.

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Nursing Cover 2

 

The part that I have always had the most issues with is the boning.  But, if you make your stitch wide enough to go just at the top and just at the bottom of the boning, it will actually work.  Once I finally made that discovery- the project was so much easier!

04-11-2014

Beautiful Baby Bows

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I think making headbands for kids is so much fun.  They are a quick craft you can knock out and you feel accomplished instead of one that can take days.  If I felt comfortable wearing the headbands, I probably would wear them as well!  I am sure y’all know how to make them but here are my steps anyway….

I purchased elastic at JoAnn’s.  I love that they now have the elastic as I used to have to purchase it online.  I picked a cute ruffly one in white and then one in yellow.  I purchased the pink crochet flower as well, but you could easily make that.  I sewed it onto a felt backing and then onto the ribbon.

I then made the hounds tooth one.

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Supplies: I just randomly cut the circles for the flowers.  I cut four of them.  I later on (not in this picture) cut smaller flowers to give it another layer.

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First fold the circle in half

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Then fold it in half again.  This is what you are going to sew.

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Sew it onto your felt.  Some people use a hot glue gun but I don’t like how the hot glue gun can leave bumps and felt the sewing made it more secure.

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Once you have all four petals sewn on it will look like this.  Now you could leave it like this, sew the button in the middle and be done but I wanted to add another layer of petals.  You do the exact same thing.  I made these circles a little smaller than the originals.

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03-07-2011

Colored Pancakes? Most definitely!!

So I like to try new things when I am babysitting because it makes things a little bit exciting. The girls wanted pancakes for breakfast and when I saw food coloring on the table I knew what I was going to try. Now, W was a little apprehensive at first but once we got started and she found out they tasted the same as regular pancakes she was game!

Now, these are not the best pictures because they were taken on my phone. But I made it into a lesson for W (she is 4) about which colors make new colors. So we made purple, orange and green. We already had blue food coloring so that one required no mixing. :)


We made the purple ones first. Make sure you turn them before they brown because then some of the color will go away.


I even made some polkadots on the orange ones, but that was probably too much food coloring in one area.

The girls loved them! There were lots left over to put in the freezer so they can have them tomorrow :)

02-05-2011

Life-Size (for kids at least) Canvas

So I have been updating all my pictures from years ago (2004 plus :). Anyway, I found pictures of a craft I did with Ellen & Caroline (I have babysat them since E was one, she is now eleven!!) back in 2005.


They turned out adorable and hang in their playroom to this day. The key is to make sure your child is not too big for the canvas. But really, even then you could just buy the roll canvas and hang it that way :)


You can see we made quite a mess. I let the girls go to town. With Caroline’s I outlined her in pink because I knew she would not paint quite as nicely (at 2.5 yrs old) as Ellen would. I then put their names all pretty with polka dots. This is one project that I am going to have to do when I have my own children!

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