Baby Booties

Currently i have four friends that are pregnant! oddly enough, three are all due within a week in august. the other is due in april and her shower is coming up. She doesnt know what she is having and is planning on doing the nursey in khaki and white, adding pink or blue after the baby is born. she is also my trendiest friend so i found a khaki zebra print fabric and khaki and white poka-dot for the quilt. ill add in white chennelle. also i saw this tutorial (http://stardustshoes.blogspot.com/2006/10/cloth-shoe-pattern.html0) and made a

"practice pair" with scrap fabric. they were so easy to make and are just too cute. they almost make you want to have a baby. ALMOST!

Alphabet Wall

i loooove this idea!

and im posting it so i remember it

DIY Christmas

Get excited, Family! It's all about the DIY Christmas gifts!
Last night I finished up a baby quilt for a friend due in January. She is having a boy! I have to make another one for a GF due in April, but her shower wont be until Feb so i have time. And i just found out another GF is due in August!! it's a very exciting time and i am going to try to make some other baby items like wash clothes and burp cloths! neither one of them are going to find out what they are having so i am brainstorming ideas for cute gender-neutral fabric. i just dont like the green and yellow!

i would add a few other things that i recently made, but my mother was looking at the blog and i dont want to spoil anything!

Hostess Apron

This was my first Thanksgiving as a married woman and my first holiday that i didnt spend with my family! it was very bittersweet and i called my parents numerous times throughout the day. my in-laws came up for the long weekend and we cooked dinner at our place. it was a lot of fun and a lot of work all for about 15 min of stuffing your face!!

every year that my mother hosted thanksgiving, she would have a craft for the ladies to do. sometimes, even the men got involved. well i didnt want to force "DIY projects" on my in-laws so i took the task into my own hands! i made hostess aprons for myself, my SIL and my MIL. my MIL loves syracuse so she obviously get orange and blue and my SIL love lilacs and the color purple. mine was made with left over fabric, but it happened to be pink so it was perfect!



here is the tutorial i followed. they took about 20-30 min each!
http://angieasplund.blogspot.com/2009/03/hostess-apron-tutorial.html

A First Attempt

I am planning on attempting my first piece of clothing.

Ok i tried to make a skirt last summer and it seemed to be going well, but i put it down and just havent picked it back up!

so i am going to try to make this cute wrap. i have the exact same thing that my gf gave me for christmas years ago and i wear it all the time! i wear it some much that now my husband jokes and asks if that is a new piece of clothing and tells me he has never seen it before. Joann's had 50% off their jeresy knit fabric so i bought 1 3/4 yrd in a hunter green and the same yardage in black.

i washed and dried the fabric the other night and plan on starting the project this weekend.

stay tuned!

DIY Floral Hair Pin

I made these the other weekend when my mother was in town
i had left over fabric flower petals from my bridesmaid hair pieces
i just singed the edges and layered them with a glue gun.
the middle piece is pink tulle gathered and glued
i hot glued a bobby pin to the bottom, but next time i think ill sew it on
they are quick and easy to make and small enough to add a few to your hair for a little something extra!

DIY Clothing Labels

Allyson Hill has an amazing titorial for DIY fabric labels!
I have Joanne's Coupon sitting at home waiting to be used!

happy printing:
http://allysonhill.typepad.com/allyson_hill/2007/06/make_your_own_l.html

Pumpkin Muffins

It's that time of year! my pumpkin obsession is in effect!

the other night i refused to turn the heat on, so in an attempt to warm up i decide to bake!

here are some pumpkin chocolate chip muffins!

delicious!

DIY Birdcage Veil

Here is a little pic of the birdcage veil my mother and i made for my wedding. (i need the DH to take a better pic). i ordered 8" white russian veiling from housefabric.com ($4.95 for a yard and it ships out very quickly), a metal comb i took off another little veil but you can also get them at housefrabic.com, white felt (michaels), silk flowers (michaels) and beaded feathers (michaels).

i loosely followed the directions from OnceWed.com and was very happy with the results. my suggestion is do not sew anything until you are sure where you want the veiling to rest. we pinned it down to see how much puff and swoop we wanted. once that was set i cut the felt and sewed the veiling to it. the flowers we arranged several different ways until we finally hotglued them down and then placed feathers in random places also using a glue gun.

i put the birdcage veil on right before we got introduced. i didnt want to wear my fingertip veil all night, but still wanted some sort of veiling. this was a perfect option!

DIY floral haircomb

here is my beautiful MOH, my sister! i started making my BM's hair pieces, but only made one and just didnt have time to finish them the week of due to everything else i was doing. sooo i returned from the hair salon the day of the wedding and my uncle and brother-in-law are sitting at the dining room table making the hair combs!!!! first of all, i dont think i would have finished half the stuff i did without my uncle and B-I-L! they are just amazing! so here is a pic of the haircomb. they are made with plastic haircombs from michaels, loose flower petals (michaels) and rhinestones (michael's). all of it was assembled with a gluegun. is there anything that cant be done with a gluegun!? the girls and i really liked them and it added some fun to their hair! thank you tom and jim!!!!!