Onesie Dresses

My Hubby came home one day and asked if I could make something up for his coworker whose wife is due in June with a little girl.  I was so excited!!  I LOVE to do crafts and it was something itty bitty for an itty bitty girl.  I jumped all over it and immediately knew what I was going to make.  Onesies are a godsend.  They don't move around when you pick up and hold a baby and a lot of cute dresses, and boy clothes, are more than one piece.  Why not turn the plain white onesie into a dress!

Using a onesie, I cut out enough fabric to wrap around the waist like a skirt.  After I hemmed the fabric, I pinned it on, allowing some ruffle, and sewed away.  I made two of them.  When I was done with the skirts they looked to plain.  I decided they needed something on the body.  The yellow fabric has white hearts all over it so I thought, a flower with a heart in the center would be cute.  Then the other fabric, all the strips, I thought would make a cute cluster of hearts.  I hope these work for them.  I have never made anything like this with a onesie.  I always tell my friends that I make things for, if it doesn't work give it back so I came make something that does.  I will pass this on to them as well.  Nothing worse than receiving something adorable that falls apart.  I think these little dresses came out to be adorable.

Feeling optimistic...

I have been interested in learning how to make my own cloth diapers.  A friend had sent me a pattern, but I wasn't sure how it would all work out.  After some research, I am feeling optimistic about the whole thing.  I am looking forward to starting this trial and hope that it works.  I probably have enough cloth diapers to last, but it would be so fun to make my own and pick out my own cute fabrics.  Just the satisfaction of making something from scratch is enough for me.  I yearn for crafts and things to sew.  I will keep you all updated on how this process goes.  Maybe by this time next week, I will have made my first successful cloth diaper!! 

Top Ten Crafts This Year

10. Mobile

9. Bible Verse Cards

8. Picture Board

7. Frame

6. Diaper Cake

5. Quilt

4. Outfit

3. Nursing Cover 

2. Chicka-Chicka Boom Boom Tree 

1. Tutu

Nursing Cover

One of my friends at church is having her 4th boy!!!  We are having her sprinkle tomorrow night and she had asked if I would be able to make her a nursing cover.  Again, this is something I have never made before.  One of my friends had made one for me (that is why she liked it...she had seen mine in Sunday School).  So, I purchased a yard of fabric, boning, and a hook to connect the two strands that go around the neck.  I sewed a square and then looked at mine to see where the boning and strings go.  It was a simple project.  However, the one I made is a little bit bigger than mine, but I think she will like it just the same.  I think I am done with the project I have lined up for the month.  What am I to do now...maybe help with my friends son's first birthday!!!

Diaper Cake

I finished yet another craft!!!  This time I made a Diaper Cake for another friend.  I don't know what I am going to do with my "spare" time after all these crafts.  I just have one left to finish. 

This, too, was very simple.  What I did was roll up a bunch of diapers and put rubber bands around them.  Then I started to collect the rolled diapers together and put another rubber band around them.   I continued to add diapers until desired size of circle.  I made another circle with diaper rolls, but a bit smaller.  I then stuck a rod through the middle and attached a baby toy and wooden star...using, of course, my GLUE GUN!!!  I also added ribbon around the rubber band holding the diapers together and glues more wooden objects (flowers, bugs, hearts, stars) to the ribbon.  I hope she likes it!!! 

A friend did this for me as well and put bath items in the center of the bottom tier.  What a nice surprise that was!

Mobile

For another friend, I did another craft.  I am feeling like a crafting queen right now.  I was in need of crafts and my friends got me to work.  I LOVE it!!!  I made this mobile for a friend who is having a little girl.  (One of my friends made one for me and I loved it so I wanted to pass the craft along)  All I did was hot glue (again, anything with my hot glue gun is sure to be great!) some wooden flowers together with ribbon going through them.  Then my hubby drilled holes through the cross parts of the wood so I could hang my "mobile" from.  I then wrapped ribbon all around the two pieces of wooden rods to tie them together.  Love it!

Valetine Party

Today, I took the boys to a friends house for a Valentine party.  It was a lot of fun.  There were about 11 or 12 boys and 1 girl.  My hubby found that rather odd, but they all had fun!!  They had cupcakes, traded Valentine's and PLAYED!!!  These are what my boys handed out with a little Happy Valentine Card. 

I took two candy canes and placed them together to make a heart.  I placed a lollipop stick in the middle and melted white chocolate for the filler.  While the chocolate was still warm, I put sprinkles on top. :)

Tutu

A friend asked me if I could make a Tutu for their Goddaughter.  I have never made one before, but felt like I could figure it out.  It seems pretty easy.  I had her pick out some ribbon (we bought about 3 yards) and tulle (3 different color about 1 yard each).  I cut the tulle into strips and tide them onto the ribbon until it was long enough.  So simple!!!  I may have to make some more of these. It is absolutely adorable too.  The ribbon my friend chose has flowers on it.  So, every time I came to a flower, I left it out.  It made such a differance with the tutu.  Gave it that finishing touch.  I hope to see her Goddaughter wearing it.  

"Watch Me Grow"

A craft I did for a friend I am very proud of.  I made a little mirror for their little girl.  One of my friends made one very similar for me, so I am passing it on.  I love how it turned out and anytime I get to use my hot glue gun, I know it's gonna be fun!!!  All I did was purchase some letters and a wooden flower frame with a mirror.  I painted the wood and added some embellishments along with the phrase, "Watch Me Grow."  I hope they like it!!

Quilt

I have always wanted to make a quilt, so this weekend, I did!!!  It was much easier than I thought it would be.  I had 20 of the same size rectangles, or squares, and sewed them together row at a time.  When I sewed the rows together, I made sure my seams all matched up.  Surprisingly, they did!!!  I then found a yellow fabric to use as the backing and sewed that to the front.  It didn't take that much time and it came out pretty well for my first quilt.  You should try it!!!

Bible Verse Cards

Today in my MOPS group, we made Bible Verse Cards for our kids.  I am really excited about this becuase I have been trying to come up with a fun way to get The Boy to memorize some verses.  What you can do is write your favorite, or any, verse on a 3 x 5 card and use a hole punch on the top left corner.  We glued some pictures that went along with the verse on the card as well.  We then used contact paper to make them more stable and put all the finished cards on a ring.  That way, we can easily  add and remove the cards.  Again, I'm excited about this and hope The Boy finds it useful as well.

This one is my favorite. The Boy hears this alot!

Picture Board

To get started on my Craft section, I thought I would share the picture board I made for The Baby's room. 

Materials:
1 yard fabric
about 2 feet x 18 in cardboard and padding
ribbon
stray pins with balls on top (sorry, don't know if there is a correct term for those :) )
hot glue gun (you know it's going to be a great craft if the hot glue gun is involved. LOVE it!!)

Instructions:
1. Cut the fabric in half. 
2. Glue padding to cardboard
3. Center fabric over padding and glue edges around the back
4. cut ribbon to desired lengths and glue ends in place on back
5. Insert stray pins where ribbon crosses and bend to secure pins on back
6. Put 2 small loops on top to hang board and glue
7. Turn edge in on other half of fabric and glue to back covering all previous gluing. 

Hope this makes so sense.  If you try to make this, I would love to see your outcome. :)

Enjoy!