Talented Friends

One of my good friends told me a long time ago she would paint a picture for me. She recently had her second child and I wasn't going to hold her to it. She invited us over to their house for dinner on sunday and gave me this beautiful oil painting!! I LOVE it! I am very excited to put it up in our new apartment. She is very talented at everything she does, and she is very creative. Go check out her blog.

Baby Bedding

My mom gave me this really cute white wicker dresser for the baby's room. We were just borrowing a crib with our first two boys and I am going to get a white crib to match the dresser. I have been to all of the fabric stores lately brainstorming ideas for the nursery. I finally found the one I want to use.
Isn't it cute? I think it will look really good up against the white crib. I am going to use it for the bumper pad. I would have bought it already, but they didn't have enough at my JoAnn's so I will just wait until we move. If they don't have it there, I can order it online.

Baby Towels

My neighbor is having a baby girl any day now. Since I am having YET ANOTHER BOY... I love making girly things for people that I will never get to use. I know I post a lot about hooded towels, but they are so fun to make and I think they are super useful. I asked my friend what color she preferred for girls and she said purple. I had a lot of fun getting the towels and finding a really girly fabric to go with it.
Here is my little model. Disregard the messy face. :) He is a good sport to help me with this. I usually buy smaller towels for newborns, but my neighbor has a toddler too, so they can use them for both their girls if they want to.

I think this is one of my new favorite ways to make towels.... with just a strip of material on the hood and one down each side on the front.

I get to make some new boy ones for our little boy..... I still have a few months though. :)

Reward Jars

I know aren't the best pictures...... but here are the reward jars my sister and I made for the boys. It has their first and middle initial in vinyl on the front and some cute images on the side.
We found these funny sayings on one of my sister's cricut cartridges....

And my brother-in-law made these holes in the top for me. What a nice touch. They love putting marbles in and getting rewards when it is all full.

The only thing I would do differently is use a smaller jar. It takes them a LONG time to fill these up and they kind of lose motivation. :)

Flower Wall Hanging

I got the idea for this from www.makeit-loveit.com..... as many of my ideas come from her. :) It was fairly simple to make and turned out really cute. I made mine larger than hers so it looks a little different.... but it matches my bedroom great and I love it!

Christmas Presents

In years past I was way better about Christmas. I hardly made anything this year and this sweet present was just sent to it's recipient on Friday.... oops. I also post this with the risk that my sister in law might look here before she gets the package, so Torrie.... if you still want to be surprised, don't look any further. Anyway, this is pretty fun. So I found a really fun thing to do with the Cricut. I cut out the saying that I wanted with freezer paper. You can iron it right on to the fabric you intend to use and use it as a stencil. You then just paint it with fabric paint. So fun, so easy.... and super cute results!

I also made her a a little skirt to go with it. It is the same idea as the Bumble Bee Tutu on a much smaller scale. If I ever have a girl I will definitely make her one! :)

I have been busy okay

So this craft blog and my regular blog have kind of been suffering lately. I have been pretty busy lately and haven't taken out my sewing machine since Halloween. I have completed some cute things that I still need to photograph.... and I recently got the Sure Cuts a Lot software for my Cricut. I have started to do some fun things with that too. In the next couple of days we are going to make Christmas shirts for our family. I got the idea from a lady in my ward. Every year they would make some kind of shirt or sweater and the family would take a picture in them. I don't know if we will do it every year.... but we are going to try it out this year and see how it goes. I need to get my house under control tomorrow and we need to finish them before Christmas Eve. The other problem I have been having lately is my washing machine kind of pooped out (okay... maybe I put a little too many clothes in it) and it won't drain or spin. Lucky for me it belongs to our apartment and the management company has to pay for someone to come out tomorrow and fix it. :) Hopefully they can get the problem resolved quickly. We have a lot of laundry to do and I am running out of underwear.... yikes. I'll keep you posted. :) Merry Christmas!