Sweet 'n' Sassy Girls

I had a friend ask if anyone knew how to make a baby hat that looks like a football.  It looked easy enough to me, so I tried it and this is what I came up with.

Super duper easy to do!  Maybe if I get brave I’ll try to write down the pattern for this. [...]

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I recently went to a baby shower for one of my husband’s cousins, and wanted something fun to give.  I made another owl hat like these, but thought that wasn’t quite enough.
So I turned to ravelry and started looking at free baby boy shoes and came across these awesome crocheted Converse shoes.  I’d never made [...]

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I finally sewed together all the pages I got in the quiet book swap and put them together for a Christmas gift for my kids.  I was going to sew up a few more pages of specific activities I wanted, but I didn’t get a change.  I figured I can always add more pages and [...]

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I finally finished the rag quilt for my daughter.  I have had the fabric for over a year, and have had it cut out since last winter.  I decided that it would be the perfect gift for Christmas for her, especially she did ask for a quilt once, although she said she wanted her grandma [...]

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I have been sewing diapers like crazy!  Here’s some I have done recently.

This is part of a newborn stash I sewed for my cousin.  There are 6 covers, 2 AI2s, and one AIO.

Here are the covers all laid out.

Here are the 2 AI2s and the one AIO.

Here is the inside of the AIO.  I love [...]

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I haven’t soaped in a while, but I knew I wanted to get some batches for Christmas done, so here are the latest loafs I did a few weeks back.

This one is a mint chocolate.  The brown lightened up a lot more than I was expecting, so it’s not as chocolate as I had hoped. [...]

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I am loving these owl hats!  They are so easy to make up and are just so adorable!  Here’s two more I made as gifts.  Now my daughter wants one too!

If you want to make your own, this is where I found the free crochet pattern for the owl hats.

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Yikes! How the time has flown by. I meant to post this just after Halloween and obviously that hasn’t happened!

In the post before this I promised to show you the tutorial I used for making Harry Potter wands for a Harry Potter Halloween party. They were really easy to do, with just [...]

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This year I didn’t go all out on the Halloween costumes for my kids.  My daughter wanted to be Ariel, and I had a neighbor who had made a mermaid costume for her daughter in the past and offered to let us borrow it.  I figured then I wouldn’t have to try to figure out [...]

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