I really need a new wallet as mine is falling apart. I’ve had this giant thing for about 5 years now and I know I need something else. I’ve been looking at tutorials online and decided I just need to jump in and make one to get the idea of how it’s done. So here [...]
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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 [...]










