Another Great Pattern

Here is another great and very easy to follow pattern! This is for the Bubble Skirt from Trey & Lucy! This was the easiest thing I have made so far and it turned out beautiful! It was also the very first sewing project that I didn't mess up on and have to go back a million times to fix! :) Yay! I'm getting better! And the best part about this skirt is its reversible! So head on over to Trey & Lucy HERE and get this pattern!

I tried to get a picture of Paige wearing it but she would not let me take her picture!! She's being a little stinker with the picture taking lately!

Great way to use some old t-shirts!

If you have a little girl you have to go over to Lil Blue Boo and buy the Sienna Dress Pattern!! It is the cutest little dress and whats best of all is you make them out of old t-shirts! I bought the pattern about a month ago and got straight to work. I finished all of it except for the neck... for some reason I was terrified of doing the neck, I was certain that I was going to mess up the entire dress I had worked so hard on. Well I finally finished the neck a couple of nights ago and it wasn't as hard as I thought it was! Here are my first 2 dresses! I will definitely be making a bunch of these for spring and summer for Paige!

I could make a million of these!!

As I was browsing around I saw a great tutorial for these super cute flowers from Heather Bailey! You can get the tutorial HERE. They would be perfect to attach shirts, purses, headbands, etc...

I made a small one yesterday and you can whip up a bunch of these in no time!

Paigey's new dress!

I've been wanting to make little clothes and dresses for Paige ever since I got my sewing machine for Christmas but I have been so nervous! I am a very beginner sewer and I can barely sew a straight line. But I saw this cute dress on Ruffles and Stuff and it looked simple and I thought "I can do that!" I found a plain shirt of Paige's and some fabric that matched. Well, the dress is completed. Is it perfect? Absolutely not...but I still love it! It's something that I made and I feel proud of myself! Did it take me a lot longer than it should have? Oh ya! I cannot count how many times I had to stop and fix something that I messed up! :) But I guess this is how you get better... you just have to keep trying and learn along the way. Paige will look cute in anything I put her in anyways! You can check out the tutorial from Ruffles and Stuff HERE

I love making these fabric yo-yo's! They're easy, fun and perfect for adding a little something extra!

Oh how I love Burlap!!

I'm totally in love with burlap now! I've seen all these great ideas everywhere for all kinds of burlap projects and it's so cheap too! I had a bunch of it for awhile that I got in the fabric remnant area at Hobby Lobby that was on clearance and I finally started using some of it! I had this old canvas lying around that my husband kept bugging me to throw away (so happy I didn't!) and I covered it with the burlap.

I wanted to stencil on a fleur de lis but I couldn't find a stencil large enough so I just made my own. I just found one on the internet that I liked, printed it out and traced it on cardstock and cut it out with an exacto knife. Then I stenciled it on the burlap. I just used craft paint in burnt umber.

It looked kind of plain so I took some decorative tacks and hammered them in around the edges. It turned out great! So easy and it didn't take long at all!

(Paige decided that it needed a little something extra so she took a pencil and gave it a few good markings in the bottom left corner! I think that was just what it needed! Thanks Paige!)

Next I want to make some of those really cute burlap placemats!!

"Bear Hugs"

When I saw this idea on Trey & Lucy I knew thats what I wanted to give to grandparents and Bryce's teachers for Valentine's Day! It is so cute and simple...just fill up half the jar with teddy grahams and the other half with Hershey Hugs and you have a jar of bear hugs! And decorating the jar always makes it cuter! My husband even wanted me to make some for the ladies in his office, isn't he so sweet?

Easy Placemat Pillow

This has got to be one of the easiest projects ever!! Just find a placemat that you like and open up a piece of it... stuff it with the polyfill... sew it closed and Voila! You have a pillow! I found a little cowboy/western one on clearance at Kohls and it was perfect for my sons room! We have a little western theme for his bedroom. It turned out great and he loves it! He thinks that its a pillow to sleep on though! He insists on sleeping on it every night and he says it his favorite pillow cause Mommy made it for him! :) How sweet is that? He's such a momma's boy...I love it!