Paisley's Valentine's Outfit

Paisley asked me for a new skirt for heart day. One she could twirl in. So I took her to the fabric store, and we picked out some fabric. Of course I procrastinated til the night before, but I got it done in time for her v-day party with her friends:

Project of the Month - Complete

This month's project was Chalkboard Placemats. One side is a vinyl print that is easily wiped down, while the other side is a chalkboard, including a slot to keep a chalk. The entire mat rolls up so that it can easily be stowed in a diaper bag or purse, ready for your next restaurant visit, or appointment with you little tykes. Also great for keeping youngsters busy in places where there are no toys readily available (visiting family, church, etc). These particular ones are already spoken for, but I hope to make some more in the near future to sell.

Rag Quilt

I need to take some more pictures of Paisley, so I can update the blog here. But for today, I'm just double posting, and posting the same item as I did on my craft blog. But I just love this fabric, and wanted to share it with you. :)

Haven't been hearing back from many people lately, either. Very few comments. I miss the comments. I love comments! :) I do plan to get back to updating everyday, first thing in the morning. Paisley being sick just threw everything out of whack this last week. I'm happy to report that the fever is 100% gone, and now she's just got a small cough and a stuffed up nose. Last night I put on the humidifier in her room, put her vick's plug in in the outlet, and used saline drops and a nasal aspirator to clean out her nose. And she slept from 8 til 7:30 (which I actually went in to wake her up). So that's good news. Over the weekend she was only giving me about 3/4 hours of sleep at night, and even that was a little interrupted. So I'm very happy.

Ok, here is the post for today:


I finally managed to get pictures of the owl quilt I made last week. This fabric is incredibly adorable and it GLOWS IN THE DARK!

I ended up making one crib size rag quilt, and two mini rag quilts with this fabric.

First off, here is the crib size quilt:









This item can be found in both my Artfire store, and my Etsy store.


Next, here is a photos of the mini quilt:





This item can also be found in both of my online stores: Etsy and Artfire.

Doodle Girl

I made Paisley this doll using Bit of Whimsy's pattern (featured in Saturday Slices a couple of weeks ago). Aside from a couple problems (easily fixed next time round), I'm pleased with how it turned out.


And so is Paisley!

Slacking

Yes I've been slacking. But really I have nothing to post. We haven't really left the house since Friday, and we haven't come across any new developmental milestones. So thus, you get a boring text post.

Josh has been sick all weekend, with fever/chills, nasty cold. So he's been in bed a lot. He also took Monday off, and worked from home (so I guess technically that wasn't OFF, but he did have a 3 hour nap).

Paisley's just been playing, eating, and sleeping. Not so much of the sleeping. She hasn't been napping really well. But that may be because we haven't been leaving the house. We've switched her over to cow's milk now, and she's doing very well on it. And she eats what we eat for meals, mostly, I just top her off with some more pureed foods (not really pureed, but mushy. Something I can spoon feed her).

As for me, I've been sewing mostly. Made another rag quilt, and 3 mini rag quilts, as well as a baby sling, and some bean bags (well, actually lentil bags). Currently making a doll, but have been procrastinating finishing, because I need to embroider the face, and I've never embroidered before. Have fabric cut for another doll, and another rag quilt, as well as an apron. So those will be my next projects. I think I'm going to take a week, and just sew a bunch of summer clothes for Paisley, but that will have to wait til April.

We've also been making a list of household jobs we want to get done in the next month or so. Lots of little touchup, etc.

Now that I think about it, Paisley and I did go out for most of Saturday, we went looking at a few open houses (about a dozen). Didn't find anything that we liked though. I did see a house a couple weeks ago that is still on the top of my list, and I've also seen listings for a couple more I wouldn't mind going to see.

Project of the Month

Ok, I really want to get back into my project of the month. So here is a sneak peek of March's project:



I'm actually hoping to get it done this week. :)

Finally listing new items

I'm finally getting around to listing new items in my Etsy store.

Here's some of the items I made this week.... :

Reversible Pinafore #1:




Reversible Fabric Coasters:


Reversible Pinafore #2




Couldn't get all the images loaded on here.... the internet was being a pain. So if you want to see more of them, you can head to my shop, and throughout the course of the day, I should get them all in there.

Sew Along

I've been wanting to try quilting... I think I'd enjoy it. Well, this month is Fat Quarter month at Sew Mama, Sew. And one of the feature products is a doll size quilt. They are doing a sew-along, and I think I will join them. So I invite you all to join in the sew-along as well! I'm starting a couple days behind, but hopefully will get caught up and can finish with everyone else.

I Won!!

So I'm very excited. I've been reading the blog over at SewSensible for quite a while now, and love the clothes Aimee has designed for girls. Anyway, she held a contest this week for people to win 4 of her patterns of their choice. AND I WON! :)

Here's the patterns I selected:






I look forward to trying these patterns out in the new year!

Check out Aimee's website and blog at : Sew Sensible

October Project Sneak Peak

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Here is a sneak peak at the fabric for my October sewing project.

September Project

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So at the beginning of the month I gave you a sneak peak, well here is what I made with that fabric. A cute little girls' sundress!

I do have to thank my mom, for the help she gave me, it's been ages since I've sewed from a pattern, as well, she helped with sewing the ribbon on, because I was too scared to ruin it! Thanks mom! I'm actually really pleased with how it turned out in the end. Just tied the bows and attached them this morning.

Coming this afternoon, a sneak peak at October's sewing project.

This week though I will be focusing on paper crafts.

We're home

Back at home this week. Working on re-establishing a routine. Actually, that hasn't been too hard. Paisley's gotten back into it pretty good.

So what'd we do while we were away?

Well here's one of the things I was up to:






These are some wet wipes/cloths that I sewed up to sell. :) ONly in 3 prints right now, but I have a bunch of other flannels now (jet planes, space theme, flamingos). Wet Wipes

New Project - September

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So I'm excited about my September project. This is a sneak peak. Top secret til I'm finished. Isn't this fabric fab?