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Child/Toddler and Baby Halloween Costumes
I love to make my kids Halloween Costumes!! Here are a few I have made over the years! Our little Candy corn, made out of felt using the Candy Corn Simplicity Pattern for dummies, and then I made matching shoes and bag, she was so cute!! Butterfly Fairy, made some wings using foam, fabric and some rhinestones, with some elastic arm straps. Made a pink and purple tutu to match! She looked adorable again! The wings… And then she was tinkerbell, only she wanted to be pink!! Used this Simplicity pattern found HERE. Oh and not to forget the spider costume I made for our little crawler…. Go HERE for…
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Kids Valentine Ideas & a Lollipop Valentine tutorial
Here are some of the cutest Valentine Ideas for your little school student! I used the Valentine photo with a lollipop attached for my little girl. See the tutorial on how I made it at the end of this post. Hope you enjoy! Just click the pictures to go to the SITE they come from… I loved this one so much I helped make them for my daughter to take to all her classmates at school for their Valentine’s Day exchange. Wanna make them for your little one? Here’s how… Lollipop Valentine Tutorial: First I took a picture of my daughter and added some words and hearts in photoshop… got them printed (make…
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Felt Christmas Tree Advent Calendar Tutorial – Part 3
We’ve got to finish up our circles!! Hope you are almost done, December 1st is just around the corner. If you missed Part 1 and 2 of the Christmas Advent Calendar Tutorial you can find them here…PART 1 and PART 2. After cutting out all my felt designs I hand stitched them into place with matching embroidery floss and a needle. A Feathered Nest has some great tips on hand stitching HERE. Remember if you don’t want to sew just use some fabric/craft glue to attach your designs. I attached a few of my pieces with glue instead of sewing them on. Here they are… Hoping to sew my circles on the tree tomorrow!…
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Felt Christmas Tree Advent Calendar Tutorial- Part 2
How’s your Calendar coming along??? If you missed Part 1 you can find it HERE. Let’s continue our Christmas Tree Advent Tutorial… Part 2 (steps 2 and 3) involve a lot of CUTTING. We will be cutting out our tree from the green felt. Then get all our circles (or squares) cut out. Lay them out on your green felt tree to make sure you like them. And start cutting out all your felt designs. I’ve posted the ones I’ve cut so far.. remember make them simple, you can add detail with embroidery later! Lets get to work…. Step 2: Cut Tree Out – Lay your felt – folded in half…
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Homemade Christmas – for Her
This year I wanted to start a Homemade Christmas list of gift ideas for all those wonderful people in your life. Today I wanted to focus on the Women in your life, mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, etc. So here is my top ten list for 2012. Hope you all have a happy homemade Christmas this year!! 1. Grandkids Board – an adorable Picture board for Grandparents!! I made this for my mother-in-law and she loves it! HERE is the tutorial. 2. Apron – what women doesn’t want to look super cute while cooking?? She will love a new apron!! HERE is an adorable tutorial for this cute apron! 3. How about…
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Felt Christmas Tree Advent Calendar Tutorial – Part 1
Okay Holiday Crafters!! It’s that time of year. Time to hurry up and get all our crafting done!! I have always wanted to make a Christmas Advent Calendar. And a few years back I saw Abby from “A Feathered Nest” post awesome pics of her Pottery Barn Knock off advent calendar!! I fell in love! Then after doing some more research this year I was inspired by Rach H over at “Family Ever After” and just had to make my own Christmas Calendar. I love how Rach has a sew along guide for all us fellow crafters who want to pursue such a time consuming and detailed project just before…
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Easter Cupcakes
Here is a cute idea for Easter cupcakes. Would also be cute to make for a golf party using round white candies instead of Jelly Beans. These Easter Cupcakes were made by my sweet friend Emily! All the mini cupcakes! The kids loved them! She made these for our fun Easter Party, you can check it out HERE. Click HERE to see all the fun Linky Parties I’ve linked up to!
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Easter Veggie Platter
Cute Veggie tray platter idea!! Shaped like a carrot for our annual Easter party! Click HERE to see all the fun linky parties I’ve linked up to!
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Pink and Green Easter Party!!
The easy and fun DIY Easter Party!! This is the funnest little Easter party to put together! I have links to all the things I made/printed. Check it out and have yourself a very Hoppy Easter!! Bunny Prints to welcome your guests…(use flour and a little water on a sponge cut out like a bunny foot) ACTIVITIES: Easter Egg hunt of course!! Have all your little guests bring 10 eggs each, hide them and do your egg hunt, 10 per kid).For Sign..(print the words on cardstock, cut and glue to Easter scrapbooking paper, laminate if desired and mount in yard) Carrot Bunny Toss… Using a large cardboard box draw a…
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Christmas Card Idea
Cute Christmas Card idea. This was our Christmas card last year. I couldn’t get a good picture of all the kids together so I decided to just take individual pics and put them together. Used some digital scrapbooking stuff and printed them at Costco. So cute!
