More Baby Gifts!

I recently was invited to a family friend's baby shower and I wanted to make something special for the mom-to-be. I bought the onsies from Babies-R-Us and found some cute animal shapes off line and a flower from a sewing book I had for the appliqué. One stop at JoAnn's and 2 night of work and I was done! it was a fun, easy and successful project. 

-Lindz

Christmas Crafts

I thought it would be a great idea to make all my gifts for friends and family for the holidays this year. Fun at first, but after countless trips to Target and JoAnns, 15+ wreaths, and 5 purses later, I started to question my 'great' idea! Don't get me wrong, I still made them all in love and enjoyed each moment, just wished I didn't commit to so much for one holiday! So here they are, 15 (I think it was more like 17) wreaths, and 5 clutch purses (thanks to noodlehead blog). I made 3 wreaths for my house, and have plans to make a purse or two for myself! Thanks to the supply of my dad, I will be able to make a true suite purse that I have had my eye on from here: http://diaryofacraftaholic.blogspot.com/2010/02/suit-coat-clutch-tutorial.html He was nice enough to donate 4-5 nice name brand suits to my craft supply! Pictures to come as that is on my list of to-dos!

-Lindz

Letters

Better late than never! Here is Tristan's first Christmas present from Aunt Lindz and Uncle Coop. I love it when letters are hung all the wall (though we do not have anything like that in our home)...but I think it is really cute when letters are hung in a baby's nursery. So I thought this would be something that no matter where it was put it would be a great addition to Tristan's room for many years to come. How I did it...well I wanted to do fabric covered ones, as I thought I would find them in natural wood. To my surprise, I was able to get white letters, so I went with fun scrapbook paper to cover the front, then I pinned ribbon to the back for them to hook onto the wall. It was a fun project and didn't take that long to do!

-Lindz