Ugly but loved

My son sucks his thumb with a blanket. My daughter has started to suck her thumb, so we wanted to get her a blanket she loved. I wasn't having any success, until I realized she liked stringy things and silky things. So I bought some tricot and sewed ribbons coming off of it. I made two she loves them when she is tired, especially the ribbon. Yes I know its ugly, and it will only get uglier in time.

Leftovers

The beading craze continued, even after my mother was gone I made this. The beads were leftover from baby bracelets. My husband thought the necklace looked like a fishing lure.

Blue Necklaces

I told you it was a beading craze. This is not the end.

Beading Gifts

During my mom's and I beading craze. We were beading at my grandmother's house, and my grandma asked why we never made her anything. So I made her this. She said she loved it and wore it around the house the other night, because she never goes anywhere but church.

Then in a previous beading craze at my grandmother's house, one of eleven sister in laws happened to also be at my grandmother's house and expressed a desire to own a bracelet beaded watch. For her birthday my mom and I made one. You might notice an overlap in beads.

The back of the watch-- the toggle, a phrase I think my sister in law will think is cute.

Joy

I recently made this necklace. I picked out joy, to remind me to have joy in motherhood, to not get bogged down with laundry, dishes and noise, but to enjoy my fat fingered children. (I love fat sausage fingered children.) Every time I look in the mirror I see joy, and it helps the day go on.

Just to prove I'm embracing motherhood. Here is the firetruck with an arrow picture.

I really do love my children, I just need a reminder of how fun they are sometimes. I don't want them to grow up and me realize one day I let it all slip away.

Found

I found the lost pacifier clip! Like my husband said my son put it in a completely logical place. Inside a jewelry box I never look in. My daughter hasn't used pacifiers in what seems like an eternity for a baby life. But here it is.

A jewelry box made for a ring, a jewelry box I didn't even know this could fit in.

Here is my matching bracelet, I used the left over silver beads. Once again I love wearing this bracelet!

Mixing it up

Sometimes I like to mix it up. Instead of making a pregnant women a baby blanket with ties. I made my friend, three sheet like super thin soft, baby blankets. She just had a baby, so she has a summer of swaddling?! How does swaddling work in the summer? I don't know I decided thin baby blankets are the way to go. I've only had winter babies.
She wrote me the nicest thank you note. Something to the effect of at the previous baby shower we were both at (for a different girl) she thought I was so funny so she decided she had to become my friend. I really appreciated that, because I always feel so out spoken at showers, I talk WAY too much.

About a month after the shower

I finished this blanket only about a month late.

Yes, this is basically all I do. Make baby blankets, with two kids I don't have anytime to do anything other than make presents for everyone who is reproducing.

Mother's Day cards

These are the cards we made for grandma's for Mother's Day, it was last weeks family home evening. I made the photo corners so the grandmas could frame the picture if they so choose, or just keep it on the card. It was a PAIN! I thought the corners would be fairly easy, but after 16 corners, I wanted to cry. I took little squares and folded them diagonal twice, so they you get a triangle, and glue them together except for one of the pockets, then glued the back on to the card. When you opened it up inside there was a pocket holding more pictures. Plus a card that said Happy Mother's day, inside J signed his name, and I wrote his sister's.

My son's flower arrangement

I think my father in law taught my son to pick weed flowers and give them to me. I love it, it is the only flowers I get. The other day, my son picked these, and wanted to put them in water for me. He picked out my beloved jars.

Matching Accessories

I decided about a month ago my daughter needed fancy pacifier clips. I made two, and my son lost one and it is still lost, I'm beginning to doubt we'll find it even when we move. Here is the non lost one. I love it, unfortunately my daughter does not love pacifiers, she use to like them sometimes, but even that is a stretch these days.

I had left over pink coral from the pacifier clip and paired it up with left over 6 mm light pink pearls from the birthday present necklace, so I made this bracelet. I love it, wear it non stop since I made it.

Doesn't every mom and daughter need matching accessories?!

Baby Bracelets

I started making my daughter baby bracelets, and got a little carried away. I made a set (comprising of 1-3 bracelets) of bracelets to match each one of her dresses.

They are just so fun to make, since they are only 4.5 inches long, I can whip one out while watching The Office, or a set of three out during a movie.

to be continued...

New Blankets

My daughter still likes to sleep like a burrito. Since its warming up I thought I'd make some light blankets. They are super easy, I bought two pieces of a yard and quarter, light calico cotton, and hemmed both of them, and then I had two large light weight baby blankets. You could probably make these blankets without any sewing if you knew how to use hem tape. Here is the finished product. Fancy I know.

Here she is modeling the blanket.

Here is the second blanket, being modeled.

They were patterned after this blanket that was created many a years ago.

This is a sewing project for a beginning sewer. Since all you have to do is take your iron and fold the edges of the material over twice so you don't see any raw edges, pin for convenience and sew. I always get compliments on these three blankets, because they are big, soft, light and versatile. Anyone who has shopped for babies know that the only lightweight blankets available in stores are barely bigger than 28 inches by 28 inches, incomparison to these which are about 45 inches by 45 inches, depending on the size of the hem. I spent $3 on each piece of material, and about 20 minutes.

Easter this time

This is the second to last holiday apron, come October I'll make a halloween and I'll be done. My son loved the pattern on this material. The flower is actually from my daughter's headband accessories, its on a clip and fully removable.

I am super happy with this apron, because it has a ruffle on the bottom. I'm in a big ruffle mood, I blame it on having a baby girl. I only learned how to make them last fall.

The pockets are purely decoration, but I could probably fit a hard boiled egg or two in them. They are suppose to minic the rabbit's ear pattern. I don't think I succeeded.

St Patty's Apron

I realize this post is a little late, but here is a continuation of my holiday aprons.

My kid thinks it funny to stand on my material/projects, he finds it equally funny to stand in front of pictures when he isn't suppose to be the subject. When he is suppose to be the subject he hides.

I liked anita's apron so much, I copied trim on this one.