Ponchos for two...

A friend asked if I could make a pair of ponchos for Christmas gifts, here they are. Love both the prints. (And Cody was a good sport!)

Bugs and flowers...

Space and rockets...

Yep, I really need to find some money and start selling these, so easy and so functional!

Totally finished floor pillows...

So I know I've posted this before, but these are two of the four totally finished and stuffed. Stuffing being the harder part I didn't bargain for. The final solution was two extra firm, queen size pillows, then a bit of stiff chair foam/batting to fill in the gaps. (This stuff was a bit more pricey than I was thinking, but had a coupon)

Now to find my big, bike bags to wrap them in.

Something to keep the coffee cozy...

In an effort to give some green gifts, reusable, personalized coffee cup cozy. This is one of five that I'm making.

For mom, love's the lighthouses.

Scrapbook Yearbooks

A tradition continued, a scrapbook for both sets of Grandparent's of our year, going from Nov-Oct.

Christmas 2009, getting the ball rolling...

Here we go!

Floor pillows

This is a hangover from last year, ran out of time. This year I'm making them for my boys and my niece and nephew. They are a pieced together top, simple rectangle sides, and a canvas back. There's a zipper along one side so you can remove the inside and wash the covers. As far as the insides, I'm still working on that. The current plan is to use two bed pillows, wrapped in batting to add some bulk and keep them from sliding around.

One of the boys' Malibu Monkeys print pack.

Nephew Cody's pieced together on the wall.

The back and zipper that will be on all four.

Ashlee's pink and purple volleyball set.
This is the basic idea of how they look finished. This is stuffed with pillows that are too small.

Lots of things in frames this year, mainly pictures of the boys. I found frames at JoAnn's that are for 2 4x6 photos, stacked, and I'm going to put two wallets of Cody and two of Tyler in each 4x6 spot, with a nice accent paper behind.

Here is a sign I made for my SIL Danna, cut out with Circut.

Throw blanket for my brother, will be tied on the way up to Boise.

My favorite find of the week came from Target for $6.?? a piece. Mugs for the boys that are customizable. These are a lot like the ones you can get at Starbucks, but are only 8oz, perfect for kids. You can log onto their website and they have templates you can add your own pictures to, then print it and cut it along the lines to fit into the cup. I've been searching for something for the boys and these are perfect! Here's their site.

The ball is rolling for the annual goody bags as well, applesauce is done and waiting, and the cookies are baked for Boise. While up there, my mom and I are going to bake poppy seed cakes to add to the mix.

More to come!

A couple of presents...

My good friend Jennifer celebrated her Birthday on Wed so this is what I put together for her.

They have a great summer garden, so I found nice baskets at Michael's and decorated them with some help from Cricut.

The top one says "Garden Fresh" the bottom says "Fresh Picked Delights"

Inside the top basket I arranged party plates and napkins to go along with some sugar cookies. These are one of her personal favorites.

Another friend asked me if I could make a poncho for a friend of theirs for her Birthday. Her daughter has been modeling it before/after swim practice and her friend thought it was neat. Fleece selections are a little scares right now, but polka dots are always in style.
Thanks to Cody for being my model, even if he was surrounded in pink.

Crafty, Where are you...

So I've been in a crafty slump. Haven't touched a scrapbook, Cricut, sewing machine or anything else, not for preschool, in a weeks. I'm working on that though.

Here's my busting out the crafty project for the week:Summer wardrobe for the boys. I did 7 shirts for each of the boys, including a Ty's preschool shirt that was nasty with paint stains and a green on green shirt for St Patty's for Cody.

Next on the list is Cody's party invitations, hopefully to get done this weekend.

Slow start for 2009

So here sits my crafty corner, a little barren at the moment. I'm going to start working on some scrapbook things this week, at least get my photos re-organized. You can see a stack of blocks by the wall, a hopefully soon finished project for an internet friend, just have to stuff and hand sew them closed. The boys' robes are back at the sewing table, needed to make the arms a little bigger, the were way too tight. After stitching around the ends by hand, they will be ready to go for PJ night at school tonight.

So it's not been real busy in the crafty corner, but it will be soon enough. I was good and started to search out some projects for the year, so that's made me feel a little productive.

Finished 12 days hanging.

Dad sent me pictures so I could post the finished product, have to do better about the pictures next time.

Tree Table runner...

Finished last night, a gift for my MIL.


That completes the last of the Christmas crafts for this year. Keep checking back, or follow me through Blogger, for more to come throughout next year.


Happy Christmas to everyone!

Stick Horses...

Tyler's

Cody's

The pattern for these came from the Mary Engelbreit Christmas Ideas book. I found this at the library a couple of years ago and had to buy it, so after some tracking, finally found it on the internet.

Under the felt hood that makes the horses head, is a 1 inch thick block of wood, cut into the pattern provided, and two different sized Styrofoam balls cut in half and glued to either side to shape the head.
A 1 x 36 inch dowel makes up the stick, then I covered the top portion with felt to cut down on splinters.
The felt is sewn together, inserting the ends of the cabling that makes up the main, then hand sew on the eyes, noses, ears and form the cable into loops and hand sew in place. Then the piece slipped over the wood form. (The hardest part of the whole project!) Once it's on and in places, sew the braided ribbon around the nose, then around the back to form the halter, finally adding the star buttons.
Insert the dowel into the wood, hot gluing in place and finish with a thin red ribbon.

Let me know if you want the patterns, I can probably scan and email them.

The stockings were hung.....

I'm getting things done!

Here are the stockings all finished, we've had some additions this year to the family, some are early, awaiting my brothers wedding in April.




Also getting closer to completion are the boys' stick horses. Here are the heads, sewn and almost finished.

Project list:
Finish horses
Cut and sew floor pillows for the boys
Quilt and finish tree table runner
Finish IL's scrapbook

Put together goody bags for family, friends and teachers.
Make ornaments with the boys.

Goals were met!

I don't have any pictures to post, but I finished my goal list for the week and am ready for my brother to arrive! YAY ME!

I finished the 12 days hanging, will have to get my mom to send a picture of it because I rushed and forgot before I wrapped it.

Finished my parent's scrapbook, journalling and all! The book for my IL's is in good shape as well, the remaining 5 layouts are all cut, just need to be assembled, and the journalling is finished as it's a copy of my parent's book.

All the Boise presents are wrapped, now my brother just needs to show up!

Oh so close...

The scrapbook for my parent's is almost done, just have to go back and do the journaling for each month, my least favorite part. Going to try doing it on the computer this year, should be interesting.

Aug - Oct & the cover page....

House remodel over the summer

More scrappiness....

Here's 3 more layouts for the scrapbooks, only did one of each, but cut the pictures and papers for the local G-parents. Tomorrow is a kid-free day, so hopefully I'll get the remaining 3 + cover page done. Then I have to go back and add journalling, hate that part!