New Nursery

kind of a sad looking pic, but I made this light from a string of lights, cardboard and tissue paper!

(it is supposed to be a moon)

The nursery for the new baby in our new house is basically ready! Not every detail is pictured here, and I didn't take quality pics bc of course the only time I can keep things in order long enough to get pics is when Amelia is in bed! So I just snapped some with my phone. Baby boy will sleep in our room for a while after he is born, then he and Amelia will be on the opposite side of the house from our room! It does seem different to move him over there when he will still be so little, bc Amelia's nursery was two steps from our bedroom, but I bet we'll manage just fine.

hope you had a nice "love" day yesterday

poster by me

Scrap Fabric wreath

First I got Amelia and Tootsie to help me out, then I started cutting strips of this gold fabric and tying the strips together at the ends. Then I wrapped the strips around the wreath form. Then after it was covered in the gold fabric I tied and knotted some extra ribbon in a big clump on one side. And that's all, it was easy and it's pretty cute. 

Another finished sewing project

So excited about this dress! Amelia will wear it to my friend Jordan's wedding in November. Full of little mistakes (and shortcuts) as usual but it's complete! And I'm in love with the fabric.

little sewing tutorial!

  

first, put your baby down for her nap, then (important) neglect brushing your teeth or changing out of your pajamas, making cute clothes for your baby is much more important. 

1. get a plain T shirt from target, and cute fabric, and fusible interfacing.

2. Fuse your fabric to the interfacing so it is nice and stiff. Draw the shape of the collar onto fabric and trace where you will cut out the pattern.

3.  Cut out your pattern times 2 and then sew right sides together along your drawn lines (I kind of messed this part up but it turned out ok)

4. Turn your collar right side out, press, and sew onto the shirt

5. press it down

6. when your baby wakes up put the shirt on her and take her picture!

A finished project is a successful one. kinda.

the inspiration:

A little bench for the end of a bed, or behind a couch or something. In our case I want this for the end of our bed. It cost 500 bucks. And then I saw these cute pillows in West elm catalog and liked how they combined those fabrics, so i said, "I got it! we'll make this..."

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and so a couple trips to Home Depot and some embarrasing feats of carpentry later we completed a bench. But I wouldn't sit on it if i were you. Although I did work hard on the upholstery using all fabrics I already had and am pleased with how it turned out. it cost us about 40 bucks in new materials. It is suitable for setting our laundry baskets on, or clean clothes or our throw pillows. hahaha don't look at that corner leg! We just couldn't get that one to straighten out. 

some projects

Yes i still do quite a bit of sewing and otherwise crafty projects! for some reason i have a harder time documenting these things like i should. Here are some chairs i just redid, they look so cute on our lower patio now, and our upper patio has these cute fabric sling chairs i just ordered from Gilt. 

some other things i have done recently, a onesie made from one of my old T-shirts, a little newborn sleeper hand stamped and hand sewn on linen, and a new blanket for Amelia out of linen and a sweet floral print, which i then "quilted" i guess? by sewing some thread in a little track... 

  

for fun

Juuust playing around with photoshop. Thought I'd share...

ironing board

i recovered it! no sewing needed, just cut holes and strung a piece of string through each one like i was tying shoes...

what to make

I can't stop thinking about stuff I want to make, and yes the thought that follows that is "I wonder if people would want to buy this?" Lately I've been having fun in photoshop with those fun new fonts I got making cute little signs and thinking of fun messages to put on them. I think they would be cute on a tote bag or something. What do you think?