high FIVE

That's the number of kids are family will have!

We are pregnant with baby number FIVE!

Love,

baby shower dresses

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a baby shower. I found out about it the night before, and the shower was at noon the next day...In other words no time to run into town and buy something.

So I made a cute little dress for baby and one for big sister.

I made them to fit next year because...

1. Im not a fan of anything but comfy clothes on teeny babies.
2. Im not a fan of dresses on crawling babies...

...so...

That leaves a dress for a 'just starting to walk baby'



Big sisters dress will fit next year too. I also like when I got presents that werent all 0-3 months. I ended up with many of those and not much else for that first year when they grow so fast.



I also made little hang tags to go on the dresses. I've never had a reason to make a hag tag before, but thought it would be a fun touch...it kind of makes me want to make more dresses so I can add a cute little hang tag to the project ;-)




I bought A LOT of these gray fabrics to complete so other dresses for more little girls who will be born soon or have been born already but I've been procrastinating making anything.



Love,

a break

Joel and I took a day together to go hiking in Zions and see the leaves start to change colors. The cloudy weather and rain that we have had in Southern Utah the previous week made the canyon so beautiful with waterfalls everywhere!




Love,

Joe's new kidney transplant

This is my little niece Aubrey, she is the daughter of Joel's sister Holli and her husband Joe. They are trying to raise money for a new kidney transplant, their site is here.

Go and check out their site and read about their story. It's very touching!


Love,

Lil' Golf Dress

I love little girls in dresses!....a lot!



This little dress was made with green corduroy material. The purple plaid material for the ties match the little diaper cover and hairbow.




I also added a cute little patch that simply said 'happy' on the front lower corner of the dress.

Love,

Cards~cards~cards

Some of my friends already know that I design cards, scrapbook pages, sewing projects whatever is needed for Jill. She is a Stampin'Up demonstrator (she was the 5th demonstrator to sign up in the company) It really is a blast making things, I've been doing it for years.



Here are some of the things I made for two recent get togethers she had. (No I did not make all of them on the whole wall)



My favorite is doing anything that needs to be water colored, I really do love the water color crayons that Stampin' Up sells, mine look so messy and used.





Love,

Daniel Boone Costume

Daniel Boone, the man man who was responsible for the exploration and settlement of Kentucky....that's who Taran will be for Halloween.




His outfit was all home made!

I have waited to post this, in hopes that I would put him back in the outfit, but Im sure it wont happen until Halloween, so here is the basic idea of the outfit.

Pants: sewn with fringe at the bottom and along the pockets and made of a heavy duck cloth material

Shirt: a basic tunic

Vest: Made of a heavy duck cloth and complete with fringe on the bottom.

Hat: ....why a coonskin of course!

The old vintage wooden gun had a leather holster we made.

The look turned out great and worked well with Kyler Johnny Appleseed costume. I'll post more pictures when he puts it on again.

Love,

Trying to warm those legs up!

Here's the quick project I did (times many) in one morning before the kids even woke up....Leggings.



I made Parlee a bunch of leggings to go under the dresses she already has.

These were super fast with this pattern. There's not even elastic in the waist, which made them even faster!

Love,

fun tags...for lack of a better name.

I saw this fun tutorial on how to make your own hang tags....since I dont need hang tags but was curious to try out the tutorial, I made a few (I guess generic, regular, boring but I thought adorable, but not quite sure what to use them for, with the exception of the birthday one) tags.




The tutorial was found here.

Love,

Twirly circle skirt

Family wedding = sew new clothes!



Joely ended up with the circle skirt. I used this method here, and was happy with how super fast and easy it was!

Of course I made here wear some biker shorts to the wedding so that all spinning would be modest.

I think Joely and I may be matching soon, because I tried hers on and I totally want my own now too...I guess I should make a mini one for Parlee then we can be a whole family of circle skirts!

Love,