Paper Bag Skirt

After finding this cute striped print on clearance for $3/meter I decided to loosely follow this tutorial.

This is the result.

And here's a 3 year old wanting to "pose" with mom.

New Dresses, Again

Using up some Sandi Henderson fabric, I made these easy-peasy dresses. I love the waistbands...got the waitband idea from HERE. Adding a waistband to a peasant dress is such a great idea- wish I would've thought of it earlier.

Had some leftover fabric and made some matching hair clips!

Knit Dresses

My girls like dresses. My 2 yr old insists on wearing a dress every single day- she will NOT change out of her jammies unless she knows she gets to put on a dress. Needless to say, we are always in need of dresses around our house. In particular, comfy play dresses. So when I found a good deal on some knit fabric I thought, maybe I'll whip up a few dresses. So I did.

Peasant-style dress...you like the mismatched, too big shoes?!

I bought a cute dress at Target for the girls. I kept saying, I bet I could make this- it looks easy. So I gave it a go and miraculously it turned out. I love flutter sleeves.

My daughter is showing you her new "silver" teeth (though you can't really see it from this angle).

Wall Quilt

I finished this months ago but I didn't hang it up in the nursery until last week...b/c I'm lazy that way. I think the crocheted edging on the flowers turned out pretty darn cute!

Ignore the husband goofing off and trying to disrupt my photo shoot.



I would start another quilt but I'm all out of inspiration right now...I need ideas...!

Dresses

I've had this Patricia Bravo fabric laying around for ages. Every once in awhile I'd pick it up, love it, and admire it...but then it went right back on the shelf. So FINALLY, I decided I needed to do something. I came up with this:

I used this PATTERN and added length to turn it in to a dress...also added a sash around the waist.

I used this LINK to make this dress. The pattern is for a shirt but I modified it, adding length for a dress.

The other dress I followed this PATTERN to the letter...although it probably took me 90 minutes instead of the 1 hr.

Seriously, I have a new respect for photographers of child models...my kids cannot stay still for more than one nanosecond. It's pathetic but these pics are the best I have.

Girls Room

Now that we renting there's not a lot we can do about the walls and window coverings...but the girls really wanted an animal safari room, in turqoise. Initially I thought, impossible! However, thanks to Michael Miller and his Zoology fabric line...we found turquoise (mixed in with black, grey, puke green, and yellow). So now I present to you, the turquoise animal safari themed bedroom:

Recognize the dresser? It's IKEA...I've developed a great appreciation for IKEA since moving to Australia. I found a lady on Etsy that cut me some vinyl stickers of animal prints and then I framed them (in IKEA frames). And I love this puke green bird cage I found at a random housewares store- doesn't mix w/the safari theme but b/c it was the perfect puke green color I had to have it!

Overall bedding shot. Every girl dreams of having a zebra print and puke green colored throw...ha ha. Actually, my girls really do love their new bedding. The girls love their bunkbeds! The worst thing about bunkbeds is changing the sheets on the top bunk.

I made these pillows...I especially love the monogrammed one's...too cute.


So that's pretty much it. I have a vinyl sticker giraffe growth chart that will go on one of the walls but I'm still waiting for it to arrive in the mail...now, if only I could do something about those nasty blue-lacey drapes...

Nursery #2

So she's really not a baby anymore but I went ahead and made another crib bumper and quilt...the quilt is still being machine quilted- so pics on that later. But here's a pic of the bumper (even though she doesn't really need one):

Don't you just love the Alexander Henry print? Those birds are darling...