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!

Baptism Quiet Book

My oldest is getting baptized in a few months (we're Mormon). Gleaning some inspiration from this website HERE (I love her quiet book designs!) I decided to make one for my oldest on baptism. I'm pretty proud of myself...it took me a good couple of days to put it together. I plan on printing these out in 4x6 size and stuffing them into a cheap mini-album with baptism pics of her extended family members following the last page showing Christ getting baptized. I think she'll love looking at it during church and seeing all of her cousins baptism pictures too.

If you want to download it for yourself here's the LINK. Of course, you'll want to edit out the picture of my hubby/daughter and put it your own...

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.

Bobble Dresses

When I saw this pattern HERE, I knew I had try it...in puke green (b/c every girl always dreams of wearing a puke green dress, right?!) The original pattern fit my middle child. I added a scalloped edge b/c I wanted more length...plus it's pretty. Then I made up a pattern for a bobble beanie to match. After making one dress/beanie, I realized my other 2 girls needed one also. So then I adjusted the original pattern to fit my other girls...the results were so, so cute.



Maybe when I have the time I can post the pattern for my bobble beanie for my 2 crocheting followers out there...!

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...