Awesome Gift

Here's a gift I got from my mom for my birthday and I love it! This would make a great holiday gift as well. She used her Silhouette SD to cut the vinyl and found the perfect plastic containers at Smart and Final! Thanks again Mom!

Best Cinnamon Rolls Ever....

I haven't had a lot of cravings this pregnancy, but last week I was really craving cinnamon rolls. I've tried and made a lot of recipes for cinnamon rolls and this is by far my favorite! I took them to a family party last weekend and they were a huge hit! I'll definitely be making these again soon. But this time I'll probably eat most of the pan myself :-)

Here's the link to the very wonderful food blog I follow regularly- Stirring it Up With Pam.

Halloween Spiders Craft

I saw this cute easy craft over at one of my new favorite blogs, Eighteen 25. They did a month of Halloween craft ideas. These were super easy, super cute, and a great project to do with my 5 year old this weekend. Try it, here's the link to the tutorial!

Witch Skirt

Jayne wants to be a witch for Halloween. I had this old cape from my mom in black and orange so we went with that color theme. I finally finished the skirt last night. I've never done this type of skirt. I got the instructions from this youtube video. I wanted to finish it early in case it didn't pan out and I'd have to made something else. But, I LOVE it! And so does my little witch.

AbraKadabra!

Debbie's Baby Shower

I got to help host another baby shower this past week! I was in charge of decorations with another friend and we had fun! They don't know if it's a boy or girl so we went with generic colors. We picked black and white polka dots with aqua and yellow accents. I think it turned out so cute!

The Pennant: I was super excited to find an online tutorial with the dimensions of the fabric pennant pieces. It's 6 inches x 8 inches. I made a template out of a cereal box and used that to trace. Used pinking sheers to cute all the way around and attached it to no fray ribbon. It was a super easy project and really added a lot. I'm going to do again for some fall decor.
I made the baby lettering with my silhouette and hand dyed the onsies. I used an online tutorial for making stripes on a onsie but tweaked it so it wasn't straight. I made it more tie dyed looking and edgy. Ruffling and a bow was added to the girl version! I love these and might make some more for the shop. Also I painted the wooden clothespin in black and white dots to match our theme.
The decorations all turned out wonderful and lots of people brought amazing goodies. These pictures where from before the food really started to arrive.
The party favors turned out so cute. I just got the candy and the bags with ribbon. My friend Melinda made these adorable tags to go on each! They turned out so cute!
My friend Debbie with all the girls who planned it. Funny this is 4 of us are pregnant and 2 just had their baby (2 weeks ago and 4 months ago). It's in the air!

Some recent projects....

I have been crafting... just not blogging much. But as we get back into the school routine, I should get better. Here's some fun projects from the last few weeks...

Tote Bag for School:

Lots and Lots of Soccer Team Hair Bows:
Lots and Lots of Church Chair Covers:
I couldn't have gotten this project done without my mom. They turned out awesome. Thanks for saving me from my craft rut!!

(There's a plastic pocket to slide the class name into each one. Turned out so perfect and so functional for year to year)

A New Tooth Fairy Pillow:
Need to get this posted in my shop! I have some new girl ones and non-gender specific ones coming too!

Sewing In Paradise...

Sorry it's been a slow summer on here. I'm excited to announce that I'm 9 weeks pregnant! And have been feeling horrible the last several weeks. I should be feeling better in the next few weeks if everything goes like the last 2 pregnancies, so I'm crossing my fingers. And once I get feeling better, I have a lot of projects to catch up on, and of course my favorite time of year...fall! So many projects to do for fall and the holiday's to get ready for. So, I'm sorry for lack of posting, but I'll be on here regularly again soon.

A few weeks ago, right as I was starting to feel awful, the kids and I went to my parents house for 2 days to visit. My mom and I intended to sew for both days but I only felt up to it to sew for 1 afternoon, but it was wonderful. We decided to setup our sewing on the back porch! And it really felt like sewing in paradise.

I had a great view of the kids playing in the backyard on the playset, trampoline, and putting green. It was so great! As soon as I'm feeling better, we're headed back for several more days of sewing in paradise :-)