sewing projects

 i've been sewing a lot.  i am so excited about most of the things i've tried.   here is a look at what i've been up to:

very soon i will let you in on who these new shirts are for! 

usually i shy away from the beginning of fall.  i love summer and hate to see it end.  this year, i'm trying to make fall cute :)

anna michael's halloween t-shirt

wanna know who these are for?  if you have a little pumpkin turning one this october-
this may be for her, and a shirt for her big sister.......

these are a work in progress!  one day they may be for sale in my shop- we shall see.

tomorrow is a special day in our house.  ok, it's just my birthday- but i'm going to celebrate with a giveaway!!! 



someone's going to preschool-

it's my will.  my middle child.  this boy does something to my heart.  maybe it's his chocolate chip eyes?  maybe it's that i relate to him as a middle child myself?  maybe it's how he's always so silly?  or maybe it's just that he's so darn cute :) whatever it is- i'm so lucky he's mine. 

sunday craft time

if you wanna know the truth i should be doing this today:

yes, that looks boring to me too.  so while that was sitting to the left of me.....i decided to attempt to make a wreath.  last christmas i started trying to make one of those super cool yarn ones- that was supposed to eventually look just like the starbucks one a few years back.  i didn't get very far.  mine only ever looked like this:

NOT very cute.....i know.  so today, i cut strips of fabric and glued them over the wreath.

so, at this point i think it looks better than before but it's pretty plain.  so, i made some fabric flowers:

take the strip of fabric and make a knot

twist and hot glue as you spin the fabric.  sound more complicated than it is.

continue to glue as you turn

glue the extra fabric to the bottom of the flower

then i glued the flowers to the wreath.  simple as that.  and, instead of getting to that sweet pile of clothes- i made more fabric flowers and started gluing them to things around the house!!



and now....i'm off to fold that pile of laundry :)

crayon art

i've seen these everywhere.  i wish i remembered the first one i saw- i'd totally give that crafty person credit for the idea.  this is one of the EASIEST crafts that you can do. we have ours hanging in the boys bedroom.

all you need is a canvas- (whatever size you'd like) crayons (we used 2 24 count boxes), hot glue and a blow dryer.  we painted our canvas first- totally optional step.  i had the kids separate the 2 boxes of crayons into different colors- we lined them up on the canvas.  i hot glued the crayons to the canvas which took about 5 minutes.  finally we went outside and used the blow dryer to melt the crayons.

lucky for me, super jack was on hand to help :)

and just when i thought we were in big trouble.....spiderman came to my rescue as well!

my own little super hero squad!  it was like 95 degrees outside too.....they are not afraid to toss on those costumes!

even the littlest hands got to help!

totally loving this!