Keira's Big Girl Room

           

        A few weeks ago I asked around to get some advice on my daughter's bedding choices! I love the choice I made and love how her room turned out! :) She loves it too! I loved hearing her scream and squeal as she climbed up and started jumping! :) The room we were working with was small and I wanted it to brighten up and feel light and cheerful! I think I got the result I wanted. I chose Behr "Springtime Bloom" in Satin and Disney color: I think it was "Baby Bee Yellow" not sure though. I did white trim and doors. Thank you Nancy for helping me paint.  I will also be making her a solid pink valance.  Her solid pink wall needs something. I am thinking some vinyl something. ???

BOW HOLDERS: 

A wonderful grandpa in our ward cut out the cute flowers and made the flower centers for me! I love them!

PICTURE CLOTHESLINE:

I hot glued some tacks to buttons for the end of the clothesline, strung some painted craft size clothespins on the line. Each of them had a tack hot glued on the back as well. simple as that! I used some different sort of string for it. not sure what it is.

BUTTERFLY:

This was a yellow butterfly I found at Hobby Lobby a few years ago and I painted it pink and green. I also left some yellow and added sparkle!

PAINTING DRAMA!!!:

          I thought I could knock this room out in a day like I used to be able to. WRONG! The first day painting we got a lot done although the yellow paint was thin and took 3 coats to cover! I think that is just yellow paint though. It seems I had this trouble last time I used yellow. That night my mother in law left me and took my daughter with her so I could get some more painting done. That night I was so sick. While I was painting I was having shortness of breath and felt I was going to pass out. I felt queasy and just plain tired and gross. I cut the pink wall in that night feeling that way and felt like I might die. Then It just got worse. all night I was up with.. "parvo". If you don't know what that is, look it up. :) it's a dog disease, but it works. :) (I used to work at a vet clinic for years and that's what we called it whenever someone was sick.) I didn't get painting done at all that night and felt terrible.

           The next day I worked all day and got it done. the white took 4 coats to cover and I got it all done while keira napped. I decided I'd clean up a little and I bumped the ladder that had the white paint on top. I left it out because I would paint the back of the closet doors once I got some things put away. You probably know what happened next. The gallon of paint knocked over, hit my head, covered my hair and eye with paint, fell to the floor and covered the ladder on the way. I got my eye cleaned out and saw the disaster I made. I started to freak out and called my husband who was hours away from being home. I started cleaning up best I could and called my friend for help! She came and brought her carpet cleaner and took my daugher with her to the part for a ward activity. I spent the next long hours soaking the floor with hot soapy water and sucking it back up. My newly painted walls had white runs in them. I cleaned it all up the best I could and noticed my hair was a matted crusty mess still. The inside of my ear was even covered. Gross. I went and soaked in the tub and took a brush to my hair... ouch. I went back to cleaning and putting her room back to order. The floor now looks like new and her walls ... well, the door is the only thing I notice has a run in it. I don't really feel like picking up a paint brush any time soon. The moral of the story!!!!! Don't paint when you are sick, exhausted or have small children. EVER. :) If you must like I did, put plastic down on the floor and prepare for extra days of mess.

Garage sale special!

   

         I started jogging a while ago (it's been a few weeks now since i've gone. :( it's just so blazing hot!) and my friend gave me a double jogging stroller I thought we'd have need for by now. With just my daughter, pushing a double around was heavy and used more energy to push than I wanted to. I found this awesome new looking jogging stroller for $5.00 a few weeks ago!

         ok.. get this. I bought the stroller, and 3 books each .50. and some mk face wash for 5.00.  The guy said.. ok how much will that be? I said 11.50. He said, how about 16.00 because I like your hair. I was like ... ok...??? and handed him my 20.00. I left scratching my head not sure what happened. maybe he only had 4.00 change. Oh well, it was still a good deal!

       ANYWAY.... while I was running, I noticed my daughter being a little uncomfortable where her head hit the back piece. It was just a curved bar with NO Padding at all. so I thought.. "I KNOW I can fix that!" I sometimes feel I have a small superpower. lol! I spend a few hours one night and finished the next morning on this padded stroller liner. It has about 6 layers of padding in the top part. I LOVE my old noisy sewing machine!  It's exactly what I hoped for. :) She likes it and so do I!  The sewn on straps for this stroller are shredding and can not be replaced, so I also made strap covers.

Look at what My husband did!

       I'm so proud! He works all week long In a different state and comes home on his vacation time and builds shelves in the Garage!!! It only took over a year to do it, but now that it's done we both love having them there! All our JUNK is off the floor and not in a pile. it's so nice! Thank You Josh for helping!!! :) WE can now park BOTH cars in there!

I would love to see my husband have a shop like my dad's! Peg boards up with all his tools organized and a big tool box  and work benches everywhere! someday! for now this works!

Peasant dress

This dress started out as a Pillowcase dress I did a trade for with http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/grannybsclothesline. She has done wonderful things for me in the past and her stuff is always adorable. I just recieved this dress and was bored with it. so plain and simple and no shape.I think I just don't like pillowcase dresses.  I decided i'd take a pattern I had for a peasant top and add length to it and make it a dress. The pattern I used is found here:  http://www.etsy.com/listing/67337831/portrait-peasant-tops-and-dresses  I love LOVE love this pattern, and I love the way it turned out!  it is so comfortable to wear. .... I'm sure. :)

I also took the ribbon that was in it and made her a bracelet to wear.

I got these projects done a few weeks ago, I just never got them posted till now. :)

This has nothing to do with sewing!

           
Ok, I'm getting keira's room ready! Her bedding is picked and her bed is all set up! Dresser is full of her clothes and everything! Now it's time to paint. Our whole house was painted from floor to ceiling in the same color. Boring! I want to do white trim maybe with a pink wall or ANYTHING fun and cute! I need ideas and help! Her bed has 4 posts that would be cute to do some sort of canopy for it or something. Her room is also really REALLY small so there isn't a whole lot of room to do much. With such a big looking bed in there now, her walls seem to look really bare.

This is the bedding we chose

Last night's creations

Zippered pouch with clear window for Baby needs

          My daughter is to the age now where she doesn't NEED me to carry her huge diaper bag around with me everywhere I go. If I'm gone for the day shopping (both of our favorite things to do) I can just throw this in my purse with a diaper and go. I made this without a pattern, but had an idea of what I wanted it to look like. I like it! :) Pretty simple and so functional. It can hold hair ties, nail clippers, bandaids, teething gel... etc. :)

4th of July Shirt

I like this shirt, but It feels kinda boring. Should I add a bow? Don't look too closely at the stitching! :)

Or a bow with streamers?

I have to remember she will have a bow in her hair too. ????



Icecream Applique Overalls

Something SWEET for my little sweetie!

          Let me just say.... If you know me, you know I have a thing for overalls. :) I don't know why, I just love them! I saw someone make these and sell them on etsy. The woman is so nice and sweet and is charging a sweet price for these overalls. She even told me what fabric she used! I just can't afford them myself, and I hate the feeling of paying someone else to do something I can do myself. I drew the applique templates out by hand and traced them onto fabric. I then placed and heat n bonded them on. The most time consuming thing I did was stitch them all down. I don't have an embroidery machine and I think If I did, it would take all the fun out of applique for me! Yes things would look a lot crisper, but I love looking at the finished product and seeing my little tiny flaws and remembering how hard it was to make. It makes me feel good. My new favorite thing is applique lately. I love it! Making ruffles...... Not so favorite.  I again make those the old fashioned way and seem to always break the thread over and over again. This time around I had one of those hair pulling experiences. I also made my first peasant top for this outfit! I forgot to take pictures. It was easy and looks cute! I added a ruffle to the bottom of that too. sigh. :) I love the way they look, I endure the pain! :) Anyway, thanks for reading! Have a happy day!

Tomorrow is the big day!

FINALLY! phew!

My last onesie for a while. I had another stack of onesies to do before the craft fair, but when I looked at them yesterday I just wasn't feeling it. I need to be into what I'm doing otherwise it turns out looking terrible and sloppy. I don't put out sloppy work!

My mom asked me to make her a gift for a baby shower she is going to in a few weeks. This little boy will be ready  for camping! (yes, I made two moose. I think they are cute)

This was all I got done today. :(  The binder is for people to look through to purchase my patterns and the cds have the patterns on them. Those have been a lot of work. They are costing me about 60 cents each to make too. That's not including the labels I was given by my awesome friend. She has been such a help to me for this craft fair! THANK YOU KATE! I printed each envelope with my business card and each label had to be designed and printed off and stuck on to the cd. The burning part is taking me hours! Oh how I would love a new computer. The actual buring of the cds is quick. It's the imputing new information with EACH cd. It's dumb. And after I get one pattern all burnt off and am ready to start on the next one, my computer won't let me. I have to restart my computer each time and it works fine after that. such a pain in my butt! Because of all this, You might notice my posting time. 3:30 a.m. I'm so stinking tired right now. My daughter even woke up once and I was in with her for a while. Last night I was up till 3 too. this week has killed me. I hope to be done in the next ten min and I'll hopefully finish tomorrow. sorry for whining. :) I really hope my hard work pays off. or pays something.     



So much to do, so little time.

I have been working on these doll diapers, bibs and burp rags for a while now. I did each one in stages and it seemed to take SOOOOOO long. sigh. so glad they are done. I feel like for all the time I put into these there isn't much to show for it. Cute though! I just hope people will buy them. 

These are a few crayon rolls I finished to sell. Around here it is impossible to find the JUMBO crayons. I'll have to pick some up at Walmart when I go to town.

The one on the bottom is just for regular crayons.

Working my fingers to the bone this week!

DOLLY DIAPER BAGS:

This Dolly diaper bag has been sold. It turned out way cute I think! I did not use interfacing on the lining like I did for the other bags shown here however becuase I ran out.

  

This next bag I made for my daughter. We need one to keep with her dad at work so when we go visit we don't have to haul all her toys with us to a different state every time. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

These next bags are ones that will be for sale at the craft fair. If they don't sell there I'll sell them online. If you would like to purchase one of these before the craft fair let me know. They come with two diapers each and a changing pad. I used interfacing on the entire lining of these so they are more sturdy and lay down better. Each bag has one outside back pocket, one outside side pocket for a bottle and two pockets inside. Little girls love these! I wish they weren't so time consuming and tedious to make or every girl I knew would have one by now. :)