Christmas Wreath...

I really want to make this!  Isn't beautiful?  To find out how go HERE.

Been a little busy...

This little precious was born on August 1st and is the reason I have stopped blogging.  I've actually made a ton of stuff for her that I need to share but I haven't wanted to take away the time I need to spend with my girls.  So I'm just saving them all up and hopefully sooner than later I can get back into the flow of things and I'll find some time to post them.  Hopefully I'll still have a couple people left to share them with once I finally do :)

Burlap Table Runner...

 So my good friend Jaime came over to make this table runner at my house because I have a surger, and I love how it turned out.  She said they are selling similar ones on Etsy for $60.  This one cost under $10 to make.  She bought everything she needed from Hobby Lobby.  She cut this runner out 60 x 18 inches and surged all the edges and left them that way.

 Then pinned these pre-made ruffles and sewed three rows onto the ends of the runner.  And it was finished!!!

I tried to convince her to just let me keep it on my table because it looked so good but she wasn't convinced :).

Saying goodbye to my guest room...

So now that we are having our third little girl it was time to retire the guest room and turn it into a play room.  It was my favorite room in the house so I'm sad to see it go. Right now I'm in the middle of transforming it into a fun girly  

play room, and  I'm excited about how it's turning out.  Pictures are coming soon.

I used my grandma's antique hats, gloves, umbrella, and scarfs for decor.

She also let me have these antique pictures.

Farewell. 

More Tank Top Ideas...

Here are two more tank top I made by using the same technique as the previous post.  Except the one above I arranged the sewn jersey knit circles into a circular flower shape.

The skirt she is wearing was mine that I used for a swim suit cover-up and I just cut off excess material from the side and stitched it back up.  I love it on her.

Go HERE for directions on how to make this tank top.

Tank Top Embellishing...

So now that summer is here in AZ its time to get all the tank tops out and have some fun making them cuter for my girls. :)  I get mine all from Wal-Mart.  They went up in price from $3 to $3.50 ha ha.  I have a bunch of jersey knit material  that I used.  First I cut circles of various sizes.

Next I twisted the center of the circle and sewed over and back of it to give it a little twirly look.

Then I messed around with the lay out until I liked what I saw, and started sewing them individually into place.

After the black ones were all secure I added some smaller pink ones.

My little Ham :).

How to make a crib bumper tutorial...

To start it would help A LOT if you can get your hands on a used bumper that you can take apart.  I used my old one and started cutting off the old fabric from the batting underneath.

I know you can google the measurements of how much batting to get if you want to start from scratch but this way it also already has the old folds and the right form.

Next you can either use the batting from the bumper or the old material to measure how long and wide to cut your new fabric.

I decided to just use one pattern on each side instead of the multiple like my old one.

Below I just wanted to show how I saved the ruffle from my old bumper since it matched my new fabric.

Below you can see how I have the exact measurement of fabric to cover the batting.  Always leave a 1/4 inch  extra on all sides for seam allowance.

My little helper. :)

Next I attached the ruffle to my flower pattern.

Pin right sides together and sew along edge.

Then I had to make all the ties that attach to the crib.  This part was really tedious.  I measured the length of my old ties and cut out 28 strips of a different pattern.

Fold the strip in half right sides together and sew along the top edge and one side, leaving the bottom edge open to turn it right side out.

It should look like the pic below before you turn it right side out.

Next I took a fat fabric pencil, but you can find anything similar.  Make sure the tip isn't sharp so it doesn't poke a hole in the fabric.  Starting from the corner of the top edge that you sewed shut, start working the pencil into it.  Trying to wiggle it inside and pulling fabric down over it.  Once I got the hang of this it wasn't too bad.

Then you need to iron all the ties flat again once they are all turned right side in.

Next I pinned the ties two each on top and bottom where ever there was a fold line in my old bumper.  And you need to attach these to one of the side of the bumper fabric before attaching the two bumper fabrics together.  At the two ends of the bumper you will only put one tie each on top and bottom .  I'm sorry I didn't get a picture of this.  But its how you attach the two ends to each other and to the crib.  So in other words on the ends if you held them closed to each other you would only see a total of 4 ties not 8.

Next I pinned the other fabric right sides together and sewed them together.  Below is what it looks like opened up.

Then right sides together again and sew the tops together.

So now you have a long tube with ends open.  And for the fun part of turning it right side out.  I just shoved my hand in there and slowly pulled and pushed it along.

Next you have to pull the fabric over the old batting.  This was kind of hard and took some time but its possible :).

Once I got it all the way through I pinned the edges inside each other and sewed along the edge.

It's hard to see below but using three pins I pinned along the old fold of the batting and lined my ties up with this fold.

Then I sewed down this fold.  Kind of tricky shoving the bumper through your machine.

Yay, it's finally done!