Family and Friends Guess who?

I saw a version of family guess who floating around in the pinterest world and decided that is what I wanted to do as a family gift to my Sister in-law and her family. Here is how it turned out. I Love it!!

A few things I made ..a very quick post

My Niece is very into unicorns, Pegicorns, rainbows and trees and I had the perfect amount left from a dress I made for my little girl to make my niece this skirt. I cant wait for her to get it!!

Here is a dress i made my little one.

Have a great day
-D

Have you heard of Freezer Paper Stenciling yet?

Im not sure if you have heard of Freezer Paper Stenciling and all the possibilities you have with it... But here are a few things I made these past couple of weeks with this technique. A tutorial will be coming soon...

Hello Kitty stencil I did on a shirt I made

Martin Luther King Jr

Shirt I did for my hubbies co-worker

shirt for another co-worker. Do you know what this is from?

 Have a great one!
-D

What to do with a pair of jeans that has a hole?

A while ago my oldest girl made some big holes in the knees of her pants but since it was just changing into summer I decided to just cut them off to cute board shorts but then I was left with 2 of these

I hung on to them, and thank goodness I did because my 15 month old was in dire need of a cute simple jean skirt.

To start out you have to un-pick one of the edges. I chose the outside edge since it was not double stitched and would look great as the side of the skirt. so it should look like this..

Do you see where I un-stitched it? Great!! Here is where I totally forgot to take pictures but dont worry it is super simple YAY!!
Now you lay your two pieces right sides together and stitch the edges then you finish the bottom hem where you had to un-stich it. Next you have 2 options you can either do as I did and just take some elastic the size you need and sew it on to the top of the skirt with the longest stitch you have on your machine or you can find some coordinating fabric and add it on top them put elastic through... I hope you understand what I mean by that.
It only took about 20 mins to make and the longest part was un-stiching the seam.

Here is what the finished Product looks like. I absolutely love how it turned out and the best part is it will grow with her since it is a little longer. I'm one happy Momma.

back view

front view

  Have a great day!
-D

Color block dress from t-shirts

I realized Temperance does not have much in the dress department. So this week I set out to make her some super comfy but cheap, since she is growing like crazy, dresses. I grabbed some of my T-shirts that I don't wear anymore, lets face it we all have a few of those, and came up with this super cute color block dress for her. She rocks it like a rock star! I loved it because she was able to move un-restricted and I didnt feel bad about putting her down for her nap in it. I will try to do a tutorial soon since I will be making more this week, but for now enjoy some pictures of my super chubby baby girl.

Such a funny face in this picture but here is the front of the dress

From behind..She wont stand still!!

Front of the dress

Turtle shirt with crayon

Last night as the hubby, who is a graphic designer you can see his website here, was out late at a work thing so I made this little shirt for a drawing I made my husband draw for me the night before. The shirt turned out great and then as I was adding the crayon turtle I was not paying attention and a birds butt ,that Michael also drew, got on there. Grrr! So I had to figure out how the heck I would cover it up and decided to add the words Turtle to the side. It still came out cute and Im happy with it. Im going to be making some little shorts to go with it. Enjoy the pictures.

-D

Happy Mothers Day Weekend!!

I can't believe it is already May!! This year is flying by. I love that I have a kiddo in school now because they come home with the cutest little gifts see..

Isn't that coaster darling! I told my family that all I wanted for mothers day was a nice relaxing no whining movie filled family night. HAHA you think it will happen with a 11 month old, 4 year old and 6 year old in the house? Anyway here are a pair of shorts I made yesterday they are a size 24m-2t.

Right now Im making some strawberry fruit roll ups, also known as fruit leather, in the oven. I will let you know how that one turns out. Have a great day. -D

No-Yeast Lemon Muffins

A couple of days ago I saw this sweet little number yummy!!

Source: bakerlady.wordpress.com via Danielle on Pinterest

But as I went to make them I realized I did not have any yeast and I didn't want to run to the store either. So I searched for yeast free rolls and finally found one that worked if I changed a few things. They didn't really turn out like rolls more like dense yummy muffins. So here is what I did to make some yummy lemon glaze muffins that look like this...

To make these you will need

Muffins
2 Cups Flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp Salt
1 1/2 cups water *you can substitute a little lemon for some of the water to make them lemony. Yummy!

muffin baking topping
1 Lemon Zest
1/2 Cups sugar
3 TBS Butter

Lemon glaze
1/2 Cup Powder sugar
1 TBS Lemon Juice

Pre-heat oven to 350. Mix all muffin ingredients together and spoon into greased muffin or cupcake pans. Next pour melted putter over dough then mix sugar and zest together and divide evenly on top of un-cooked muffins. Bake in oven for 25 mins. While those are baking combine the lemon glaze, pour over hot muffins. Let Muffins cool completely in pans that way they will stay soft. Once cool enough enjoy! They are best eaten the same day.

Have a great day!
-D

Crazy year already!!

Well so far 2012 has been a crazy year, my hubby took a new job so we moved back to Las Vegas! Its great though we do love it down here with the warm weather and no snow! Yippy! Sorry Ive ignored this blog for so long but I have been one busy cookie. Here are some oldies but goodies Ive made. Hope you enjoy
-D

Girls easter Dresses

baby booties, Temperance feet grew so fast she never got to wear them :(

Night gown for baby

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012

Where the heck did December go? Was it just me or did it feel like it was only a week long? For us we spent Christmas with 3 sick kids of course! So for 2 weeks I was busy taking care of my sickies and trying to not catch it myself (which I have managed to do YAY!) But some how I was also able to get some stuff/crafts done that Ive had my eye on. For starters I mad a couple of these bad boys: I made one as a white elephant gift for my husbands company party but I couldn't stop there... Ive made a total of 4 bearded beanies plus 4 regular beanies! I cant believe I didn't learn to crochet sooner I have so many things I wanna try to make!

My Dad in his bearded beanie made with a store bought beanie

For Christmas I usually make my girls each a fun pretty girly dress but this year I decided to make some cute little christmas vests instead. But since they were sick they never wore them darn it! Oh well I will have to dress them up in them and take pictures one of these days.

Then I made this shirt for my Dad for Christmas...The man loves his hunting trips and his Wife (aka my mom) 

While I was making his shirt I forgot to put something between the shirt layers while painting so I had to improvise to cover up the paint that went through to the back. Here is what I came up with...

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Have a wonderful Day and make 2012 the best year ever!

-D