Halloween Class Treats

I volunteered to help in my daughter's 1st grade classroom this year (not sure what I was thinking with a 4 year old and an 8 month old at home), so they called me up for the Halloween party.

I was in charge of treats this year, so I scoured pinterest and here's what they're having!

VAMPIRE DONUTS

 donuts+ vampire teeth + M&Ms + royal icing (to keep the eyes on)

MUMMY DRINKS

Little Hug Fruit Barrels + crepe paper streamers + hot glue + googly eyes

Link and Zelda Kids Costumes

I've loved the Zelda games since I was a little kid, and my daughter has started playing the newest one, so we chose a Zelda theme for Halloween this year. It took a lot of convincing for my son to be link.  I've been working on psyching him up for it since August.  What finally convinced him was the shield (which he calls a fire shield?  I think he thinks the Hylian Crest is fire) and the potion bottle.  Spiderman doesn't have those!!  haha

I made these without a pattern, and I thought about making one and posting it here, but it's just way too much work with a baby in the house, so just pictures will have to do.

The Link shield comes from this youtube video.  I used corrugated cardboard, acrylic paint, flat marbles, and craft foam instead of the things they recommend.

The best part is that our baby is a Zelda Cucco!

Ear Bud Pouch

My kid needed earbuds this year for school, and I didn't want to just throw them in her backpack with everything else and have them get tangled or broken.  I went searching and found an adorable tutorial for a circle earbud pouch at Dog Under My Desk (link here).

I used fusible fleece inside, which I don't actually recommend because it was too thick to topstitch, but it's what I had around.

24 Crayon Roll

My daughter's school required boxes of 24 crayons, so I searched all over for a 24 crayon holding crayon roll.  I couldn't find a tutorial for one I liked, so pattern shmattern, right?  I made my own.

I did not make a tutorial, but I will tell you that the pockets are 1 3/4 inch wide, if that helps you make your own.

I made a Bapron!

I've made a few of them now, but I just loved these colors so I took a picture.  The bapron tutorial and pattern is available at here from Craftiness is Not Optional.

I just added a pocket (I like having them to catch crumbs) and I backed it with rip-stop nylon instead of flannel to give it some water resistance.  It fits well on my chubby 6 month old.  I bet it will fit for a while now as she starts to grow up more than out during the crawling age.

I Love You in Dinosaur

Rawr Means I Love You In Dinosaur!

I have always loved this saying, so I finally spent the time to make a shirt for my son with a freezer paper stencil.  He has been begging me for a "sharp tooth" t-shirt.

If you'd like to make one, I've saved my template.  The dinosaur picture was just from a google image search of "dinosaur silhouette."  You can do the same and switch it out for a different dinosaur easily.  Click on the image to download the stencil pdf.

The easiest thing to do is to cut a piece of freezer paper to the size of your printer's paper and then print the image directly on the non-shiny side of freezer paper.  Then use an Xacto knife to carefully cut out the image (make sure to save all the tiny pieces like the insides of the "e" "a" "o" "r" and "d'", iron it onto your shirt, and paint away with fabric paint.  There are lots of freezer paper stencil tutorials online if you need better instructions.

Baby Blessing Gown

My oldest daughter wore the gown I was blessed in for her baby blessing, and I plan to hand it down to her for her own children.  For my younger daughter I made her a gown so she'll have something to hand down to her own children if she would like to.

Here's my baby girl wearing the blessing gown I made her.  Unfortunately at the time of the photo she wasn't exactly happy...

 

 

 The body fabric is cotton knit, and the ruffles are white and off-white satin and polyester lace.

 I used this pattern from Sew Much Ado (I purchased the full pattern because I like it so much) and this tutorial for a ruffle dress from Kojo Designs and meshed the two together to make my daughter's blessing gown.  I don't like unfinished edges, so I used my serger to make rolled hems on the edges of the satin ruffles, and I used this tutorial for gathering on a Brother serger to make the ruffling go so much faster.  I also used this tutorial on Make It & Love It to make the flower on her headband out of left over lace.

Look What I Made!

If you've been wondering what I've been up to lately, I've been suffering from pregnancy ADD (or so I call it).  In the end of my pregnancies I just can't focus on anything.  I can't read books.  I can't do a project that takes more than an hour.  But it was worth it.  Here's our latest little one!

Thanks so much to my friend Staci who took some beautiful newborn pics for us.  

Here's her facebook page if you'd like to see more of her work.

T-Shirt into Baby Gown

I've been saving my husband's worn out Soylent Green t-shirt for a long long time, just waiting to find some way to reuse it.  I found a baby gown tutorial from

because every baby needs a Soylent Green shirt, right?

Ha ha ha I'm so excited to try this on a baby!  The tutorial was simple and easy, and except for the whole "sewing knit fabric is hard" issues, I didn't have any problems.

Featured Fish Costume

My son's halloween fish costume was featured over at Lasso the Moon today.
Head on over to check it out!