Getting Closer! I Can Feel The Pressure!

My nephew loves Sponge Bob, so when I saw this fabric remnant in the clearance bin at Wal-Mart, I thought of him. I had bookmarked this tutorial a while back, wondering if it was really as easy as they said it was in the tutorial. Well folks, it was! It was probably the easiest project I completed all year. I had a couple of pillows/forms that someone had given me, so I just altered the dimensions to suit my pillow form and voila! It turned out great! I see some pretty cool pillows in B's room in the future...and maybe even some more interesting ones on our couch as well!




I also made this game called 5 Stones from a tutorial found here. The rules are a little more challenging but I thought it would be nice to have a harder game for the older kids and adults. I had never heard of the game before but it sounds kind of like jacks. Its a great project to use up your scraps. I actually used part of a green linen napkin that I picked up the same day that I bought my buttons for this project.



My final project for today was another tag-along prop kind of thing (yep, that is its official name) that goes with a book. Since my soon to be niece already has the book and loves it (so my lil bro says) I decided to make her "green eggs and ham"...well the ham is more like a ham steak. I'm just getting into making felt food (which is very addicting I might add) and the 3D food is a bit harder. But the ham steak didn't turn out too bad, right?

Puffs Are A-Okay!

So, remember our little encounter with the lethal rice krispy kernel? Well, it was one-month ago today that we tried anything remotely resembling a solid food. Today, I worked up my nerve to give it a go again. We went with a puff this time. In my opinion, after I tried one of them, I didn't think that they dissolved that fast. But, my mom made a good point when she said that B was basically a slobber machine (not her words exactly) and he had a lot more moisture going on in there so it would dissolve faster for him. Well, he successfully maneuvered (the majority of the time) the puffs from his high-chair tray to his mouth with only a few going into Mickey's mouth. (That is where this house dog thing is going to come in handy.) He did have a little issue with the release. Sometimes he wouldn't let go of them once it got to his mouth, while other times they were just moist enough, that they would stick to his hands and not stay in his mouth. Its a work in progress, but we are just a little bit closer to big boy food!

Mmmmmmm....Pie

I've made this pie, twice now...just in case it was a fluke. It is darn-tootin' good pie. If I were you I'd make it, but only for a party because you may just eat the whole thing yourself if you were left at home alone with it. ...I'm not implying that happened or anything, cause it didn't...yet.

Christmas 2009 Part 1

One More Checked Off The List...

This I-spy bag was a quick project that I checked off my list tonight...finally. I had slowly been collecting supplies for it since I first saw this tutorial on Make It and Love It. She has got tons of great tutorials along the left hand side of her blog. This little gem is going to be part of a Christmas gift that I am putting together for some younger kids. It wasn't hard to make at all, if you have all of the supplies. I went with the poly beads because I didn't want it to be ruined if it got wet like it would with rice or beans. For the vinyl, I just used part of a onsie package that I had saved for this purpose. You would just need to use some sort of plastic that is strong but not too tough for your sewing machine. I put all kinds of little beads and shapes inside also. Hopefully this will entertain them for a little while in the car.

From The Ashes...A New Project Has Risen!

So, I tried my hardest to make the oven mitts work and look nice. They worked but I could not for the life of me get the binding to look nice. So I scrapped that idea...literally. I didn't want to waste all of that nice Christmas fabric that I had bought and cut up already so I went on a mission. A mission to find something cool and easy and fun and did I mention easy? And what luck! I found something on my first stop at Sew Mama Sew. She has a wonderful list every year called Handmade for the Holidays. Every day there is a new category with multiple similarly themed projects. I chose this cute little star ornament. I skipped the button because I didn't have any cool, vintagey ones laying around the house.

Projects In Process

No finished projects to report today. Instead, I leave you with some blog cruising...

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