Fabric Dolls

I mentioned in my last post that I've been on a DIY kick lately.  I've been wanting to learn how to sew for some time but never had the time or ready to or I was a little intimidated.  Now that I have a little baby girl, this was all the motivation I need to give it a shot.

My mom was in town the last few days and she knows how to sew.  We went to the fabric store, picked out some patterns and fabric and got to sewing.  This is our finished product.

I just had to share since the dolls surpassed my expectations.

In case you're interested, I used simplicity patterns number 1342 and 1549.

Craft Project: Beautiful Paper Flowers

This Sunday I hosted a baby shower for a good friend.  I can't say how appalled I was at the selection of baby shower decorations stores carried.  I must have gone to 15 stores and all I found was these themes of silly little baby animals or tiny footprints in all pink or all blue.  I have never been one to like things to be too generic.  I much prefer home-made to store bought any day.  This led me to find other alternatives for decorations.  I searched online and found that Martha Stewart had a paper pompom do-it-yourself project that looked really cool.  In her version they were completely round as they were being hung from the ceiling.  I found that you could do them with a flat bottom to act as a table top flower.  Check it out... oh yeah and here is the link to Martha's instructions.  They took about 8 minutes to make a piece.  But let me just say how relaxing it was to make them... and the finished project is so pretty that you just need to sit back and admire them for a minute.

I made little flowers to pin on the guest of honor and the mini guest of honor- Addison ;)