Merry Christmas to Me!!!

 

Santa is bringing me this nice little gift for Christmas.

  Im so excited!!!

Also we leave for Florida in just a week.  It will be great to see my family for the holidays.  Its the first time in 6 years since I have been home for Christmas since Scott came out to meet the family before we were married.  Also I am looking forward to some warmer weather and FRESH SQUEEZED OJ!! 

I have a lot of Christmas shopping to do in the next week and a few things to assemble now that I have an almost 2 year old and each Christmas from now on will be something to assemble and making sure to buy batteries.

8 days till Florida!!!

Orange

This tree resides right outside my window.  Isnt it pretty?  But the outside it currently covered in a blanket of snow.  I cant believe Christmas is right around the corner.  We will be heading to FL in just 2 weeks.  Cant wait!!

From Regular Jeans to Skinny

My sister asked me to let the hem out of a pair of her jeans because they seemed to be getting a little short. I suggested instead why dont we make them into skinny jeans and that will fix the length on the jean as well. I ran across this great tutorial HERE and have been wanting to try it out. She was fair game so we went for it.

Lets just start by saying I am the absolute worst at getting before pictures so you will get an in between and after pic.

IN BETWEEN

As you can see the left leg before and the right leg after I had already skinnified it.

AFTER

I really think they turned out great and you cant even tell they werent skinny jeans to begin with. I have several of my own jeans I would love to do this with.
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On Black Friday I hit up Joanns for some fabric and scored some great knits and lots of other stuff I have been wanting to try out. So stay tuned for more projects.

Sewing Teaser...Finally

I found my love for sewing ever since Taylor was born but now I love, love sewing with knit fabric and making clothes. Also taking old things and refashioning them into something usable. It is a lot easier than it looks. I have blog surfed and read tons of tutorials and made my own patterns from clothes Taylor already has. This is just a teaser. I dont have all my pictures uploaded but I know I am long overdue on posting so I decided to go ahead and throw some pictures up.

Dont ask me why I dont have a picture of Taylor wearing the pants and shirt at the same time. These were made from scratch from fabric at Hobby Lobby. I took apart an old onesie that she cant wear anymore and traced a pattern from that and took some pants and turned them inside out and did the same. I will get more in depth next time.


Yes, I made this entire outfit, Pants included!! The shirt was made from one of my shirts I was going to give to DI (like Salvation Army). Again I just took a shirt taylor had and traced it and went from there. The pants I made from a pair of Abercrombie jeans I was going to give to DI as well. The trick is to use the seam and Hem from the existing pants and go from there so they look more professional. I didnt get a picture of the back but Ill post it later cause the pockets are so cute.

This was a gift I made for a friend who just had a baby. I hooded towel with her name on it and 3 cute hair accessories.

Well hows that for a teaser. Ill get more up later.

Halloween Bash @ the Beaudins

Taylors 4 month Checkup

To read about Taylor's 4 month checkup click HERE.

Another craft post coming soon.

Also my Mom comes on Friday and we are all super excited for her to come!!!

Projects...

Taylor has become quite the drooler already. All the bibs I have are gross and stained so I decided to make some stylish ones just for her to wear just for the drool. After looking at a few websites I traced my own pattern from 2 different bibs I already had, using the top from one and the bottom from another. Choose some fabric I already had and then bought some Terry Cloth at the fabric store for the back and here you have it. They turned out super cute.

The flowered one I made for Taylor then I decided I had to make one for my friend who is having a boy next week and I havent sent her gifts yet so I decided to make the red polka dot one for her. I will be making lots more bibs for Taylor because they are so easy to make.

These shoes are also for my friend who is having a boy next week. I created my own pattern for these from a previous one I had (see here). After a few trial and error I nailed it.



I had a pile of clothes I was gonna give to D.I. (like Goodwill) and I had been surfing the web on craft blogs and ran across this great tutorial on taking one of my shirts and making it into a skirt for Lexi. It was so easy to do and they turned out great.

Of course I forgot to take pictures of the before shirts so I just grabbed some pics off ae.com and downeastbasics.com.

Total cost for these projects: FREE. I already had some thread and elastic.

So this:

Became this:

and this (similar shirt from AE was used):

became this beauty of a skirt (Im in love with this one):


I have also been making more flowers and headbands. I bought another pattern off of Etsy from Snazzie Drawers. That turned into these cute flowers.


Enjoy!! Im sure I will have many more projects to come.