Something Healthy

This carrot is a little more healthy than the other felt food I've been making.



But, it's still pretty darn cute.

Baby Quilt

Here is a little baby quilt I made a while ago for a friend at work. It's a jungle print fabric that I thought was pretty cute for his little boy.

Father's day card

Here's a little card I made to give to Ryan from Claire for Father's day.


He said he really liked it.

It originally had another tool in the big pocket but I'm not sure what happened to it. When I went to scan the card just now it was missing.

Birthday Dress

Claire needed a special outfit for her birthday. I just assumed at first I would buy her something. I looked all over online for something cute with ladybugs on it. I found something on ebay that was pretty cute and I thought about buying it.

Then Ryan mentioned that I should make her a dress. I was a little leery because I have never actually sewn any baby clothes or really very many clothes at all. But, I found a cute pattern and some cute fabric and decided to go for it.


The pattern sizes were listed as 12M and 18-24M. I decided that I should make the 18-24M so it would fit Claire all summer.

After spending quite a bit of time putting it together and sewing the skirt to the bodice 3 times before I finally got it on right I tried it on Claire. The dress was huge. I had to make it all over again in the 12M size. And hey, I only had to sew the skirt on twice on the second dress!


Then there was a big internal debate about the color of the contrast band at the bottom of the skirt. I had originally bought a black and white polka dot print for this since they had no red and white at the store. But when I got home, I realized I had a scrap of red and white polka dot that would work for the band but not nearly enough to do the pantie. I eventually decided to go with the red & white but at the last minute add a black & white ribbon trim. Then I did black & white panties. It turned out really cute.


I ended up putting a black & white band on the first dress I made and gave it to my niece to wear. It fit her just fine. I can't believe I actually thought it would fit Claire.

Here they are together in their matching dresses.

#1 cake

Claire's own personal individual cake was a #1.

The decorating of the cake wasn't too dramatic. I just bought some sugared ladybugs and stuck them all over after icing it white and outlining it in yellow.



Ryan seemed to think the sugared ladybugs were delicious. I thought they were nasty.

Claire liked the cake!



Claire is really starting to understand what we are saying. I discovered by accident that she would rub her hands though her hair when I told her to "fix her hair." This led to hours of amusement of telling her to fix her hair. I'm sure I'm creating a complex.

Well, after I told Ryan's parents about this trick his dad thought it would be super funny to tell her to fix her hair while she was eating her b-day cake. She proceeded to rub her hands through her hair.

He also thought it was funny to tell her to fix her hair while she was eating baked beans. Not funny!

Ladybug Birthday Cake

Claire turned one on Saturday. I can't believe my baby is all grown up. It's so sad.

I was a nervous wreck getting all of her party stuff done. My stomach was in knots starting on Friday afternoon and lasting most of the day on Saturday. Midway through the day on Saturday I was really feeling quite awful so I decided to take my temperature. It was 100.6 -- I guess I was really sick.

Anyhoo, the main attraction at the party were Claire's cakes. The main cake was a big daisy with a ladybug sitting on it. As I was making it, I wasn't really happy with how it was looking. But, once I got the ladybug on there I think it turned out pretty good.



The party guests (all 7 of them) thought it looked nice.

Now I just have to get started on those thank you notes.

Tote Bags

I had been frantically making felt food to give to my niece as a sort of favor for Claire's b-day party when I realized I needed to put said food into something.

Hence, the need for a tote bag!

I went through my fabric stash and found two cute prints that looked good together. One was fish from a quilt I made for my cousin's baby who had a fishy theme in his bedroom. I'm not exactly sure where the orange fabric came from but it matched really well to the fish.



The tote is reversible!



After I had finished the one for my niece I realized that Claire would need to have one too.

So I whipped up one for her in ladybug and black polka dot fabric that will match her party dress. I did decide that the handles on the first tote were a little long so I shortened those a bit for Claire's bag.

When Claire gets bigger I hope to make regular visits to the library and she can carry her books in her tote.

Too Cute!