December's Projects

 Real stockings made out of real fabric and everything.  It was time.

 This garland was quick and easy.  I used the Cricut to cut out letters from cute scrapbooking paper and then laminated them (by hand unfortunately because my laminator died on the first letter...I cried real tears of sadness to see it's demise.  I had to be careful to not let my tears fall on the exposed, UN-laminated paper.)

I have wanted to be able to decorate the girls' rooms all cute for some time and never quite felt the inspiration to do so since we have rented for so long.  I would love to paint but since we have been temporary so often I just have never really done much.  But I had the idea to use a lot of photos in their room and this is what I came up with.  I made a collage of pictures of them (and some of their sisters and parents) and decoupaged them on balsa wood letters.  The frames turned out a bit too large but overall I was happy with the results.  Plus, I put a couple of duplicate pictures on both of their letters so they can play the "do you have a..." game that my roomy sister Sarah and I used to play as kids.

 Still lacking a little something...maybe vinyl lettering around the outside of the frames?

 I am also taking all of our random little pillows from around the house (travel pillows and such) and recovering them as cute little throw pillows for all of their beds.  These are the only ones I have finished so far but I like them....now if only they would make their beds...

 A little lamp embellishment never hurt.

 Their rooms are small in this house and since they are all sharing (two and two) I have had a hard time with their space feeling cramped.  I feel like their rooms still lack something so I will continue to add a bit here and there...maybe curtains to hide the bizarre blue shades...and I wish I could do something about their compulsive need to stick things in their walls with thumb tacs and Abby's ever present hoarding issue...but afterall, they are kids and I want them to have "their space" so I'll let it slide....but the dirty underwear under the bed I must insist be taken care of, at least every couple of days.

A couple more...

 The felt birthday crown.  A little small, but love it.

 I do lots of applique baby/kid gifts.

 For a baby and sister.

 Burp rags...why not make them cute before they get barf all over them?

 Couch pillows.

 I recovered Hazel's poor (4th child) carseat.  It's already in need of another new covering.  I may just have to retire it someday.

 My denim quilt that only took me 6 years to get around to finishing.

 The girls all have these for church and they make a fun gift for a birthday party.  This particular one is made from a placemat that made it so much simpler to do it quickly.

 Last year I copied Pottery Barn Kids' advent calendar.  I love to embroider so it was actually a fun project to do all the individual little squares.  These pictures were taken before it was completely finished and before the squares were sewn to the tree.  I put a big yellow star on the top and a thick brown trunk too.

It's fun because you can either put little candies it each day or we have a cute little clothes pin that we just move from day to day.  OH, and I forgot, I embroidered the number underneath each square.  I will have to take a picture of the truly finished product when I get it out next week.

Time to play a little catch-up

So since I linked to this blog, I thought maybe I should beef it up a little with some other projects that I have done around the house.
Keep in mind...photography is not one of my talents.

 Made this while living with my Mom a couple of years ago...hers was cuter.

 Love our silhouettes.  I should do a tutorial on how I did them because it was waaayyy easier than other ways that I have seen.  All six took me less than 45 minutes.

 My pinned butterfly collection...inspired by the butterflies that sister in law Megan strung across her girls' room.  Mia and Hazel also have butterflies in different sizes pinned up the wall by their beds.  So easy, so cute.

 Owl hair clip holder...I believe my sister Abby made this one for me.  Adorable.  It's legs are orange polka dot ribbon that hold all the clips which are so plentiful you can't see it's cute legs.

 This headband was made during sister Carrie's big "headband making trip" of 2010.  We made them every night.  I am embarrassed to say that after taking these few pictures of headbands I counted how many I had in all....are you ready? Don't judge me...48 was the grand total (and that only counts the ones put away where they go!) In my defense, I have made 75% of them, and they are all darling.

 (A mere fraction of our headband mayhem.)

 And then Mia took some pictures.  I liked her "short person" perspective.

 This was fast and easy too.  Just took the glass out of a frame and put down cute paper, then screwed in some knobs from Target.

Hair things

I have made a bunch of things for my own daughters and then made them for a short while to sell for Baby Rhodesbud project. These are just a few.

FHE kits

I gave these as Christmas gifts to two families two different years. Someday I will make one for us.



OK, can't find pictures of the other one....

Aprons

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For a week or two I went through an apron thing. It makes me happy to wear them, especially when they are cute. So I made a few for some people that were coming to our home for Thanksgiving...women that were bringing and cooking delicious food for me.

Fairies and Monkies and then more Fairies

A few years ago I painted some pictures for Clark's nieces that matched their hair and eye color.
Then a couple of years ago I did some for his nephews to fit their room decor.


I finally decided that maybe I should do some for my own daughters. I had not finished Hazel's yet when I took these.