A Baby Sprinkle

My sister in law Wendy and my brother recently had a baby girl, their 2nd daughter and 3rd child. Well I wanted to help set them up  for the impending arrival. However, I have never thrown anyone a shower (by the way a diaper shower  is now called a Baby Sprinkle, apparently it is cooler than Diaper shower....whatever). So because of my sister in laws work schedule we had a hard time finding a date, we finally settled on Aug 28 (Wendy's Birthday). So I emailed out the invitation (SOOOO much cheaper and faster, I was done in less than an hour), recruited some help and this is how it turned out.

 Thanks to my awesome sister in law Nancy who threw her sister a baby shower the weekend before, and then let us use all her decorations. It looked so cute!

So here is where the real fun begins. I decided that I wanted to make her a car seat tent, so I borrowed their old car seat so I could make it the right size. Days before the shower I decided that we (my sisters, Mom and me) should all pull together and get them a new car seat, since theirs was about 6 or more years old. So I looked around and found one on sale at Target that happened to be the same model as their old one. So I came up with a genious plan, we would try and fool them into thinking that the car seat was their old one using the car seat tent. We filled it with the stuff that we (my Mom and I) made and put the car seat tent over it. Both Wendy and my brother Nathan were fooled! Wendy thought that I had made a new car seat cover, but was then informed that the whole thing was new. It was awesome! 

But back to the craft the car seat tent was really easy to make and is SO cute! I found the tutorial here. This was the second time I made one and they are so easy, even for a sewer who has no idea what she is doing.

 I also made her this Diaper clutch. I have one and love it so I made her one to match the car seat tent. I found the tutorial here

The diaper clutch I had never made before and for a beginning sewer like me it was a little confusing and, I will admit, a little frustrating. But when the light bulb finally turned on, it made perfect sense and was then pretty easy. I even think that I might have an easier way of doing it. I will have to try it out and let you know if it worked.

But all in all I think that the shower went well and that my homemade stuff was pretty darn cute. Not bad for a first timer!

Hair Flowers

As with most things I am a newbie. I have never made a lot of things. Like for example a flower hairclip, or whatever you call it. But my sister is getting married in less than a month, and for some reason I volunteered to make a flower for her hair! What was I thinking! OK to be fair it was really easy. But still it stressed me out because I didn't know how to do it, and I wanted to do it right (I am kind of a perfectionist). So here is the end result. And this is how I did it. I went and bought a regular white rose from Michaels (I think it was $1.99), then unceremoniously took it apart. Poor rose never stood a chance. Basically you rip off the bottom which frees the whole thing, mostly. Then you have to take out the plastic middle part. Then you have the petals to play with. I took of a few layers and like it better, it laid down better. Then I took a button, the fancy kind with the hook at the bottom and sewed to a circular piece of white felt. But that wasn't as sturdy as I was hoping so I brought out the gun....the glue gun. Things worked well from there. Then I strung some little pearls that I got from Joann's ($1.39 ish) on elastic and glued then around the button. Finally I got a clip from on younger sisters unused old hairclips and glued that to the felt. WA-LAH! Mission accomplished! Next time I make one I will have to take pictures of the process, but since this was a first timer I was flying by the seat of my pants.

So my newest niece was born this afternoon. While my son was "napping" (if singing to yourself is napping, I nap ALL the time), I decided to make some jewelry for the sweet little one and her mother. They didn't take me long at all, once I decided what colors and such. So here they are, not fancy, but I think cute!

I couldn't get a real good picture of the earrings, but hopefully you get the idea.

Two bracelets for the little one, hopefully they fit. I haven't seen her yet, I am a little excited....can you tell?