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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Crafting Bonanza!

The last 12 months have been very busy, but productive. I didn't realize how many projects I've not only considered, but actually completed.


As I am no master seamstress they are by no means pretty or public/play date worthy- however I don't think infants care about looks.

5 soft ABC blocks
3 fleece hate of various styles and sizes
1 small bunny stuffed animal
1 large Walter the whale
2 small jelly fish stuffed animals
2 taggie balls
1 pair leather soled shoes ( unsure if usable tho)
1 car seat cover
3 (silent) rattles
3 soft grip sticks
1 large fleece blanket
6 crinkle squares
2 medium wet bags
2 light cotton receiving blankets
1 large play at with taggies
1 travel changing pad
4 bibs
12 burp clothes

Phew! What a load of work!! :D

However, since I'm not on top of my stuff and posting faster, there are a few items I need to add to this list. First, I have to throw out there that stuffed animals, no matter how elementary they seem, are NOT easy. Which is what I'm sticking with as my excuse of why mine look so...unique :) haha




Look! Walter the Whale is in the ocean! Just kidding..that's just my bed :P
But beware: all that stuffing can get to your head and it's intoxicating! I was so excited finishing Walter that I immediately thought t o myself, "Hey, I can make some balls that would be fun to play with too." I'm going to stop here and explain that it is NOT in fact a good idea to jump to making the balls. At least for me, I was in fact cursing the gods making these stupid things and I would have stopped after one but I had already cut out the pieces for three. Grrrr....

which try as I might I cannot get a picture of them to upload. Sorry :( Maybe another time.
They are cute and will be fun, but do not be deceived. The balls I made I stuffed with Tshirt rags because I had them. An unanticipated side effect of this is that t-shirt rags are MUCH heavier than polyfill. These suckers are DENSE. They will most definitely be used as weapons in their play lifetime, and certainly will break a lamp at some point. These were sort of my 'Everest', I needed a break after them.

After some time, I got my motivation back and I had a new idea to make something cute for my adorable little niece :D
I haven't delivered them to her yet, so don't tell! (I don't think her parents read this...)




What you see there are three headbands and three pins to go on a cute little girls sweater or outfit hehe. I loved the tutorial when I saw it and just HAD to make them :D

After I finished these I looked around my craft supplies and saw how well I'm doing with going through my craft supplies. That was my goal - to get through all my craft stuff (or most of it) before we moved. I wanted to at least move with useful items rather than a few bags of scrap cloth, random pieces of fleece or duck cloth, beads, etc. As I was looking at this I realized the one thing I still had a lot of was leather. So, of course I thought: Baby Moccasins! So that is what I'm working on now, hopefully I'll have that up for you soon :D

Happy crafting!