Jars Jars Jars!!

 

Aren't they adorable? I love them! My super sweet fiance took me to World Market-my absolute favorite store ever :D-the other day to look around and I saw these super cute tiny little jars. At $4 for a set of 4 I absolutely had to have them. I knew that they were exactly what I needed in my crafting corner.


So what did I do with them?

Don't you just love them? I haven't put anything in the other two jars yet because I got a little busy with my baby girl but I'll be posting them soon!

Refashioning Onesies!

When I found out I was pregnant with my sweet little girl I was given clothes from everyone that had a baby recently..some of them ended up being little boy onesies and I decided to hold onto them because I had a friend who was having a baby at the same time. Well we all ended up having girls so what was I supposed to do with these onesies? Well I needed to girly them up!
The first one I started with was a brown and white striped onesie that was pretty cute just not very girly. So I grabbed some brown polka dot ribbon and headed off to the sewing machine.

*warning: I don't know how to sew the "right" way..I kinda make it up as I go and hope it works*

So I made sure that the first ruffle was along the butt,right about where the leg holes start on the onesie. Then I started sewing,just a normal straight stitch. Every so often I would just hold the onesie in place while keeping my foot on the pedal so that the ribbon would gather. I sewed over the ends the ribbon and then went back over the top completely so that there were no more gaps. Then I sewed one more 1/4 inch under the top of the first. Super easy and only took me about 20 minutes!

What do you think?

Baby girl's first ornament!

The tree is up! I am so beyond excited for baby girl's first Christmas :) We really wanted something special for her first ornament and we did alot of looking at stores but didn't really find what we wanted. We did get her an adorable picture frame ornament that says baby's first Christmas and we let her pick an ornament and she got a pink baby bottle but that just wasn't what I wanted. So we went to pick up some glass ornaments to put pictures in (more on that later) and I already had paint for another project so we decided to go for the handprint. Next to impossible with a very curious 8 month old! I'd recommend doing this one when baby is asleep ;) I put a little squirt of paint in her hand and she closed it and squished it everywhere of course. Then daddy held her while I let her grab the ornament. Voila! Instant cuteness and a great reminder of baby's first Christmas. I used a paint pen on the other side of the ornament to write her name and 2011 and then tied a sweet baby ribbon at the top. We left it to dry for about 30 minutes and then put it on the tree. While we were making one for our tree we also made up a few extras for her grandparents and aunts. We'll pair those with their other gifts for a cute present from the princess! Best part? I got everything half off so it only cost me about $5 to make all of the ornaments!