Baby project

All over the blog world I have been seeing these infant car seat canopy tutorials. I thought what a great gift idea. I have now made 7 of these awesome gifts. Unfortunately, I have only one to show you. I didn't have a car seat to demo the first 6. But for the seventh one, we finally got a car seat thanks to my sisters-in-law. This is the one I made for my little one soon to enter our lives.

As you can see, I went with baseball theme. It seemed only fitting since his room is the same theme.


I thought the baseball fabric was a little busy all by it's self. I think the solid red band added just the right touch.

I added baseball hat buttons to the straps

I used navy mircofleece for the back. This fabric is the softest.
I love how this turned out.

I have thank Calli @ Make It Do for the great & easy instructions. I plan on making more of these in the coming months for friends who are expecting.

Tinkerbell Inspired

I finally finished the last handmade Christmas gift for my 3 year old niece. I had decided to make a play outfit for her. She's big into Tinkerbell. Therefore this called for a Tutu, a fairytale wand, a jeweled headband and of coarse the fairytale wings.

Here are the pictures of the finished gifts.

I got the inspiration for the wand

from Little Birdie Secrets.

Thanks you ladies from Little Birdie Secrets!

Here is the jeweled headband, complements to Can't Stop Making Things blog for the idea.

As for the Tutu, I just searched YouTube for tutorials, there are tons of videos on this subject. Here's how my niece's turned out.

I'll be making Addy one of these for Christmas too. I picked the colors red, pink, purple & white for hers.

Lastly, I had make the fairytale wings. I searched several blogs and YouTube videos on how to construct the Tinkerbell-like wings. I give A Big Thank You to Mommy Blessings for the finally tutorial I used. Click Here for the instructions.

So, without any further delay, here are the wings:

I sure hope my niece likes this gift. I already wrapped in it up in a HUGE box.

Baby's Room

The new baby's room is 99% done. All that needs to be added is the crib. Since the baby will be in our room for the first few months, we decided to wait on getting the crib until after the first of the year. We have it picked out already.

We went with the baseball theme, since the hubby likes my hometown team too. If it had been a football ( the hubby's fav sport) theme, it could only be Packer colors. I'm not really keen on the green & gold color scheme. With baseball, I had more say in the color choices.

When you first walk thru the door, this what you see:

I made the scoreboard from a left over piece of plywood used for Addy's kitchen. Just painted it a red color, then lightly went over the red with a brown wash to give it a worn look. I used chalkboard spray paint for the black score boxes. That way, we or the kids can actually use it when playing baseball in the yard.

This dresser was a craiglist's find. I just painted it the same color as the room's blue. Then had the hubby spray paint the handles in rubbed bronze. (My new fav metal finish.)

This dresser will also serve as the changing table, just like Addy's dresser does.

I saved my fav piece for his room for last. I had an image in my head as to what I wanted to see on the wall above the future crib. I gave you a sneak peek months ago about this project. Well here it, all finished.

I love it!!!!!

It looks like what was in my head. I love when things turn out like that.

Now just need to add baby.