What's in a name

For Christmas this year a sweet 11 year old little girl with three brothers graced my list. I thought I would use Martha Stewart's idea for an ABC Pillow and take from being a 'child's gift' by adding in some pretty embellishments, including a hidden pocket for a journal.

To Infinity...and on to 12:00

My son had a little birthday to go to and his
little friend is a HUGE Buzz Lightyear fan,
since I knew everyone else would be buying him all the
cool Buzz gear you can get from the stores I wanted
to do something a little different so,
I decided we'd make him a B.L. watch.

I had a limited selection of colors for the felt so the colors
could have been better since he's really more white, green and purple,
but I think it really turned out well, considering.
I looked at Buzz pics online and tried to imitate as many
of his little features as I could.

Since this was quite a bit more involved and I wanted
to follow a theme I drew up a little plan of attack.
The final product wasn't too far from my original drawing either =)

Wallets of fun

For my nephew's birthday I wanted to give him some cash, since at 5 years old it's rather exciting to hold cash and get to pick out the toys you want from the store.

I didn't just want to throw $5 in a card though, so we made him a wallet to cleverly double as a gift and the gift's wrapping.

I think you could say he was one happy customer!

The Great Pumpkin....t-shirt

 

My sweet little one!

Spiders

 

 

 

 

As you can see we had a lot of fun!!

**A special thanks to my friend Shannon for the idea (though I would love to take credit, it's so cute after all), time, energy and supplies to do the craft! Not to mention the delicious soup!!

Hope? chest

My mother's old hope chest was quite without hope with the old worn and torn leather that sat atop it. So I decided to share a little hope and love and bought new wood and foam to refinish the top.
It turned out quite well I think...

I used the leftover fabric scrap I had from my yellow chair project!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Only Time Will Tell

FELT WATCHES TAKE II!

I tried my hand at felt watches once again, especially after I gave it to my 2 1/2 year old for testing...many flaws were released in the initial report and I do believe the 'NEW, IMPROVED!' product to be much much better! More importantly though, to be destroy proof...as much as any toy can be anyway.

Here was the first attempt. A grand attempt if I do say so myself since I left all my sewing stuff (and I mean ALL) at my sister's the night I started this little gem.

These would be Take II

I did two layers of felt instead of one which should help with the stretching as well as gave it a much prettier look since I did everything in layers so you couldn't see all the back stitching.

I used the machine to sew the velcro on for a cleaner and better hold.

I added the cute buttons seen in this post.

I also used DMC Floss (for cross stitching) instead of regular thread for all the detail work. I think it came out AWESOME. It made for a much cheaper option to bring in bright colors and because it's thicker it seemed to hold and show up better.

I ended up making them this time as birthday presents for an adorable Reduce, Reuse, Recycle party (to be posted about later)

Here's the 'girls' watch

and here's the 'boy' watch

My son was devastated I didn't make him one...guess I need to make a few more :)