Skirts

Skirts!! I made Scarlett, myself and my niece all skirts for family photos! I wore mine for our individual family photos, and the girls wore theirs for my husbands families pictures.

baby quilt

This quilt was made for a friend of mines soon to arrive baby boy! Here it is in a couple of stages! I did a single crochet around the edge. I felt anything more would have either been to girly or just too much!

I have been terrible about posting lately!! And the truth is I have actually been pretty productive!!! I made a quilt for a friends baby shower, I made Scarlett, myself and my niece skirts for family pictures!! I made all three of my kids costumes for Halloween AND have crochet several pot holders!!!!! To avoid many jumbled pictures I'll just start with Halloween! The boys were pirates and Scarlett was a mermaid.

Happy Saturday!

These I whipped up while I was pregnant and this was her first time wearing them! Little girls just make me grit my teeth they are so much fun!

Moving on to the next!

So we are finally settling in to our house with our new addition Scarlett and I am ready to start tackling some new projects! Today I started marking off the twins bedroom to paint! The paint I will be using is a dark navy blue and I will be doing stripes. Here it is as of now very bare and boring!

Scarlett's room reveal!!!

I am so happy with how this project turned out it is literally my first room make over that I have been able to do top to bottom! I hope you love it as much as I do! The breakdown of cost is here
-crib- free hand me down from mother
-rocking- recovered for $14 with a shower curtain I bought at Home goods and left over fabric from the window covering
-window valence- $20 made from a shower curtain from target
-dresser and hutch- $75 Craig's list paint $16 for a gallon at Frazee color is Swiss coffee
-Crib skirt-$15 king size sheet from Walmart and $2 a yard fabric also from Walmart
-frames on the wall above crib- $5 each from Walmart spray painted white fabric for quilt blocks was left over from crib skirt
-round medallion above crib- 8 at Ross spray painted white
-decorations and accessories on hutch- gifted frames from baby shower white ceramic pieces $5,$2, and $1, $2 from thrift stores all spray painted or originally white, flowers $5 on sale at Joanne's, small round frames $2 each thrift store finds
-white three prong hook holding blessing dress- bought for $10 at pier one 3 years ago painted white
-quilt- hand made- total cost approximately $30
- paint on the wall- Color Harmless by Frazee $48 for three gallons.
Brand new baby girl priceless!

Total cost:$260 not bad!!!

Quilting mojo!

So after a break from quilting I've found my quilting mojo again! And finished up the rest of the quilt top I started yesterday! And Nap time isn't even over yet! I used McCalls quilting website and found a free block pattern that I am in love with! Here is the quilt top hopefully I can finish the quilting and binding before miss Scarlett arrives! Happy Saturday everyone!

Quilting!

I have been collecting fabric to make my twin boys each a quilt for months! I have however been stuck on what I have dubbed my "nightmare quilt" for some time now and have been putting off making their quilts. Today I finally had it and decided to go ahead and start working on the boys quilt and made my first quilt block! Here it is enjoy! Here is the other fabric I will also coordinate into separate blocks.

Projects in progress

My husband and I have been diligently working on Scarlett's nursery and we are getting much closer to finishing! The color we chose is a shade of red.... Any one who has ever painted a wall red knows what a pain it is! After the first 3 coats on the first wall I realized that our one gallon bucket wasn't going to go very far! Most of the walls have 5 if not more coats and took 3 gallons of paint!! But the end result is exactly what I have been picturing for months!!! And exactly the shade I have been after! Now that the walls are painted I am almost finished touching up all the white border (unfortunately it bled under the tape pretty bad!). The dresser is pretty much the last piece to complete the room and it's also halfway done. I also made two quilt blocks to use as wall art. And I have a few other details up my sleeve to show in the final reveal!

The alternative ruffle crib skirt tutorial

House in progress

Here are just a few pictures of our house projects we have been working on the last week nothing is complete yet but things are coming together!