Fun Gift from my Sis!

While we were on vacation at my sister's house I spotted this in her her china cupboard.  I immediately dug it out to take a closer look and asked WHERE she got it.  You see, I was pretty sure I KNEW where she had gotten it!  I had wanted one too.  But this ladies stuff is hard to come by.  When she creates anything it's snapped up almost before she can get it listed.  You can see some of the delightful jewelry she makes my clicking the link above.  It's all sold but you can still go see it!

Anyway, my sister said I could have it!!  She had bought two and had thought about giving me one anyway.

GREAT surprise! I'm so happy to have one of Andrea's Easter Eggs:)

Thanks bunches, Sis!!!  I love you:)

Baby Shower

I recently went to a Baby Shower.  It had been years since I'd been to one.  Little Sister had no idea what I meant when I said a 'baby shower'!  She thought it was to give the baby a shower.  Can't blame her, that's what it sounds like!  She thoroughly enjoyed it and stayed right beside the mom-to-be the entire time she opened her gifts. 

I enjoyed it immensely too.  It was by far the cutest baby shower I've ever been to.  Great decor, great food, great friends, great venue, great everything!!

This was my gift.  I forgot to take a picture of it before I wrapped it.  Never fear, I took one after it was opened!  I think I spent more time wrapping this than I did making it!  So fun to fix it up with fun stuff:)

Lovely Mom-to-be and her lovely Mom and sisters:)

Cake Pops.  If you've never had them you are missing out. Truly delightful!

Fun newspaper banner.

Pink Vintage Baby Scales.  Does it get any cuter than that?

She got some really really fun stuff.

 This is what I gave her.  I made the skirt with attached leggings from ruffled fabric from here.  The darling embellished onsie shirt I bought from m.blooms.  Check out her Etsy shop!

 Kara gave her this.  Love the way she used a twig for the hanger!

I wanted to bring this quilt home with me in the worst way!  BEAUTIFUL!

Vintage Elephant toy.  In pink!  Can't beat that!

Cute card.

Lovely little girls playing after the gifts were opened.  The blonds are triplets, the darker blond with longer hair is one of their big sisters.

The cake pops were a big hit with Little Sister.

This is the face she does when she thinks something is absolutely wonderful!

When in need of a birthday gift...

...and the weather is not conducive to a shopping expedition...

...dig through your stash of fabric and accessories and make something!

I thought the selvage of this laminated fabric was cute so I didn't cut it off.

Yellow button to match the yellow purse handles.

Inside lined with regular fabric - more dots!!

side view

And another shot just for fun!

And I have some more in the works, just have to get some more purse handles and accessories ordered.  Would you like to see these show up on ETSY????

Easter Dresses and Baby Gift

I had planned to take pictures of my girls in their Easter dresses to show you what I made Middle and Little Sisters and what Big Sister found when we went shoppong.  BUT....I didn't take the time before church and after church, well.... they changed clothes too fast for me.  So here is my post on the baby gift I made recently.  And the reason it is relevant is because Middle Sister and Little Sister's dresses are made the same as the baby gift.  So you at least have the idea of what they looked like.  And I will take pics at a later date - after I get the ink marks washed out of Middle Sisters dress!! 

For now, I will be letting my pre-scheduled posts entertain those of you who read this blog:)  This week is looking VERY busy - dress to be made, school to be taught, home school co-op meeting, prayer meeting, helping a friend, picking up Mom and Dad at the airport:), and leaving Friday for a home school convention.(guess that means there will be packing going on too)  So... I will be back later!!  hope you enjoy what has been scheduled, I can't even remember what it is;)

God bless, Hope you all had a wonderful Easter.  He is risen Indeed!!!

Original Post:

One of my friends is having a baby girl in a few weeks.  She has 4 boys so they (and we!) are all very excited that it's a girl:)  We had a baby shower for her a couple weeks ago on a warm sunny eary-spring day.  I wasn't sure what to get her and then another friend suggested that I make her a dress like the ones I made my girls for Easter this year.  So I did.  Here is the finished product:)

Extra button attached at the bottom between the lining and the dress.  Fun detail on a homemade gift.

Tag Detail

Another fun thing to do with a homemade gift is to make a cute tag with the size on it.  I cut the back of a tiny notecard off and used the backside of the front to stamp the sheep and write the size of the dress

Front of tag

This is one of my favorite wrapping ideas ever.  Yes, I came up with it myself but there may well be someone else out there who has done this too.  And you are more than welcome to use this idea!  I took a plain brown flat bag, cut out a rectangle on the bottom for the hanger to come through.  Then cut off the top of bag so it is just a little longer than the item you are putting the bag over.  I used pinking shears.  Stamp on the bag whatever you want, use some fun tape to add pizzazz, or whatever you come up with.  I added a small, pink, plastic baby carriage tied with a ribbon.  For this one I hung the dress on an old wooden hanger.  On another gift I used the plastic wal-m*rt hanger and just wrapped a ribbon around the top to make it look nice.

Voila!!