Missed you guys

Well, let me tell you. Don't listen to nurses :) Just kidding. My sister in law is a great nurse. But as it happens one particular nurse told me 4 weeks ago not to take an psuedophed for my head cold. . . which a week later was a sinus infection. . . which also became an ear infection . . . so I called the nurse back and she told me to take psuedophed! It's been a fun 3 weeks of sickness around here and another week of frantically putting the house back together and getting ready for Easter. But I'm back! This is what I was working on all last week:

A little Easter dress for the sweetie. (Who was being very uncooperative for pictures outside . . . I couldn't get her out of that play house!) One of the weeks I was so sick I couldn't get out of my bed (thanks to the lovely vertigo assaulting me) I laid in bed and planned it all out in my mind. It turned out just how I imagined (which doesn't always happen) and that is always happy. And just so you know, if you ever are going to do ruffles on  a dress figure around a 3:1 ratio (3 feet of fabric equals 1 foot of gathered fabric) and a lot of yardage to hem :)

Hope you all had a very happy Easter!

Freebie Friday: Spring Has Sprung Poster

So, today I just felt like making something. Hooray. We've  had head colds at our house for two weeks and mine is currently residing in my forehead. So this afternoon fighting the little buddy to clean up all the toys in the basement just seemed overwhelming. Instead I made him put away his pj's and let him watch netflix while I checked my email. I had some graphic design work waiting for me, and one thing led to another. But I've been thinking about spring all day noticing little green leaves on the trees! Hooray. It really is coming!

Download the printable poster here. Print on letter size cardstock and cut on the lines to 8x10.

 Enjoy!

Eggs & Sewing

I kinda dropped the ball this weekend. So many ideas so little time! So, I apologize for not so much as a "hi" on Friday. This is what I've been up to:


Coloring Eggs: Family tradition dictates we have to do it on Good Friday. It's one of my favorite Easter Traditions.

This year the buddy really got into it: these are his beautiful creations:

I love this one:  He put it in every color. I think it looks like a chalkboard.

And then I finished the sweeties Easter dress. I ended up following a Kwik Sew for Toddlers book rather than the original pattern I posted after finding out it only contained the 6 month size. oops. But this one works too. It's a tad big-but she'll grow into the 12 month size eh?

and made her a little rose bud head band to go with it

(and then Sunday morning sewed some of the extra lace onto her socks too).

I also let the buddy pick out the fabric for a tie I made using this tutorial on icandyhandmade. I wanted to do a pink one to match the sweetie, but he insisted on green. (I still snuck a little pink on the back. . . and then he proceeded to chew on his tie all through church . . . boys will be boys I guess).

Last but not least I decided last minute to sew myself a circle skirt as well following this tutorial on from MADE. I even dyed the elastic. See? The week was crazy, but Easter ended up being really really good. And that's what matters right? I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend as well!

Freebie Friday: He Is Risen Poster

I had a great picture of Mary and the Resurrected Lord on my armoire/ designated-decor-spot, but from a distance you could hardly see it. It all just kind of melded together. I LOVE the picture by Harry Anderson, but it just didn't quite fit. Rather I envisioned a silhouette. You know how I love a good silhouette:) Anywhoo. I couldn't decide on a color, the hunny picked purple, my least favorite color. But it surprised me and worked well. I guess purple does have a small space in the universe after all.

 This week I thought I'd try something a little bit new and just let you download a jpeg from my blog rather than going over to scribd for a pdf. That way you can upload the jpeg to your favorite print shop and print it easily, or of course,  print it at home if you prefer. It's scaled to the 8x10 ratio, but it could work for other sizes I'm sure.

*one note about colors: your screen and the printer you choose will change the color a bit. So just be prepared . . . 


Just click on the image for a larger version to download (right click to download image). Enjoy!

Blue:

Coral: 

 Purple: 

3 eggs in a nest

I think it would look better with a gold chain, but my only gold chain is missing at the moment. (and yes, that is my pasty white skin)

I have wondered since I made this if I should even post about this. Since I'm not much of a jeweler, and I first saw it on the crafty crow who linked to Rhubarb Sky but of course she followed the tutorial on Just Something I Made (hence why I was hesistant to re-post). Anyway, so if you've all seen this and made one and moved on, I do apologize. But I love it so much I decided to share. If  you want to make it go to one of those sites and they have fabulous tutorials. I didn't really read them, I just looked, and read far enough to know the beads all go on first and then  you wrap it around. The idea germinated for a few days before I had some spare time to dig out my only metal wire-gold and some beads. I kind of think it would be more fun if I'd made it more loopy and perhaps bigger. But no, it's just right the way it is. It would be a fun Easter gift wouldn't it?

Freebie Friday: Easter Circles/ Toppers

just imagine those marshmallows are cupcakes . . .

Cupcakes are an Easter tradition at my house.
Growing up my family had lots of Easter traditions, the best was going to the "easter park," a park which I didn't learn the real name of until I was out of the house. But we would go to this special park and have a picnic and spend the whole day playing together as a family. We always had cupcakes as part of our picnic. Chocolate cupcakes, with green frosting with coconut dyed green on top as "grass" with 3 jelly beans stuck on top. I made a variation last year per the honey's request. He hates coconut. Alas.

Anyway, if you read through all that sentimentality, I thought baby animals would be fun toppers to go under the "eggs" even though only the chick would lay an egg :) Long stretch I guess. I'm excited to use them though. Do you have a traditional cupcake as part of a holiday celebration? I'd love to hear about it . . . .

Get the Easter circles/cupcake toppers here. Enjoy!