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3 Little Princesses

I am slowly working on these 3 little cuties.  It has taken me so much longer then I thought with the grandparents in town and thanksgiving festivities.  I am making them for my nieces (each one altered to look like them).  I got the tutorial for them here .  I just love how simple they look.  They totally remind me of Veggie Tales.   =)  I hope I can alter the design and make more uncommon fairy tale play sets.

One Very Hungry Caterpillar

I made my first Halloween costume ever this year for my little girl.  I was going to make a tutorial on how I made the hungry caterpillar, but I don't really know how to sew.  I'm sure if anyone who does know how to sew saw how I made this, they might be horrified!  Plus, this is the first time I have ever put in a zipper and I don't think I did it right...lol.  Oh well, at least the zipper works. One day this caterpillar will be a beautiful butterfly! This picture is a little dark, but it was late at night and the only full body shot (well almost full body) that isn't all blurry (my hungry caterpillar is also a very wiggly one!).

Halloween Luminaries

I had a major lack of Halloween decorations, so I started to make these cute luminaries.  I have seen lots of variations on these guys, most are done with tissue paper, but I made mine using glitter on the inside. So what you need is a glass jar (I like pickle jars), some mod podge, black craft paint, a paint brush, and some glitter. So all you need to do is clean your glass jar and coat it in some mod podge.  I suggest kind of speckling it on instead of coating up and down in strokes so you avoid a streaky look.  Then just sprinkle lots of glitter on the inside and let it dry over night.  You can see the orange one is almost dry and the purple one is just starting to dry. Once dry, you can paint some spooky faces on the outside.  I just free handed them, but you could always cut them out of black paper and glue them on too. Then add some lights on the inside and you are ready to go! Now I just need to finish the last jar of pickles to make a ghost one.

Birthday Cards

It's my niece's 3rd birthday and nephew's 7th birthday this month, so I made these cards for them. The ice cream cone card is for my niece...three scoops for turning three! I had to make them real fast since my little girl is keeping me so busy, so the cards are really simple.

Finished Quilt

I just realized that I never put a picture up of my finished quilt...ops.  It is way big for my little girl now, but someday it will be just the right size for her.  =)

Tissue Paper

A few years ago I had received something that came in this really nice sparkly pink tissue paper.  I saved the paper because it looked cool and I knew I would use it for something.  Well, a few years have gone by and now I finally am using it.  I got this nice frame for a picture of my baby girl that lets the picture look like it is floating, but the walls in my apartment are so bland in color so I had to do something.  Then I remembered the tissue paper and thought I would try placing it between the layers of glass and I really like its crinkly look.  I might just have to get more frames like this and try to find some more cool tissue paper.

My New Baby Girl

I had my baby girl on 8-11-10.  Isn't she just cute with my juggling clubs.  Have to start her out early!  She was way bigger then I thought she was going to be...9lbs and 2oz and 22 inches long.  She doesn't even fit into some of the cute newborn outfits that I got. Now that I'm getting used to her being here, I hopefully will be able to get back to my crafts!