Car Roll Up

My newest creation is the Car Roll Up! I love how it turned out, especially since I was up until 3am the night before finishing it...for a party the next day. Talk about last minute. There are a few things that I might add to the next one. But for now I love it! It has a parking garage for five cars, a road to drive around town, a mud pit/construction zone, a car wash, a gas station, and a pond. Let your child's imagination run wild with this one!!! I can't wait to make another one for Genevieve!

Happy 2nd Birthday to Soren, I hope you have fun playing with this!!!

That's Just Crafty Labels

I made my own labels to add to the clothing items and projects that I have been doing. What do you think?

Strawberry Field Dresses and Shirt

I love this strawberry fabric I got...perfect for the summer! And I love doing the shirring technique. Out of the yard and a half that I got, I was able to create a shirt for Genevieve, a dress for Mikayla's Birthday and a smaller version of the dress for Baby Addison.

Genevieve showing off her shirt

I love it as a shirt

Baby Addison's Mini Strawberry Field Dress

Strawberry Field Dress for Mikayla's Birthday

(it's about a 24 month size)

Mikayla showing off her dress

Blog Product Review

Hello to everyone who saw us (Genevieve & I) featured on The Life of a Sippy Cup Mom. Genevieve and I had a lot of fun testing out products and writing a review...there is also a Giveaway. To all my readers, make sure you head over to The Life of a Sippy Cup Mom, read the review, see G's cute product testing photos, and sign up for the giveaway...make sure you tell her I sent you! Good Luck! And thanks for stopping by...make sure to become a follower of my blog while your here!

Coloring Folder

What is this nifty little folder you may be asking...

All folded up

It's a traveling Coloring Folder! Isn't it so cute!

The inside of the Coloring Folder

I've been throwing around the idea of making these for a while now. I know Genevieve would love having one of these when we are out a dinner somewhere and we need a little time filler while she's waiting on her meal. They fold up so perfectly and fit right into the diaper pag or even your purse...it's only 7 inches tall.

This specific coloring folder is for a birthday gift for one of Genevieve's little toddler friends. We have quite a bit of Birthdays coming up and I have decided to make 90% of the gifts. At least I'm going to attempt...I'm about to start classes & have 4 this summer!

Detail of the Left Crayon Pocket

Detail of the Center Notebook Holder

Detail of the Right Note Pockets
There are 2 pockets, perfect for bringing along stickers or
placing finished works of art!

I just love the way it turned out and hope our little friend enjoys it! (And I hope their mommy doesn't see this...and if she does, she can guess if it's for her little one ;) )

Smocked Summer Dresses

I recently learned how to do smocking or shirring as seen in my premade fabric that I used on the sun dress I made for Genevieve. Now that I know how to do this technique...it opens up the fabric possibilities for making this style of dress. I've had my eye on this fabric at Hobby.Lobby for quite some time now and decided to use it to test out my new technique. I made a dress for both Genevieve and her cousin Margot with matching headbands.

Felt Egg Carton

I love, love, love felt play food! There is something about it...maybe that you are able to make it so realistic and it's washable (most of it!). I would love to be able to make all of Genevieve's felt play food...but I just don't have the time for that right now. I picked up a felt fruit and veggie set at Wal.Mart for around $10. They also have a few mini sets of felt food like pizza, snacks, sandwiches, hamburger, and ice cream. Genevieve got a few of those for her birthday.

So at the present time, I feel like we are pretty well stocked on felt food. I just now want to add a few accessory pieces. And then I saw this tutorial and bookmarked it a while back while I was researching free felt food patterns. Genevieve got a shopping basket with a few plastic food pieces and cardboard boxes (which are almost all destroyed) for Christmas. The thin, cheap plastic egg carton the eggs came in was gone almost immediately. In the mean time, I've been cutting our used egg cartons in half for her to store her eggs. But after a few weeks they are destroyed too. That's why I knew I need to make this felt egg carton! And I LOVE the way it turned out...and so does Genevieve!

• I followed pretty closely to the tutorial, except we already had eggs.
  
• I liked her color combo and already had the felt. (A local store was going out of business and I got 3 large bags of felt for $1 each...a steal!) You could have a lot of fun with the colors on this one!
  
• I did not purchase the special felt that she recommends, because I already had the felt (see above). And instead just cut out some super strong interfacing that I had from a different project and used that to make a few spots a little more sturdy & attached it with hot glue.
• I did not do a velcro attachment for the lid. I'm not convinced it needs it...but that may change.
  
• This project is TIME consuming!!! I have slowly been working on this project for about a week or so in my free time. I'm not sure I ever want to tackle this one again.