PJs

For Christmas this year, I made the family I rent my apartment from pajama bottoms. They were all out of Christmas material (the twins got matching patterns in different colors). The patterns I had were terrible and I'm lucky they were finished at all...but the boys really liked them so I suppose that's all that matters.


I had to cut the babies just by sight - which made for an interesting looking pair of pjs - but he looked pretty adorable in them anyway.


I took pictures of the boys in their pjs as a present for the parents. You can't see much of the pjs, but I'm sure you get the idea.

I didn't do too bad considering this was my first solo try for pj bottoms AND I was using a much more difficult pattern than one I was used to using when making them with my sister. I need to find the very easy pattern she used to use, then making these pjs will be much quicker and will produce a better outcome.

Links

Here are links to posts made on "To Be Continued" regarding projects.

Quilts

Giant Journaling

Every little girl should have a tutu.

I made two tutus for Christmas this year. The first was for a friend's niece (1 year old) in Alabama. Apparently she liked to wear it on her head. I consider that a hit.




The second was for my niece. I made it a little big so she will be able to wear it for a very long time, so right now it's a little long and the ribbons wrap around twice. Still I think she liked it and she looked so adorable wearing it.


I am totally addicted to making these. I bought some material this weekend to make a tutu for my niece's American Girl doll so they can match. I love sewing these tutus.

Journals

These are so easy and fun to make. Lauren taught me. She's amazing. It's just a composition book made pretty with scrapbook things; paper, ribbon, etc.

I made these using paper from themed packs but you can pull together different patterns from anyplace. Then you trim the paper and Mod Podge it on there (matte Mod Podge is best).




Once you have your paper on the way you like it, on the front and back as well as on the inside, add ribbon and stickers and embellishments where ever you like. I made ribbons extra long to serve as bookmarks. Lauren staples cute ribbon to different pages throughout the journal. I also put quotes and things throughout the pages - inspirational quotes or something that goes with the theme of the journal; I used Shakespeare with the Fairytale theme and travel quotes with a travel themed journal (not shown here).

My friend, Sheryl, made some of these for the kids she nannies. They loved them. It's a fun journal to use and just so pretty.

Painting

I painted a couple of rooms a while back and thought I would share the pictures of the finished products.

The first room was the old upstairs bathroom at my parent's house. It needed a change and since my parents were thinking of remodeling the house, we had some fun with it. Around this time, my dad secretly enjoyed watching SpongeBob SquarePants. He would make fun of me if I watched it, but one day I found him watching an episode and laughing his head off, so began the purchasing of SpongeBob products as joke gifts for my father. This is how my family works. We are odd. So the bathroom was turned into the underwater paradise known in the cartoon world as Bikini Bottom.


My favorite part of this bathroom was after it was done, my cousins came over to the house and Andrew, who was 4 at the time and loved SpongeBob, just walked up there and sat down and stared at the decorations. We had to search the whole house for him when it was time to leave.

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The other room I did was a "Grandchild's Room" at my friends parents house. Dee (my friend's mom) loves Noah's ark stuff so she wanted that to be the theme.

The fun part is there is a little cubby and a larger room. Here's the larger room:

That's Noah and a chalkboard - which I painted on the wall with chalkboard paint so it actually works - the kids can draw on the wall!


Then there's the cubby.

I think the mice are my favorite. They're just cute.

Another Blog

Some of you may be thinking "Really, Lindsey? Another blog?" This one is mostly for me so I'm not really posting big posts on my regular blog regarding projects I'm working on or have done. But I like sharing the things I make and the things I am working on with people. So, yes, here's another blog from the wonderful world of me.