Chore Chart

I started this chore chart ages ago, but finally finished it up tonight. It's not a traditional chore chart, it's really the things that my kiddo needs to do from getting home from school to bedtime - I get so tired of telling her constantly, but now she can just refer to the chart to remind herself what needs to be done. I used the Chore Chart cartridge for the days of the week and all but one of the icons along the top - the backpack came from Locker Talk. The "to do" is from Alphalicious. I bought an inexpensive poster-size frame at IKEA, just turning over the insert it came with to the white side for the background. I used 1/8 inch crepe tape (found at Office Depot by the white boards) to make the lines. My favorite feature is that you can write on it with dry erase markers to check off each task as it's completed, so no messing with stickers or figuring out some other way to mark each task off.

White Baby Dress with Diaper Cover

This set was made for a scrapbooky friend I don't see very often...but she didn't come to our crop, so by the time I see her again it will be too small for her baby! Oh, well. The diaper cover pattern is from Red Heart, the dress is my design.

Baby dress and headband

This dress was an experiment, almost totally made up - I used a pattern for the yoke, but the rest was my design. I think it turned out pretty good! My sister-in-law loves the pink/brown combination, so this will be for my niece. :)

Headbands

I've gone a little crazy lately making headbands, but they're so quick and fun to make! I'm hoping to get some posted on Etsy soon, but in the meantime I've had people contacting me on Facebook about buying them so I haven't had time to make any others. These are two I made for someone in California. I especially love how the pink one turned out and will definitely be making another one like it!

Baby Cthulu

This is probably too obscure for most, but my hubby and brother-in-law are fans of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu--it's been a recurring theme between the two of them for years in gift-giving. So when I found this pattern, I knew I had to make one for BIL's first baby, due in August. We found out today it's a girl, just in time for me to add the girly touches of pink wings and a bow. :)

Latest Creations

I made an Etsy store ages ago, and recently have decided that maybe I ought to use it. So these are my first two projects, baby girl sweater and headband sets. I'm not quite ready to put them in my store, but hopefully soon! I'm hoping to just make enough to fund my crafting habit. ;)

Reasons for not blogging...

Not that this is much of a blog post...but I've been busy! These are a few of my recent projects...and I apologize for the poor pictures, but they were all taken with my cell phone camera because I'm lazy like that!

This is the advent calendar I made for Averie this year. It was a premade little thing with drawers, but I dressed it up. I added the ribbon to hang it, but after the drawers were filled with goodies it was much too heavy! It sits on the bookshelf now.


My new obsession is knitting and crocheting stuffed animals. The kitty was my first successful endeavour and has been named Pinkie Pie Purple Pie by its cute five-year-old owner. The faceless bear now happily has a face and has been named Beary, the Good Dreams Bear. The pink bear was given to Averie's new baby sister as a gift.

So I didn't really design this logo, but I did have to mess around with it and then cut it out of vinyl...and then fight with it to get it on the dang window. Tracy is never allowed to wash her car, because I am NOT going through that again! ;)

I made this snowman birthday card for a co-worker. I got the new Snow Friends Cricut cartridge and love finding reasons to use it! I love snowmen! I made the same card but in more manly colors for my brother-in-law's upcoming birthday.

And finally, I finished these last night. It's a really simple project, but I'm good at screwing even those up. I wasted quite a few ornaments! These four are for Averie's kindergarten teacher. If you'd like step-by-step instructions, Google something like "floor wax glitter ornaments" and there are YouTube videos you can watch. Yes, floor wax. You basically take something like Pledge with Future Shine floor wax, swirl it around in the ornament, then dump out the excess. Then pour in glitter (I found darker metallic colors worked and white or light colors did not, hence the wasting of ornaments) shake it around till it's completely covered (it took a lot of glitter) then dump out the excess. Voila. I cut the snowflakes out of glittery sticker paper on the Cricut and stuck them on the fronts.