dresses

I can't begin to tell you how excited I was to make these dresses! Just WAY. EXCITED! I used my moms serger (and one day, I'm going to invest for myself) and completed these in a few hours.

One is for my sister who is expecting a little girl (3rd baby, 2nd girl) in June and the other is for my sister-in-law who is expecting her first baby (it's a girl!) in July.

For our May's Relief Society night they wanted to do a recap on President Uchtdorf's talk Forget Me Not from the October 2011 General Conference. A dear friend of mine who is the second counselor in the Relief Society presidency and also in charge of our RS nights asked me for some ideas. I saw this idea for something to display. I used a piece of 12x12 wood, painted it blue, got my vinyl from Utah Vinyl and put a ribbon around it. I also helped decorate some 3x5 notebooks with the Forget Nots for handouts.

sign

table decorations

little girls

I ordered this vinyl from my sister about 4 years ago. I had great plans to make something with it. Well, life got busy and I never got around to it. I was invited to a baby shower for a neighbor this week that I don't know very well and wasn't sure what to get her. I came across this vinyl and thought I could probably put it to use.

It says:
Little Girls
are precious gifts wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes and futures tied with dreams

I just wanted to make a side note - this pink paint is from the Martha Stewart collection called Peppermint Bark. I love the name and the color.

purse/camera bag

I just finished my latest project. I wanted a camera bag for my camera, but all the ones that I liked that looked like purses, were about $100 too much. I ended up finding a tutorial on Pinterest from a blog called Tales of My Life. What an awesome blog/tutorial!

When I was working on this, I was kind of feeling overwhelmed. But as I got closer to finishing it, I clapped out loud! It's not perfect, but it serves it's purpose and it was less than $10 to make! Whoo Hoo!

Sorry, these pictures are not the best, but hopefully you'll get the idea.

start with a purse (or you could use a diaper bag)

make the inside and voila! Purse turned camera bag.

camera strap

I didn't like the look of my camera strap, the bright Nikon I was not a fan of - plus, the webbing dug into my neck a little bit. Not very comfortable. I found a simple tutorial over at Moda Bake Shop for a strap cover.

It actually took me 3 tries to get it just right. The first 2 tries, I thought that I measured right. Good thing it was an easy thing to do. I think it turned out good. If I were to make another one - which I just might - it will be ruffley :)

kids' room decor

I was doing some cleaning and saw these picture blocks I have made. They were all done a while ago, but I thought I would share.

This one was for Emmi - the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. I saw the idea lilluna.com and got the picture from her website.

I painted a piece of 2x6 black, sanded the edges and added some stain. Had the picture printed at Costco and put it on with some mod podge. Fancied it up with some tulle and ribbon.

Here is another one I did from Lil' Luna

This one I didn't sand the edges - just kept it all black. This one is for the little girls.

What a great way to display little reminders using a block of wood, some paint, pictures and ribbon!

skirts

I was on a roll making some skirts for the girls a couple of weeks ago.

they saw this pattern and thought it was like Rapunzel

I thought I would try a different pattern. I saw this tutorial for this skirt here. It was pretty easy.