Diaper Wreath

Well, here is a gift that I made for my friend that had a baby girl back in March.  I have since made another one, but not as fancy, I only used diapers.  It was still very cute and you can give the extra diapers in a cute bag!

Flower Hat

Itty Bitty and her cousin at his 1st Birthday! Adorable!

Itty Bitty looking gorgeous!

Isn't this just the cutest hat ever!  I thought for sure Itty Bitty would rip it off of her head, but nope she left it on all day!  It wasn't even her birthday, and she was getting lots of attention.  I am definitly going to try making this had on my own, how hard can it be?  Well, I will let you know.

Party Tutu

For the Toy Story Party, I made the Birthday Girl this tutu.  I love the way the pink, green, and white sparkles together!  I didn't give directions to this one, because they are the same as the tutu that I already posted back in January for my daughters 1st Birthday.  There are a few things different with this one.  I only made the pieces of tulle 6" by 18". I also tied little pieces of tulle in the matching color about 1"to 2" from the end of the tulle skirt.  If you have any questions let me know!

Fabulous Birthday Tutu, the little flower is from the DollarStore and I just took
it apart and hot glued it to an alligator clip that I lined with ribbon.

Toy Story Birthday Cake

The kiddos and I went to a birthday party yesterday and the birthday girl had a fabulous cake.  Her mom spent a couple of hours on this one!! I loved it so much I asked her to give me a tutorial.  I will post the directions soon, but until then here is the cake!



Toy Story Cake



Tulle Tutu too cute

I have been trying to find a tutu online for a decent price, well that’s not working! My little girl’s first birthday is next week, and for her birthday I wanted her to have a really cute tutu to wear.  All the ones that are really fluffy and multi-colored are $40 bucks! Well, I decided to do it by myself. 

This was super easy! I hit up Wally World and bought some elastic and tulle.  I was amazed at how cheap the tulle was.  I was thinking $4 plus a yard, but it was 1.93 and the turquoise was on sale for .98 a yard!

Anyway, all I did was measure my daughter’s waist with the elastic and cut.  I then quickly sewed the elastic together.  When I sewed I overlapped the ends about 1” to account for stretching. (so the waist length I measured minus an inch.)

I then just started attaching the tulle to the elastic. I cut the tulle down to 6” by 16”.  I wasn’t too worried about being exact.

Here are some pics of what I did.  I did not take a pic of the elastic part, but let me know if you can’t figure it out and I will help y0u.

 

Here is the tutu in progress.

When I attached the tulle pieces, I attached them by this method. (I have know idea what it is called, maybe latch hook! haha) I bet if you just tied a knot it would be fine.

All done! After the prep work this only took about 30 minutes for me to tie.

So pretty!

Playdough fun

I was checking out my pictures from break and forgot all about when we made playdough.  My son wanted purple, but I didn't mix the food coloring good enough! Oh well we still got a shade of purple. 

If you want to make this version the ingredients are:

Ingredients:
1 cup of plain flour
1 cup of water
1 Tbsp. of cooking oil
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1/2  cup of salt
food coloring

To Make:
Pour all of the ingredients into a sauce pan.  Cook slowly on medium-high and stir it until the playdough thickens. (this happens quick!)
This recipe takes less than 10 minutes


Here are all my ingredients in the sauce pan. Next time I would color the water first because I didn't get the purple I wanted, and it cooks very fast.

Stirring....

Stirring....

All stirred together

I put the play doug in a glass cake dish with flour.  The playdough was very sticky, I wasn't sure if I made it right!

I just kept adding flour until it "felt" like playdough.

My son checking the taste.

Playdough a HIT!