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Lady’s Shirt to Baby’s Dress: A Photo Tutorial

February 20, 2012 in Made by Mom

It was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted that I remembered it was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted. Neither of my children had a plain [...]

Kid Food

February 18, 2012 in Made by Mom, Other People's Stuff I Like

For the most part, I just feed Josiah whatever we’re eating. Lately he has been requesting a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I make them pretty boring…the only variation being whether I cut it in half lengthwise or crosswise. But I have been inspired of late to have [...]

A Tagalong Blanket for Payton

February 12, 2012 in Made by Mom, SnugasaBugBaby Products

This is the Tagalong Blanket I made for Payton.Her mommy was one of my college roommates. It is very much like this one I made for Noah, this one I made for Jamie, this one I made for Tenley, and this one I made for Chloe. …….Except this one was [...]

Spud Stamps

February 5, 2012 in Made by Mom

To make these fun stamps, all you need are a few plain old spuds.All you have to do is cut ‘em in half, etch out a design with the tip of your knife or a pen……and then cut away the negative space. It will look something like this:Smear some paint [...]

Sew-vivor

February 2, 2012 in Announcements, Made by Mom, SnugasaBugBaby Products

There is a “Sew-vivor” Sewing Competition going on at Family Ever After. Not only are there tons of great prizes, but competing in it would be a great chance to get some major blog-world publicity…and I just think it sounds like a TON of fun. So I am going to [...]

A Dorm Room Dresser: Before and After

January 30, 2012 in Made by Mom

I painted this dresser the summer before I started college to use in my dorm room, and used it through my senior year. It started out all dark brown…with a layer of wall paper stuff that pretends to look like wood. I am not sure where it came from. Here [...]

Personalized Baby Blanket Quilts

January 28, 2012 in Made by Mom, SnugasaBugBaby Products

This post has been featured! A couple hundred bucks and 4 days later, our computer is back from the Geek Squad and functioning again. Halleluyah. But there are still several files that need to be re-arranged and put in the appropriate places…and for some reason our bookmarks toolbar isn’t working [...]

Rosebud Topiary Tutorial

January 26, 2012 in Made by Mom

This post has been featured! Last week, I shared pictures from our Baby Dedication Backyard Party and promised a tutorial for how to make these rosebud topiaries.Here it is! What you’ll need: -Several rolls of crepe paper for the roses (I used pink…but I think white, red, or yellow rosebuds [...]

Pillowcase Style Dresses

January 16, 2012 in Made by Mom

These are the dresses I made for Selah and her cousins for Christmas:Though not made from pillowcases, they are fashioned after simple pillowcase dresses.I got four coordinating fabrics and made each of the four dresses with a different combination of three of them: one fabric for the main bodice, one [...]

Selah’s Candy Corn Dress

October 14, 2011 in Made by Mom

This cute little Halloween outfit was an ebay purchase that Grammy Sammy sent for Miss Selah: According to the tag, it is the same size as most of the other items in Selah’s closet…but the first time she wore it, it was apparent that the pant legs were much too [...]