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Pottery Barn Knock-Off: King-Size Stratton Bed

February 22, 2012 in Making our House a Home

This post has been featured! When I first posted our plans and inspiration for our Master Bedroom renovation, I showed you this bed, The Pottery Barn Stratton Bed, and shared that we intended to make our own. Usually, it is pictured with an uholstered headboard like this one (we decided [...]

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

February 20, 2012 in Made by Mom

This post has been featured! 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 [...]

Go Green on Etsy

February 17, 2012 in Announcements, SnugasaBugBaby Products

My green striped diaper changing mat was featured in this fun etsy treasury! Thanks, Lola, for the feature!

Custom Playmat Purse: Pink Whimsy

February 15, 2012 in SnugasaBugBaby Products

A friend of mine from my pageant days contacted me a few months ago to see if I would be willing to make a few custom playmat purses for her (one for herself and two to give as gifts). Of course I was excited for the opportunity! She shopped for [...]

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 [...]

Monogrammed Peek-A-Boo Blankies

February 7, 2012 in SnugasaBugBaby Products

My sweet sister has given several of my Peek-a-Boo Blankies as “Welcome Baby” gifts to her friends and co-workers. When she comes with special requests (like this sports themed peek-a-boo blankie) I am always happy to oblige. In the past, I have embroidered the baby’s name on the blankie like [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Repurposed Fence Post Wall Art

January 25, 2012 in Making our House a Home

This post has been featured!  Our computer crashed yesterday. SO FRUSTRATING!!! Really makes me wish I had stood in line for one of those $200 laptops on Black Friday. But I didn’t. So here I am, at the public library with a wiggling baby on my lap trying to stay [...]

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 [...]