Super snazzy DIY personalized child aprons!

My boys LOVE being in the kitchen.

They love to help cook, bake, microwave, make messes on the floor, all of it!

So while at Hobby Lobby the other day, I decided they should have aprons!

Cute, boyish aprons.

Since I'm still here with mom, she was checking out the material, while I was checking out the apron and iron-ons.

When I went back to her she had this CUTE Thomas material that Caleb loved, and then we found some Mickey mouse material right by it!

Perfection!

So what I have here is a yard of each fabric (could totally use a half, or less) $2

Some cute iron-on letters for their names $3.99

2 child size aprons ($2.99)

sewing machine, thread, iron

We made a pattern for our pockets out of construction paper and cut it!

So thrifty, huh? haha
We doubled it and put it back to back, pinned it..

and sewed it! Then we also folded the top over, and

pinned it,

sewed it, and then turned it back the right way!

Here it is pinned on the apron, ready to be sewed on!

Here's Mom, starting to work on Ayden's since we figured out where we were going with Caleb's! You can tell she's been sewing much longer, her's is straighter than mine! lol

Me sewing!

Sewing the Thomas pocket on!

After the pocket was sewed on, I got the iron-on letters out for their names!

And..well..duh! Ironed em' on! :)

Caleb was quite anxious to use his "cooker thang".

And here it is! He loves it!!

I think it turned out SUPER cute!
And cheap at roughly $8 a piece, could have been cheaper had I gotten less fabric! :)

And here's Ayden's all finished! Ahhh too cute!
Caleb got to using his right away.

You see, it was my mom's birthday, and since we were here we had to make her a cookie cake!

My child would NOT stop eating the chocolate chips..

Even after I put the egg in it, before mixing it, he just ate around it.

Kids these days..

And here's Ayden with his on! So adorable.
This was such a fun project! One of my last while I'm here visiting, and

I'm so glad I got to do another with my mom, especially on

her birthday! So fun and didn't take long at all!

Super cute DIY grocery bag holder!

Now for those who know me, I'm not a sewer. When I took Home Ec in highschool, I was the one watching out the window at the guys playing P.E., wishing I was playing too. LOL I'm a sports fanatic.

I have nothing against sewing, per se, just never have had a machine, and was always more interested in other things!

So with my Grandma being here, I asked her to help me figure out one of these bag holders!

All one needs for this project is some fabric, ( I got a yard, but ended up having a lot left over) elastic, pins, coordinating thread, & a sewing machine!

Here we go!
First I folded the sides over and pinned them.
Then sewed it to make the seam to have an opening wide enough for the elastic..

I felt so powerful. hahaha

Then I got my elastic and put a safety pin on it to insert it through the hole,

And after the elastic is all in,

sew the end of the fabric over the elastic so it stays.

Then take the two sides, put them together (inside out) and sew those together before the white part, so it's hidden.

Then take a piece from the rest of your fabric and fold it over and sew it to make a strap.

Sew the strap onto the bag, making a square by turning the fabric as you go.

And there it is! I can't wait to get back to my house so I can put it to good use! :)

Crafting: Beautiful Spring Topiary!

I got to do another awesome craft with my mom!

I'm down here visiting while my hubby is away for work.

Here are the things you will need, except I ended up making a few trips to Hobby Lobby to get some more things:

3 bushes of boxwood

1 block of floral foam

1 styrofoam ball

some moss

1 planter or whatever you want to use for the bottom

a dowel rod

brown paint

paint for pot if painting it

ribbon for decoration

We worked on our pots first, so they had adequate time to dry..

Here's mom working on hers.

After the acrylic dried, we added crackle, and then added green.

The crackle was a rip off, it never worked. LOL

But the green was beautiful! We added a thin layer of that, & let it dry.

Here's mine!

Then I sponged some brown paint on there, and sanded the pot down to distress it a bit!

I love the finished look!

And onto the tedious part! So you cut these sprigs of boxwood apart, and place

them in the ball, ONE BY ONE. Oh my goodness. We each started off with one

bush, we ended up needing 2 1/2!

My kids thought I was nuts! This took up about 4.5 hours of time over a span of

3 days. It was getting old for sure! But so worth it!

When I reached the end, I really needed more sprigs, but instead I opted

to glue gun some scraps onto it! Worked perfect and I didn't

have to go buy another bush!

Here it is after I got it put on!

And here's mom finishing hers up!

And here they are! Aren't they beautiful?!

Mine's the yellow, and hers is the purple.

Had another great crafting time with my momma!

I love them! And it saved alot of money by making them ourselves.

I think we spent right over $20 making these, whereas the regular boxwood topiaries from

Ballard designs, run $49 & up! I'm all about saving the money!

Crafting: Ribbon wreath making with my momma!

So when we had the dates for when my hubby, kids, and I would be in Slidell, my mom and I devised a plan to do a craft together! She found this really cute ribbon wreath tutorial online, so we headed to Hobby Lobby the first weekend we were there. It ended up taking 2 nights on different weekends to do it, but it was alot of fun. And they turned out really cute!

What you need:

45 yards of ribbon (I used 5 yards of 9 different ribbons)

straight pins

a ruler

styrofoam wreath (mine is 10 inches)

scissors

*patience

*a great Momma to do this with..sorry mine's taken! ;)

We started fairly late, after everyone else had gone to bed.

After much cutting, we started looping and pinning..no real method to it,

just loop and pin!

My mother is super mom! She's good at it all!

Here they are halfway through the process, before we hit the hay..

Came back the next weekend and worked on them some more!

It ended up being a really good way to focus on something after what happened with Cosmo.

Here it is almost done!

Voila!

We both had a few more things to do to it.

Like realize that we should put more ribbon on the back being that we both have glass doors!

:)

Aren't they beautiful though?

Here's mine on my yellow wall. I keep forgetting to buy another wreath hanger,

and wanted to blog about this, so I just took a quick pick.

Love the colors, and just in time for St. Patty's Day!

And here it is on my fireplace! Love it!

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