Lovely little baby pants

I am sure you have seen and realized, baby pants are all the rage right now, especially with photographers.  I mean, really, I can see why!  They are adorable!

I finally decided I wanted to make some myself.  I am not really a pattern designer but I have wrote a few of my own patterns and have been trying to push myself to do more.  I actually really enjoy it.  Sometimes I just like to "take the easy way out".  There are so many wonderful pattern designers out there and so many wonderful patterns.  I knew I could make my own pattern for baby pants but I was unsure of measurements and was super busy at the moment so I started looking for a pattern.  I ended up buying one and after making several pair and not liking the sizing or how they worked up, I tried some free patterns (much different style then the first pattern I tried)...still not happy.

Still a little unsure of measurements, I asked a few friends who either have babies or have been making baby pants, for some measurements!  I got a variety of answers but they were all pretty similar.  So, I went with sort of an average of the measurements and made my first pair of successful baby pants. 

I feel good about these!  And they are OH SO CUTE!

My favorite part of these (besides how quick and simple they are to make) is the waist band.  The method I used to start the waist is one of my favorite methods, I use it whenever possible.  It gives a nice fitted band but has lots of stretch, almost like a little elastic waist band. 

I am going to work up a few more pair and I will be working with Nicole Renee Newborns on Saturday with a set of twin boys.  So, I will get to try them on real life babies, make any size changes necessary and then I will attempt to finish writing up this pattern.

You can visit my Craftsy Pattern Store HERE to see (and purchase) a few of the patterns I already have listed. 

I will be sure to post when the Newborn Pants Pattern is ready. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Indoor Frisbie Fun

Can you play frisbie inside?  We can! :-)

That is because we have awesome crocheted flying disks (pattern by Playin Hooky).  They are fantastic and really fly just as good (or better) then a plastic frisbie.  

We have taken these with us so many places to play but we also can just have fun in the house with no worries.  

You can order your own flying disk HERE

Toothless Grin :-)

My baby girl is loosing teeth left and right.  She just lost 2 in the past 2 days.  She is so cute with her big gummy smile :-)

All smiles, holding her new jar and letter from the tooth fairy.

Holding her new jar and her tooth fairy pillow with some money :-) 

She likes to keep her teeth.  It is so sweet!  The first time the tooth fairy took her tooth in exchange for money, she was devastated.  She woke up and cried and CRIED!  She ended up buying her tooth back.  YES, she bought it back the next night.  LOL  She just put the money in the pillow and the tooth fairy gave her the tooth back.  Since then, keeping her teeth has been a big deal.  She doesn't even care to get a special gift but the tooth fairy is kind and leaves her some goodies anyway. 

For these last two teeth, she got a new jar to hold her teeth in and she got a few dollars to buy a new coloring book.  All she really wanted was a new coloring book but the tooth fairy didn't make it to the store in time, so she can go buy her own.  HAHA

Vroom, Vroom.....

While Logan was home sick last week, he played quietly in his room a lot of the time.  He is a very creative 9 year old.  Anytime he needs something "new" to play with, he is good at coming up with a way to make it out of something we have here at the house.  This is a quality all of my kids posses and it makes me so proud.

Well, one of the days he and Landon had been playing cars and the next thing I know, I hear him going through the craft closet. 

I asked him what he was doing and he said, "We need a new race track for our cars, so I am making one".  I LOVE IT!   Keep in mind, he already has a few store bought tracks but nothing beats homemade...RIGHT!?

He grabbed a few sheets of our craft foam, cut the shapes he needed, taped them together and 

TA DA.... NEW RACE TRACK.  

Check it out! :-)

Pretty cool, isn't it? 

Fun with beads and wire

I do not normally make jewelery or do a whole lot with beads (unless I am sewing them onto something crocheted) but I saw a tutorial for making bracelets using memory wire and it seems simple enough for me to try. 

I was originally going to make this and give it to my daughter for Valentines day but then I decided she would have more fun making it with me, so that is what we did.

I let her sit with me last night and string on the beads.  She was very proud of "our" creation.

Sorry, I don't have a lot of pictures of the process step by step but here is what we did:

-  I purchased a small set of beads and memory wire from the craft store
-  Then I used a small pair of pliers and curled one end closed.
-  I estimated how many "curls" I wanted it to have and then cut off the excess.  You can keep it all on if you prefer and cut when you are done.  You might waste a little less wire that way.
-  Then we just had fun stringing on beads (and her name).
-  When we were done, I curled the other end closed (BEFORE cutting off the long unused end) and then cut it off as close as I could.
-  I secured it a little more with my pliers.
-  Last, I used a jump ring and added her horse charm to one end.

Ta Da....a beautiful new, personalized bracelet. 

More Valentines Day fun!

Even though Landon is not in school, I didn't want to leave him out of the valentines day fun.  Well, we didn't quite get what we were going for but we sure did have fun.

So, we attempted the first two photo valentine ideas seen HERE.

Landon makes THE BEST surprised face EVER on a regular basis, all day/every day.  Could we manage to get that face easily for this picture?  Nope.  It was hilarious, frustrating and fun all at the same time.  He just couldn't stop being silly!

Check out all the fun we had trying to get ONE picture.  He is such a silly little boy! 

This little guy just melts my heart!

Here is the final result for our valentine

After we printed them, I cut little slits in the side of his head and then stuck the heart arrow through.

I can't help but laugh every time I look at this. :-)

Valentines day fun :-)

I wanted to do something a little different then your typical store bought valentines.  There are so many awesome ideas out in Pinterest land, it was hard to choose.  Finally, the kids and I narrowed it down to two.

For Logan's, he used his own lego's and built a lego heart.  I took a picture of it, edited it and then added the wording. 

After they were all printed out, he used glue dots to attach one little lego (a piece of his heart) to each valentine.  I hope his friends love this as much as we do. It was fun to make. 

Gloria's was surprisingly much more work.  We choose to do a picture of her blowing a kiss.  It is much harder then you would think to get a good picture of someone blowing a kiss.  LOL

First, here are some of our funny attempts

We finally got a good one.  Then I edited it and added hearts and the wording. 

Once we printed them all, we used glue dots to stick a hershey kiss on the big heart (blowing a kiss).  I think these turned out really cute!

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Making beautiful music

I meant to blog about this before, I am a little behind so expect a few of my posts to be random and out of order! 

Logan started playing the violin earlier this year.  There have been a few days that he just didn't feel like playing or was starting to get frustrated with it but then he turns it right back around and starts showing interest again.

They played their first concert on January 16th.  The week leading up to his concert, he was so excited.  It is all he could talk about and he practiced his little heart out.  I really enjoyed seeing this little transformation.

Dress rehearsal went well and then it was finally concert night.  We were all dressed up and he was the cutest little violinist EVER! 

Check him out!  So cute, right!? 

It is not secret that I love taking pictures of my kids but this time it was his idea.  He asked me to take some pictures of him all dressed up and with his violin.  Of course I had planned on it anyway.

 I completely let him take the lead with the poses and be as silly as he wanted to be.  

Just before we left, I had to be sure to snap a few pictures of Logan with the rest of the family.  We are all so proud of him!

Daddy and Logan

Mommy and Logan

Logan with Gloria and Landon.  They were both so proud of him and excited for his big night!

There is always time to be silly!

My 3 crazy's!  Oh how I love them!

 Well, we got there all nice and early so we could get great front row seats.  I was equipped with two cameras and a video camera...Proud momma right here! 

Everything was going great UNTIL......The bridge on his violin completely snapped in half and popped off.  Well, come to find out this not something that could be fixed right then.  It was less then 10 minutes before he was to take stage and it was looking like he was going to have no violin to play.  So sad but he handled it so gracefully!  His music teacher was able to find a violin from one of the older students that just happened to be the right size.  YAY...the show went on! 

Here he is after just taking stage. 

Working hard

They played 5 songs and he did great for everyone.  After every song, he looked right at us with a HUGE smile and a thumbs up.  I tell ya, he has the BEST personality! 

It was a great night!  The whole family was there to support him, even my mom and dad were able to make it.  He was so happy!

Looking forward to his next concert!!