Monster

For my 10 month old nephew, I made this little monster. I drew my own pattern based on the Uglydoll Big Toe. I didn't know there were official  Uglydolls, but ran across them searching for ideas. I had just seen pictures of monsters that people had made, and thought it would be fun. I thought it turned out pretty cute.

I hadn't planned on making a little blanket for it, but ran across this adorable monster fabric that I had bought at JoAnns a while back, and just had to use it. There are such cute little monsters on there. Any of those monsters would make a cute little stuffy.

Baby Doll

Sorry for such a long blogging break. We had a busy couple weeks leading up to Christmas (including some crafting going on for Christmas presents). We took a nice, long three week vacation, which was extended by two days when our flights got canceled, twice. So I'm just getting back into the swing of things, and hopefully will be back to doing some crafting soon.

I was happy to see that I got some new followers to my blog over the holidays. Thank you to all my followers! Hopefully I will be blogging a little more regularly now. I have a few Christmas presents to show you that I made this week.

This baby doll I made for my 7 month old niece. Babies are always so much fun to make things for. There is so much cute stuff to make!

The free pattern for this doll came from the Black Apple Doll featured on Martha Stuart Crafts. I made the body out of flannel and the hair out of fleece to be super soft and washable so my niece can cuddle it all she likes! I especially like the pink stripey tights. :) I embroidered the eyes and mouth.

 

I also made her a little doll blanket to match out of the same flannel.

My niece loves to cuddle things already, and liked her right away!

Nativity Finger Puppets

A couple years ago, I saw this little pocket nativity set in the Deseret Book catalog:

I put it in my ideas notebook to do sometime. The "sometime" has finally come! :)

I drew all my own shapes, but used ideas from all the figures they had in the set.

Along with the Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, cow and angel, they had in the set, I also wanted to have a wise man,

And a shepherd and sheep.

I made all of the figures out of felt with regular thread or embroidery thread to sew it together and decorate. I especially like the metallic silver thread on the angel's halo.

They are all ready for little fingers to play with and tell the wonderful story that is the reason for the season!

SNOW!

It snowed at our house today!

Since it hasn't really snowed around here yet, we made our own snow. :) We made these snowflakes out of coffee filters. I saw this idea here the other day, and had to try it out. I have seen a lot of kids' crafts made out of coffee filters, but since we don't drink coffee, I never had any. But I thought these snowflakes looked so easy to do with the coffee filters I had to buy some. I got a pack of 160 at the dollar store. These make cutting snowflakes super easy! I just folded them in half and then in thirds, and let my son cut away.

I had to make a couple myself, too.

My son can't get enough of them. I think he will cut up all 160 in the pack if I let him! We've got a couple dozen already.

I really does look like it snowed in our house! :)

Fall/ Thanksgiving Decorations with Kids

We went for a walk the other day, and my boys started gathering leaves that they liked. By the time we got home, we had a huge handful of leaves. My 4 year old thought we should makes something with them.

First we made some turkeys. Nice and festive for the upcoming holiday!

I helped tape the leaves down. My 4 year old drew the face of the turkey on this one:

I drew the face on this one, and my almost two year old kind of helped color it :)

The rest of the leaves we bunched up and made a pretty centerpiece for our table.

We have been enjoying a beautiful fall and are looking forward to Thanksgiving!

 

Baby Gifts

Here are two baby gifts I made recently.

Little shoes for a neighbor's new baby girl:

Shoes and matching onsie dress for a cousin's sweet baby girl:

Fall/ Thanksgiving Banner

I took down my Halloween Banner, and needed something for the rest of fall. My friend had a bunch of this garland stuff around her house that looked so fun. She said they saw something like it at some store, but decided they could make it easily themselves. I decided to copy her idea! :)

To make it, I cut 1.5 inch strips from fall colored cardstock and cut the strips into 1.5 inch squares.

 

I made way more squares than I needed for the one banner. I will have to make a couple more! Then I just zig-zag stitched through the paper, overlapping slightly, hooking them all together in a line.

It really was simple to make, and I love the beautiful fall colors!