Birthday Gift

I made this gift for my mom to give one of her friends. It's a candy dish with her initial, hand sanitizer with her initial, a post-it note holder with intial. There is also a cookie bouquet and I etched her intial onto the "vase" for the cookies.

Jon-jons

One of my best friends has a little boy, so this summer, she and I decided to learn how to make reversible jon-jons. I had already made several jumpers for little girls, but had never made boy outfits.

We headed to Hobby Lobby to pick out material. Using my embroidery machine, I appliqued the football, the crab, the spider and the star. My friend made a crab applique, her little's boy initial applique, a worm applique and his monogrammed initials. I did not get a picture of his outfits, but here is a picture of my outfits. I left the blue and white jon jon blank to add initials later.

tshirt for 2 year old

This was my first time to applique with sequins. This is a size 2T shirt.

Hallie's birthday

This is a bulletin board and pillow that I made for Hallie for her new room.

Monogrammed Towels

This is a set of towels I made for my mother for Christmas 2009.

Matching Pillowcase dresses

This is a set of matching "pillowcase" dresses that I created for a friend at church when she had her new baby girl. I used material in my stash for these pictures but followed the pillowcase instructions.

Clipboard, post it notes and etched glass

One of my first uses with the cricut was creating this set for a dear friend for Christmas. Using vinyl, I created the clipboard, post it note holder and hand sanitizer to match (I didn't take a picture of the hand sanitizer bottle). I also etched plates for her that I purchased at Old Time Pottery.

Welcome to my craft blog!

Although I don't have much time, I love to craft. I have a sewing maching, embroidery machine, and I recently purchased a cricut. I love making things. I'm self taught so there are still so many things that I want to learn.

My mother would be proud, because I refused to sew when I was growing up. Now I wish I had paid better attention and I really wish I had gotten my grandmother to teach me a few things before she died.

I am going to try to attempt to keep a blog of the crafts I make, mainly for my personal use so that I can keep pictures in an organized fashion.