"Hornet wear"

A neighbor and friend of mine asked me about making "hornet wear" for her son. Her daughters play volleyball and she wanted her son to have Eureka Hornets shirts to wear to the games. She had great ideas to get me going and I just put the ideas into action! We started with 2 adult t-shirts and came up with these 2 raglan Ts! So cute!

This shirt has a felt "H" for hornets with green yarn stitching.
And this shirt has the hornets colors spelling out "lil bro".
Since I once again forgot to take a before picture, here are the after shots of the t-shirts I used.

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The letter "M"

Just a quick preschool update. We learned the letter "m" this week. The kids had tons of fun with marble madness that Jayden got for Christmas. Other free time toys were magnets, money, makeup, and Memory. We had milk, mini muffins, and mozarella cheese (string cheese) for our snack. And the kids got to make mittens and moose headbands for craft to go along with our stories The Mitten and If You Give a Moose a Muffin. What fun times!

The letter "T"

For the month of January I am the preschool teacher for Andrew's class:) So, today I taught them the letter "T". We played with trains, tractors, trucks, telephones, tweety, and tutus. Ate teeth(see below), teddy grahams, and Tang for snack. And made turtle tambourines. All of this along with the workbook pages and schoolwork of course! :)

Here are the teeth we made and ate for snack. Do you see the red lips, brown gums, and white teeth? (apple slices, peanut butter, and mini marshmallows)

I think Dylan is trying to get his teeth to snarl :)
Mollie's teeth must be yawning and Andrew's teeth have a bad case of receding bottom gums (I think his apple was just turned around for the picture)
Mason wishes they were HIS teeth!
On to the turtle tambourines made of paper plates and dry beans. I'm not sure how long they will last before beans are all over our houses, but it's a fun idea!
Here they all are!

Ironing board cover

It was time for a new ironing board cover. . . well, actually way PAST time! Wouldn't you agree?

I decided to try and use up some of my scraps once again. Do these fabrics look familiar? I used some of them on my scrappy skirt. And I'm still using the scraps!

Piece some small squares/rectangles together to make an oblong shape slightly bigger than the old ironing board cover. Place the old cover on top of the new piece and cut out the shape more exact but still slightly bigger (the actual board shape not just the rectangle).
Serge the edges.
Using the old string, fold the serged edge over the string and sew making a casing for the string. You eliminate the step of threading the string through this way.
Yes, I did throw away the old cover. I don't think I'll be trying to reuse any of that fabric!
Put the new cover on and pull the string tight. Ahh. . . much better!

Objects!

I don't think I have mentioned on here yet that I am selling some of my creations at Objects in Eureka! Go check them out! Also, feel free to contact me anytime if you would like something you see on my blog (or elsewhere for that matter). Anything I make I am willing to remake for you:) I love trying new things so if there is something out there (on pinterest or anywhere) and you aren't interested in trying yourself, let me give it a try! Recently I made the following items for people who contacted me or to sell at Objects in Eureka. . . sweater dresses, shower curtain, lampshades, slippers for toddler girls, hats, burlap ties for toddler boys, and bibs.

A while ago I refurbished this lamp. Here it is straight from Etcetera shop.

And this is how I sold it at Objects. Go check the store out. It has all kinds of unique gifts!

Nativity puppets

Home with 4 kids for over Christmas break and what to do? I was searching online for Christmas crafts and found these cute nativity puppets. http://thesecretisgratitude.blogspot.com/2010/12/homemade-nativity-puppets-from-felt.html We made a run to Hobby Lobby and purchased the felt. Then got to snipping and gluing and drawing and made our own nativity set. The boys have had fun and got to put on a puppet show for the Grimm Christmas. We hope to share it with the Adams' too:) Here is the cast . . .

I drew the scenes and the boys helped color. I'm definitely no artist (as you can tell from the pics) so I think I'll stick to sewing:)


I'm picturing embellishing this a bit each year. This year I used a rhyming nativity story found on the blog mentioned above. I narrated the story while the boys held up the puppets. Someday they'll be able to have their own speaking parts and we can add the girls in too! I think they'll be so fun to pull out year after year.

Jeanskirt from jeans

Last week at Goodwill I bought a pair of jeans to make into a jeanskirt. Of course, I saw the idea on Pinterest :) Here are the results. . . (take note of the super fun slippers I just got in the mail today. They had to make the blog too!)