Stockings!

I was going to wait till the baby was born to make these, but I figured it'd be WAY easier without a child. Plus, Tron was working on finals things so I just whipped these out. I like the way they turned out. Tron and I both agree that we like mine the least, but out well.


Here they all are, I haven't actually decorated for Christmas yet, because we're moving in a week or so. I just took down the fall decor and left the lights for effect.














This is Tron's luckily he likes his the best.




















This one's mine. It looks better in person, this is a weird picture, but still least favorite.



















This is the baby's.



















And The inside.

Now What You've All Been Waiting For!...Or At Least What I Have Been Waiting For!

Hooray! The diaper bag is finally complete! We designed the print, they burned the screen, and Tron printed it. He finished it today and I LOVE it. I wanted to carry it around tonight just so I could show people. ha ha ha. Everyone did such a great job with the print. Anyhow, here it is.

And they're up!

I put just a sampling of the maternity pictures I had taken up on my other blog. Check them out.

So, Here's the Thing...

I'm really bad at not sewing things, but I've only sewn two things that were for me or rather the baby. I may or may not have sewn things for others...whoops. Anyhow I thought I'd post some pictures of what I've made since I last posted.

I decided I wanted a diaper holder to go in the diaper bag.



















And here's a look at the inside fabric



















Next I made the Diaper Stacker. I only sewed a little on this and it was hand sewing, so that shouldn't count.





































I've been looking to buy a car seat tent, but they are SO expensive! The ones I found were all 50 dollars. So I thought H-No I'm not paying that. Esp since it would cost like 10 dollars to make. So that's what I did. And thanks to me fabric stash we paid nothing. My mom emailed me the pattern this evening and I made one with some fabric I had. I've been saving both these fabrics for years. I was just waiting to make something for myself. I realize it's not the most child like fabric...ok it's not baby fabric at all. But I LOVE them.



















And here's the inside fabric. I figure it totally works because Black, White, and Red are the only colors they see for the first while.















And last I've been crocheting around burp cloths and blankets. I'm almost done. I only have 4 more burp cloths and I'll be finished. So, here's a picture of most of them. I have one of the blankets in the hospital bag already. It's really cute though. It has sail boats, it's my favorite (which is why he'll be coming home in it.) Oh and I just threw in the fleece blanket I made him the other day for kicks. In total I've made 6 receiving blankets and 26 burp cloths. (we don't have a washer and dryer so the burp cloths had to come in heaps.)















So, there are the projects. After the last 4 burp cloths I think I'll be done till he comes. Seeing as how the doctor things he'll be coming by the end of this week. Here's to hoping. :) If he hasn't come however I will be starting on the stockings I'm going to make. I thought it'd be fun to have matching stockings for the first Christmas with our new little family. Oh and I got maternity photos taken I'll post them when I get the CD, but probably on the other blog.

Halloween + More Projects

This Halloween was awesome! Not only is it my favorite holiday of the year, but my niece Bryn was baptized. We didn't get any pictures of Bryn in her dress or at the baptism (we'll have to get those from my parents). We had a few costume parties to go to. The first one was a Wes Anderson costume party. For those of you who don't know the love of Wes Anderson, I highly recommend you look him up. If you're into bizarre, dysfunctional, random humor with sweet slow-mo shots. He has such great films as: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Darjeeling Limited.

Here are a few photos of the Halloween goodness:

I went as Steve Zissou from Life Aquatic and Tron as Jack Whitman from Darjeeling Limited.














Here are some reference photos for those of you who haven't seen the movies
Steve













Jack (he's the one on the far left)














Now, for the other party:

As you can see we went with different costumes. I didn't care to wear the beard again. Way too itchy. So, we went with the inappropriate costumes. I'm a private school girl who is prego and Tron's a teacher.


















Blaine, Lindsay and George were Snape, Luna, and Harry from Harry Potter







































Nick and Jamie were Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock



















Emily was a Goth Girl, Beth was a tween dressed up as a baby, Jason was the blind kid from American Idol, Lindsey and Brad were Alice and the Mad Hatter (brad changed before the photo), BriAnne and Joey were Trashy folk one happening to be a vampire and the other a victim, and Milan was Mickey Mouse. Kip and Ari came later so I didn't get pictures of them, but they were lovely costumes.





































































We didn't dress up on actual halloween, which was kinda weird for me. But we got pictures of the kids dressed up which was fun. Porter was the Grim Reaper, Bryn was Cleopatra, Ryann was a Genie, Kate was a Butterfly, and Max was a Dragon (he had a fever and was not feeling well. Hence the unhappy look on his face.)





































































And here's a couple pictures Tron took of Kate while I was playing with her. She's just so chubby and squeezable!






























Now, for the projects. You may or may not have notice that I didn't sew my costumes for Halloween which isn't normal for me. But I did sew costumes for others. I made parts of a Papa Smurf Costume and I made a gown for my friend for a ball. I don't have pictures of the Papa Smurf business, but I do of the gown and here they are.

Front



















Back



















And just so you can see the skirt hang, here's Amy Jo in her dress. (I had to do box pleats all the way around to cut down on the bulk



















Last but not least my final sewing project for the baby while Pregnant (probably). I've decided I probably shouldn't be bending over so much for extended periods of time during the last month. It hurts my back too much. We'll see how long that decision lasts. Don't get me wrong I am going to be crocheting around burp cloths and blankets just not sewing. ha ha ha Anyhow, I made a cover for the tummy pillow. I love the fabric. Here it is:





























Sorry for the photo overload, but whatever.

Projects 5 and 6!

So, lately it seems all I've been doing is sewing and watching crappy TV. (which I am addicted to. Whoops) But as of late it seems like I've only been sewing for other people. It's Halloween time and that means I sew people's costumes for them. Which I really do love doing. I just think it's nice to sew for myself once in a while. Which is why when I found the wallet I've been looking for (minus the fact that it was boring looking) this evening, I bought it and embellished it right away. I forgot the get the before picture, but I'm sure you can picture it. it was just plain. Anyway, I just cut out this lovely bird slapped it on and stitched. I think it turned out way cute! FYI hand sewing through leather kinda hurts, just in case you were wondering.














Also, as you all know I was working on the crib bedding making it actually unisex. I cut out the circles, fray checked them, and ironed them on. I sewed around most of them when I realized I didn't like the way it was looking, so I unpicked them all. ha ha ha whoops. But I think they look good without the stitching or any embellishments. Anyhow, here's the before and after.

Before



















After

ANNOYING!

So, the wonderful unisex bedding we got is not so unisex after all. It came in the mail the other day. I was so excited I opened it up to find pink polka dots all over the back sides. I'm sorry So Ho Designs, but pink is what we call gender specific. I am going to be altering this wonderful bedding to make it actually unisex. I'll show pictures later.