my box is cuter than your box

i love this idea!!

http://cateholst.typepad.com/aworkinprogress/pillow-box-template.html#tp




will definitely be trying it for the holidays.

the business of fun!

i feel like i should start this post by saying i understand proper grammar. i just don't choose to practice it. lowercase letters are visually more appealing to me and thus, i choose not to write with any caps. something about typeface font with no big friends to throw off the streamlined look of it all. if i type a capital letter, it's purely by accident. hey, it's a quirk. my husband reminds me i have a lot.
and back to the subject at hand! for someone who doesn't actually have a baby, i certainly have been making lots of baby stuff. this time, it was for one of jason's co-workers. she saw what i made for my sister and asked if i could make her the same set for her sister's baby shower. and like...pay me money...what!?! get paid to do stuff i would probably do anyways? okay! the only real direction she gave me was that the baby is a girl and the mom-to-be isn't really into girly-girl, frilly, pink stuff. it was easy for me to design since i feel like i'm the same way.
went to stonemountain and daughter fabric store (see link from previous post) and found the CUTEST (caps can be used to covey emotion) owl fabric. owls have been on my mind a lot lately, reasons i'll dive into in another post, but i had to have this fabric.
i did the same set: 3 burp cloths, 1 bib and 1 nursing cover (i forgot pics of the nursing cover, but it was in the same owl fabric used on 1 of the burp cloths)...and i got paid. it was pretty awesome. so, in light of all this, i decided maybe i should do this more. if i like making this stuff, and i am going to do it anyways, why not make a little money? now, i'm not quitting my day job or anything but hey, it's fun! so, i've started thinking about setting up an etsy shop. i haven't done it yet, because i want to be sure that i do it, and continue having fun with it...but i'm pretty sure i'm ready :)
one thing i thought about adding are pacifier clips. never done it, but super easy and one of those helpful things i feel like moms need.
so that's that. look for a post on the new shop soon. tell your baby friends. that is to say, friends who have or will have babies.
here are the pics from the stuff i made jason's co-worker:




i will post our halloween pics by this weekend!
xoxo

splish splash

okay, i really need to post more often. it's not like i'm not doing things that are post worthy- i totally am! i just need to make more time for blogging.
i wanted to post final pictures of the shower curtain. it's been done for a couple weeks now, but again, i got too busy to actually post the final pictures.
it's been absolutely great, i'm so glad i made it. it fits perfectly, and i love love love the fabric i chose. i think it could definitely be mistaken for a store bought curtain, and quite honestly, it was pretty simple. the hardest part was dealing with the huge mass of fabric and finding a space large enough to work with it. i also got very comfortable with making button holes, as that's how i did the holes for the rings....and side note: my machine does them automatically- yours probably does too! most people probably know this, but if you haven't seen it before, it's pretty amazing and awesome.
so, here it is:




next, i'll be posting our halloween costumes and the latest in baby gifts.
xoxo