My Weekend

This weekend I did not do laundry, I did not make dinner, and I did not do much cleaning. I did however sew. I told Brian that I had some sewing projects that I wanted to tackle this weekend and I was going to finish them if it killed me. Well, I survived, but the kids barely did. They were hungry most of the weekend & burned out on Blue's Clues videos I'm sure, but I finished. Here are the fruits of my labor. I'm very proud each of them.

First up is Elodie the Elephant:

This is Millie the Monkey:

And this is Mae:


Now before you ask, No I am not going to start selling these. I have my hands full right now with 2 home businesses and starting one more is not on the agenda. I will however, be making these as gifts for friends birthdays/Christmas presents. The monkey & Mae dolls are for Joshua & Rachel's birthdays next month. So I will be keeping busy making more for my nieces and nephews this year. If you click on the links you will be directed to Bit of Whimsy's Etsy shop where I purchased the patterns. The directions were very easy to follow and I had lots of fun figuring out what fabric I was going to use for each. The hardest part was finding the time to sew, and my husband was great at keeping the kids distracted long enough for me to get them done. I hope you like them!

I'm sew cool!

Since I'm a stay-at-home mom, I figured I'd better start sewing, right? Well I'm extremely glad that my grandma taught me how long ago because I'm finally able to put that training to good use. I needed a shopping cart cover that fit the double seaters at HEB & Sam's Club. I purchased a pattern on eBay and it took me 3 days to finish, but the final product is pretty good.