Baby skirts in less than 30 mins

Look how cute this baby skirt is! I went to our stake super saturday and one of the activities I did was making easy baby skirts.

We chose our fabric they brought and looking at these measurements determined the width of the skirt. I know it doesn't have the length for the skirts, that's because you can make it however long or short you want.
K, so you cut two pieces of fabric with the length you can determine from the picture . You place the inside out and pin the shorter sides which is the length and sew down those sides.

On the waist. You folks over the fabric not once, but twice so it can have a better finish. I pinned it down as you can see from the picture. I sewed around the bottom of the folded edge (so I sewed that bottom edge where I pinned) and left a half inch because that's where you will be putting your elastic through.

In this picture you can see that the skirt is still inside out and you can see the bottom part where
I sewed. I used elastic and made it the SAME width as the skirt. So if your skirt was 16 inches wide... You make the elastic 16 inches. I placed the elastic on a safety pin and thread it through the band of the skirt we created. At the end I sewed the two stands together many many times so it would not become loose or come apart.

Next I folded up the bottom of the skirt like 1/4- 1/2 inch and ironed it for a crisp finish. I then just went and sewed it from the inside.

Lastly, I decorated it with this cute ribbon I have. These skirts are so easy you can add so many cute details:
Ruffles, ribbon, flowers, matching headbands or shoes, etc. I used the ribbon and you can see it pinned down and ready to be sewn!

Cute glass magnets

These are some of the glass magnets that I made for the magnet board and fridge.

I chose some of the paper that I used on the magnet board. I punched the holes evenly for the glass marble things.

Here are some of the hold punches and glass things that you could get for cheap at any craft store or dollar store.

Here are two cute magnets so far. I used an invisible glue and put a really thin layer on the colored side of the paper and chose the marble rock things that were the most round and same size as each other.

Here is another cute little guy.

I then used the same glue and placed the round magnets on the back and left them like this to dry.

Look how cute!!!

Christmas goodies for friends and family

This Christmas I made cookie recipe in a jar. I found a great website for masking these jar recipes: allrecipes.com. They had cookie recipes, soup etc. I loved it too bc you could type in the serving amount you wanted and it would change the recipe to fit that.

I bought a bunch of mason jars, made sure they were clean and lined them up on my counter. I chose what pattern I wanted the ingredients to go in. I placed m&m and coconuts on top to fill in ask of the space.

I made a recipe tag so you know what recipe it is and what to add.

Preview of my magnet board, more instructions to come

Adorable baby wipe case

This week I made a baby wipe case for a friend's baby shower.


I found fabric and some batting about 1/4 inch thick. Both were 1/4 of a yard. I found a wipe case at Target for a dollar. I recommend finding a case that closes really well. I could have used one that was better, you don't want it to open in your purse.



I first cut the batting stuff larger than the case. I hot glued the batting on and around the edges. I then cut the access off. I did it for the top and bottom.

I found out that you can go to national parks for FREE during certain parts of the year. We're so going to go at least once this year.

January 15-17 (for Martin Luther King Jr. birthday

April 16-24 (National Park week)

June 21 (First day of summer)

September 24 (Public Lands Day)

November 11-13 (Veterans Day weekend)

Check out the website for other free national park things at:
http://www.parkpartners.org/Special-Offers-for-2011.html

Thank you postcards

For our wedding thank you cards we decided to make a postcard from one of our wedding pictures. It was so exciting to get our pictures back and use vistaprint.com to design our own postcards. We got 250 postcards for $20. The pictures were clear and sturdy. We decided to get envelopes bc we didn't want our faces to be going all over the country.

This is the back which we made black and white in order to write our thank yous on it. As you can see, we wrote our names at the bottom so we wouldn't need to write them.


Here is the front of the card. I was able to add any picture of mine and I wanted to add words with it also.