My first custom made...

A childhood friend of mine has recently been blessed with a new nephew.  Upon viewing some of my projects, she asked me if I would be willing to create an owl hat for a boy.  She gave me specific colors. I searched high and low (but really I just made one stop) and finally found the perfect colors.  As requested the colors are brown, blue and green.  This is what I came up with.  The original owl hat has a scalloped edge, but that’s pretty girly.  I thought earflaps suited a boy much better.  I also wanted to add some ties just in case it needed to be secured.  And let’s just face it; ties are baby masculine and cute.  So with no further ado here is the boy version of the owl hat…

Frugal Me





I think I love it



I’m moving into a new apartment all by myself, which means I get to decorate just for me with no considerations required.  But…I am on an itty bitty budget.  I have decided to make as many things as possible for decorating.  Here is the very first thing I have come up with.



It’s an M in a frame (for lack of a better name for this project).  It was super easy! I just picked out a frame at Hobby Lobby and measured a piece of fabric to fit.  Then I cut out an M (because that’s my initial) and a decorative little bird.  A little wonder-under made it super easy to piece together.  Then pop it in a frame. The whole project to less than an hour and I used fabric I had on hand.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy!  ( And I think it turned out pretty darn cute).







The details



Everyone needs a turtle friend

As I have mentioned before, I prefer to have a person inspire project, but inspiration is inspiration.  This time it just happened to come from my complete adoration for this print (and maybe a little frugality).  Here’s how it happened…

So I made these placemats for two out of this REALLY cute print.  I had maybe a quarter of a yard left over.  And it was in a funky skinny rectangle.  It wasn’t even enough to make another placemat; too skinny.  But really who has dinner for three very often?  It was too skinny to make any real practical thing, I thought.  What can you do with that?  Well this is what. 

I went through my collection of patterns and tried out a couple of things that I thought might work.  Rosette? No.  Napkins? No.  Headband? Maybe, but no.  Then I came upon this pattern for this precious little turtle friend.  And guess what…The pieces fit PERFECTLY.  I whipped him up and here he is.

Table for Two

A table settng suggestion.

Originally I bought this fabric to make a dress for my sister as she is always complaining that I never make her anything, but I changed my mind.  It has been sitting there beckoning to be used, and I don’t have her measurements so what could I do?  I admit it.  I shamelessly gave in and decided to make placemats out of it.  I made two with matching coasters.  In hindsight, I don’t really think this print is very fitting for her anyway. 

 I have no regrets.

Here's one in action.

How cute is this print?!