Monster shirt

Robot squishy

Here's a picture of a robot taggie/squishy/noise makey thingy I made before Milo was ever born. It hangs from his car seat and he loves it. It crinkles when you play with it. Ady actually helped me design and sew it. And for the belly I had her scribble and then I sewed over her scribbles. You can't see the belly but it looks very roboty.

Crowns and Masks

I helped with my girls Halloween parties and had to bring something for the bags but couldn't bring food. I couldn't handle adding to the amount of pencils or vampire teeth I knew they would be getting so I decided to make something I knew they wouldn't be getting. Felt is cheap and I have boxes filled with scraps.

And in case you were wondering, I drew the crown myself and just sewed up the back, no elastic or velcro. There are a ton of good mask patterns online if you just google them.

Toolbelt

Here's my toolbelt onesie inspired from this shop. Her's is made with faux suede. Pretty sweet!

Dino

He looks super tough in this sweater, ready for a fist fight.

 If only he could see...

wearable

Most of the onesies I have made are in the 3 month size.

 Thought I would share some pics of my cute little guy wearing them. I have a TON from my days of making them for craft fairs in this size as well so while you have already seen them on this blog you haven't seen them in a cute little guy.

And since I still haven't made it back to the sewing machine I thought I could at least post some pics of who I have been spending my time with.

He got to go to listen to a speaker at a medical conference with his daddy. I couldn't resist putting this on him even though I think it embarrassed his dad a bit.

I'll post more as I upload pictures....

Monster Mobile

More flash pictures.

These monsters were taken right out of some super cute books I snagged from the dollar section at Target a few years back. They are the cutest monsters ever and I had to duplicate them.

This little buggy was a Craigslist find that I fixed up before I had Clover. I redid the cushion inside and made sheets and a quilt for it. Here's the original post for the bedding.

And here's the bird mobile I made for it back then. 

The Nursery

Let's face it, if I wait to take some pictures with good lighting then I will never get any pictures of this room. So pictures at night with a flash will have to do.

The shelves are my favorite even though I have no idea what I am going to put on them.

 This dresser is on it's 4th color since I snagged it from my parents years ago. It was yellow, then green/blue, then black and now blue again. I bought some cheap skateboards from Wal-Mart and took the wheels off to use for the drawer pulls. Now to decide what to do with the decks...

Dino Sweater

Remember the sweater I made?

Well I added to it and it is so much better. Especially with Ady modeling.

Superhero

My sweet baby boy was born a week early just like my girls. I had a friend take some newborn pictures of him and the night before the shoot while I was feeding Milo I had a thought to make him a little cape and mask to wear.

Unfortunately we were short on time and only got a couple shots of it so I took some more the next day. 

So these are my shots of him in a newborn photo shoot. I got lots of great tips from watching my friend the day before.

And of course he sleeps like a baby which always makes it easier.

Right after I got him dressed he poo'd all up his back. Of course. So we had a wardrobe change.

The Stache Pac

 I couldn't resist. And Corduroy was just as excited as me to make them. Clover was just mad that I wouldn't let her have them for herself.

Car Seat Cover

Finally found a use for my skater boy fabric I have been hoarding for years.

Hopefully this will keep hands from touching my newborn. But probably not. The first time I took my oldest out a couple at the grocery store give me a hard time for taking her our so soon. They told me there were too many germs. I had her covered with a blanket. Then the couple took the blanket off the car seat and kissed her before I could even react.

It will at least protect him from the weather.

Boy Bibs

These are simple to make. There are tons of free patterns online or you can just draw up your own.

I used different colored flannel as the backing.I think it was about 1/3 yard to make a couple bibs.

And remember these shirts I scored at a thrift store?

They made some sweet bibs!

High Chair Recover

I found this high chair for $2.00!!!!!! How can anyone resist that?

But it was a tad sad looking and I just happened to have the coolest oilcloth ever thanks to my good friend Lisa! So even thought he won't be using it for awhile it is ready for him.

How cute is this fabric?

Dr. Kit

I have been making quite a few of these since I moved out east.

I made some name tags for the bags. Just added the baby's name with the Dr. title.

Expecting Perry the Platypus

My girls have been so excited for their new baby brother. My 6 year old has been waiting for a brother for years and her best friend just welcomed a new brother into her home a few weeks ago which has made the waiting in our house all the harder.

To help with the waiting and to help them feel involved we have been making him presents.

These onesies were made with fabric crayons we bought at JoAnns. The girls just colored on paper and I ironed on their designs.

Corduroy insisted on cutting hers out. I don't recommend this for a couple reason.

1. It makes it really hard to iron on. You don't want the paper to move or the picture will look blurry, so if you have nothing to hold onto then your iron has to carefully stay in one spot. I ended up with spots where the holes in the iron are. I tried to correct it but you can still kind of see them.

2. The pictures had an outline and she cut part of that off so when it was ironed on it looked like I missed part of the picture.

 Ady drew a picture of me so the baby would know what I look like. How thoughtful?

 Corduroy also wanted to write the names of what she drew underneath.When she first wrote it out she realized right away that the name would be backwards so she chucked her papers and whipped out the words written perfectly backwards without any help or thought. It was pretty impressive for a Kindergartner.

And because Ady thinks this baby is going to be named Perry the Platypus we had to have a Perry onesie for him.In hopes of her not getting to attached to the name we have talked with her about it and a couple days ago she said that could be his middle name.

If this baby decides to come when the others did I will be in the hospital today. Hopefully that's the case!

And for another variation of this check out Delia's onesies she made with her boys. They are adorable. More work but so worth it I think. If I hadn't already made these I think I would have gone the freezer paper route. The colors are richer and more artistic looking.