I’m co-hosting a baby shower and was in charge of creating the invitations.  We’re having an airplane theme.  Here are the invitations I created along with the envelopes I made (I found the paper at Archiver’s).

A couple of months ago, I ran across a blog post about covering your mouse pad with fabric.  I have a plain black mouse pad (boring!), so was instantly excited to do this.  I used fabric that I already had on hand, laid my mouse pad out, traced around it and cut.  Super simple!  I did use the heat bond mentioned.

For some reason, the tutorial I used is missing all of the pictures, so here is another tutorial that shows the same thing (her mouse pad just happens to be round) in case you’re interested in trying this yourself.

I follow several blogs, but one blog is of a lady who makes most of her kids clothes (and they’re so cute).  I saw a post for a super cute fleece coat.  This lady made a tutorial and sold it on Etsy, so I of course had to buy it.  It was (to my surprise) SO EASY to make (and it was my first piece of clothing)!

I first made a size 3T for Ashley.  I tried it on Brody (they’re about the same size) and it was too big, so I made a second coat (size 2T) for Ashley.  It was a perfect fit and because I used corduroy instead of fleece, it was actually even cuter!  I showed Jason who asked if they made a pattern for boys.  Sure enough, the lady did, so I got that pattern too and made Brody a coat.  Each coat only took a few hours to make.  The buttons were the longest thing to do (making holes and sewing on the buttons).

So, here you go…the three coats I made:

Quick post, only because I thought this was funny at the time (still do).

During the Christmas season, we had many packages being delivered (since all of our family is out of town, they ship our gifts to us).

I happened to notice a package being delivered by a Budget (rent-a-van). I later found out it was via Fed-EX, but thought it was funny that a random rental truck delivered a package.  Strange.  I guess you have to use whatever methods you can, huh?

A few months ago, my Mom emailed me a link to a website that was giving away a free “31 Days of Prayer for your Husband” cards, if you became a follower of her blog.  There were 31 different things to pray for him about along with 2 or 3 scriptures to go along with each day.  This lady made 31 small digital scrapbook pages (4×6 size).  She also makes one called, “42 Weeks of Pregnancy Prayers” that she had for sale in her Etsy shop.  I purchased the pregnancy one (thinking it would be a great gift for pregnant friends) and requested the free prayer cards for husbands after I signed up for her RSS feed.  I then found a tutorial on how to make a handmade photo flip book (on the same lady’s site).

I recently found out a friend was pregnant, so I spent last night putting together my photo flip book.  I sent the digital scrapbook pages to Walgreens photo center and picked them up this morning while I was out and about, then finished putting together the flip book during Brody’s nap. I love how it turned out!  It was so easy to make, just slightly time consuming with the cutting and assembling, but not so bad that I won’t make another one.