Project #6 - Framed Butterfly

Borrowed my neighbor Amy's butterfly punch (thanks Amy!) to make a fun Mother's Day Gift (more to come on that tomorrow) and decided to make this for Isabelle's Room. It was easy and fun to make and looks really cute hanging on the wall in her room. Makes me want to add more butterflies to her room.

Project #5 - Framed Photos and Words

Have you been wondering when I would get around to showing the projects I've done using the photos I showed earlier? I received this frame at Karter's Baby Shower. It has just been sitting in my craft room waiting for me to put it together. I finally printed off some photos and put them in the frame. It seriously took me 5 minutes to put together, so quick and easy.

This is the view from halfway up the stairs. I put it at the top or our stairs and placed our Simplify sign under it.

The quote reads, "We do not remember days, we remember moments." Love that!! So true!

I think the space is too big between the frame and the sign. I want to move it, but I don't want to put more holes in the wall. We'll see how long I can hold out before I HAVE to change it!

Project #4 - Quiet Book

Such a bright, cheery, fun book!! This book took so much time to make and I will NOT be doing another!! I ordered the kit to make this book and followed a couple different online tutorials. Many of the peices are secured with velcro so they can be played with.

Put the animals in the cage.

Put the clothes in the basket.

Riding and driving!! Mom, Dad, all our kids, and both Grammies and Grampies fill our train, truck,and car.

Pick a flower.

Count, slide, and tie.

This is one project I felt took too much time, money, and effort!! It had so many different parts to it, and it didn't come together quickly. When I finally finished it I hesitated to let the kids play with it, which makes no sense, since this is the purpose of the book. It just has so many fragile pieces that aren't kid friendly. Of course I let them play with it. In the first 5 minutes that Isabelle played with it she bent the monkey and lost a peice. Oh well, I hopefully have learned my lesson. I love beautiful things, but with kids, I'm learning things they use also have to be practical. Finding the balance between beauty and practicality is something I need to remember in future projects.

Project #3 - Photo Collage

This one I just finished yesterday. I had 5 pictures left to add and it was just sitting there waiting for me to finish. So happy to get these projects done!! Posting these has really motivated me to finish up these projects that have been laying around and stressing me out. The idea for this collage came together after Isabelle (or was it Jakob) broke this frame. Luckily I had bought 4 and I only needed three for the photos I was displaying (2 for 1 deal at Kohls.) Well, the frame and the glass inside broke. I threw the glass away and tried to glue the frame back together. After a couple attempts I got it back together, but the frame didn't look great. I decided to do something fun since I really didn't care about the frame. I really liked how it turned out. I was able to use nail polish remove to help fix my botched up glue mess on the frame. I just gathered a bunch of our wallet size snapshots, cut them to the same size, and taped them down.

Project #2 - Week In Our Lives Scrapbook

Do you remember me documenting a week in our lives this past October. Well, I finally finished the album this last month. I would say 6 months to get this documented is just about right. I really had a lot of it done, I just had to put it all together. I kept it really simple, not a lot of embellishments. I might go back later and add a few things, but doing less now is good enough for me. I'm just glad I have it recorded and in a book for us to look at. Below is the cover and a few shots of some of the pages. The are 8 1/2"x11" pages, with the journaling done on the burnt orange 4 1/4"x11" pages. I just paper cut my original paper protecters and stitched them up the side.

Project #1 - Tag blanket

Don't look close, seriously, don't look close. I put this together pretty quickly with some left over minky fabric from a blanket my mom made for Karter and some ribbon from my stash. I've had it sitting on my desk for months and haven't gotten to it. It felt good to get it done!! I need to improve my sewing skills a bit.

I love to watch him play with this, enjoying the tags and the softness of the minky fabric. Love minky fabric!!

Just for fun!!

Projects

I have completed/am working on a few projects. Since I haven't been great about posting I'll be posting a project a day this next week. I think of so many things that I want to post, but I just haven't sat down at the computer to do it. Well, this week will be different. Below are a few photos I have used for a couple of the projects. MORE TO COME!!