Weekend Craft

These  weekend wasn't such a crafty weekend sense it was spent turning a guest room into a nursery but here is a little picture update on my progress with Squirmy's scrap blanket! I think I have about 5 hours left on it I really love how it is turning out. 

This is the very center of the blanket

♥Sarah

Fridays

Fridays have their ups and downs

Down
I have to drive to work in a cold frosted vehicle
I know your asking your self how is this different from any other day
well on normal days my hubby gets out of bed clears my car off and warms it up long before I drag my self up out of bed!

Up
I get to have lunch with the two most amazing people in the world
this would of coarse be hubby and Squirmy

I think the up cancels out the down
I like my Fridays

♥Sarah

Weekend Craft

Yay its Monday and I have my craft post all ready

This weekend I worked on two crafts the first was a paint smock

and the second is Squirmy's scrap blanket

Project # 1

You can find the tutorial for the smock

@

http://craftgossip.com/blog/sew-a-toddler-smock-in-30-minutes-with-this-free-pattern/2009/01/02/

Here are some pictures of mine

I sewed this all by hand and the turtorial was right it takes less then 30 minutes and I even add the poket

Project #2

This is the scrap blanket for Squirmy it is so close to being done here are some of the squares

Happy Crafting

♥ Sarah

Getting so big

This post it all about SQUIRMY

mostly because he is just so cute!

[8 month]

This Weekend we took him to the Childrens Museum it was so much fun to watch him explore

While we were there we bought him some fingure paints I think he might be the next picasso ;)

Man I LOVE this KID

♥Sarah

Weekend Craft Babies Born in 2008 Special Edition

Thats a flashy post title I hope my blog can meet its standards lol

This weekend I tackled 3 projects

1)Squirmy's baby book

2) Squirmy's 2008 time capsule

3) A Hat for a friend

I can say I successfully completed all three but number three turned out so horrible that within minutes I unwound the entire hat and went in search of a new hat pattern which will be tackled this weekend the other projects were very succesful

PROJECT #1
Squirmy's Baby Book
My baby book was given to me at my shower its cute and has lots of places for pictures supplies I used in this project include

1) Baby book

2) Pictures lots and lots of pictures

3) A ball point pen

I am pretty sure you are all capabule of doing the rest your self and are probably thinking at this point why are we getting a craft blog on filling out a baby book ... well my friends you know that one page that is filled with what was happening in the world.... Yeah that page the page I skipped a million time in hopes that it would just disappear .Well I took the time to look everything up that you will need for that page according to the questions in my book ! Cuz lets face it mamas sense our babies have been born who has really kept up on this stuff. I don't know who the top actor is but I could give you a list of all the toys that have been recalled in the last month LOL.. So here we go !

1) Top world news ?

-when we realized the sky was falling

-yes he could

-mumbai held hostage

-devestation in Islambad

-Pirates rule the waves

-War in Caucasus

-China spreads the melamine

-Twilight of cuba's Patriarch

-An Audacious Rescue in Colombia

-Mother Natures Double Whammy

2)The President?

-George W Bush but this was an election year and Barrack Obama was Elected

3)The Economy?

-In a crisis

4) Popular Television Shows?

-Grey's Anatomy

-Prison Break

-House

-Heros

-Smallvile

-Gossip Girl

-Lost

-NCIS

-One Tree Hill

-Scrubs

-The Office

5)Musical Groups?

-Lil' Wayne

-Rihanna

-Cold Play

-Beyonce

-Taylor Swift

-Nickle Back

-Katie Perry

-Leona Lewis

-T.I

-Kaye West

-PSD

6)Popular songs?

-Love Lock Down

-So What

-Oh My God

-A milli

-White Winter Hymnal

-Burnin ' UP

-Single Ladies

-Time to Pretend

-Rock Ferry

-Going on

7) Famous Actors/Actresses?

-Kate Winslet

-Viola Davis

-Dakota Fannining

-Kimberly Rivers Roberts

-Angelina Jolie

-Heath Ledger

-Jean Claude Van Damme

-Vlad Iuanou

-Brandon Walters

-Ben Burtt

8) Sports Figures?

-Tiger Woods

-Rafael Nadal

-Eli Manning

-Micheal Phelps

-Usain Bolt

-Josh Hamilton

-CC>Sabathia

-Paul Pierce

-Dustin Pedroia

-Alexander Ovechkin

9) Fashion Trends?

-Vertiginous Heels

-Obama Mania

-Lace

-Boyfriend eans

-The little Black Dress

10)Popular Movies

-Juno

-Wall-E

-The Curious Case of Benjamen Button

-Iron Man

-Darak Night

-Ma Ma Mia

-Wanted

-Hanncock

-Righteous Kill

-Eagle Eye

11)Dest Sellers

-2666

-Lush Life

-American Wife

-Anathem

-Unaccustomed Earth

-Personal Days

-The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

-When will there be good news

-The Graveyard Book

-The Windows of East Wick

12) The price of....

-A gallon of gas 3.89-4.09

-A loaf of bread 1.59

-A home 206,200

-A car 27,958

-A jar of hone 10.99

-A stamp .42 cents

wooooooooooooo thats it we are done here are some pics of how my book turned out

Project #2
Squimys 2008 Time Capsule
This project was all about saving some great keepsakes

The supplies you need for this project are

1. a big envelope or box
   
2. Stickers markers ect
3. baby keepsakes
   

The steps to this project are very creative decorate the box/envelope however you wish and place objects in side with an inventory list of each object and why they are important the objects that I included are

1. Release papers and test from the hospital
2. Silver dollar from his birth year
3. His ultrasound photos
4. All the cards he has gotten so far
5. My pregnancy journal
6. The hat/shirt and hospital bracelets he wore
7. His I'm a boy name tag
8. Favors from my baby shower

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

YAY FOR BABIES AND MEMORIES

♥ Sarah

Weekend Crafts a Thrusday Edition

Wow how the week flew by I had a Crafts post all prepared for Monday morning then I opened my eyes and it was Thursday so here it is!
Even before I had my son I was a scrapper I would keep movie tickets concert tickets booklets and spend ours knee deep in beautiful papers , stickers, cut outs, glue , and memories !
Now that I have a baby I have so many wonderful memories to capture so I spent my weekend looking at all my pregnancy photos, his birth, each month of his life thus far and rereading each little note I had wrote as a monthly update to him and always saying to my hubby aww look how little he was or aww I remember this its funny how in eight months we could have so much to look at ! I used a digital scrap booking software called picaboo and came up with volume .5 Squirmy's first 6 months you can take a look at the book here
http://preview.picaboo.com/Webview/CoverPage.aspx?album=000000000002D82AAE&user=00000000000288301A
[The spelling errors in the book were fixed before purchasing it]

This weekend I am working on
-Matthew's baby book the paper one and his 2008 time capsule
-A crochet and fleeced lined hat for a friend
Both projects are really exciting and I'll share more as they progress
♥Sarah

8 Months

Dear Squirmy

Today you turned eight months old! Holy smokes did that go by fast!!! Only four more months till your first birthday I am already dreaming about all the fun we will have the cake the balloons the presents. I enjoy every moment with you and I can't wait to see what you will do next! Wow how you have grown!

-You have moved on to size three diapers because you are a cruiser!

-You blow kisses 

-You play picaboo

-You can pull your self up on pretty much anything 

-You cruise

-You crawl 

-You can say mama papa baby and Hiya 

-You can sign , hi, hungery, and yes 

-You can read the words clap, arms up, and hi 

-You can dance

-You put your arms up to be picked up 

-Your eating thicker and more solid food 

-You wear 6-9 or 9-12 size clothes 

-Your wear a size 2 shoe 

-You still have that crazy red hair and baby blue eyes 

We love you so much !

♥MOM

My Resolutions

YAY for 2009

1. Use more butter it takes good and we only live once so none of this 30% less fat imitation stuff
2. Make bread and crust from scratch every chance I get because its just yummy that way
   
3. crochet Squirmy tons of warm blankets
   
4. Plan the most amazing 1st birthday party for Squirmy
5. Enjoy my 21 st Birthday
6. Tell my hubby 365 reasons why I love him
7. Spend 15 more minutes of my day completely wrapped up in my husband and son [thats an extra 2 weeks in a year!]
8. Learn to quilt
   
9. Finish my photo books
   
10. Find the perfect 2009 ornament
    

What fun I am going to have this YEAR!
♥Sarah

Weekend Crafts a Thursday Edition

I've been busy

This is baby Tatum's set he was not supposed to be here till January 5th but he gave his parent the best Christmas gift and came on December 22nd Happy Birthday Tatum!

THE HAT
This is the same pattern hat that you can find in previous weekend craft post or ask me for but this time I added ear flaps
-how you go about thing this is first locate the position on the ear when the child/adult is wearing the hat
-Row 1-8 sc 8 across ch 1 turn (you can do this continusly till you reach the desired length)
-Dec every other sc on each of the rows till you have on sc left
-ch 25 down from the last sc
repeat this patter on the other side then add a border all the way around the hat to blend

Squirmy Modeling the Hat
This hat will fit 16-32 cm and you can always change the pattern by continuing the last sc sequence to the desirered length
Squirmy about 8 months old in this perticular hat is out a 1/2 inch to small [so you can get a sense of what you will need to do to make the pattern work for you]
you can also add some tassels to the end of the strings or you could leave the strings off if you were concerned with the age of the child you were making this for

The BOOTIES

I love love love these booties and even better I made the pattern up!! Its a little rough still but if you need help just let me know

Top of bootie
-ch 15 sc in 2 sc from the hook
-sc 15 ch1 turn ** repeat 25 times
-join the sides using a slip stich

Heel
-choose another color sc 25 around the top
-sc 13 ch1 turn* repeat 8 times

Toe
-sc 38 around top and heel * 8
-dc every other sc (14 sc)
-14 sc around * repeat 4 times
-dc every other sc until you have 1 sc tie off

Now you just have to make one more !

The Mittens

These are the same mitten pattern found in several of my weekend crafts but I used the ribbed edging which can be acomplished by using the top of bootie pattern

The Blanket

This is the same blanket pattern as my other post this time I just switched out the color to create the strip pattern

This is such a fun chic set I am sad to see it go but know it will bring smiles
Curent project

♥Sarah