Introducing...Playtime Props

I decided to take the plunge an open an Etsy shop! You can find me here at Playtime Props. I'm selling the animal ears headbands like in this post, but I've added a few new ones...like this little alien.

And my daughter's favorite...the sparkly pink unicorn!


Come check it out! There might even be a giveaway on here in the near future ;

Lion & Elephant Templates

Sorry for the delay in getting these up but the lion & elephant ear templates are now in Google Docs. You can get to them here!
Enjoy!!!

Would you like to buy the animal ears headbands?

I've been toying with the idea of opening an Etsy shop for a while now (well, actually I have one, but there's nothing in it) but I wasn't sure what I would sell...until these.

I'm still trying to decide if it would be worth it...so would you (or maybe someone you know) be interested in purchasing any of these if I were to sell them?

Applique onesies

I did something crafty! Yay!!! I needed that...I was starting to go a little crazy. Pinterest wasn't helping either...it was making my desire to craft even worse!
My mom picked up some onesies for me the other day and I got straight to work. I used fusible web to adhere the fabric and felt and then hand stitched them for added strength and cuteness. I'm expecting some fabric in the mail today, so expect more craftiness. :)
Both of these are Pinterest inspired. You can find them both (along with lots of other ideas I plan to knock-off at some point) on this board of mine.

And please forgive the picture quality...I'm blogging from my phone.

Felt Stocking

I know it is no where near close to Christmas, but here is the most recent project I've done.

Remember in my last post how I said that this pregnancy is kicking my butt and that there were some complications? Well, the complications got worse and I'm now on bed rest and have been for the past 5 weeks. So I made a stocking for our little boy (who is due to arrive in September). My mom made one for me from this same line of stockings and I made one for my husband when we got married. My grandma made one for my daughter and would have made this one too, but I figured I had plenty of time on my hands! I got this particular one from Amazon (here). There are a ton to choose from if you just search "Bucilla stocking kit". I made a few changes to the stocking...taking out all of the pink (since we're having a boy) and I replaced the lemon with a holly leaf. The lemon just seemed totally out of place to me. It took me about 3 weeks working on it off and on (I probably could have finished it in under 2 if I worked on it each day). The first one I did took me about a year to make...but I was going to school full time and working part time.

I'm hoping to get some hand applique done on some onesies in the next few weeks. Although what I'm really hoping for is to be off of bed rest! I'll post pics of what I come up with.

I hope you all have a great day!

Hello? Anybody there?

Hi everybody! I just wanted to pop in and let you all know that I'm still alive. I know I've never been great at consistent blogging but this time I've got a pretty good excuse. I'm pregnant! We are happily expecting baby #2 in September. This pregnancy is kicking my butt, let me just say. I've been exhausted and nauseous, which is a new experience for me. I wasn't sick with Madie so I wasn't really expecting it this go round either. And there have been some complications. But I won't go into all of that here. Even though I've been doing a little bit of crafting, like making my own maternity pants following this tutorial, I don't have any pictures of my work. I'll try to remember to get out my camera and get some pictures of the few things I've been doing.

And to those of you who wanted the templates for the lion and elephant headbands...I'm sorry!!! I think about it all the time and one of these days I'll get around to drawing them up and uploading them for you. But I can't guarantee when that will happen.

I hope you all are doing well! And hopefully we'll talk again soon. :)