Stuff I've made lately

I've had the crafting bug lately and have been having fun working on a few projects when I get a minute. I love how some of them turned out, so I thought I'd share. :)

...Blessing Dress...

Last month, I made Ellie's blessing dress. I used an old skirt that I don't wear anymore (it had a stain on the side) and used one of Ellie's dresses as a pattern.



I was a little worried about how it would turn out, but I figured if it was hideous I could just go buy one. I was pretty pleased with the end result, though.





...Homework Holder...

We don't have a specific spot for Evan's homework and it's been driving me nuts to have it laying all over the place and getting lost. So, yesterday, I made some hanging pockets to keep Evan's homework and Asher's workbook.



I made them out of cereal boxes and duct tape (really high class, I know!) and then modpodged cute scrapbook paper onto the outside. I used my silhouette to cut the letters out of brown vinyl.

I included a little pocket for their Wii cards (they can earn or lose Wii time throughout the day).



...Hair accessories...

I've been having a lot of fun with the hair bows/flowers/clippies. :) Here's what I've made lately...

This one is made from felt and was inspired by a tutorial in this blog post.



This one is also felt


Ribbon wrapped around tinfoil and then rolled up (inspired by this tutorial... it's in french, but I just looked at the pictures).


A cute little owl made of felt and buttons


And finally a knit headband with rosettes, made out of silky fabric and a bit of tulle. I can't remember where I first learned to make rosettes from, but here's a good tutorial if you're wondering.

On the headband, I used a really wide zigzag stitch so it could stretch and it had the nice side effect of giving the edges of the headband a little bit of a scalloped look. I didn't mean to do that, but I thought it was cute!

So anyway, there's my crafting fun for the past month! :)