watermelon girls

We have slowly been adding to baby Gretta's wardrobe. Our latest addition is this watermelon dress with the LBB pattern {again!}. Love these little watermelon girls!

{sleeping babies}

Moo's birthday was this week - I can't believe my little girl is 3. Wow. My mother in law has a tradition of buying the granddaughters an American Girl Bitty Baby when they turn 3, and Moo has been super excited for her doll for months and months. She picked the Asian baby, and has named her "Baby Dark Gretta". We are happy to have her in the family!

Since Bug loves her Olivia so much, she wanted to make something special for Gretta. When I saw this post at Lots of Pink Here, I knew that was it! I bought the pattern from Flossie Teacakes and made the pattern a little bigger to accomidate the 15" dolls. Super easy and I love how 'finished' they look with the bias tape around the edges.

Once I had finished Gretta's, Bug decided she needed one for Olivia too. Cupcakes, of course.

I might have gotten carried away and made one for my 3 year old niece as well...

and her 1 year old sister. She'll get the doll eventually & we wouldn't want her to feel left out... okay, okay, I couldn't help myself. These flowers were just too much fun.

Short & Sweet

I have been working odd hours lately (still) and have been in a craft 'funk' because of it. I saw this great post and decided to whip one up. It was super quick & easy. Love that! I picked up some alligator clips this last week so I might be making more soon!

Moo was not horribly interested in sitting still for pictures, that girl loves to be on the move.

camera strap makeover

I made this camera strap a while back, and I didn't end up loving it. I could tell my camera apart from my sister-in-laws, but that was all I liked about it.

Enter the facelift: I picked the old one off (I just stitched it at the ends to keep it on) and made a simple cover from some leftover DS dots from Mr's quilt. It's still not quite right, although I do loke it much better. I think maybe some batting or interfacing would be nice to pad it some, so maybe you'll see round three in the near future. For now I'm just lovin' the dots!

ds hexagons

As soon as I saw the cover to {this magazine}, I knew I needed to make the cover quilt. When JoAnn fabrics released a line from Denyse Schmidt, it was a match made in heaven.

The top came together quickly, but I had a hard time sitting down to quilt it. I decided on a spiral pattern, and after I quilted the majority of it, I decided I hated the quilting design. Bummer. I pressed on and finished it in the spiral... mostly because I just couldn't stand the thought of spending hours with the seam ripper. In the end, I like it better than I thought I would. I embraced the wonky quilting and decided to love it for what it is.

 Turns out it's a perfect size for Mr as a playmat outside while the girls play.

cousins

I was able to go visit my sister & her new baby a couple weeks ago, it was so nice to get away for a weekend! Mr. and Brenna are just three weeks apart and are just about the same size. This boy is my petite baby. I LOVE how their quilts turned out - we made them together last time I visited her.

Sweet little Brenna! This is one of the dresses I made during KCWC,  I am so glad it still fit when we got there!

Celebrate America Lunches

The girls have been loving our "fancy" (bento) lunches lately. I love them because I can sneak in foods that they don't generally love and usually they still gobble them up. This week we did a couple patriotic lunches- I love the themes!

{strawberries, blueberries, PB&honey star sandwich, liberty bell fruit leather, peppermint striped candy and -by request- bunny pretzels}

On Sunday we made white chocolate covered pretzels with colored sugar sprinkles for a treat. I am amazed they lasted long enough to make it into lunches the next day!

{yum}

{red & blue fruit snacks, roast turkey on picks, white chocolate covered pretzels, string cheese bites & raisins}

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