It's Spring!!!

I have completely blown off one of my New Year resolutions to blog at least once a week.  Sorry.  So, here I am updating.  I completed a dress for my friend for her daughter's first birthday.  I think it turned out super cute and can't wait to see pictures of her!  

I listed a new product in my shop this week...coupon organizers/mini wallets.  I had my coupons, store gift checks, gift cards, etc. paper clipped and floating between bags, and I NEVER had the one I wanted when I needed it, so I made a super cute coupon organizer to match my "after the diaper bag bag".  It's so handy...I'm not a super coupon cutter, so it only has five pockets, but it's perfect for sorting between the grocery coupons I do have, the xx% off department store coupons, the gift cards and the reward coupons I have.  

I am also posting pictures of my too cute baby boy.  These are just too cute not to share.  Happy Spring everyone!  And don't miss the widget on the upper right column of my blog...help support March of Dimes.

Wow...I am totally neglecting this poor blog!

To be fair, though, I have been really busy.  Life in general has kept me pretty occupied, running kids and doing chores, etc. etc.  But, I have also found a little spare time in which I have been sewing (instead of blogging).  So I am bringing this poor, neglected blog up-to-date with the recent projects I have completed.  I also WON!!! a prize in the month-long EtsyMom Street Team SUPER GIVEAWAY!  You really should visit the EtsyMom blog;  you can enter two giveaways everyday. 

So, here we go...

The first project I completed was a set of pillows for my new sectional (which came in the day before my son's first birthday party to which we had invited 40 people!).  I used Joel Dewberry's Ginseng fabric, which I have been dying to use since it came out.  I bought pillow forms and made envelope style pillow cases (that way if I change my mind later, or some designer comes out with something I like better, I just have to make another set of cases).

When I showed my aunt the super awesome fabric I would be using for pillows, she instantly declared she wanted a bag made from that fabric.  

Then I tackled the two dresses I wanted to make my niece 

for Christmas.  For the first dress, I used a Robert Kaufman print...I love damask and my sister's favorite color combination (which she used in her wedding) is pink and black.  I used a Butterick pattern that I adapted to fit her size and also added the banding at the bottom and made it sleeveless.

For the second dress, I used a fun Alexander Henry print and just patterned a very basic jumper.  I am hoping that she can use them as dresses with tights and/or leggings and long sleeve shirts this winter and then as dresses in the summer and I think I left enough room that in the fall they can be long, oversized shirts she can pair with leggings.  I am having a fellow EtsyMom team member (and seamstress) make matching headbands.  You can check out WeezaWear's Etsy shop for some great items!

So, hopefully, that will bring us up-to-date.  I have several projects awaiting my attention:  I am assembling a blanket for friend for Christmas, I have 2 no-sew fleece blankets to make for gifts, and several blankets to be made for my Etsy shop.  I also have some lovely fabric that wants to be an apron.