The Ornaments

Last Christmas my best friend and I decided we would bake cookies as gifts. We planned a 'Cookie Day' which included baking and eating lots of cookies and drinking lots of wine. Our 'cookie DAY' quickly turned into a cookie WEEK as neither of us realized how much time making, baking and wrapping (and eating!) a gazillion dozen cookies took! We did have a LOT of fun doing it and the cookies were a HUGE hit!
Here is a picture of our results:

I think we ended up with 8 or so of these platters? 

So, this year will be our second annual cookie baking WEEK and I got to thinking, this is a nice gift, but once it is gone, it's gone. Around the same time I started noticing DIY ornament tutorials on Pinterest and various blogs I follow. THEN my Mom informed me that she wanted to 'order' a few platters of cookies to give as gifts. Soooo... I put all this information together and came up with the idea of sewing ornaments to attach to the cookie platters. I figure that the ornaments will not only make part of the gift keep-able but if I make them for my best friend's platters along with my own, it will cover the extra work we will endure, (read: fun we will have) making extra platters for my Mom, along with our own.



Here are the ornaments I have made so far, the links to where I got the ideas and/or tutorials are in the caption of each image:

I think my favorites are the coco and the gingerbread house. <3

The Candy Cane, Bell & Star
Ornaments come from HERE. 

The Candy Cane, Bell & Star
Ornaments come from HERE. 

The half eaten Gingerbread Guys are from HERE. 

The Peppermint comes from HERE. 

The Snowman & Mitten come from HERE. 

This one was a lot of stitch work  and quite time consuming for me,
so I gave it to my best friend as a gift as she has and loves horses.
The original is HERE. 

The Hot Cocoa and Marshmallows come from HERE. 

This Reindeer came from HERE.

The Ballet Slippers came from HERE. 

The Gingerbread House came from HERE. 

These guys were adapted from HERE. 

Needless to say, I've been quite busy, and enjoying every minute of it!  I hope the ornaments are a hit this year and i'm looking forward to COOKIE WEEK!!! 

The Sewing Machine Pad & The Name Discussion

I have been looking for a while for a pad to go under my sewing machine, with pockets that don't look like pockets (yes, I have a two year old that likes to touch all my stuff!) and I recently came across this PIN which will eventually lead you to BLOOM. 
Bloom is a great site with lots of neat projects and even a few free ones. 

I did purchase the 'pattern' for this project, in .pdf format. I was a bit disappointed in it though. It wasn't a pattern at all, it was instructions. Cut two of this size and one of this size, etc... I wanted an actual pattern, you know, the ones you cut out and pin to your fabric? *Sigh* oh well. 

So here is my finished sewing machine pad and thankfully, my two year old has NOT realized there are pockets in it yet (YET) !

I did remove the pencil, as that would have been a dead giveaway! 

The pockets start where the bright green binding is

Laid out flat.

It came out great! I didn't make the matching thread basket, as I already have one. I would like to eventually make a matching cover for my machine - I seriously dislike the one that came with my machine - but I won't be buying the matching 'instructions'. I think i'll wing it... which brings me to my next subject....

When I started this little blog, I really thought I would make a few things, fail miserably at it and give it all up. I've quickly realized that it isn't quite going in that direction at all. I'm way craftier than I ever thought I would be and I LOVE doing projects!!! I'm certainly not great at this sewing stuff, but with lots and lots more practice I may not be too shabby at it. Certainly not Uncrafty. 
So... the point you ask? 
I need a new name for my blog.
I have a few ideas but am not sure how they would work or if there are other blogs by the same name so I've got to do some research.
I would LOVE to hear from you!!! 
Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!

You can post below or send me an email here

The Halloween Costumes

I found this AMAZING blog called "Whitney Sews" and she had some really easy tutorials on how to make a bow and a circle skirt, which is exactly what I was looking for for my Minnie Mouse costume! I added a layer of tulle under the skirt, and made a matching scarf to complete the outfit.

For my husband, I TRIED dyeing a pair of white pants red but they came out VERY PINK, so I just sewed some red felt over the pants and added the white circles.

Here's a picture:

Mickey & Minnie Mouse!

I think I added a bit too much tulle, as I felt much puffier that I wanted to feel! But all in all, I think the costumes came out pretty good and together they cost me under $40.00! (would have been less if I skipped the dye step)


Here is the PIN
and here is the website for "Whitney Sews"