Here Comes Penny Cottontail!

I can't believe it's Easter in less than a month already! It seems like just yesterday a certain someone pitched the idea of sharing a weekly craft blog while I was slaving over three dozen Christmas crafts

Mini-Rain Chain

So rain-chains came up in my most recent spring-craft search.
 I saw this post and realized I had all those things on hand...

So! I really want to get a bit stronger wire I think. And I'd like to make one to hang in moms flower garden, perhaps for mothers day. But for now, I made a tiny one for my shepherds hook outside.


First Supplies. My son wanted the beads so we added beads.

1st Birthday Tutu!

This week, I made this totally adorable diy tutu for a friend's daughter's first birthday! I spent a lot of time overthinking the process and was over-complicating it in my head, so I finally searched out a tututorial. It helped a lot and the results were completely no-sew and absolutely adorable! I've made many tutus in the past, but this is definitely the first one in this particular style. I love it! This is the wonderful tutorial that I used to create it.

 

-ANG

Addicted to Cilantro...

Ok. I'm sick and tired of cold. I don't even care about the snow... it's the cold that I can't stand. Give me snow in 40 degree weather and I can live with it. But for now we wait for this snow to blow over, and I'll just keep telling myself spring is around the corner. Meaning my pots out front will need something in them.

I tried last year to plant an herb garden. By the end of the season, I had dirt, no sprouts. I also used old seeds. So we're going to try to do better this year. I heard about planting in toilet paper rolls so I've been religiously saving them for this project. Here we go.

I figure I need all the help I can get so Miracle Grow: Seed Starting Potting Mix sounded promising. Seeds which I bought at Walmart, a container for them to stand in and of course toilet paper rolls. (As many as you have seeds.)

The Rainbow First Birthday

When I was browsing Pinterest and came across a photo of a rainbow themed birthday party, I instantly knew that THAT was what I had to do for my baby girl's first birthday! You see, she is my husband's rainbow baby - a rainbow baby is a baby that comes after the loss a pregnancy, infant, or child. My husband's only other child, his sweet baby girl, was stillborn in the summer of 2010. When we started seeing one another in late 2011, he told me early on that if we were going to have children, he wanted to do it quickly, because (he thinks) he's getting old. Our relationship has been an absolute whirlwind, and only seven months after we got together and a few months before the wedding we had been planning, we were pregnant. The pregnancy was hard for him, having a 39 week stillborn makes it difficult to believe that everything will be okay until it's staring you in the face. So the idea of a rainbow birthday party to celebrate his rainbow was perfect. And so I set out to make it happen.

Kusudama Ball.

This is called a Kusadama Ball and ended up being a longer... project than I anticipated and that's after making one before. lol We are going to jump right into the tut before Angela is poking me wondering where my post is!!!

  

Ombre Toddler Dress

So, this week I did something super simple, because... Today is my daughter's first birthday! I'm neck deep in preparations for her party on the 16th, so I didn't have much time to spare.