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Look Whooo's One

Saturday we celebrated Molly Jo's first birthday with a sweet owl themed party. I made a tutu for her highchair using the same tutorial in my previous post and attached it with stick-on velcro. 

I crocheted a tiny owl using this tutorial (another great Pintrest find) and sewed it onto a onesie to complete her birthday outfit. I had trouble getting the ears as pointy as in the tutorial. After three tries I finally decided they looked fine. 

Of course all the clothes came off when it was time to smash the cake!

It was a wonderful day and I want to thank to everyone who joined in the celebration! I can't believe my baby is one already but I'm still enjoying every minute of it!

pretty little tutu

My first craft for Molly Jo's first birthday party...a pretty little tutu. I followed the instruction found via the pin below. 

Source: treasuresfortots.blogspot.com via Heather on Pinterest

It was so ridiculously easy to make. These tutus are very popular right now, I've seen them everywhere. I wish I had know about them when my older girls were little. They loved to dress up in tutus...I could have made them dozens. 

The adorableness is almost too much. I could take a thousand pictures of this...

 

Now it's time to give her highchair the same treatment and then work on the rest of her birthday outfit (not that she could get any cuter!)

our first Fall craft

Inspired by Betz White's pussy willow rainbow my daughter and I made our first Fall craft this weekend. I had these Autumn colored pompoms in my craft stash, bought for some forgotten project, and the branches came from dead limbs in our yard.

I let Sarah spray paint the branches with a flat white paint -- she's been asking to spray paint something every since I painted our kitchen table so she was quite happy and did a very thorough job. Once the branches dried I hot glued the pompoms on and, ta-da, we were done.

If you panned out of any of my pictures, chances are you would see this: 

Because my tiny babe is determined to walk and pulls up on anything and everything. I'm not ready for a toddler yet but Molly dosen't seem to care about that.

a spring wreath

 I did manage to fit in some craft-time during spring break last week. Nothing big like a quilt or a pretty spring dress -- the big projects that require more than an hour of time seem to get forgotten easily and left unfinished for months these days. But smaller projects like the felt flowers in this post and the last post are quick and can be worked on whilst holding a sleepy baby...somewhat. I enjoyed making them so much that I ended up depleting my felt stash.

I seen this post in my Google reader (I've got more than 1000 unread posts in there, yikes!) and remembered a wreath that I already had wrapped in burlap for another project (I have no idea what I had planned for it). Using the last of my felt, I made some simple white flowers and burlap rosettes along with one big white flower from this tutorial again and a pretty spring wreath was done.

 

for the love of fall

I've felt quiet lately, content to be immersed in household chores, our daily routines and marveling at my growing belly. Doing any sort of sewing, crafting or crocheting has seemed, well, too overwhelming for me. I've started (or at least thought about starting) several projects only to shelve them after feeling like I didn't have the stamina to finish. This pregnancy has really zapped my energy and my creativity. But now that Fall is here, my favorite season, I'm feeling urge to 'make' again. Nothing big, just simple crafts to celebrate the new season and ease some creativity back into my foggy, pregnant brain.

 

 These felt leaves are sitting on my coffee table waiting to be sewn into a super simple Autumn garland from this tutorial. How's that for easy. And right next to that is the beginning of my crocheted loose cowl.

 

 I've joined the Carefree Cowl Knit Along hosted by LuvInTheMommyHood to help jumpstart a little crochet ispiration. Thankfully I have enough of this LionBrand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick in my yarn stash to finish my cowl. If a trip to the craft store had been needed I fear this project might have been shelved too.