Inspired by this little ladie’s blog post over at Funky Polkadot Giraffe I’ve decided to do a post on things that I can’t live without. Who know maybe it’ll get me some more comments too, that would certainly be sweet!

Remember that loopy blanky I made a few short weeks ago? Well Aaron absolutely loves it. He loves holding onto the ribbons that are attached to it! Plus our middle son, Ayden, keeps trying to take it so I’ve been brainstorming up one for him and am waiting for some great fabric to arrive via snail mail from fabricshoppe to make for a favorite co-worker of mine who has a 2 year old son and looooves owls! P.S. I entered my loopy blanky in a linky party…go join the fun 🙂

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Here it is as promised last night, the final product. This is my semi-own creation with a little inspiration from Sew Chatty! I was sick of not having a case for my new blackberry torch so I came up with this cutie 🙂 P.S. stay close by I just ordered a ton more fabric for new projects!!

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For those of you who follow my tiny little blog (hopefully one day, a very jam packed successful uber advertised blog LOL)…I made a new creation tonight but can’t get around to doing a full post on it so I will just leave you with a cliffhanger to leave you wanting to come back tomorrow night to see my creation in its entirety 🙂 Here you go!

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I haven’t had much time to blog lately with the holidays, family, and returning to work. First off Happy New Year! I’ve been so busy I haven’t even had time to make a resolution for 2011. I’m hoping to sit down and make a few resolutions as well as write a blog post of the big happenings for our family for 2010!

Ok so here’s my newest learned mommy tip that I would like to share with you. I returned to work yesterday from my near 3 month maternity leave and have begun wearing makeup again. Now, I love the way mascara makes my eyes really stand out but when it comes to removing it it’s not so much fun. So I’ve come up with a solution that works really well without using eye makeup remover, because lets face it as a mom eye makeup remover is not really at the top of our grocery list each week…am I right?! My solution: a baby wipe and a dab of Johnson & Johnson allover body wash for baby! Put a little bit of J&J on the baby wipe and suds up with warm water and voila…bye bye mascara! No rubbing, no digging it comes off super super easy! Now go put on some sexy eye makeup with plenty of mascara (and a cute outfit if your up to it)…even if your toddlers are the only ones to see it 🙂

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Tonight I was able to make it to A.C. Moore to finally pick up ribbon that I have been needing to work on a blanket for our youngest, Aaron. Inspired by this wonderful woman and mommy, Kayteedids, who was also nice enough to give me a few pointers I was able to create my first loopy blanky. This was a very easy project and seriously it took me longer to pin everything, than it did to actually sew it! Here’ my “loopy blanky”, enjoy and as always leave some love!

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Well I sat down today and had my first attempt at making a rosette headband, and it was super fast and easy to make! I made it out of a headband I bought from CVS and scrap material I had lying around! Beware of the hot glue gun though…man those things get really really HOT!
Glue gun:1 Mommy:0 <—not fun! Check out the pics and tell me what you think 🙂

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After making Aaron’s car seat cover last night and feeling so accomplished I decided to sit down this afternoon ~while our oldest was in preschool~ and make Angel and Ayden’s new blankets for their toddler beds. When Angel originally got his toddler bed (nearly 2 years ago) we bought him a sheet set that had a cars and fire truck pattern. Needless to say 2 years later the comforter is dunzo… there is absolutely no life left in it, and he’s not into cars or trucks anymore! So at my last trip to Joann’s I picked up fleece material to make my oldest two boys new comforters. Angel was with me and he picked out his own Spiderman material and I picked out Ayden’s Cars pattern because he is still OBSESSED with cars! I paired each fabric with solid fleece to match on the reverse side! I think they turned out great and were super duper easy to make 🙂 Enjoy!

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I just couldn’t wait to post the latest project I worked on and finished tonight! So what does one do when they A. have a baby in the winter and B. have become a germophobe and can’t stand strangers reaching in and touching their newborn baby (without permission)? Why they make a car seat cover of course! Thanks to Vanilla Joy and her wonderful and super easy tutorial found here on how to make a car seat cover! I ordered the fabric from the Fabric Shoppe on Etsy! This is easily becoming my favorite place to order fabric, she’s got the BEST around 🙂 These days to not have to leave the house with 3 kids for fabric is a dream come true! I think the cover is absolutely adorable (if I may say so myself!) and I am soooo glad to finally have something to keep all those strangers at bay! Enjoy the pics 🙂

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Slowly but surely you’ll start noticing little *touches* I’ll be adding to my blog. I feel like minor changes and adjustments need to be made to make this the best blog it can possibly be. I’ll be trying new layouts, signatures, even perhaps trying to blog on a more scheduled basis. In the next few months I am hoping to really have a focus to my blog, perhaps a new name, as well as get it up and running with more followers. I’ll be counting on Face Book and Twitter to hopefully get the word out there, as well as counting on YOU too! Growth happens a little at a time and I am hoping this will be a great addition to my Etsy shop! Fingers crossed XxX

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