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Baby Week: Make Your Own Baby Legs with Matching Hair Accessories

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Run, don’t walk out to buy some girls knee socks. Making your own baby legs is truly a snap and they are so adorable. I found a great DIY baby legs tutorial on Flickr (via Little Birdie Secrets) and got to sewing. Trust me, even the least experienced seamstress can pull this one off! I did. I mad two pair and then couldn’t stand to waste what was left so made some matching hair accessories out of it. Isn’t my niece going to be stylin’?! When she grows in to them that is. 😉

The only thing different from the tutorial is the “ruffle” on the camouflage pair. This was ironically born from a mistake of sewing them wrong on my first try. I turned them right side out and said, “dang it” until I looked closer. I loved the little deconstructed ruffle that had resulted. It gave it a little sass and edge. And with her red hair you know that girl is going to have a little sass!

Here they are modeled on my arm. I was thinking sweet Annie would be more like my nephew who is a total chunk so she may have to wear them in the fall, but we’ll see how fast she grows.

Now, when I was finished with the little leg warmers there were little scraps from the heels and toes of the socks left. Most people would have just scrapped them, but for some reason I couldn’t. I sat and looked at them for a long time and then I came up with these.

Aren’t they adorable! I guess I have a thing for the deconstructed as demonstrated by the bow. I took four of the heels/toes, layered them with the pointy part pointed to the middle and then hot glued them together. Then, I wrapped a piece of material around the center and glued it on. The flower is just two circles cut out with the edges singed to curl slightly sewn together with a button.

I am loving my scrappy hair accessories!

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Baby Week: Making Cute Burp Clothes & Free Nursing Cover

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With my little niece making her debut and my cute friend Evonne‘s little guy Vin soon to show his face I borrowed the machine from my mom and got to sewing. Lucky for me, these two are both very forgiving as my seamstress skills are severely lacking.


I started with those items I had already practiced with a few months ago. See all the tutorials in my archive: ribbon embellished burp cloths, super easy car seat cover, descriptive gift tags and more fun baby projects that I ran out of time for this time.


I had a great time coming up with different combos for the burp cloths. I think they all turned out really cute. I added buttons and bows to some of them this time which was a fun little touch.

The best thing about these cloth diaper burp clothes is that they absorb so well! I had a major spitter upper and the ones I received to match my receiving blankets were oh so cute, but liquid just runs right off of them right on to me. Nothing like smelling like milk. These have great coverage too. The tiny ones were just not enough for my kiddo.

For Vin, once I had everything sewn I put them all in to a “basket” with a cute nursing cover gift set from Uddercovers (that name slightly disturbs me) which you can try for free by entering the code “onefree.” Pretty cool eh! These are those cool ones that have the boning built in to the neckline so that you can see your baby. This is helpful, especially in the beginning!


The basket is a cd/dvd holder, it is not the prettiest, but is the perfect size to hold two rows of diapers side by side. I have used this for my little guys diapers ever since organizing the changing table/dresser. To top it all off, I had this adorable card that Alish from Sister’s Stuff made for me for the trade secrets swap.

All in all, I was very happy with how it all turned out. Now if I could just figure out how to be in a pic at the shower without being mid bite. At least Emily got a good laugh out of all my frightening photos. 😉













Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Uddercovers so if you do end up heading over there liking there stuff and buying a bunch then I can buy myself a Slurpee. If two of you go I can buy Evonne one too. 😉
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Upgrade Your Free Diaper Bag

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You know the one. You got it free the day you went home from the hospital with your little bundle of joy. I actually got a really cute diaper bag as a gift, but found it was a little big and boxy for quick trips. My free diaper bag was just the right size to fit in the basket under the stroller and so it is the one I have been carrying for most of the time. (Luckily, they gave me two when I left because they accidentally tried to send me home a day early and let me keep the one from that day. I have already gone through one in the almost two years I have been carrying them)

I actually think it is kind of cute with its geometric circle design, but I was never very fond of advertising that I was carrying the free Similac bag. See the white branding tag. Let’s call him little Mr. eye sore. It was like that dreaded zit on my cute little free bag.

No more. Pulled out the cover up and Sayonara Mr. eye sore! I just pinned this cute pink flower pin through the tag. I’m feelin pretty good about my little makeover! Now it matches my pink phone and camera. (Hey Molly, I used my camera timer for this pic. Are you proud?)

Just in time to head out to my son’s little friend’s Gymboree bday party. Thanks Hailee! We had so much fun! I even got a big ego boost when Hailee’s grandma said she loves reading my blog. It’s always fun to hear that there is someone out there!

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Dress Up a Brown Bag for a Gift

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This is such a simple idea which is what makes it so great. All you need to make this cute bag is a brown paper sack and a scrap of scrapbook paper. My friend got this at her baby shower and I thought it was so smart. Sorry it is so hard to see, but it has a piece of cute blue baby paper the plain brown bag.

It would be so easy to have a stash of brown bags and then just personalize them with scrapbook paper based on the occasion, birthday, baby or bridal shower, etc. Love it. (Thanks Tami!)

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