Little rays of sunshine

Yes, I made it, but it's not mine and I don't think it ever was. This was the quilt I made to auction off for my son's school. The other homeroom mother who helped with it ended up winning it, but I think we all knew that was how it was going to be from the get-go! It looks great in her daughter's room. She also made a valence and bed skirt with matching sunflower fabric. It's cute. Each handprint is a little sunshine, just like each of the little kids in the class! Here's how it came out (oh, and that big blur in the upper left has the school name on it, I just blurred it out as a safety measure to protect the children since this blog is public- not that anyone but my friends read it anyhow! But ya never know.)

Happy New Year is WAY overdue!

Well, between Christmas, family in town at New Year's and the kids' B-day parties, I've been too busy to blog! But...not too busy to craft! That would be sad. Here's what I've been up to:

Making new basket liners for baby girl:




And a matching pillow (it's removable to be able to wash):




And a coordinating French Memo board for her big girl room (she'll move into it this summer). This isn't quite done yet because the store ran out of these cute birdie buttons, so when they are back in stock I'll finish it. It's great for storing all her hair clips.:







This is all to go with her new big girl set:



And I managed to quilt the top of the quilt I pieced for my folks as a Christmas gift. I'm binding it now (has to be done by hand) so they'll get it in a week or so. Doesn't sound like I was too late for it to be a Christmas gift right? Well, no. Sadly this was their Christmas gift TWO years ago. My machine broke while starting to quilt the top so it got put on hold. I got a new machine the following year for Christmas, however, I was also chasing after a 1 yeasr-old at the time too. And when I had any free time I didnt' have enough to be able to sit continuously to finish it, so I started doing quicker projects, or at least ones that could be stopped and picked up again at a later time. So I'm sorry it's so late, but better late than never? I hope!





And I've been having fun with the kids. My son wanted to make a monster, so he drew it, picked the fabric and I created it for him. That is a HORN on his head by the way. His name is Monster Mash. He uses his big hand to mash things, but he's a nice monster. Here's the original drawing and the finshed product:

Make me cozy, cookies and spoons

My husband's quilt is finally done! So now I can comply when he says "Make me cozy". That's a phrase that my 4 year-old initiated whenever he wants to be tucked in or snuggle under a blanket. And eventually we started saying it too, amazing how 'kidspeak' wriggles it's way into a parent's vocabulary!



So here's the finshed blankie:





Next up are some pictures of the kids. Baby girl LOVES cookies, so the other day we made some and then ate them.



See this cookie... it's not yours and it won't be around much longer:





Warm cookies make me SO HAPPY:





And for laughs, big boy learned a new trick: