crafts I have been working on

This is one of the many many Tutu's i Have made for Rian

And another tutu for the princess

This quilt I made for rian because she loooves pirates and I thought it was girly and kinds like pirates right?!

This quilt was made for my new niece expected this week!! yay! I am soo excited!

And this is a skirt I made out of the left over fabric of rian's quilt

Ok really these pics are backwards the one below is the before and the one above is after. This dress up wedding dress was made by my mom for me when i was five. i loved it so naturally i wanted to give it to rian but problem was it was ripped, stained, the lace was falling off, it was way out of fashion, and like 5 sizes too big! So i set to revive my favorite play dress of my youth and it came out pretty good! rian refuses to take it off! I had to take the picture when she was taking a nap cause no one is allowed to touch her "pwetty mawied dwess" (pretty married dress for those who don't speak baby lol)
All of these pics were taken with my cell phone cause our digital camera is broken so sorry they are a but out of focus!

could not agree more!

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someones garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."-Marjorie Hinckley


I saw this on a friends blog and i could not agree more with sister Hinckley

Pirate Rian

This is Rian's Halloween costume's head dress. I had to modify it a bit just special for her because, of course, my kid have the biggest head ever so no normal kids hat would possible even come close to fitting on her head. So I took the original pirate hat and snipped it in a few places. then to hide the altering and make the hat larger I added elastic. Then to hid the elastic I used a hot glue gun and added yarn to make her have pirate dred locks. then after all that the hat was still just a bit too small so i have to clip it in to her hair cause i have come to realize that if i snip that hat any more it will fall apart her head is just too big! maybe i should go try to find an adult size hat.... but doesn't my little pirate princess look adorable! she really wants brock or I to be snow man for halloween ( i have no idea why) but any time the subject of Halloween comes up she says "you gonna be a snow man mommy/daddy?". She is just so much fun!