Fresh Picked Raspberries

My sweet sister picked raspberries this past week and gave a bunch to us to enjoy.

We have put them to good use. They happily added a pop of color to the red velvet cake on the 4th.

The twins LOVE eating them straight from the bowl.

They were the perfect topping for my scratch-made all organic yellow cake topped with homemade whipped cream for Omi's birthday today.

Thank you, sister! We've polished them all off and enjoyed every last berry!

Wordless Wednesday - Life is all about moments like this.

On a break...

...see ya next week!

A Few Little "Purses"

I love making little drawstring bags and I have made lots of them since the twins were born.  I have streamlined the process so I can whip out half a dozen of these in about an hour.  They are perfect for organizing and storing toys (think keeping puzzle pieces and blocks together) and it makes it super easy to grab a couple bags of toys on the way out the door.

[Left to right: Dora fabric from Wal-Mart, Blue trees from Jo-Ann, Blue animals from Purl]

It takes very little fabric to make these bags.  I used only left over pieces of fabric from other projects.
I also made two larger drawstring bags for the twins and actually machine embroidered their names on the front...the possible uses for these bags are endless.  I need to make a few really large ones to use as dirty laundry bags for vacation!

My little guy loves these bags the most.  He really cannot go anywhere without one of these little drawstring bags full of Cars or Thomas trains hanging from his wrist.  Recently, we were sitting in the quiet room at church and my little girly took the bag from her brother.  Of course, little mister started crying.  One of their playmates observed all of this and ran over to her mama and said, "Mom, that little boy is crying 'cause she took his purse!"  Too cute.

Anyone interested in a brief tutorial about how I make these bags? 

Inspired

Jennifer's post today inspired me so much, I immediately stopped looking at my blog roll and got straight to making.  I am a wreath person but somehow I had managed to allow the Easter (gasp!) wreath to still be hanging on our front door. 

I wanted something red, white and blue without screaming RED, WHITE and BLUE.

From inspired to hanging on my front door all in the time it took the twins to take their nap AND with time left to enjoy some yogurt on the front porch before they woke up.

Perfect.

More Baby Love.

Diaper Cake #2!
Another sweet friend is also expecting a little girly next month!



Handmade personalized paci clip.
I wish I would have had the time to make these for the twins when they were little...these almost make me want to have another baby (don't worry husband, not really).

Again, all of the flowers and bows are handmade hairbows!

I hope she loves it!

KCWC :: Day 1

So this week I am participating in the Kids Clothes Week Challenge.  The goal is to spend one hour per day for the week of May 9 - 15 sewing clothing for ones children and by the end of the week one should have a nice little pile suitable for the upcoming summer season. Simple enough, right?  Challenge accepted.  Today I whipped up two super comfy, super simple skirts for the little girly.  I must confess...this only took about 30 minutes...the other 30 minutes was spent laundering/ironing fabric for tomorrows project.

In addition to the challenge set forth by elsie marley for KCWC, I decided to up the ante and only use fabric from my stash.  This fabric above is from JoAnn's purchased a couple of years ago.

Since the girly loves Dora, I had to make a skirt out of this fabric from Wal-Mart (*gasp* - I really dislike Wal-Mart but it is the only place I can find that sells character fabric.).

Just for fun I simply left a rolled hem on the Dora skirt to make it a little more sporty and casual.  I have a feeling I know what the Little Miss is going to want to wear tomorrow...