Crocheted Baby Booties for the Triplets

It is TRIPLETS!!!!

There is excitement stirring in our family. My son is an uncle three times over! This is the first time that Phillip is an uncle and wow, his brother-in-law and sister-in-law have been truly blessed. Two boys and one girl join the Perry family.

Kim, my daughter-in-law was wanting to make booties for each baby but she could not find a pattern that she could follow, so I helped her out and made 3 sets of booties.

This pattern was handed down to me by mother. I think she got it out of a 1960's Work Basket Magazine. The pattern is timeless.





The babies have already wore these and I was surprised when they fit. Each baby weighed less than four pounds.

I am happy to report than all of the babies are finally home and doing well.

Happy Crafting ! ! !

Brenda

Hand-Made Soap Dispenser

Sometimes it is nice to get away from the normal scrapbooking and do a different craft.

For the longest time, I have been admiring the hand-made soap dispensers and wanted to make one of these but didn't know where to start. I found myself searching for a set of good directions. I found those on the Internet through Pinterest.

Then I was on a mission to find a jelly jar or other small canning jar for the project. That mission was completed when I was at our dollar store.

Here is my finished bathroom soap dispenser.



I have to say, that I am very pleased with the finished project and the soap is much cheaper for a refill!

If there is something that you want to make, search the Internet for the directions and give a new craft a try. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Happy Crafting ! ! !

Brenda

Birthday Banner

One more Birthday project and then it is time to move on to something else.

Banners have become the "in" thing to have at every event. I would think a birthday party would come to mind as the first thing I would make a banner for but any party or celebration event is fair game.

I was approached by a friend asking me to make her a birthday party banner for her grand-daughter's 3rd birthday. So I started asking questions such as theme and color scheme. When she said bright bold colors and a farm theme I thought boy not girl but then she told me an endearing story about her grand-daughter making the farm animals sounds and other stories I could not say no to making it or to the theme.

Then the hard part came. Have you looked for farm animal papers and cardstocks. They just are not out here AND when you do find them they were the wrong colors. So I bought what I could find and the rest was done with the Cricut Machine, dies, and bright colored cardstock.

Having never made a banner I had to figure out how to put it all together so that it would last through a party! I found examples where crafters used clothes pins, staples, glue or brads to hold the pennants to rope, chain, or ribbon. I ended up getting out my sewing machine and sewing the paper pennants to a bright colored grosgrain ribbon that matched one of my colors of cardstock.

My friend loved the banner! Here are several pictures of my finished project:













Try something new and different with your scrap supplies.... they aren't just for lay-outs or card making.

Happy Scrappin' ! ! !

Brenda

Time Is Getting Away - Birthday Time

Where does the time go? I had very good intentions of being a better blogger but life always seems to get in the way. Working full time, having a teenage daughter who is very active, trying to keep up with housework, pets, cooking, laundry, and making sure the grocery shopping is done is more than twp full time jobs and then when I try to add in crafting or scrapbooking the world gets a little fuzzy.

So I will make it brief and post a quick birthday card today. This is a way to use scraps and extra findings such as buttons. I also used an old Boss Kut die for the 'Happy Birthday.' I always forget that I have those dies.



I will try to be better about posting.

Happy Scrappin'

Brenda