Thursday, February 24, 2011

New Project

I'm not a crafter, never have been. I have, however, found a little project that I am totally stoked about! I am going to do this (I'm telling myself this because it's a rare occasion that I actually finish a personal project that I've started...hence the moving on to this new project before I finish the living room remodel...I'll finish it eventually...I think). Anyway, more than I am not a crafter, I am NOT an artist. Hopefully from these pictures, you will be able to tell what plans I have in mind for this...wait for it...quiet book! I assure you, it is going to be the cutest quiet book you have ever seen. I'm also not creative (wow, I'm really dogging myself on this post, huh? I'm just not a right brained person, no big deal, I have my qualities), so I'm just copying the cutest pages I've seen from other books and mixing them up to form my own VERY cutest quiet book. Here are the blogs I used to pull most of my ideas from. I did add and change a few things here and there.

joeandanna.blogspot.com
(She's working on hers right now too and I can't wait to see her finish it because it is one of the cutest I've ever seen)

quietbook.blogspot.com (I love her picnic & food idea)

homemadebyjill.blogspot.com (I love the simplicity of her pages, but they are so cute! The barn and the paper doll ideas were my favorite)

Here are the lovely sketches for my page plans (each quarter page below will be one whole page of the book):


I'll post pictures as I get them done.

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Christmas Stockings

We had a little problem with the stockings we were using for Christmas. Ty was using the one he'd had growing up, Hailee had one she'd gotten from her teacher at preschool, and Jake's and mine were from the dollar store. I thought it was about time we had some nice stockings for Christmas. If I had known how hard it would be, I really don't know if I would've done it! These look very simple, but I don't know how to sew. They took me forever! I really love the way they turned out though! Just thought I'd share them with you!

I even lined the insides...