Tip or Trick Potential Tips From Our Long Distances Moves Over the course of the last ten years we've made two long distance moves. Here's a few tips and tricks I've learning along the way.
Science & Sensory Play Simple and Exciting Sensory Play Gift Ideas Are you looking for a simple gift idea for kids? Why not put together a simple sensory play kit? Here's the one I put together this year for Christmas and so many other ideas you could do too.
Sewing My Favorite Simple Kids' Knit Sewing Pattern: The Magnolia Are you looking for a super simple knit garment to make for your child? The Magnolia top and dress is my absolute favorite simple pattern for my girls and I wanted to share it with you.
Sewing Even More Peppermint Swirl Dresses Are you looking to sew an easy pattern? Are you looking for a dress that wows? Whether you want to make a skirt or a dress this Peppermint Swirl pattern from Candy Castle patterns blows you away with the gorgeousness and twirliness. Have fun sewing it up.
Sewing 52 Weeks Of Sewing In 2019 After finishing the 52 Week Sewing Challenge last year I decided to follow it again for 2019. It was so much better for me when I allowed myself to reject the challenges and actually sewed something(s) each week this year!
Sewing Hand Sew a Stretch Stitch Is your seam allowance in your pants bugging you? I fixed my daughter's leggings by hand stitching a stretch stitch. Perfect when you can't get your sewing machine into the finished seams.
Science & Sensory Play Easy Dinosaur Swimming Pool In The Garden Did you want your kids to play longer outside? Why not create a dinosaur bubble bath, pond, or swimming pool. Works for any of your water-safe toys. You change this up to use plain or soapy water and switch it up with other toys too.
Science & Sensory Play Chocolate Oobleck Change up your oobleck with cocoa powder to make ooey gooey mud. After exploring change it up by running your monster trucks through it or add some animals. So much fun!
Sewing Sleepy Gowns - Patsy Party Dress Hacked or Mashed I hacked the free Patsy Party dress to make a simple nightgown. I couldn't stop there and had to see what the Patsy skirt would look like mashed with the Olivia top. Love how both turned out.
Sewing Outfits For LEGOLAND® Are you heading to LEGOLAND® anytime soon? Do you sew? We recently went on a trip and I wanted my kids to wear something special for their first visit. These are the sewing patterns I made.
Craftiness Creating Your Own Woven Panels With Fabric Markers When you can't find what you want in store why not create it yourself? I used coloring pages to sketch out LEGO® images on white woven fabric and later colored them in. The perfect custom fabric to use with your sewing patterns.
Sewing The Patsy Party Dress The Patsy Party dress was a fun sew that creates an epic party dress with clean hidden seams. This was an incredibly fun dress to sew up.
Sewing 52 Weeks of Sewing Thanks to the 52 Week Sewing Challenge on Facebook I was able to constantly keep creating this year. This was a perfect reason to create a recap post of 2018. I've included links for all fabric and patterns I used (that weren't forgotten in my stash).
Sewing Firetruck Halloween Costume When Ada chose to be a firefighter for Halloween Zoey decided she wanted a firetruck. This was my attempt at making this happen. Tire tread leggings, shirt with a ladder and fire hose for arms, red dress overtop, and red firefighter accessories.
Science & Sensory Play Quick and Simple Sensory Stations You May Already Have Here are some simple and quick sensory stations you may already have laying around that you can pull together quickly.
Science & Sensory Play All Terrain Vehicle Zoom Sensory Bin Does your child love rocks and/or vehicles? Why not make an all terrain vehicle zoom sensory bin!
Science & Sensory Play Cleaning Deck Toys Get your kids to help clean their outside toys with a scrubbing sensory bin!
Science & Sensory Play Cleaning the Dusty Musties Sensory Station Is your child a Doc McStuffins fan? Does some of your toys need cleaning? Why not get your kids to clean the 'dustiy musties' from your toys in their new sensory bin?
Sewing Recent Kid Patterns for Me-Made-May 2018 For Me Made May in 2018 I list my main sews including two kinds of dresses through Stitch Upon A Time and a hooded towel through Ellie And Mac.
Science & Sensory Play Masking Tape Roads Does your child love playing with cars? Why not use masking tape to create your own road system. Make it as elaborate or simple as you'd like and once you're done you can peel it off.
Sewing Patching and Extending Toddler Pants Are your child's pants getting too short? Are they getting holes? Here I show you how I extended my child's pants and patched them while I was at it.
Sewing Creating a Patch from Fabric Remnants Learn how I created patches using my child's favorite fabric, interfacing, and my sewing machine,
Sewing Bubblegum Dresses and My First Attempt at Color Blocking Are you looking for a simple wrap dress pattern? I love the bubblegum dress from Candy Castle Patterns. I color blocked one of the dresses to feature a road for fun playing.
Sewing Upcycled Construction Truck Shirt Are you looking to sew up a polo shirt? Are you looking at figuring out how to include a smaller garment within a larger one? I've answered both questions here.