Giant pocket skirt tutorial

My 3 year old is all pink, all dresses, all princesses

all of the time! The cute jeans and pants I saved from

my other two girls wouldn't fly with her. So, I'm on a

mission to change out her jeans with skirts.

She's my last girl and I figured why not!

Here's what you'll need to make a 3T-4T skirt :

1/2 yard of fabric*

1/4 yard coordinating fabric (pockets)

1 inch braided elastic

3/8 inch elastic

bias binding

(excuse half of the pictures...I started this project before

my kids woke up for school....ya oober early!)

So that's it! Have fun and stay tuned for more skirt-y fun!

25 diapers and some pants

Here's my slightly secretive project involving

newborn diapers. Our pediatrician called randomly

a few weeks ago and asked me to make him 100

diapers for some newborn care bags he's putting

together. WHA???!!! So I've been super excited

because this means a new sewing machine......

So last week amidst flu and pneumonia riddled

children I managed 25 diapers...just 75 more to go.

gulp.

And on a completely different note, I made Wyatt some

new pants. He's charming in them.

Missing teeth...it's a glorious thing!!!

Her bottom left tooth is finally gone. After months of wiggling,
pushing, and prying, it's gone. It literally fell out of her mouth.
(She's a very patient girl when it comes to pulling teeth.) So we
made a tooth pouch. I mulled over the idea of a tooth pillow but
this came into my head instead.

Start with 2 pieces of fabric 4"x 6"
a piece of ribbon about 12" (I ended up cutting mine down)

and

a felt tooth cut out


Finish the top edges and baste the ribbon in place. Also,
stitch the tooth on by hand using a running stitch. Turn
your top edges toward the inside and stitch across the top.
Then, with the right sides together, sew around the pouch
(leaving the top open of course). Clip the corners and serge
(or zigzag) the raw edges. Now turn right side out.

If you want to, sew a 1/4 inch around the pouch again. You

can also add a tab at the top with a button but it's not really

necessary. It's just for show.

Homemade play dough

How great is play dough?! It keeps my kids busy for

hours. Unfortunately they have this awesome knack

of leaving it in obscure places and for some reason this

makes the dough dry out....long story short, we had no

play dough in the house. Only little dried out clumps!

So guess what? I made some....shocker! Actually this was

my first attempt and it's so easy and quick I had to share.

Play dough

1 cup flour

1 cup water

1/2 cup salt

2 teaspoons cream of tartar

1 teaspoon oil

food coloring

Dump all ingredients in a large sauce pan and

whisk until smooth. Cook over medium heat stirring

constantly. Just cook until it starts to all stick together

and form a ball. Snatch the dough out of the pan and

place on waxed paper until slightly cooled.

Then, knead it for a few minutes! Store it in an air tight

container....so you don't have giant clumps! Seriously, this

took me all of 10 minutes and it's super fun. You could even

let your little monsters help with part of the dumping and

whisking...they'll love you for it!!

peek-a-boo fish

I know everyone and their grandmothers have made

these, but I just stitched some for my gal pal's kids (sniff,

they're moving to WY) and wanted to share my version.

They're fish....with crazy wonky spirals. Fun AND easy.

I like.

puddin' paint....oh so good

We made a muddy pig....it was a happy thing.

You need
* chocolate instant pudding
* 1-1/2 cups cold water
* a pig
* pink marshmallows because let's face it, finger
painting is much tastier with marshmallows.

Mix up the pudding and water and let them go
to town!

They'll likely just eat their utensils and
drink the paint but whatever.