Check out these Awesome Purses

I found out about this fantastic group from another blog that I read. If you're looking for a great gift for a special woman in your life head on over and buy them one of these fantastic purses. This opportunity is providing for women in Haiti by teaching them a skill. A SKILL!! You can't beat that. Plus, it recycles fabric for another purpose (which you know I love). So seriously, check this out, by some purses and support an amazing cause.
From their website:
Heartline Haiti is a mission that runs a Sewing Program to provide women a means to support themselves. These purses have been handmade by women in the program located in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. They are made by hand of recycled fabric and burlap sugar sacks. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and poverty, famine, disease, and hurricanes have made it very difficult for the people there. This is a great opportunity to buy a cute, handmade bag that will help support a local woman living in Haiti. This is a real way to bring change to the nation of Haiti; one woman and one bag at a time. You are taking a personal interest in her and her life. It's working too. These ladies are buying their own sewing machines, paying for their children to go to school and buying stoves with money still in their business accounts.

Crayon Rolls

I made these crayon rolls for Christmas presents for the boys. I combined two tutorials I had seen on other blogs. I really liked the fold over flap from Little Munchkins (for some reason I couldn't link directly to the tutorial, so go to the blog and there's link on the side for the tutorial) and I liked the vinyl lining and cord stop closure from Skip To My Lou. So, I combined those two to make mine. I used Crayola Twistable Crayons for a little added special treat for the boys and I think they'll be happy. I definitely see more crayon rolls in the future for friend's birthday gifts. They were really easy to make.

All three rolled and ready to go

Great Giveaway on Kiddio

There's a great giveaway for your pick of a fantastic dress over at Kiddio. So head on over and check it out!!

From Outdated Peasant Shirt to Updated Peasant Shirt

You'll have to excuse the nasty hair and no make up, but that's what happens when you're at home raising three little boys.
So, I've had this shirt for quite a while now. I used to wear it a lot (years and years ago), but I haven't worn it in ages. It's out dated and I just don't like it. So, I decided to make it into something I would wear instead of just hiding it away in the back of my closet. First I cut the sleeves off because I didn't like the elastic three quarter length sleeves it had and made it short sleeved. Then I took off the nasty brown beads it had sewn on the embrodery. Most of them had rubbed down and looked pretty bad (as you can see from the picture. The result is a MUCH cleaner look. I also shortened the tie tassles. So, instead of hanging to my belly button and drawing attention to my not so perfect midsection they hang with the rest of the decor on the shirt. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I just wish I would have done it earlier in the summer so I could have worn it during our hot weather.

See the nasty worn down beads
Tada...Finished product

I won a Giveaway!!!

I am super late in posting about this, but it happened while we were on vacation in DC. I actually won a GIVEAWAY!! Can you believe it?
It was a fantastic giveaway too!! Jessica Levitt over at Juicy Bits gave me the cutest fabric pictured below. AND can I just state for the record that she has the BEST business cards I've ever seen?! They are cardstock, but she has stiched them onto not one, but TWO pieces of fabric with PINK thread. They are to die for! Anyway, I've got a couple of things that I'm mulling over to do do with the fabric. She was super sweet and in the giveaway asked the contestants what their favorite colors were, then she sent me fabric with the colors that I had stated. I'm so happy. So, head on over to her blog and get inspired. The Monster Party she threw for her daughter's 4th birthday is fantastic. I've got a 2 year old's birthday in January and I'm thinking I may copy some of her ideas : )

Finally, a Refashion

After months of wanting to get this done I finally got around to making the pajama pants from a sheet that been sitting in my linen closet for years. I don't know how old the sheet actually is (it was a hand-me-down from my mom), but I thought the little pink detail was super cute and I loved that I didn't have to hem the leg because I just used the blue top of the sheet as the bottom "cuff" of the leg. I've never done elastic in a waist before and that was a PAIN in my behind! If anyone has any suggestions I would gladly take them. I used Simplicity pattern 3573. I made them quite a bit shorter than the pattern because I don't want to be tripping over them on the stairs. I'm really happy with my first refashion. I have enough of the sheet to make a matching top, but I don't like the top on the pattern that I have, so I've got to come up with something else.

Great Giveaway on Another Blog

There's another blog that I read all the time called Splendid Things. She always has great craft things (I LOVE the cabinet door screen she made) and she is having a giveaway this week. It's not something she made, but it's still something pretty darn great. So, head on over and check it out.