Finally Finished!!

With all of my homemade projects that is! Pj's where the last to get done and they turned out so cute. My husband says that I am overcompensating for doing homemade Christmas. Which I probably am, I have alot of Christmas hangups from my childhood but still its not in me to only do 1/2 way either.

These are Taylor's its hard to not to go to cutesie with a 12 yr old but I think that its balanced for Pj's I got 2 1/2 yards for each kid and it gave me 2 pairs of Pj's pants for the girls! so I put a band of ribbon around the bottom of each pair so that they can tell them apart :)

These are for Lexi I just love the way that the flower turned out

Trying to do something on Cole's shirt and not have it look like it was not suiting a 14 almost 15 yr old was hard but this Avengers logo is appropriate as the movie is due to come out soon, and I think it turned out pretty darn good!

Ok So Mara's I might have gone a little bit overboard on. The applique on the shirt is the same bird that is on the fabric. i blew it up and then did it in 4 different fabrics. I love the way it turned out and she is going to be crazy for it! 

To make each of the Pj's I just took a pair of thier old Pj's and used them as a pattern. There is a really good tutorial here

Just a couple more things to get and I am finished!! Yea ME! Of course it is none to soon, the dreaded Stomach Flu bug bit Mara last night, here is praying that the rest of us get to miss it!

What I have been up to part 2

Oh My girls would die to see what I am going to show you! (because it's thier Christmas!) Again these turned out SO much better than I ever thought I am quite proud of myself

This is for Taylor, I got all of the shirts in the post from either Modbod Seconds racks (they have TINY holes under the armpit on one sleeve and I got them for $5!!) or Lexi's I got on clearance at Wmart for $2.25 (love it!)

So back to this picture the pleated skirts are all modified from this pattern I just modified the pleats (she discribed them funny and I couldn't figure them out so I made up my own way of doing it.) I also stiched down the back fold of each pleat. This makes them stay in better and easier to iron. I also added a button hole on the waistband for the tie that is wrapping around the body to come through so that it doesn't have to just come over the top.

The shirt embelishment is from here (I love her blog)

This is Taylors second outfit, I made all of these skirts up! So sorry there is no tutorial I wanted them to look similar to the Downeast ones but with an elastic waist (because I needed easy) so they all have a yoke with a slightly pleated skirt and you can't see it but there is ribbon trim around the bottom.

The T-shirt embelishment is just a ruffle that has been folded over and then topped with more of the ribbon roses like the one on her other shirt, just smaller.

This is the first of Lexi's outfits, same skirt as above and the t-shirt embelishment is just ribbon that I stiched with a gathering stitch on my machine and then wrapped around to create a rose and sewed it on. Its kindof like the embelishment here

This is Lexi's pleated skirt, its SO cute she is just going to love it. I made it the same as Taylors

This is Lexi's other shirt, that matches the skirt that I made for her for school. The flower is from a tutorial found here 

This is Mara's Downeast knockoff skirt (I just love this stripped fabric)

This is Mara's shirt that matches her school skirt I got the embelishment from here

Finally this is Mara's pleated skirt and I just took ribbon that I had that matched all of the colors in her skirt and put it into groups of 3 ribbons and then stiched them together so that they where all sticking up and then stitched all of the bunches together and onto her shirt. I just love the way that it turned out!

My girls are going to be so excited on Christmas morning!

So... you will never guess what i have been up to!

I just have to say I am very proud of myself so far this Christmas season! Why, you ask- well its because we have decided to do a homemade Christmas this year (mostly because its alot cheaper) and our kids and extended family are really hard to buy for right now! I have gotten SO much done and thanks to Pintrest I have had alot of ideas at my finger tips. And as I am pretty sure that no one that I am gifting to looks at my blog (if I have you look away now!) I am going to share all my fun stuff now - mostly because it will help me to wait to give it away :)

OK So this one I made for me BUT I loved the way it turned out and I have to share!

This is a wreath made out of a book! So much fun I made it for my Dad and Stepmom. My Dad is a totally book freak (that may be where I got it from) and my Stepmom is super cute so I thought that this fit them extra well I got my inspiration here

This one is for my In-Laws it turned out so fabulous this picture really doesn't do it justice (but I am not the professional photographer in the family) It matches thier house and I think that they are just going to love it! I got my inspriation for it here

This one is for Andy's Grandma Gallagher it matches her bedroom and I think that she is going to love it! Just a note some inspiration as the wreath above but I will warn you it takes over 100 flowers to do this smaller wreath and almost 200 for the larger one - I am only going to make one more of these! (because well I need one for me!)

These are SO cute we found inspiration for these when we where looking for secret sisters gifts for Taylor to take to Girls Camp. The girls just love them! 2 of these are for Mara and Lexi's Friends and then I made one for each of them! I got my inspriation for them here

These personal progess book holders we also found for girls camp, but they also fit Faith in God books perfectly! Some of these are for Taylor to giver her friends but we have also been using these for birthday party gift ideas and the girls just love them! I found inspriation for them here. I didn't take a picture but I also like to put a spiritual directory assistance card found here in them it fits just perfect!

This is the Aftgan that I made for Grandma and Grandpa Z. I know that they will love it because when I gave a similar one to my MIL, Grandma Z wanted to know why she wasn't getting one too! Because it was just her colors and she loves aftgans -- Yep I got the hint :)

to keep all of the Grandma's and Grandpa's warm we have made each of them scarves and heating pads (see below) so that is a total of 10 scarves (yep I am nuts!)

Heating pads I lost count of how many I made because I did extras for presents and one for each of my kids etc... I have made these before but used flax seed in them this time as its supposed to help them retain heat better-- I hope so :) here

These shirts are for my cute nephews for Christmas. For my side of the family we decided that instead of the kids trying to buy each other some little thing that will be broken in 2 hours we would have them exchage

 t-shirts so that even if they didn't really "like" them they would still be good for PJ t-shirts so since my nephews are all in between the ages of 8 and 6 I thought that super hero appliques would be so much fun! I got my instructions here but the rest was all me

I will have to do another post with pictures of all the stuff I have done for my girls once I finish the last piece! But yea me! I have actually accomplished stuff!