Years ago on my previous blog I posted a list of free patterns and tutorials for making felt toy food. There seems to be a renewed interest in that post so I’m putting it on this blog and updating with all of the links verified to be working as of Read more…
When my oldest son was about to turn 4 he loved race cars and wanted to be a race car driver when he grew up. So I decided to throw him a really detailed Birthday party. I went to Pinterest and found a *lot* of inspiration and started working on it Read more…
My oldest son was going into surgery so I wanted to make him a special shirt to help him through the process. He absolutely loves space and rocket-ships, and some of his favorite shirts are glow in the dark. I thought they would be a great paring. First I cut Read more…
This was such an easy project! The hardest part was finding the colors of socks that the person who wanted it requested. I never knew there were so many different colors of girls socks, since I have two boys, but it was fun to step into the girl world a Read more…
Valentine’s Day with little boys is fun, since they are still into holidays, especially when they involve candy! Since my son loves robots and the color red, I thought the perfect compliment was this super cute robot that was in the Silhouette Online Store. To make the robot body I Read more…
At our son’s preschool for Valentine’s Day they gave all of the parents hearts to take home and write on what our favorite things are about them. I decided to take this opportunity to play around with my Silhouette Sketch Pens. To make the words into a heart shape, I Read more…
We decided two days before Super Bowl XLVII to visit my parent’s annual Super Bowl party. Since my family are huge 49er fans, this was a big year. I tried to find a 49er shirt that was my son’s size near us, but there wasn’t anything. Since I had a Read more…
As a thank you to a friend for watching our cats while we were away, I decided to make a cute little dress for her daughter who loves Elmo. I saw this Ruffle Shirt Dress Tutorial on Pinterest and thought it was really cute. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any good colored Read more…
After getting the hang of using my Silhouette to make designs for shirts, I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas for onesies for a friend’s baby boy to be. Her other sons love construction vehicles and her husband works in the construction industry, so I went looking Read more…
These projects were my first foray into using my Silhouette Cameo to design embellishments and appliqué for clothing. In fact, it was only the third project I ever did on it. The first project was the tags for the Keychain Wristlets and the second was a gift to a friend that Read more…