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…
We like to give handmade gifts to our son’s teachers every year along with other special people in our life, but rather than go the route of baked goods we try to find something that is more practical. That’s why I was so excited to find a tutorial on Pinterest Read more…
Every year during Christmas time my Son and I have a special tradition of doing the Jessie Tree. If you have never heard of the Jessie Tree before, it is an Advent-like Calendar of items for each day leading up to Christmas where there is an ornament that represents a Read more…
My son loves robots so much that a few months before Halloween he started putting paper towel rolls on his hand and saying that he was a robot. There couldn’t be any clearer of an indicator of what he wanted to dress up as for his first Halloween that he Read more…
For our son’s 3rd Birthday we knew that we wanted to go to Disneyland since we love going there so much and the grandparents were bugging us since before he was born to go. We went a few days before he turned 3 so he was free. :) One of Read more…
My husband talks often of how when he was a kid he would tie a blanket around his neck and run around pretending that he was a superhero. So, when I saw this tutorial – DIY Superhero Cape Tutorial, I knew that I had to make one for our son. Read more…
There are times when it’s fun to think about little girls clothing and it’s great since our son has a good friend who is a girl that I can give to. So, when I found this tutorial – How to make a no-sew tutu it sounded like a great thing Read more…
This was the last year that we figured we would get to decide what our son got to be for Halloween, and in keeping with the geeky theme that was set for previous years, we decided on Sonic the Hedgehog. It worked well because right before Halloween we let him Read more…