Felt owls

Recently, I discovered www.pinterest.com. It has opened so many craft doors to me. This may or may not be a good thing because when I look at them I think " hey, I can do that and it will look just as good", that's not reality . I wind up with this popsicle sticky glue mess haha. But, I persevere. I've made cloth wipes, bibs, melted crayon art and most recently, a felt owl. ---> see

She's a little lopsided, the feather are sort of cockeyed but here she is. My pinsperation can be found here. I have a bit to go before I get to that level. But I just love these little things. I cut a hole in the styrofoam, put three little bellsit in there  and then I put the top back on so when DD pushes it, it jingles.We'll see how my next one turns out :) 

The bib

I finally finished my first bib. It's nothing great but I did it, it's done and I can say I've made a bib. What do they say in Clueless? It's a Monet, pretty from far away but up close, it's a mess. It really is. If you don't look too hard at it you'd think " hey, nice bib you got there baby!" Then you get closer and see jagged lines and some frayed edges. I'm slowly working on bettering my technique. I blame the terry cloth. See --------> excuse the face, she was enjoying her veggies lol .
it's really simple, if you want to try one yourself. I used fleece for the print and terrycloth for the back. I would not recommend terry cloth. It tore so easily and the needle just ate it up. I traced one of her bibs she had, sewed it inside out first and left a little hole, pulled it right side out and did a top stitch to even it out, Then i sewed on some velcro. It gets the job done.
Next up, I'll discuss my experience with cloth wipes :)

oh no!

I've been away for so long. I came back fully ready to face my abandoned followers and expected to see the little icons under "Following" be slim to none. But no, they've increased! Here you all are being putting faith into me and I just off and leave you. Well no more. I'm really going to try to be better. Things have been a little hectic in the household the past few months. With school and baby firsts, vacations and whatnot. I haven't really had a chance to try out any new toys. I've been working on being more crafty. Making reusable wipes and most recently a bib that looks as if Ava sewed it. But, it's a bib nonetheless. I've fully expanded my couponing and have been doing quiet well. I save us so much money that I want to slap myself for not doing this before! I'm going to try to expand this blog into tips for couponing too, but we'll see how that goes. DD is a full on teething machine now. She's got three or four teeth coming  and it's making her cranky...which is making me cranky. Whenever I try to soothe her gums by rubbing them she rewards with a swift and hard CHOMP followed by a vicious head shake that rivals the Great Whites I've seen on Shark Week. Let's hope biting phases out when she gets the real chompers or my blogging days might be over ( typing with no fingers is relatively difficult, I imagine). DD has also learned the magic of tantrums. She arches her back and throws her behind her while wailing like a banshee and if that doesn't work then she slow sobs and puts her head in between her legs, stopping only to take a sneaking glance to see how well her pitiful-ness is working, such the drama queen. A lot of people think this would make me more stressed but it's pretty funny. Her melodramatic acts of distress usually make me laugh. except for when she headbutted the wooden table at Ruby Tuesdays..that was pretty said. Then she preceded to grab a steak knife once she was being coddled.Curious or  homicidal genius? hmmmm
Anyone else experience the monster boddler ? How did you deal with it ?