KID KITCHEN REVEAL

YAHOO!
We are done!!!

So, if you remember we started with the above cabinets, inspiration fabric, and faucet. (first post)  All, excluding fabric, were purchased at our local Habitat for Humanity.  We drew up plans and went to work creating what is one super cool kitchen!

Papa is letting Ava try to contribute a little work on her kitchen.  ;)

You can see the progress in our slideshow video of beginning to end. Only parts we still have to attach are the towel bar on the sink end and the phone holder on the fridge end.  :)  

Details you may not notice from our pictures are lights in the microwave, oven, and dishwasher. We can change out the window pictures and use magnets on the refrigerator door. There are wire closet racks cut to fit as oven shelves, plexy glass for the range with pin striping on the range where the pans are 'heated'.  We also used stickers for the microwave buttons and numbers.

She LOVES her kitchen!!!

 
Thank you Papa and Uncle Mike for making my kitchen so GREAT!!!  

KID KITCHEN

So, have you seen those DIY kid kitchens?!  They are amazing!  Here are a couple of my favorites in case you have no idea what I am talking about.  

My favorite one! HERE

Love this too! HERE

So fun! HERE

Can I say inspiration!?   :)  Here is my start to making one for my sweet girl- though she isn't quite at the age for this yet I don't think it is too early to make it.   

I stopped by our local Habitat store and browsed the cupboards, night stands, and other small tables.  I came up with 2 vertical cabinets that were about 12 inches wide and 30 inches tall, I paired that with the opened face shelf that was also 30 inches long.

The faucet I had to splurge on because it was cool and it had the words hot and cold on the handles- not just the colors.   

The fabric you see could be slightly on the hideous side, but I am really liking the crazy colors and am thinking of using it for my color inspiration for the kitchen.  Maybe a hand towel and an apron?
Some curtains?  :)  Who knows!

I will post the process and end product sometime late December or early January.
We are going up north to see Papa, Grammy, and Uncle Mike soon.  Papa and Uncle Mike are going to help us create it!

HAT SCARF MITTENS

I know its early, but I decided to make my daughter a hat, mittens, scarf set for this winter!  I was recently in Good Will looking through the tshirts for material when I found this gem!  I liked the pattern and didn't feel bad about cutting up a turtle neck... who wears these things anymore anyway!!!

enough snow flakes for you?!  :)

Stay tuned and I will show my final product soon! 

TABLE DECOR

How great is this table center piece!!!  I love it!  

So simple, so much truth, hope, and joy! 

 This center piece picture is worth far more than a thousand words.  :)  

THE T-SHIRT REFASHIONED

We all have them, shirts that take up space in our drawers, they hang in the back of our closets, and a pile of them we've deemed worthy only for yard work or working out!  Can you agree?  

I love finding ways to repurpose items I already have but don't use anymore, and I have oodles of shirts.  So I created a document to shared some of my favorite ideas.  You can print and share them too.  No, I did not come up with them on my own- though I wish I had.  :)  

You can check out my t-shirt Pinterest Board for direct links and even more ideas.  

The T-Shirt Refashioned PDF 

(Pictured below:  Pom-pom, produce bag, necklace/scarf, juggling beanbags, headband, wall art)

I hope you found some fun ideas to try out and get some inspiration for Christmas gifts or decorations!

KID INFINITY SCARF

AND... WE'RE BACK!
Sometimes life just gets busy, right?  And it sure has for our family.  After deciding not to list our house to sell and wait a few more months, we have seen the pace slow a bit.  However, I still have much to do for Bible studies (great ones!!!), and am currently working on a workshop that I will be presenting at church for our women's weekend.  I will be sure to post about it and share my info with you!  

In the time being I have a quick share of a fun little project to make a trendy child's scarf, or cowl.  When I saw THIS from Mer Mag I knew I had to try something similar for my sweet girl.

I created this kid style infinity scarf for Ava using an old t-shirt I could no longer wear.  

Cute, right?!  :)

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(1) Find a shirt and cut off the side seams, (2)and cut 2 rectangles- you will need to measure around your child's neck for how loose you want the scarf to be. (3) Cut off the hem, and (4) sew the ends together, doesn't have to be pretty. (5) fold in half so you cannot see your seams.  DONE!  On to the headband, (6) Cut off part of your sleeve and remove the seam, also remove the hem at the wrist- but save it! (7) Fold your headband fabric in half hot dog style.  ;)   Then sew closed and turn inside-out.  (8) Sew ends together- as I was putting it through my machine I pulled on it and that is why you see so many ruffles before I turned it inside out.  This will allow for the fabric to stretch when the child wears it. 

 Last but not least tie your left over hem into a bow and hand stitch it on!  

*** An even easier way to create this scarf is to cut off the bottom hem of the shirt you chose, measure up how far you want and cut a section of the shirt off leaving the side seams as they are-
stretch a little and put it on your kid!  EASY!  :)
(I wanted the lines on my scarf to be vertical- so I cut it differently.)

BABIES

I have been away from the blog for a little while trying to catch up on so many

 things, we are a bit busy in this house lately!

We recently had a great little interruption to the week, my great friend just had her baby 6 days early!  Babies are so cute and fun!  We got their maternity pictures done just in time!  

Can't wait to help take pictures of new little Ashlynn! 

(Have I used enough exclamation points yet?....!) 

Here is a cute one from the shoot.

Catch you later.