Totally Making These

So while browsing around the blog world I found this blog. While searching it I found this awesome sewing project. . I am going to do a couple things different than the original. I wIll buy a template to paint the letters with, and I am making mine a little smaller.

I can not wait to make these for Penelope. After much thought of what all we could do with awesome ABC bean bags I came up with a list of things she can use them for:

Spelling
Math (I'm going to make numbers)
Matching (I am going to do 2 of each fabric)
Learning ABC's
Any bean bag throwing game
Sharing (With Malachi, her bf)
Colors

And that is just the beginning of my list. Only problem is that I want to have more than one of each letter, probably 2 and 5 of each vowel (6 E's to Spell Penelope Violet Dernier) and 2 of each number, I am adding up to around 100 bean bags! yikes. I hope this works out because I am really excited about them!

I also want to add ribbon across the tops so they can hang, and have a board to hang them on, that way she can do things standing and not just sitting on the floor. It would also make for a great place to store them instead of just in a box.

Smiles

Penelope is making all kinds of fun faces now. She loves to smile, and has just started this sucking in her lips thing. Here are a couple of them that I actually caught on camera. I am still trying to get her pouty face, it is awesome.

sucking the lips in. I love this one

big gummy smile!

ha ha

This one is just cute.

Poppy loves to jump in her bouncy seat, and talk to all of the toys. She is working on sitting up, she really wishes she could do it all by herself. Penelope can roll over from tummy to back, and gets half way from back to tummy. It is amazing how quickly she learns things. I can't believe she is 3 months and 10 days old!

I heart Sewing! <3

front, looks navy, it is more purple than that
back

front
back

So I made Penelope more dresses. It is so much fun, this is why God gave me a daughter. I can't wait for these to fit her. I have about a year, maybe a little less, until they will fit though.

I made these a little different, they tie in the back instead of on the shoulder. I figured it made it harder for Penelope to untie, and who doesn't love a big bow on the back of little girl dresses?

Detergent

So the detergent you use on your cloth diapers is very important. You don't want any build up, which would cause them to repel water. The Natural Baby Co. has made a detergent especially for cloth diapers...check it out here http://www.thenaturalbabyco.com/tiny-bubbles-p-732.html

Pillowcase Dresses

fabric close up

fabric close up

These are two pillowcase dresses I made! I love them, I wish that I would have bought more fabric so that I could have made the same ones for Penelope.

They are 18m size but will probably fit until 4 or 5 years old, becasue the top just slides on the straps. All you have to do is put leggings on with them once they get to short and then eventually they would just be a shirt.