matching skirts for my girls

fold and cut fabric to right length and height. ( I measured a skirt they each had)

I put the elastic across the top and folded the fabric down to determine the correct width.

Pressed it down for easier sewing.

This is what it looked like when done sewing the waist band for the elastic.

Leave the ends open to feed the elastic.

I placed a safety pin on the end to feed it through the fabric.

Pull the end all the way through (make sure you don't let the other end come through as well) I bit the back end of the elastic so it wouldn't go through.

Turn the fabric inside out and sew up the side and hem the bottom.

I then added rick rack to the bottom for extra detain. 

I don't like using pins with rick rack so I just line it up along the bottom edge as I went along.

Here is baby B's

and Big B's

No outfit is complete without matching hair flowers. Tutorial on those next.

Spring into Silhouette Party

So excited for this party!!! 

I am still getting to know my SD and look forward to the awesome tutorials from ladies in blogland!!!

Nursery curtains

Update: My curtains were featured on Just Beckause!!! I was so excited to see my curtains were featured on a darling post about ruffles. 

 I picked up a pair of black curtains at my favorite store...{Target} for $17.99 for the pair. I knew they needed something so I hung them and waited for the inspiration. I was in the living room cleaning one day and started looking at the curtains hanging in there. 

Started thinking about how I wanted to change them and boom, like a ton of bricks. I grabbed the scissors and started cutting the black and white demask off.

I used embroidery floss and a long scrapbooking needle, tied a knot on one end and stitched an in and out stitch the length of the fabric

pulled the floss tight to ruffle as desired. and tied a knot on the finishing end. 

Next, I pinned the ruffles to the curtains in three rows. (the ruffles weren't long enough so I had to use multiple pieces on each row) 

With having multiple ruffles on each row I had to cut the extra fabric and floss and retie a knot. 

I then went to my sewing machine and sewed each ruffle to the curtain.

 

I love how they turned out! Just the girlie touch they needed. 

Rose Balls For Miss B

Update: I was featured for this project on HofH!! I love this blog and am honored she chose my hanging rosette balls to feature! 

This darling idea for hanging rose balls came from House of Smith's, one of my FAV's  I didn't have any Styrofoam balls hanging around but I was itching to do this project. Then I remember seeing this and new I had my own stack hiding out in my closet.

 The pink and white crepe paper I found at the dollar store, Holla! and the brown at Walmart.

 I bit off a little more than I could chew. I thought I could get the entire project done while watching a movie with the hubs. This is where I ended when the closing credits rolled. Oh, well I finish them another day!

Tada!!! I'm pretty excited at how they turned out! and little Miss B loves to look at them as she falls asleep.

Swap Followings #2

I joined a "Follower Swap"  party last week and met a handful of awesome ladies!
Check this post to see who I met last week
and head over to this weeks party to join in the fun!!!

.To learn about the 30 Day Challenge click here

Organizing our family

As one of my New Year Resolutions I decided I was going to get our family all on the same page, to take the guess work out of what was going to be done each day. Who is going where and when, what there is to eat or where so and so's number is.


Thanks to How Does She 's post about organizing your home in one binder, I knew I had found an easy way {for me at least} to accomplish just that. 

After reading her post I started looking at the links she had posted and customizing my folder to fit my families needs and this is what I came up with: I used the four dividers she did, Calendar, Contacts, Cleaning and Cooking.

1st section: 

 I printed out each month from February to December from Organized Home and placed brads in each ring to keep the holes from ripping because I know I would rip them otherwise.
Next, I added a daily to do list which you can find here along with any other pages you need to add to your binder.
I also added a sheet that has a list of standing weekly appointments and conference calls for my husband.


2nd:

This section has all emergency contact numbers, our ward list, my children's Pediatrician booklet with address, numbers and each of the DR's. in the office bio's, our Christmas card mailing list and a Christmas gift list I pulled out of a Real Simple Mag I had from a few years back. and a list of all our favorite restaurants and their number.
The printable address pages you can find here




3rd section:

This section is a work in progress. I have my daily, weekly and monthly to-do lists and as I get my routines down I will "Zone" my house {courtesy of FlyLady} and will have all those lists in there as well.

4th Section: 

In this section I will have my grocery shopping lists and all my coupons. I was going to add our menu's here as well. But, found a better way for me, which I don't have quite finished yet and will post about it when I get it in the next few weeks. It's AWESOME and I am EXCITED to get it!!! 

Again here is a list of all the sites and links I used to put my fun, fab, easy peezy to navigate family folder. 

How Does She "What every organized household should have"

FlyLady

Organized Home Printable pages for Household Binder

Monthly Calendar for 2011 by Organized Home

Special thanks to How Does She for being the inspiration behind this. It has already made my life so much easier and I have only had it finished for two days :)

My husband and I are starting P90X and I am putting little folders together for each which I will post about later. 

hoo are you? #2

1. Do you wear glasses or contacts, if so for how long?

Neither

 
2. What was your favorite board game as a kid?

 Candyland

3. What is a word that you use all the time?

Heck, usually following behind "oh,my"

 
4. What is your favorite day of the week?

Any day my husband is home so I can get a little more shut eye while the baby sleeps. The older two aren't quiet old enough to be totally left unattended.

 
5. Did you graduate high school from the town you grew up in?

Yes, spent about 19 years in the same house. It was a sad day when my parents sold it.  

Follow to be followed

Homemaker on a Dime 

 has started an awesome Link Party!

It's designed for networking with fellow bloggers. 

Finding new blogs & having more blogs find you. 

Stop on by & join in!

I have already met:
Kathy over at Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy

She has some amazing pictures of around Oregon. Head on over and check her blog out. 
&
Tara @ FabuLESSly Crafty
who has done some darling projects including a fab bathroom project for pennies.  

This is such a FUN IDEA, COME PLAY!
 

hoo are you?

1. Do you use an alarm clock or some device to wake you up, or do you wake up on your own?

My children are my alarm clock! Unless I have an appointment or my son has school. In which case I use the alarm on my phone.  It seems that when ever I need them to wake up at the time they usually do, they sleep in. 

2. If you could go on any game show, which won would you choose?

I would have to choose...The Price is Right! I have wanted to appear on that show since I was a little girl watching it with my Grandma. haha

3. Do you prefer the weather to be hot or cold?

HOT!!! any day of the week! I was born in SoCal and raised in Gilbert, AZ. Funny since I live in Idaho! :)

4.What color of clothing do you wear the most?

Pink! love, love, love you:)

5. What is your favorite color?

 Pink, which would explain why I wear it so much. 

glass candle sticks and vases...

 I used the three candlesticks, tall glass vase, pink flower, tan flat candle holder and fleur de lis.

1. I used rust-oleum in oil rubbed bronze to spray paint the flat candle holder and the fleur de lis.

2. As those were drying I Gorilla Glued the candlesticks to the pink flower and glass candle holder and the pink glass knob to the bottom of one of the tall glass vases.

3. One the flat candle holder was dried I Gorilla glued it to the third glass candle stick.

4. Once all of the pieces were dried I placed the fleur de lis on the flat candle holder and placed the glass vase over the top of that. 

AND....

These look darling in my daughter's room. The pink flower holds her bracelets and I'm not sure what I am going to put in the empty one...maybe some mini decorated balls.