Productive

It has been crazy and busy around our house lately and it seems like all I ever do anymore, besides holding Princess B ALL the time, is clean and run kids from place to place.Well today I decided that I would do minimal cleaning and then I was going to get some projects done that I have been trying to do for awhile 2 of them are baby gifts and their babies are already 4 months and 2 months(oops).

Here is the blanket I made for my neighbors baby (who is 4 months now). This is a new design that I just bought and thought it was so cute that I had to try it out.

Here is the second blanket I made for another lady in our ward who's baby was born 4 days after Braelynn. I love this bear he is so cute.

I may be late getting them to them, but at least the blankets are big enough that they will be able to use them this winter.

I found this dress for Princess B at walmart (for 5.00),it was plain with no flowers when I bought it (I forgot to take a picture of it before) and I looked at it at least 3 different times before I actually bought it.
I knew that I wanted to embroider something on it but I was not sure what. I was deciding between adding black and white, or a hot pink. Some of the ideas I had was the most obvious a bee, or a ladybug or butterfly, but then I decided that I wanted black and white and I did not want a bee because it was so obvious.  So I found the cute flower design and knew that that was what I wanted to put on it.

I love how it turned out. I can't wait until it actually fits her. I will be making her a hair accessory to match of course.

Here is a close up of the design. Now I am on the look out for clothes that are plain that I can add my own design to.

We have season tickets to the Blaze games, so of course she needs a game day outfit right? I was going to make her a skirt and then remembered that Halo Heaven had a black and orange petiskirt so I decided to just buy it instead of making it because for the price it was worth it. If you have never been on their website here is a link Halo Heaven. If you have girls and they love hair bows, and flowers and skirts, run don't walk and go check it out I love this site.

Anyway back to the outfit. I embroidered a football helmet onto a onesie to go with it and will be making a matching hair bow(I will post it when it is done.)

Here is a close up of the shirt. I just wish that I could find cuter plain white onesies...you know the ones with the cute puff sleeves. 

So even though I didn't get much cleaning done, I did get a lot done today and Princess B ended up having to cry for short periods of time, but she survived. 

Monthly onesies-Month 2

You may remember that I was making the monthly onesies...well it is time for Month 2 (excuse me while I wipe away a tear).

Cute crooked half smile.

Telling me stories.

She was getting so excited

big smiles...

I may have to rethink how I am attaching them because she kept getting a hold of this one and making it move.

A Conference tradition

Twice a year my Church airs General conference. For the Sunday session each time my mom comes over and we make Ableskievers and sew while listening to our Prophets speak.

For those of you that do not know what Ableskievers are  they are a kind of Scandinavian pancake, I know there are many different versions of the recipe and I am not claiming I have the original recipe this is just the recipe that my grandma was given from a Scandinavian friend.

So here is the recipe and a quick how-to

2 cups buttermilk(I used powdered buttermilk cause I don't want to go out and buy regular buttermilk to use once)
2 cups flour
3 eggs sepearated- put egg whites in separate bowl to beat later. put the egg yolks in the bowl with the other ingredients.
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder

In large bowl  mix dry ingredients together add buttermilk and egg yolks and beat together. (if using dry buttermilk follow directions on package).
Beat egg whites till stiff not dry, FOLD into other mixture. DO NOT STIR.

*side note from me- the buttermilk will make the ableskievers fluffier and gives it a yummy taste.

here are the egg whites before they are beaten.

Here are the egg whites after they have been beat. I am going to fold them into the mixture.

Ok now here is how you make them. First off you need a special ableskiever pan. I of course did not take a picture of just the pan, but it looks like this.

Also this shows you what they look like before you turn them and after you turn them.as they cook you turn them a quarter turn until you have turned them completely and they are done. Make sure you put in a bit of oil in each cup on every batch you do or they will stick. I spoon in my oil and then stir it around to coat the sides (I hope that makes sense)

  This is after they have been turned all the way and are ready to eat. We ALWAYS have two pans going because my kids LOVE them and eat them faster than I can cook them.

Here they are in the bowl ready to serve. Like I said I can not get them out fast enough.

So you are supposed to put applesauce or jam in them while you are cooking them, I have had them this way several times and they are good, however our favorite way to eat them is dipped in a little bit of sugar.We just put some sugar in the bottom of a bowl and dip them that way.




After making ourselves sick eating these yummy things we set up all the machines. The girls each have their own machines and I have 2 plus a serger. 


This year was a little more hectic with a new baby and all but we just got creative and figured out a way to make everyone happy. 

My mom got the princess to sleep (finally) and laid her on the table in the middle of all the action and she slept great which made it so we could help the girls make their Personal progress holders. 


If you aren't familiar with personal progress you can learn more here


I found the tutorial for the holder Here

This is B's all done and closed

The first side open

All open.  There is a place for the personal progress book, For the strength of youth pamphlet and a note book and pen. I really need to get her a better notebook, but for now it will work

I guess I never took a picture of K's...oops it was the same just different material. B may be teaching this for a Young women's activity for one of her personal progress goals.

Easter outfit

I thought I would share with you the cute outfit I put together for my sweet princess. I found the idea on an embroidery's website in their gallery and fell in love with it.

I embroided the Rag Bunny design from Five Star Fonts on a pink with white polka dot onesie that I found at Walmart. I purchased the brown and pink petti skirt from halo heaven.

I love how it turned out and can't wait for her to wear it.

here is a close up of the cute bunny.

Linking up to oopseydaisy

Monthly baby onesies and binky holders

I have started working on a few projects that I thought I would share with you. The first one is a monthly baby onesie
I am sure you have seen them floating around all over the internet and pinterest if not here is a picture of what I am talking about.

These ones are from Wee bit trendy. They make a great gift for a new baby. Each of these circles are stickers and there are many different designs you can buy.

I however thought it would be fun to embroider them. So I started with this Candy Dots frame from Lynnie Pinnie and here is what I came up with at least for the first month. I am still working on months 2-12

Since I am not using them as a baby gift and they are just for my baby I decided to cheat and embroider the frame and cut it out and then using a glue stick just stick it on the onesie since I am just using them for pictures and she will not be wearing it all day long. Also then I don't have to buy so many onesies.

As I finish the other months I will be sure and post them.

The second project is a binky holder. I have sticthed out two different ones. Both of them are from embproject.com the first one is the 4x4 Diamond strap

It is all done in the hoop and is a quick easy stitch out, The design comes with different style font, I chose the script font. It has a diamond quilting pattern that it stitches out.

The second one is the Quilted binky holder 5x7

This one is a quick stitch out as well, and has a stippling pattern. Also it has different wording like girl, boy, etc. I wanted it to say a name so I skipped over the step where it stitches out the wording and added my own.

This one seems to be a little big in my opinion but maybe would work for an older baby I will let you know as she gets older, but for now I do not care for this one I do think however that it would be cute to hang on a bag or diaper bag as a bag tag and leave off the clip.

For both designs the way that it is finished in the hoop so that you can turn it right sides out is not my favorite choice as it leaves a little pocket like thing in the back. I will have to take a picture of the back so you can see what I am talking about.

M.I.A

You may have noticed that I have not been around lately. Well I have a good reason behind that, not only have I been busy but we just welcomed a new little princess into our family.

I can't believe she is a week old already. I am getting accustomed to having 6 kids and keeping up on everything I have to do.

I have many projects planned and some done to share, but I have no computer which means I have no photos and no embroidery (have to get the designs off my computer and put on the machine)right now. I am hoping to get it back in the next week.

Check back soon and hopefully I will have lots of cute fun things for you to see.

Thank you cards and March Card swap.

After all the baby gifts and meals I received I was in need of thank you cards to give so I went to my stash of cards that I have been getting from my monthly card swap and found that I only had 5 thank you cards so I had to make my own.

Here is what I came up with. I think they turned out really cute. Now my only problem is, is that we are doing thank you cards in one of the up coming months so now I have to come up with a new idea dang it.

I also have card swap coming up so I finished putting together my cards. I have had them cut out and mostly assembled since November, but I had to add the finishing touches I guess you could say.

Our theme for this month is actually friendship, but I made these before we had decided on the monthly themes.I assumed it would be Easter because that is what it was last year, but I guess I was wrong. Too bad they are all getting them anyway because I did not want to make new cards.

 I think they turned out pretty cute.