These Make a Wish Stars could be made so many different ways. You could also do other shapes and signs that tie in a little better withu your nursery theme.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Make a Wish Stars
While I was pregnant I loved looking at baby nursery pictures in magazines or on the internet. I would look in the backgrounds of pictures of cribs and changing tables and things like that and find really cute decorations and nick-knacks. The Make a Wish Stars is something that I came up with by putting several different background decoration ideas together. They're perfect for a peaceful nursery you're little cuddle bug can dream big in.
These Make a Wish Stars could be made so many different ways. You could also do other shapes and signs that tie in a little better withu your nursery theme.
These Make a Wish Stars could be made so many different ways. You could also do other shapes and signs that tie in a little better withu your nursery theme.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Baby Animal Quiet Book
While I was pregnant with Addy I was constantly trying to think of things to make and add to her nursery.We didn't have a big budget so almost all of our projects for the baby and decorations had to be homemade. Which I love about her nursery now, it's so unique because everything was made by us. One project that I really wanted to make was a quiet book. I started to make a big quiet book, then realized that I wasn't going to finish before Addy was born so I made this quiet book first (I'm still working on the big one). I didn't have a sewing machine at the time so I was looking for projects that would be easy to hand sew and this was definitely one of them.
I happened to have a lot of felt on hand and I used that for the pages. I came up with a shape for the pages that I liked and made a pattern for it on piece of cardboard. I put the different color felt pages back to back and stitched them together with white thread. And I cut the letters on the front and back of the book out of felt and sewed them on with white thread, too.
I drew up the animals then cut them out of felt, too. For the writing I used used embroidery floss. The regular thickness of embroidery floss was too thick so I peeled off 2 strands and thread them through my needle to stitch the words.
For most of the pages I tired to use colors of thread and felt that were bold and contrasting. This page is less bold than most of the others, but I think this is my favorite page because my owl came out pretty cute :). My daughters favorite page is the one before this though, it has a red page and blue page and the animal is a cow- she loves the black and white cow on the red page.
This is my baby chick page. The other animals I used were a cow, a horse, and a pig. And then at the end, after all the animal pages, I want to go back and add a page that says "the baby says..." and then have a baby cooing. But I haven't done that yet.
And then this is the back of the book. I held the book together with a big binder ring. And now this quiet book sits in Addyson's nursery with her books and toys and she loves it :).
I happened to have a lot of felt on hand and I used that for the pages. I came up with a shape for the pages that I liked and made a pattern for it on piece of cardboard. I put the different color felt pages back to back and stitched them together with white thread. And I cut the letters on the front and back of the book out of felt and sewed them on with white thread, too.
I drew up the animals then cut them out of felt, too. For the writing I used used embroidery floss. The regular thickness of embroidery floss was too thick so I peeled off 2 strands and thread them through my needle to stitch the words.
For most of the pages I tired to use colors of thread and felt that were bold and contrasting. This page is less bold than most of the others, but I think this is my favorite page because my owl came out pretty cute :). My daughters favorite page is the one before this though, it has a red page and blue page and the animal is a cow- she loves the black and white cow on the red page.
This is my baby chick page. The other animals I used were a cow, a horse, and a pig. And then at the end, after all the animal pages, I want to go back and add a page that says "the baby says..." and then have a baby cooing. But I haven't done that yet.
And then this is the back of the book. I held the book together with a big binder ring. And now this quiet book sits in Addyson's nursery with her books and toys and she loves it :).
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