Turtle Taggie

I made a turtle taggie for my nephew, who is a few weeks older than Susie. I put crinkly plastic in the legs and head.

November - Gratitude Leaves

I wanted to do something to display the things we are thankful for, and I saw this one on Pinterest. I had tons of scrapbook paper in fall colors, and I had some brown, orange, yellow, and cream ribbon from a grab box from pickyourplum.com, so I didn't have to buy anything!

The best part has been that Emmett has been involved. When I was tracing and cutting leaves, he was matching them and sorting them (hello OCD child of mine!). Every night we decide what to put on our leaf. The first few nights I did it, drew the picture and then we practiced saying what they were. The last week, he has chosen what goes on there, and they're actually things we are grateful for (friends, grandparents, the dogs, the cat, etc.). He loves helping to hang up the leaf and we spend a lot of time looking at them all. I'm hoping I can save the bows and repeat this next year!

Drawstring Bag

E loves his Cars cars, and he has to take them all when we go places. He tries to carry them all or put them in my diaper bag, so I decided to make him a bag for them. I found a good tutorial here and just made the bag the size that I wanted. I used 1" ribbon for the string. He was really excited to put cars in it - now we just need to find the rest of them!

Elephant Taggie

Another Pinterest idea. It was time consuming just because of so many steps, but I think it turned out cute. I wanted to do this instead of an initial like E's. The hardest part was sewing with the minky, and sewing the plastic into the ears so they'll crinkle.

Initial Hairbow Holder

I wanted an initial somewhere in the nursery, and my friend wanted to make a hairbow holder, and I was running out of wall space - so we combined the two. We took an 11x14 canvas, stretched fabric over it and stapled the fabric to the back. Then we used glue to attach the letter and then used the staple gun to staple through the back of the canvas. Last step - staple the ribbon to the back of the canvas. I used some fray check on the bottom of the ribbon. Easy as can be!

Christmas decoration

At our church activity they had extras of these vinyl words, so I decided to make a quick little decoration. I painted the board, put scrapbook paper on, added the word, and then tied some ribbon on. Easy peasy!