What Jeremy has been working on at work.

This is the hotel Jeremy has been going out of town to work on. It finally opened. You can see an article from ET here. The hotels website is here.

Here is what happens when the nerdy guys have too much time on their hands. This uses the software that their company produces to control our home. Its funny to me because we have about 100 of those remotes laying around the house, and that the software that lets me control my house on my iphone can be turned into a remote control.

Reversable Apron, Chef Hat & Oven Mitt

So I have it on good authority that Adelle is getting a play kitchen from a certain fat man. No- not her Dad- this guy prefers red, and only comes out 1 night a year. So I made her some accessories to go with her kitchen.



The reversible apron is a regular apron with pockets on one side and on the other it is a crayon apron with slots to put her crayons. You can get the pattern here. There are a couple things in the pattern I will change next time to suit my own sewing style better (I am a self taught sewer, so I may do it wrong???) but overall it was a good pattern with 3 sizes, and I love how it turned out. I think I am going to make me a utility one for sewing when I get a chance.





The chefs hat is a free pattern you can get here. It is super easy to follow and doesnt take any time at all. I added a little "a" for her, which took the longest since I had to manually machine applique it on (one day I will have an embroidery machine and it will make my life SO much easier!!!) I would suggest doing this step before you sew the sides of the band together, but after you put the velcro on- so you can see where you want it. Oh and do it on the notched side, since that side will be facing out. Oh and it is adjustable so it can fit their head as they grow.





The oven mitt is kinda something I "cooked" up (Jeremy made me do it- he says he is all about the corny-ness.) It was based off of our oven mitt and her hand size. It was kinda hard to turn because I used a stiff interfacing, but it turned out ok, and it is even quilted.





I think I am going to make her a little kitchen towel with a strip of coordinating fabric sewn on to go with the set, but I still have to figure out how I want to do it exactly.

These were all made using scraps- the same ones I used for the wellness kits (like I said I usually buy TOO much fabric). Crayons were bought for like 25 cents at the beginning of the school year (I always stock up on school supplies then). Anything else is stuff I have on hand so these were completely free since I had everything laying around. Not too bad!

Dolls

I love these dolls. They are so cute. They are a little bit more labor intensive than most of my other projects- (The hand embroidery took me like an hour of two- I've never done it before. Thats about what I spend on a complete project, not just part of it.) But I love them, and I think it was worth it. They are naked, but I figured since they werent anatomically correct it was alright to post anyways. Hopefully they will be clothed tomorrow. When I was doing the hair Kenadee came downstairs and was literally pulling the dolls out of my hands to snuggle and play with. She was so excited about them, which makes me really excited about giving her one for Christmas.
Total cost- $2.69 for yarn. I had other yarn on hand but this matched the color of my girls hair better. Everything else is stuff I have had sitting around for awhile. I probably only used 1/2 if even that, so I can make more with it if I have time.

Advent Calender

So my kids have been wanting me to officially finish the Advent Calender. We have been doing activities each night leading up to Christmas, but I had been waiting till I got time to finish the calender how I wanted it to be. Well thats not going to happen, so I just settled with odd shapes and number stickers. This is so not what I had planned, and I am not really that pleased with it, but it is done, and it only cost me $1.00 for the baking sheet because I got it at the dollar store. At least my kids like it.




Hanging on my wall today.



With all the numbers on.

Christmas Centerpiece

So I have been wanting to change my tree from a red tree to a hot pink and lime green tree, but it is so expensive! Plus I absolutely love all my red ornaments. Well on Wednesday my friend called me up and asked if I could do a centerpiece for one of the tables for our Relief Society Christmas Dinner on Thursday night. Well I had seen this and thought- Oh I can make one of those for the dinner. Well since my kitchen isnt in the same room as my tree I decided to do it these fun colors. Of course when I went to the craft store wednesday night before Young Womens, I got a little carried away and came home with stuff to make all these fun things. I guess it is a little Christmas forest.



This is how I sorted all the different buttons while I worked.

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Oh- for all you that STILL want a tutorial- it is in the works (along with about 50 other things) Thanksgiving weekend was CRAZY! I am still recuperating. Jeremy wins the Husband of the week award for taking Monday off just so I could relax. So instead of getting back to work, I went with my family to pick out our Christmas trees, and we decorated for most of the day. Yesterday was spent running kids back and forth to and from various schools (every tuesday and thursday is like this- they are the most hectic days of the week for me), and trying to get caught up and back to normal. It looks like today I am going to have to baby a sick little boy, and I was supposed to go into their school, but that probably wont work out now, as well as that trip to the store I was planning on. We will see how much I can get done today.