Baby Onesie and Burp Cloth Sets

I have so many friends who are having babies right now I just can't believe it! Luckily I found this cute idea to make for a baby gift that is somewhat easy (depending on how fancy you get) and low cost as well. If you don't want to worry about heming, just sew around the design leaving a 1/4 of an inch of fabric, snip the edges, wash and you have a cute freyed edge. All of these are freyed except of the boy one because I'm lazy like that. :)

This is just a baby cloth diaper and then you sew fabric on it making a hem all the way around. Just pin, press with warm iron and sew around twice.
On the corners you basically just fold it like you would when you're wrapping a gift, press and pin. So simple. I've done some in the past that I've tie-dyed, or have just sewn ribbons on the onesies across the chest or on the arms,etc. People always seem to like them because they're one of a kind. In the future I'd like to add baby booties or matching stretch hair bands.

Baby Shower Onesie Cake

There's all kinds of onesie cakes if you google it, but this cake I tried to have look like the little onesie set I made my friend. (Although I had to make the cake brown since she wanted chocolate). It's pretty easy. You bake a cake in just your regular 11x14 cake pan. Cool and take it out of your pan onto your serving board. Measure in on the bottom a couple of inches on each side of the bottom corner and cut a curve. Take those pieces and glue them with icing onto the top of the cake to make arm sleeves. Cut out a neck line and then use a butter cream icing for decorating. (I made the mistake of using the store bought icing and it wasn't firm enough). So, yours will probably turn out way better if you use a butter cream frosting. Have fun!

Autumn Leaves Table Runner

This is pretty easy to do. It just takes a few hours, a hot glue gun, fake leaves (you can make it any season you want), and some felt.

1.Start by cutting out your felt to the size of your table. it doesn't have to be perfectly straight because you'll cover the edges.


2. Pull off the leaves from the garland.

3. Glue


I forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but you get the point. It looks nice on a table.

High Contrast Mobile

High Contrast Colors are great for a babies brain development so I thought I make one (semi-homemade anyway) this time around. I found a great website http://www.giggle.com/ and got this really cool mobile for $10 and thought it would be great for it's versatility as I will want to change pictures in the future.

I basically got some pictures from the Internet and glued them on some thin cardboard from a toaster strudel box and clipped them on. Voila! I ran out of pictures so I thought fake flowers might be neat to look at too. Bella loves it so much. She'll just kick and squeal at the pictures.

Button Mirrors

I love buttons. As a kid my mom had an old plastic peanut butter bucket FULL of all different kinds of buttons and I'd spend a lot of time just looking at them wondering what a person could do with all of those buttons.

I was wondering how I could dress up a full length mirror that I had hanging in my daughters room and I thought that buttons would be cute. I made one for my mother-n-laws daycare for her baby room also. After hot glueing all of the buttons on we brushed on some epoxy to make it hard so babies couldn't pick on the buttons and chock on them. Plus, it makes it so shiny.
I've also in the past have glued buttons on the last few inches of a table skirt and it looks darling. The posibilities are endless when it comes to buttons.