When I'm not busy being a mommy, I craft

Here are some of the projects I've finally completed in the past few months. They are all done in little spurts of time, just a little here and there while kids are napping or playing or late into the wee hours of the morning. At any given time, I usually have a few unfinished projects laying around, just begging to be finished and displayed. I also have a list a mile long of more sewing, painting, scrapbooking projects that I want to do so I don't think I'll ever catch up or finish all the creative things rolling around in my head. It's good to know that I'll never be bored!

These are wood letters that I covered with scrapbook paper and then decorated with ribbon, flowers, buttons, and tags. So easy and cute!

It goes with the nesting shoe boxes and wood frame that I covered with the same paper and they are all displayed in Porter's room. I made the shoe boxes over a year ago and the frame a few weeks ago and I think they all look custom designed to go together.

After making Porter's rag quilt last November, I got the quilting bug and have made two more for gifts. This one was for my sister who had a baby boy about two months ago. I bought fabric to match the theme in her nursery and it turned out so perfect!

This one was made for a service project with some 8-11 year old girls in my ward. Each girl cut out 9 squares and made their own little mini-quilt and then I sewed them together to make a normal sized baby blanket. It turned out pretty cute too. The hard part was making sure the back squares lined up in the right pattern.

I made a family name board for a friend for her wedding a few months ago and loved it so much that I had to make one for us too. I bought the vinyl lettering online and then painted the wood a contrasting color and viola, easy peasy!

While I was buying the fabric for one of the rag quilts above, I couldn't help buying this fabric below. I didn't know what I was going to do with it all but I was sure I'd come up with something.

First some pillows for a new brown suede slipcover for our couch (it used to be green with white piping but got so stained and holey that I finally traded up for this beauty and had to change the pillows to match).

And a new boppy cover to cover this hideous pattern on the boppy I bought secondhand when I had Leah

Much better!

I saw a tutorial on Grosgrain and thought, I can do that! I just layed the boppy on top of the fabric, cut it out free hand, sewed the two sides together with white ric-rac in between, and sewed in a little zipper.

I haven't done a zipper in a while so I wasn't sure if I could remember how to do it well, especially working around the ric-rac, but it turned out great! My high school home-ec teacher would be so proud!