ONE {DIY Birthday Shirt}

My baby girl is turning ONE in a week!  I can hardly believe it.  Time has gone by WAY too fast.  But, I must say, I am getting excited to celebrate, and to start things off, I made her this little birthday shirt.  I am going to do a "Pinwheel" theme party--so here is what I came up with for the shirt:

 Do you want to make one?  Here's what I did:
--Grab a shirt (I used a cute little tank from Old Navy)
--Print out your number & then cut it out.  Pin the pattern to your fabric, and cut your fabric out.

 --Iron some double-sided Wonder-Under to the fabric.  **Make sure you read the instructions and iron the right side, or you may iron the paper onto your ironing board (not that I would make that mistake personally-haha).

--Cut the shape out now with the Wonder-Under

--Peel the other side of the Wonder-Under off your shape.  

 --Place onto your shirt into place and iron on.

 --Now you are ready to applique it on.  I used a small zig-zag stitch all around the 1.
--For the pinwheel, I used this great tutorial.  I used a 2" square of fabric.  This was SUCH A FUN TUTORIAL!  I made SEVERAL that I will use for the party.  So cute!

Then, to finish things off, I made this fun matching headband.  I am hoping she will leave it on longer than 2 minutes (She has discovered that she can pull bows/flowers/ headbands off her head).  I made the headband like I made THESE.

I am so excited for her big day!  Happy Birthday baby girl!

My Baby's Hand

Okay--here's a Jennifer original.  (I know, kind of amazing!)  This is a little project I did a few years back with my older two kids, and now it's Reese's turn.

At 6 months, I have traced my child's hand and made a little stitchery out of it.  I combined it with a photo of them at 6 months.  It is fun to have a little comparison of all my kids at 6 months!

For the frames, I took the $1 wooden frames you can buy from Michael's.  I think you can buy them from other craft stores, but Michael's is the cheapest I have found.  

I simply painted the sides white...

Cut scrapbook paper to cover the frame (just trace around the frame onto the paper)...

 Apply a thin layer of Mod Podge onto the frame to glue the paper to the frame.  I also applied a layer of Mod Podge over the paper to seal it.

Pretty easy, right?  Love it!

Itty Bitty Headbands

So before Reese was born, I new I needed to make some new little headbands for her.  I had seen so many cute ones floating around blog world, but I was unsure what to make them out of.  Of course I had seen tutorials for all the great flowers, but the actual band itself had me a little puzzled.  Then one day I found some cute colored elastic.  I also found the cutest lace (not stretchy) at Hobby Lobby.  So I put them together, and here is what I came up with:

 For my flowers, I used ORGANZA & burned the edges, regular COTTON for the rolled flowers, and KNIT for the folded flowers.

To make the lace headbands, I simply sewed a little section of the elastic to the ends.  This adds just enough stretch to put the headband on, and it goes in the back so it can't really be seen.

 I decided though that I wanted the headbands to be interchangeable, so I could use different flowers with the same headband.  In order to do this,  I took a small strip of the lace, hot-glued it to the backside of the headband, wrapped it around once, then glued again to the back.  This left a little loop on the top to clip the bows or flowers to.

 Like this:

Now, with all the of the bow and flower tutorials out there, the headband possibilities are ENDLESS!