Easter's Coming!

I don't know about you but I really enjoy all the fun holidays and wish to get into them with my kids, however I only have one 10 month old right now and he isn't exactly into the holidays like I would like. But, hey? What can I do he's only a baby!

Anyways I try to make the holiday at least somewhat fun and entertaining for the both of us! So now here Easter is coming up and of corse I am not going to buy the typical candy for my 10 month old so I came up with this cute little Easter basket for babies, especially a little boy!

Now to the supplies!
first off I had to go with the cute little blue basket for this little boy, but  I guess whatever color floats your boat then so be it. Next must have for a the basket is a pair or blue bunny ears. He will probably only wear them once but hey! You got to get some good pictures to embarrass him with when he's older!

Of course during this Easter/spring season they sell the most adorable touch and feel books so I had about a dozen books to choose one. I chose baby animals touch and feel book. He already has one with farm animals and that book seriously keeps him occupied in times I need him quiet! You also have to put some fun little toys in the basket, so the cutest one I could find for a boy was little dino toys. (I hope he likes them!) Now lastly, put in one of their favorite snacks. Sawyer loves those squeezable fruits on the go! 

I am so excited for Sawyer to see all the fun little things in his basket and I hope he likes them all! Of course all of this can be made to fit a girl as well, just turn the basket and ears into girly colors and the dino toys maybe into a small stuffed animal! Just have fun with it!

Up-cycling and DIYing

So spring is here and that means warmer weather and if your like me that means a lot of t-shirts! Well, I have to say, being a person who loves fashion and being comfy, I have a love hate relationship with t-shirts. Why? One because they can be so plain and have no style to them and I love them because they are just so comfy. Also, spring means spring cleaning and that means cleaning out closets of clothes you don't wear anymore. So I have an awesome craft today to fix that problem!

No-Sew Peter Pan Colar Necklace: 

Things you will need:

• old shirt
• t-shirt
• scissors
• felt
• glue
• ribbon

So I started with an old jean shirt I had for the collar part and then a T-shirt to use for tracing out the collar.

Sorry, I'm not very fancy and don't have a pattern, I just drew it out myself. (I do things the hard way!) So what I did was place a paper inside the shirt up around the collar. I folded it in half to so I could find the middle.

Then I drew out just one half the collar and cut it out. 

Next I traced it on the inside of the old jean shirt. Doing 2 flipped right side up and 2 upside down. If your like me and make mistakes easily make 2, it came in handy when I realized I messed up halfway through with one of the steps.

 Now, get your felt and repeat the previous step.

Cut all the shapes out now and get your ribbon and glue ready. I measured the ribbon out longer just so I would have room for mistakes and could cut it down to the perfect size for my neck after I'm done.

Place glue on one side of the fabric and one side of the felt. Make sure that when you put them on top of each other they match, this is where I accidentally glued on the wrong side and when I was going to place them on top of each other they didn't match.

 place ribbon down on the felt so that it the edges won't stick out on the sides of the collar.

Now place fabric over the felt and ribbon so that it evenly matches and repeat this step with the rest of your fabric, felt and ribbon.

Ok so I lied, there is a tiny bit of sewing in this project. 

However, its super simple just flip it over to the back where the felt is facing up and sew the two pieces together. Only sew the felt part so you won't see it on the front side. 

And now you are done! You know have a wonderful piece to wear with those plain T's this spring and summer! 

Life Lately

Well, its been forever since I have written on my blog. When I first created this blog I wanted it to be more about crafting, decorating and cooking. Doing the things I love. However, it is now kind of half and half, part life/part crafting.

Anyways on to updating everyone on where we are at.

In december Paul graduated from college! (Now I just need to finish :-/ ) This was seriously a great day in our marriage! He worked so hard to finish while working full time at his internship with Melaleuca for web design (he's really in graphic design but thats another story).  I am so proud of him for getting through school and working hard to provide for our family.

Now Christmas has come and gone, as well as our anniversary and my birthday.

During Christmas we got to talk to my sister Sierra on her mission. That was an awesome experience after not seeing her for 6 months I was really missing her! It was also great because this was the second time she got to see sawyer in person (kind of) since he was born! Christmas was fun having a baby though it could have been more exciting if Sawyer could open up his presents or even know what they were. I'm just excited now for the next Christmas with him, hopefully he will be just as excited as I am! Then on the 30th Paul and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary! It was awesome to think that we had been married for 2 years thinking of how fast the time went by. Then on January 4th I turned 22! I feel so old now, or more like I am no longer a kid, I guess I don't really know how to describe the feeling. However I know I have many more years to live so I have to forget about feeling old and try and live in the present. 

Well here we are now to today. Sawyer has turned 10 months old today and I am missing my little newborn baby boy. Though I love Sawyer more than the world, it is true what they say that time does fly by so fast when you are having fun. He has grown up so fast, I feel like it was just yesterday he was so small and sweet in my arms smiling at me for the first time. Now he is such a big boy and starting to want to do a lot of things on his own. (Except for the past few days he's been teething and wanting nothing but to be held)

Paul has still been working with Melaleuca, and I can't say we were completely thrilled when his internship ended and they didn't promote him yet, but told him that he would be kept on as an extended intern. However, we feel blessed to be able to have a job and feel that we are better off than most people who just graduated from college. I have to say that is one thing I did not think would be so hard to figure out. I thought that once school was over for Paul we would be on our way with a new salary paying job, living in a bigger house and not having to worry about day to day expenses. Finding a job has been tough. About 2 weeks ago Paul came home and told me that his boss had talked to him that day and to get to the point of it all pretty much told him he would either be hired or fired by the end of June. The news came like a slap across the face, what were we going to do? I started to freak out a little, which wasn't necessary he wasn't fired (or hired) yet. Sometimes it can be hard when your in this situation. You look around, and about all you can see is how easy and successful life seems to be for other people and how hard life seems to be for yourself. Paul and I were talking about this last night because as of yesterday Paul was informed that he did not get a Job he interviewed for in Utah which he was so sure he would get. It's so easy to get down on yourself and to feel like for some reason you aren't doing things right in your life, that maybe you just aren't good enough to get a job. However, we can't think like this, and no one should who is going through a hard time. This is a trial for us in our families life. However, if we have learned anything about trials in our marriage its that we have to be hopeful and we have to move forward in faith, trusting in the Lord that things will be alright. That's one thing I am thankful for while we are going through this is to have such a faithful, supportive husband and to have the Lord on my side. I have felt a tremendous amount of peace when life starts to feeling too much to handle. I know something will come up for us and life is still good, we honestly have nothing to complain about and we have everything that could ever make us happy.

Sorry if this has been such a boring read! Anyways, the next post will be something more interesting!