My diaper bag

I found a cute pattern for a diaper bag by Amy Butler and had planned for months to make that bag. However, this bag took a ton of fabric and was really really huge. When I say huge I mean 2 feet wide. If you know me and have seen my many bags you know I like to make them and most of them are rather large. Making bags is like an instant gradification (however its spelled). It only takes me about 3 hours on average to make a bag. Many of them are done the same way. I love to make quilts, but they take longer, though the pride in getting one done is a lot better than a bag, it takes more money and time.

This last weekend I went to SLC and while I was there I spent some time with Amy, my sis, and we went to Pine Needles, a great quilt shop at Gardner Village in South Jordan. We came across an adorable bag that was already made. We both loved it. We looked at the pattern and it didn't take to much fabric and it had a ton of pockets. We began the search for fabric. Wow did that take us forever, or I should say me. Amy kept finding all these fabrics that were cute, but I just couldn't decide. First I couldn't decide which diaper bag I was going to make then it was the fabric. If you've ever been to a quilt shop you know that the amount of fabric is sometimes overwhelming and you could look around for hours, which I have ask Joanne. To make it short I finally decided on my fabric. I made it yesterday and it didn't really take me that long. Sometimes the directions stumped me, but I figured them out. It actually was one of the easiest bags I have ever made and I love it. It isn't a bottomless pit like the other diaper bag would have been and like Amy pointed out I will probably only take what I need instead of a bunch of junk.

The finished bag very adorable, I know.

This is the inside with the pockets. I borrwowed one of my friends bottles and measured it for a pocket and there is a pocket that fits diapers and about 4 others. On the bottom I covered a piece of cardboard from a diaper box to make a flat bottom. I can't wait to use it.

First day of Preschool

So Mason and Izzy started preschool this week. They go to the same school, but Mason goes Monday Wednesday and Friday and Isabelle goes on Tuesday and Thursday. When we dropped both of them off they didn't even look twice and just walked down the stairs to their class. I was worried that they would be hesitant but they weren't at all. They didn't even say bye. They were both very excited.

My many projects

This summer has been full of projects for me to finish. I made Allie, yes the baby, a quilt and then finished a quilt for my cousin Ashley (I don't have a picture of her quilt). I also got all the flannel fabric out of my box and made recieving blankets and a car seat cover for Ashley.

Ashley's car seat cover.

Also in August my sister Joanne and her kids came and spent a week with me and my kids and while she was here I made another purse and a fall quilt to hang on my shelf, which she helped me put on the wall, Shelf and fall quilt. The fall letters I painted just yesterday.

Over the last month I have started to nest really bad. I have been freaking out that we don't have everything we need for the baby and that by the time we do I will only have 4 to 5 weeks left. Well last week we started to get things together. We drove down to SLC to get a dresser we saw on KSL and ended up coming home with a dresser Robert's mom had in her garage for who knows how long. It is pretty sturdy but was not pretty. This is a before picture after a little sanding and the drawers are around it waiting to be sanded. It took me two and a half days to do all the sanding because we got a new tv and I decided to paint our old entertainment unit and shelf to put in other places in the house. I have no before pics of them but they were both a black brown color and had a high gloss. I had some help from Audrey, but other than that I did it all by myself. Here are the end results of this week long project.

This is the dresser without the decor on it. Over the las couple of days I have painted Allie's name in blocks and also bought a changing pad and cover for the top of the dresser.

So these are the bumpers post on the bottom

Dresser with decor

Closer pic of Allie letters

This is the shelf that was in my living room as DVD storage and now is in Allie's room as more storage for her things.

This is our old entertainment unit that was very dark and took many coats of paint to get the right color.

One of my last projects was to make bumpers for the crib. Everyone I told said I was crazy and it was very hard, but I bought the pads at JoAnns fabrics precut and also with a pattern and made it to match her quilt.