She's Crafty

As if I haven't had enough going on lately.....

{Let me recap my last 3 1/2 weeks. I appliqued 3 onesies (2 for Aidan and 1 or Natey). I packed all 3 of us up, and flew to Oregon. Drove to Washington, spent time with family. Drove back to Oregon, cooked Thanksgiving dinner and spent more time with family. Flew back to Boston. Had 1 day to "relax", which we spent cleaning and repacking. Woke up at 4am, managed to blog, fly to Colorado, went straight to work when I got there. Stayed there, working, for 5 days. Flew back to Boston. Went shopping for all of the stuff I needed. Made a diaper cake, appliqued 3 onesies and 1 toddler shirt and had to bring them to work on Monday for our Arts and Crafts exhibit.}

Whew...

Yes, some would call me crazy. When I volunteered for this exhibit I did not have the business trip stuck in between our vacation and the show. I thought I would have plenty of time to work on all of the projects by the 8th. Lets just say that I had to enlist the help of my wonderful husband to get all of it done. He rolled and put elastics around 75 infant diapers, helped me put the diaper cake together and even ironed the wonder under to the back of the fabric and cut out some of the shapes for me so I could finish in time. I had originally wanted to do 6 items, but only got 4 done instead. Luckily I had my first test onesie to add to the bunch. I think for my first exhibit, it turned out pretty well. What about you?

I had a hot glue party with the ribbons. All of them were plain so I added the cutesie stripe and the pretties in the middle to make bows. This was only the second diaper cake I have ever made. The first one was for my friend Ariana's baby shower. I learned a lot of lessons by making that first one. I guess the biggest lesson was that hot glue is your friend. Don't be afraid to use it!

I had an entire 6 foot table to set up and I had to get creative since I didn't have as much stuff as I planned. Let me preface this by saying that we aren't allowed to buy or sell anything on site so we had to include outside contact info if people wanted to buy our crafts. I thought the table looked a little bare so I decided to make some "business cards" out of some polka dotted note cards I had. I just cut the cards in half and printed and glued my info on the inside! I also put pictures of Natey and Aidan (check out Heather here) wearing onesies I had made, so they acted as my oh-so-adorable mini models!

I love that I am finally channeling the crafty girl that has been locked in the dungeon of my analytical brain for all these years!! I must say, I am so inspired by all of you amazing ladies who are such naturally talented artists. I have heightened my interest of photography, sewing and crafting since I started blogging. Thank you to all of you who have encouraged me, even if you didn't know it!