One Talented Girl + One Piece of Fabric = Delightful Baby Gifts

My nephew Caleb married a very talented girl...Laura has an eye for the making pretty things...these items are simple and lovely...not overdone and busy...soft, sweet, and comforting. Laura has the ability to take an item and add just a solitary touch and it turns a boring something into an unique delight.

Laura sent an email explaining to me how she took one piece of fabric and created baby gifts for a friend. By simply buying some burp clothes and a piece of very busy fabric...she decomposed the pattern and added a simple image and made these burps clothes look so pretty. The simple image sewed onto the burp cloth took this much needed baby item to a new level...it looks very rich and personalized.

This is the piece of fabric Laura bought. She felt it was a little "too much"...so she cut out a single image and sewed it to the bottom edge of the burp cloth...WOW...what a great look...I actually can imagine how that cloth will look over a the new Mom's shoulder...

By individualizing the images...don't you think Laura made a great change...each image alone is so much nicer than all together...

Laura's eye for the simple really pays off with these gorgeous burp clothes...if I saw these in a baby shop I would need one for myself as I would be drooling to buy these!!!!!


Cute...Cute...Cute

Laura also embroidered "bambino" onto a plain piece of fabric and sewed it onto a onesie...what a great way to personalize a little "baby body suit"....

To finish off the package Laura is going to make little sachets filled with dried lavender...a simple touch to a wonderful handmade gift basket...this will be a very one of a kind baby gift....

Laura plans to open a shop at www.etsy.com to offer her handmade baby items one day soon...I believe they will a hit!

Elizabeth

Recipe for Disaster

DISASTER

Take

2 - four year old nieces

1 - can of spray adhesive

2 or 3 - jars of glitter

and

1- large bag of feathers

and a lot of good intentions

This list of ingredients should lead you to know I was on the road to disaster the minute I started to brings all these components together...

The end result -

Two smiling little girls and one "old" aunt with hands encrusted with at least 1/4 inch thick of glitter super glued to every inch of her hands and fingers and to make matters worse, to finish of this mess...multi colored feathers stuck everywhere

I finished out this experience bent over the sink using every solution, paste and chemical in the house scrubbing my hands with a Scott brand abrasive sponge trying remove this MESS...

Take my advice....don't try it!!!!!

Natalie and Emily showing off the Easter baskets they made Saturday evening while spending a sleep over...baskets were filled with colored grasses and glittered eggs and adorned with ribbons, butterflies....

Here is Emily with one of her baskets made for Grampy and the other for Mommy and Daddy...
Here is Natalie with her baskets for Pop and Grammy and the other for Mommy and Daddy...


We also made "Over the Fence Brownies" a recipe from King Arthur Flour/Bakers catalog...absolutely delicious...made with chocolate bits, dutch processed cocoa, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder, flour and espresso powder the secret ingredient that really bring out the chocolate flavor....

All in all we had a lot of fun...

Elizabeth