Crafties

I'm going to go ahead and post some of my handcrafted gifts; I'll just post the others as people receive them!


I made aprons for some little girls on my list. My friend Callie has an embroidery machine, so she put their names on them.


I just used some fun dish towels for the front, and a waffle dish towel for the back. Grosgrain ribbon gave me all the ties.

so fun! I packaged these with a set of cookie cutters. I hope the little girls grow up loving them! (And helping their mamas in the kitchen!)

For my mom, I created a silhouette of Lilah. We had tried for a couple of months to get an appointment to have her sit for a silhouette artist in town, but that never worked out. I finally got frustrated and decided I could do it myself. So I did. When my mom opened it, she cried. I thought it looked nice, and I was glad she liked it, too.


Now these were my favorites...I call them Celeb-Re-Tees! Here is Prince from the Purple Rain poster for my friend Kenina.

And a later version of the Purple One for my friend Callie, who is such a big Prince fan, she has his symbol tattooed on her back.


For my friend Tinita, a huge Celtics fan, her favorite player, Kevin Garnett!

These are reverse appliqued; I am working on opening an etsy shop where I will sell this type of shirt in the next few days!


For a couple of the baby girls I know - including mine - I made these little purple kitty hats. I also made an awesome brown owl hat for one sweet little boy I know, but I forgot to take a picture before sending it off. I am assured by his sweet mama that it is a big hit. :-)

Lilah received her hat in her stocking, and was kind enough to wear it for 30 seconds so I could get a picture. She wears it on a regular basis with no issues, until we get in the car. Then it's off in a flash.

Finally are the binders I made for a few people. I just love these fabric covered binders, and I thought other people might have a use for them, too. I put their last initial on them and left them without inserts - I wanted to leave them open for whatever they wanted to put in there. They will be perfect for photos, recipes, coupons...anything you want!

I started working on these Christmas gifts in March; I still took until December 27 to get everything done. I hope that with the receipt of my super awesome BabyLock sewing and embroidery machine that Ben gave me for Christmas (major, major Christmas gift!) that anythign I make for next year will be 900 times nicer than the things I made this year...and also done before Thanksgiving! So far, so good...I already have a couple of ideas!