card up the sleeve

Thank you to Copeland's Pottery for adding our Solitaire bib to their Card Up the Sleeve treasury. They have a beautiful shop of pottery, including this jewelry box:

seeing spots

There's nothing better than a classic polka dot! Etsy seller Life in the Sass Lane added our Citrus Disco Dot bib to her EtsyKids are seeing SPOTS treasury.

a little soapylove

"They're here! They're here!"

Last week the girls and I placed an order from the Soapylove website, and that is what I heard this morning when I told them who the pretty brown box the mailman handed us was from (I can say pretty because even the brown box was outfitted in colorful Soapylove stickers).

They had stood at the computer, changing minds, changing colors, changing styles for what seemed ages but had finally decided on Mint Chocolate Chip and Pink Grapefruit.



(the Mint Chocolate Chip matches one of their new Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream bears from Build-a-Bear, don'tcha know)



Debbie also included some adorable Bubblegum Marshmallow soap samples to try out. I had seen these previously on her facebook page, and couldn't believe that they really do look and feel just like marshmallows - they just smell even yummier.



Needless to say, getting them to take their showers today was no problem at all. :)

Baby Gifts for Future Geeks

Babble.com featured our Computer Code bib on their Family Style blog today, as part of the Baby Gifts for Future Geeks post. Also featured was this adorable microscope onesie from Nerdy Baby.

sweet pink finds

rock n roll is here to stay

double trouble

Our friends welcomed sweet little twin boys into the world this week! As soon as we found out their names I got started on some baby gifts. The bedding that they had registered for was uber-cute, so we picked up a package of receiving blankets from the same collection to rework into some soft custom blankets.


I cut the receiving blankets (stripes, leaves and animals) into different sized strips and then sewed the strips together for each new blanket.


On each seam I used a chicken scratch (don't think that's the right name but that's what I call it) stitch in coordinating colors.


The little guys' names are appliqued across the bottom right side of each blanket in light blue minky fabric.


The backing is a plush brown cuddle fabric.


A few months down the road they should be able to use this nice fat stack of bibs. ;) With the remaining pieces of the receiving blankets I pieced together two custom bibs to match.


And with the smaller scraps I was even able to make a couple of taggie blankets.