Kids’ Clothes Week Challenge!
Meg, over at Elsie Marley, is hosting (another) Kids’ Clothes Week Challenge. September 20-26th (which also happens to be my birthday week… sounds like a good way to spend it, if you ask me!). I’ve decided to take…
Author: Jess
Homeschooling mama to five boys, homesteading and cultivating a home in Wisconsin.
Arugula Pesto Chicken
I do not consider myself a foodie. But I love food. I really love to cook, but I hate following recipes. I do, however, like to find new and interesting ideas, giving them my own spin. One day…
Girl Clothes!
I am surrounded by boys. My kids are boys. My friends keep having boys. Seriously, there are a couple dozen kids at our church, and there is one lone girl (who can hold her own quite well, by…
From T-Shirt to Pants
I love to up-cycle…. refashion…. whatever you want call it. Taking another piece of clothing and turning it into something new is so exciting to me! New life, in the fabric form. That’s exactly how these pants happened….
Felt Embellished Baby Onesies!
A couple weeks ago, I broke my first needle on my sewing machine. It was a sad day, because I was finishing a project for myself, and I couldn’t get the old needle off! But of course, that…
Revived Hand Towels
Last weekend, my cousin got married. I had purchased a few items for them, but wanted to also give them something homemade. Well, it ended up being partially homemade. I found some hand towels at a dollar store…
Here a sleep sack, there a sleep sack…
Everywhere a sleep sack! I have recently seen two other bloggers do some fabulous sleep sacks. Love them! I especially love that neither one of these ladies used a pattern either. My kind of sewing! Check out Trula’s…
Summer Sleepsack (Mini-tutorial)
Here in Wisconsin, it can go from winter to summer in about a day. When that happened this year, I suddenly realized that my six month old was in desperate need of a summer sleepsack. This realization came,…
The Mother of all Purses
When I was pregnant with my youngest, I realized that my current purse was no longer going to cut it. I hate carrying around a diaper bag and a purse, so with two kids in diapers (because potty…
Cloth Diaper Accessories
I am a cloth diapering addict. I admit it. I love pretty much everything about it, including the sewing I can do to go along with it. A few of the cloth wipes I made. Two squares of…