Katie's Creations: May 2011

Car Seat Canopy

I didn't start sewing a lot until after our daughter was born. One thing I would have liked when she was a baby was a car seat canopy. They are so easy to make, so I decided to make one when baby #2 came along. I found an awesome tutorial at Make It Do. It was simple and easy. I have loved the canopy... especially in this unusually wet spring we are having.

Bye Bye Paci

We had been wanting to get rid of our daughter's pacifier for a few months and finally decided to do it after the new year. I heard from some friends that cutting the tip a little each day did the trick for their kids so I started there. I cut it every day or so until it looked like this...

It didn't work! Emme wouldn't let it go. I heard of someone taking their child to Build A Bear and putting the pacifier in the bear. I thought it was a great idea. That way they would still "have" the pacifier, but they couldn't put it in their mouth. I didn't want to spend any money, so I took some scrap fabric and made a heart pillow for the pacifier.

Emme "helped" me stuff it, then I had her help me put the pacifier inside. She understood it was inside the pillow.

She cried that night when I put her to bed, because she wanted me to take the pacifier out. She was much better the next night and still sleeps holding the heart every once in a while.

MBASA Quiet Book Swap

I was part of a quiet book swap in the fall with the BYU MBASA (MBA Spouse Association). My group made a "scripture" quiet book. We each signed up to make one page. It think there were 9 people (including me) in my group, so I made 9 of the same page. When we were all done we swapped our extra 8 pages for the other ones in our group. It was nice because I could buy my supplies in bulk for the 1 page. I think they all turned out really cute!