Turkey Shirt

I saw at the Homestead Hollow craft show a handmade jumper with a turkey on it for $35. I said, I could do that! And I did. I just bought an ivory shirt at Target for $5.99 and a bit of fabric , thread, buttons & ribbon & viola! I had fun doing it and was really proud of how it turned out.
Now if only I could get the Thanksgiving dinner stains out of it!
This was my first attempt at anything like this. I am definitely not a sewer. I got my sewing machine for scrapbooking purposes, but it has really been a very handy machine to have! And I would love learn more and make more things for Cailey.
I am also going to do a christmas shirt for her. I have a very cute snowman design in mind.

But if anyone would like me to make one for their child for next Thanksgiving, let me know. I've got plenty of leftover fabric to make a ton!

My Spiderman Hat

I did this layout in less than an hour!!! And I know you can tell it too. I forgot to add the date on it and another thing that I'm gonna add. Nothing major though. I had this spiderman stuff leftover from the album I did for Richard's father's day present. So I had the majority already together so It was easy to gather the supplies for this one.
This was in the spring of '07. Cailey came across a toboggan.
The scan came out a little dirty looking. I promise, the paper is white, not dingy.

Bloom & Grow - March 2007

I really like this page. Not only is cailey growing, but I believe I am growing in my scrapbooking style as well. I really, REALLY had to take a big step and be brave to use this color scheme with so many patterns/colors going on. I'm usually just a 2 pattern paper kind of scrapper with a solid. But I have 5 different patterned papers going on!! I like it and hopefully I can continue to break out of my shell. Oh, I must admit, I scraplifted this layout from a CK magazine. Looking at it helped me to break away from my norm.
And I totally accidentally blurred the journaling after I scanned it and patching it together in photoshop.

Water Fun

I finally finished these pages, and they were so much fun. I've had lots of other little projects going on (halloween treat bags, etc) so I haven't been able to focus on my scrapbooking.
But these pictures are from June '06. The day of Cailey's 2nd Birthday.

Halloween Treat Bags

For Cailey's K-3 class at school, I made these canvas treat bags. I made a total of 10 including one for Carson. I hand stitched the pumpkin and added buttons as eyes. Was my own pumpkin design. I was going to try doing the names in other ways (rub-ons, iron-on). Those just didn't work. The puff paint was not my original idea, but I believe it looks best. I filled the bags with candy, fun toys & homemade sugar cookies with fun halloween sprinkles. They were a big hit.