Bags, bags, bags

I've been really enjoying making bags lately. Couple for birthday presents, one flew overseas and few are still on my sewing table waiting to be finished.

 Then one time, while I was finishing one of the bags, my daughter came to me with her puppy dog eyes and plead to have a bag of her own. She didn't need to plead much (but I didn't tell her that as I love seeing those puppy dog eyes). I let her choose the fabrics herself. I am definitely not an orange person, but her wish is my command and she wanted an orange bag.

There you have it, her orange bag. The flap pattern I've handprinted and the lining matches the bright exterior. The first couple of nights she slept with the bag by her side. Now it's something she takes with her to special occasions like going food shopping. :)

And now we all sing:

Bags, bags, bags

They're very useful things

If we didn't have bags

What would we use

To put a lot of things in?

Rainbow party present

Last year we also attended one special rainbow birthday party. We were asked to dress as a colour and if you know me you know that I love theme parties. So of course we went all out. I was blue, Emma was green and Noah was red.

Noah's outfit was the hardest as he doesn't really own any red pants. So I made them for the occasion out of an old t-shirt. Good recycling right there for ya.

For the birthday girl I made a rainbow shirt and some fabric paint so that she could paint the shirt herself and make it all funky. And the card idea above is from pinterest and so cute that I couldn't resist in making it.

Movember time again

It's that time of the year again, Movember. Hubby already has his mo growing good and I'm planning on cutting it in all funny shapes. And then it hit me, last year I made this cute little mustache onsie and I had this cute little baby to put inside it. Though he's still very cute, he's not that little baby anymore. Tiny has changed into chubby and there is no way I could take 9 shots of him just lying on the bed like that anymore.

That baby must be then over 1 now! Oh hold on, we did have a party for him too. Pictures to come, and they'll fit with the movember theme.

Do you all have a mustache man at home?

Shopping bags made by daughter and her mama

Before we went to Finland I got Emma to draw two special pictures on a piece of fabric, one for her mummi (grandma) and one for her pappa (grandad). They both had birthdays during the summer so this was going to be a present for them. I sewed the fabric into shopping bags. Good team work I say and we did a HI-5.

Inside of the bag is rather retro and on handles she painted spots. Pretty cute if you ask me, I might want one for myself too.