Ruffle Heart Shirt {Tutorial}

This past fall when i was going through and washing all the winter clothes I had for Makenzi I found these tights. They had little red hearts on them. They were just to adorable. I didn't think much of it after all valentines day was months away. 

In January i found this tulle skirt at walmart and this idea started brewing in my head. I knew the tights would be amazing with that tulle skirt.. but i didn't have a shirt. I knew i wanted to keep it simple. I have this crazy obsession with ruffles lately so one night i had this idea to do a ruffle red heart on a plain white shirt. PERFECT match! 

My little model didn't want to corporate with me today..this is the best i got. 

So do you want to make one? Let me show you!

What you need:

shirt to fit your kiddo

fabric

heart pattern here

disappearing ink pin

matching and matching thread

Cut your fabric 20in x 2 1/4inch

Fold wrong sides together, (i always iron so its a nice stitch) and sew

Turn your tube right side out and iron with the seam on the back side.

  

 Next take your heart pattern and trace it onto the shirt with your disappearing ink pen 

I know looks scary huh? Dont worry, it will go away with water! 

Before you do the gathering stitch on your fabric I always clip the ends, It folds back nicely so there are no showing frays and there is a nice clean fold.

 The easiest way to do a gathering stitch is put your machine on the longest stitch you can and then sew. DO NOT BACK STITCH on either ends. Try to leave a good bit of thread so you can gather. Take your bottom thread and pull gently and gather. It does take practice. Im just now getting good at it and its been a while since ive first done it.

After you have done your gathering. Pin your ruffle onto your shirt following the heart pattern. 

 (special thanks to my husband for taking a picture for me)

I didnt take a picture of the sewing process cause i just did it fast without thinking. But just sew it on there following your heart pattern. 

and this is what you will have! 

 I love how it came out. It was perfect for what i was wanting. its simple but still stands out and looks adorable on!

Let me know if you try this, i would love to see it!

If you have any comments or questions PLEASE let me know! 

Blizzard!!!!

We were hit with a nice little Blizzard today. It was nice to have my husband stuck home with me and just be lazy around the house.

First we got about 3 inches of ice. This is what we woke up to.

Then around 1pm we had got lots more ice and it had started to snow, BIG TIME. 

The boys LOVE the snow, they could stay out all day! We didnt get out and play today cause it was way to windy and snowy. But tomorrow is another snow day!

For dinner I made some YUMMY Baked Potato Soup.

This was Makenzis first time having it and she didnt like it very much. 

Makenzi spent the day riding around her "mo mo" as she calls it. 

I will have a tutorial on how to make this shirt hopefully tomorrow. 

I really love how great it turned out.

All in all we had a great snow day! Hope everyone is warm and snugly inside.

{Weekly Organizing Challenge} Family Notebook

Week one Challenge: The Home Management Binder

At first I wasnt going to participate in this weeks challenge then I thought about and I really wanted to organize my notes and to dos better. Im so glad I did decided to do this weeks challenge. I created my own weekly cleaning list along with a budget worksheet. I printed off for free a menu plan here for the week. 

This is the Weekly Cleaning list I made. 

 Our Family Binder, I had to add some pretty paper to it. 

 I got these pretty cool page separators. You can write in pen on the tabs and it can be erased, so simple! I also liked the idea of the pockets. For the menu planing one i will put the recipes in the pocket so when i write out my grocery list they are there and easy to get to when I start to cook. 

 Our weekly Menu. 

 Cleaning List 

 Calender, February is a BUSY birthday month for our Family! 

I also added some notebook paper to the back of the binder so i can get to it easier when i make my grocery list. The last section is for "all other stuff". I think that I am going to make that a Medical one and put copies of everything in there. right now my husbands VA paper work is back there.

I am really enjoying my binder! Makes me feel so much more together!

The weekly Organized Challenge

I loved the 21 day getting organized Challenge with A Bowl Full Of Lemons. I didn't do a few days cause some didn't pertain to our life. but i did very much enjoy the challenge, it helped me really de-clutter in lots of areas. Toni over at A bowl full of Lemons is doing a new weekly challenge. Im glad that now it will be weekly and I will have the whole week to get it done. Less pressure that way!

Sunday will be the first weekly challenge, bring it on! There is still lots of areas in my house that need organized! 

Fun at the park

It was so nice today. We took advantage of the 46 degree weather and went to the park. Makenzi wasnt napping and these nice days have been far and few in between. She ask's me about 5 times a day to go play. It was just a great time just her and I at the park playing. 

This has been the park she has gone to since she could go play at a park and its so amazing to watch her now and see all that she can do. 

Yesterday she turned 23 months. In ONE month(30days) she will be 2. Its crazy.

Her birthday is going to be Awesome, ive been planing it for about 9 months now. 

She has always talked very well. She said a 6 word sentence last night. She gave me a play cup and about 2min later she told me "Alright Mommy, give me your cup" plain as day perfect like a 10 year old said it. I was just taken back.

Last week she was playing in her room and was closing her door. So I went and sat in there with her. As soon as I walked in she started to push me out the door and told me "Go away Mommy". Really broke my heart.  But I love her still none the less. 

that was our awesome day at the park. Hope you enjoyed your day!

Hearts & Rainbows

Last week we made a little trip to the fabric store right off the bat i saw this fabric and feel so much in love with it. I wanted to buy the whole bolt but i stopped my self and only got a yard. On the way home i was daydreaming about what i wanted this fabric to turn into. I knew i wanted it to be something simple cause the fabric was busy enough. I decided on this style of dress and used this tutorial. Ive made many dress this style and its perfect for summer or even winter with a long sleeve under it.

She was cheesin it up and being a perfect model

I am pretty much in love with this dress

and this is how i got her to pose for me, i had some candy. lol she was reaching for it

Makenzis Birthday Dress

Makenzi will be 2 in Feb. I wanted to get her dress done before we moved just in case I didn't have the time once we got moved or had my machine out. I am very happy with the way it turned out. Ive been thinking about this dress for months! Im glad its finally done.

I wish I could have got some better pictures of her in it. Its super cold here with snow on the ground so I couldn't go out there and the lighting in this house is just bad. so this will have to do!