Baby Headbands

When I found out I was having a girl, I was definitely excited for all things pink, frilly, flowery, skirts and dresses and cute headbands to adorn my cute baby. BUT I vowed I would not have any headbands that were the same size as her head. Call me crazy, but the headbands are to enhance her cuteness NOT overpower her, but I realize everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

While at Kmart one day I found a pack of lace headbands with little roses. They were cute, but I wanted them to be cuter and I wanted them to be just for my little munchkin. And so hot glue gun met fabric (satin/felt/cotton) flowers. The blue is the original headband. I simply removed the rose on the others and attached my own flowers.

Nursery.... and guest bedroom

I think I finally have the nursery/guest bedroom finished, unless of course, I think of some other project I want to make.

My sister made the quilt, which I loved and decided to actually design around those colors instead of the previous quilt I purchased. My mother-in-law sewed the curtains and she showed me how to make the matching throw pillows.

This is the second mobile I made, the first just wasn't working for me. I made the first out of felt, it had elephants and circles. This one was a lot easier and I like it better. I punched circles and scalloped circles out of patterned paper and hung them on a piece of thread with glue on an embroidery hoop.

Here are the elephants my sister gave me when she went to China that I wanted to incorporate, which is why I made the painting of the two elephants.

It's BABY time

Clearly this blog has suffered due to me being a new mom. Honestly though, if something has to suffer it is definitely going to be this blog. Though this blog has suffered a little, I also have some recent tricks I have learned from being a new mom. These are tricks that will have little conflict between moms (I hope). I definitely don't want to venture into tips on how to get your child to sleep. I posted about this on Facebook and there was a flood of opinions, definitely helpful, just overwhelming.

First tip: A bar of Dial soap is how to get out the damage done from a newborn blowout. I tried Shout and my sister told me to scrub the spot with Dial... it worked like a charm.

Second tip: As you can no longer use baby powder, use it for your "mom" hair. Mom hair is when you don't have enough time to fully get ready due to taking care of your new munchkin, that you puff a little powder in your hair to get rid of yesterday's oil. I have yet to use this trick, but have seen it work from my sister-in-law.

Anyone else have some "tried and true" tricks?

Other ideas for baby

The bedding arrived and it is even cuter than I thought it would be. Now for more decorating. I am not sure I will actually do this first idea, especially as I would need to find coordinating fabric, but I love the idea. The only change I would make would be to turn the embroidery hoop around so the connection is at top and would thread ribbon through and hang them from the ribbon with a bow.

http://sew4home.com/projects/fabric-art-a-accents/372-stylish-baby-nursery-fast-a-fabulous-wall-art

This second idea, I am thinking of replicating with elephants and felt. The website below actually has several mobile ideas.

http://www.makeforbaby.com/directory.php?directory=Mobile

Getting ready for baby...

Here is my design scheme for our coming baby girl. I was really hoping to have more of a pink and elephant theme such as Carter's Pink Elephant, but the price just wasn't working for me. I found a bedding set on Amazon called Dwell Studio (Target) Flower Medallion. The medallion design is actually made up of flowers. I really like the design and couldn't pass up the set for $26.00. So I went to working with this.

I still plan to incorporate elephants as my sister brought home a wooden figurine set of elephants from Africa. I think I will also paint a pink elephant with a purple bird on top to match the colors. As I also have some cute yellow and green frames, I will bring these colors in as accents. The vase, mirror and lamp are all found at Ikea.

Anyone else have cheap decorating ideas or places they found deals?