Vim and Vigor

Sewing for babes

Over the weekend, I had a few snippets of time,where I was able to sew a wee little bit for my newest family member.  My nephew is a couple weeks old, and I needed to make some homemade love from his auntie, pronto!  He lives halfway across the world, and I wanted them to see a theme when his mom and dad opened up their box.  A theme somewhat of color, (blue), but mostly of elephants!  Elephants and babes....sweet things.  Also, there will be some other items including a hand-carved baby spoon with the babes name carved in it from a good friend of mine.

 

 

These onesies were so easy to make!  It probably took a mere 10 minutes or so, start to finish!  I had already laundered the onesies and the fabric.  I then cut out the shapes I desired in the fabric...a lot easier to use rectangles or another easy to sew shape for these.  Then I used fusible webbing to iron on the fabric, and sewed a simple zigzag stitch around them.  Very simple and easy to do....but it is sew, pardon the pun, fun to do!  I can see many, many of these mama made onesies in my future!  My kiddos are having fun picking out what fabrics to put on the onesies for our newest babe on the way, and the sewing is so simple for these, that they can be involved in that process as well.

These are perfect for busy mama's who only have little pockets of time for sewing...just what I have most day's.  

Warmly,

Joy

And baby makes 8.....

As I am preparing for our sixth little one (the reason it is titled and baby makes eight, is one of our sons is now residing in heaven),  I am enjoying this preparation time immensely. With my last baby, who will be 3 when her new little brother arrives, I was definitely more natural than I had been in the way we bought, prepared and consumed our food.  I also purchased many of the things I needed for her in natural products.  They worked well, but with the addition of more children into our family, and being I am a stay-at -home mom, I am trying to cut the budget wherever possible.  This can be very challenging at times, yet it brings out the creativity in me, and I appreciate that very much.  I am really thinking about what I need for the baby....trying not to buy things just because they are cute or adorable...however, I am sure there may be a time or two that may happen.  I mean, baby things are highly irresistible!  However, little splurges at thrift shops and rummage sales are really not very hard on the budget.

 Homemade diaper creme- First up, I figured I could definitely save money by making my own diaper creme, and I have one recipe in mind to try.  Here is one that is simple, yet with coconut oil and raw shea butter...you just can't miss!  (It would not let me link directly, so you'll have to scroll down to the natural diaper creme post.  Like her, I do find raw shea butter to be the best, and also purchase mine from mountain rose herbs.)

 Homemade wipes solution--I have one that I use and am very happy with which is out of this lovely book , and one here that looks like a lovely spray .  The spray however, says not to use lavender on boys, so I think I will try it without, and see how it works.. 

 

Hope you enjoy these lovely links....and there will be many upcoming baby posts in the future months I'm sure.  I will share some things I have tried and loved, and things I will be trying out that look worthy of my time and effort.

Warmly,

Joy