Penguins

Fellow mom friend and blogger, Katheryn, and I got together with our babies this past week and made stuffed penguins! We normally gather the little ones for 'stare dates', but with them growing like weeds, we're embarking on what looks to be 'play dates'. Katheryn's little girl Miriam and David are 'sharing' toys and reaching for each other's faces more and more! This date we had a specific craft mission to make stuffed penguins inspired by Katheryn's imitation penguin, Miriam. I've included the pattern that we made and used to create our little birds. If you make this at home, I suggest making the penguin body overall larger than the pattern, just to give you a fuller penguin look.

Snow Day Owls/Bats

This weekend, we were lucky enough to have dear friends and fellow blogger Hana and her husband and baby boy visiting from Wisconsin. Thanks to whiteout snow conditions, we got to have an extra day with them and one big snow day weekend. Weeks ago, we had discussed taking on the potterybarn owls as a diy on the cheap. Our fabrics combined, we each made and owl (see green/blue owl on right) which ended up looking more like a bat. That's David's owl. Then handy friend Clair, and fellow blogger, joined us and sourced a helpful pattern. Grace's girly owl (see pink/brown on left) is totally adorable for my totally adorable niece. If you have a few paper sized scraps of fabric, use this pattern and give it a go! (I added triangle cuts out of the pupils, made them slightly smaller and added a white pupil piece behind it.)