Buffalo Plaid Round 1

Note the black denim... yes, you'll be seeing this hopefully soon

Thanks to a 1/2 off sale at Hancock Fabrics, I was able to pick up plenty of buffalo plaid for the project list for Judah's room. We've recently decided that we would stay at our lovely tree top Bosworth apartment for another year, so it's time to settle in again.

For the changing pad cover I followed this EASY, and I mean easy, tutorial. For the bolster pillow, I tried to follow this tutorial, with my own spin. It did not work out, so I'm going to give it more attention next week when I hopefully have a little break again from freelance-naptime-working.

one modification, I didn't have elastic, so I used ribbon to
tie together, I think that was a good substitution!

This tutorial could not have been easier, thanks also
to the grid pattern on the fabric for precise cutting,
I didn't measure at all... so like I said, easy.

Thank you Katheryn for this beautiful fabric,
I promise I will re-sew this pillow and do
it justice!!

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.