Deconstucted Sugar Cookie Bags.

I made these to give out to family for Valentine's Day. I attached the homemade valentines Flynn made to the front of them with a rubberband. Flynn loved delivering these & would carry them with the little rubberband around his wrist. This idea came from not wanting to frost dozens of sugar cookies & wanting to be able to package them in a brown paper sack without ruining them. I simply bagged the cookies & then bagged some frosting in the corner of a baggy with instuctions to simply cut the corner & use as a sort of pastry bag to frost their own cookies. I also included a baggy of sprinkles. Convenient for me & fun for those who like decorating cookies!


*i turned the baggy inside out & placed frosting directly in corner so the icing was not messy inside the bag.

homemade headbands.

So my little Sobe still doesn't have much hair. I have had a hard time with the usual hair things for little girls at this stage so I came up with my own that I think suit her perfectly. It is just a piece of ribbon that I attached a little piece of elastic to in the back. I simply hand sewed it on & it fits perfectly. I'm not sure the picture quite does it justice but she wouldn't stay still!

homemade ornaments.

Christmas means a lot to me & it is a celebration i look forward to sharing with my children as we form our own traditions. one tradition that i feel very strongly about began last year. i am in love with the whole handmade revolution & this is my beginning. while i can not completely claim handmade on these i can claim homemade. here are my creations..

supplies:



i found the containers in the wedding aisle at a craft store. i also used favor tins as you will see below. others things included plastic pearls, ric-rac, ribbon, curly hooks, silver bells, berries & twigs from outside, cotton balls, & glitter glue.

the instructions are pretty self explanitory if you look at the pics so i won't explain unless someone has a question. enjoy!






p.s.- i didn't sign up in time for the ornament swap mentioned below-long story. check out these cute ornaments veeda made for the swap! it made me sad again i didn't make the cut...