Baby Wreath

  To make this baby wreath, I went to a craft store, my favorite is Hobby Lobby, and bought a hard styrofoam ring. A package of cloth diapers, you can use pre-folded or not. You can find them at baby stores, Wal-mart or Target  I bought the ones that were not. A spool of blue or pink ribbon that curls. And various baby products.
 I used:

• lavender baby wash
• baby lotion
• baby thermometer
• baby wash cloths
• baby bottle
• pacifiers
• baby rattle
• diaper pins

Fold the diapers lengthwise into thirds or fourths and wrap around the ring. I used double stick tape tabs to hold the ends in place, but you could use straight pins. Once I had the diapers wrapped, I wrapped the ribbon around to make it more secure. This is optional. Tie each gift around the wreath securely and add several curled strands at the top of the wreath for decoration. Easy and fun!

 Blessings to All ~S~

Love the Babies!

 The last several months have been major busy with me trying to make things for babies! This past month I also started lurking on Pinterest.com . Really cool website. But, be careful! It's sort of like a black hole that you can fall into and it will be hours before you find your way back out.
   Any way, I found a few things that I really liked and got inspired to make one of them for a baby shower that I have been invited to this weekend. It's a cute baby wreath, wrapped in cloth diapers with little gifts all the way around it.  Now, the one that I saw on pinterest was much prettier than the one that I made. But, I love the one that I made too.

 

I had a great time making it and picking out the stuff for it. I hope that she likes it.
I also made another cocoon for another baby that will be here next month. This one is a Polar Bear cocoon.

 This is the last of the babies for a while. So I will soon have time to purge a few more things from my somewhat cluttered home.
  Life is so much more simple when you don't have so much to take care of. When my home is clean and more organized, I can focus on taking care of the people I love instead of worrying about how clean the house is.
   Well that's what has been going on this week
Have a Great Week!
Blessings to All ~S~

I love, Love, LOVE our math teacher!

  Let me start by saying that as a home school Mom, sometimes subjects get the best of me. Algebra, Geometry, & Trig are a few of those subjects. God in His awesome wisdom though, knew that I would need help. So he sent me a very dear person, Joan, who has become a very, very dear friend, and awesome sister in Christ. My family loves her family so much. : - D
  In the process of looking for something before Christmas, I found something that I had started for her several years ago and forgot about after I had packed it up for our move.
   I pulled it out and finished piecing it together and decided to stop at a wall hanging. I knew better than to try to go bigger. She might not have it now if I had done that. *sigh*
  So I gave it to her this first week of January, and I was hoping that she would love it. The fabrics that are in it are very special because they were fabrics that her Mom had used to make things for her or her sister or the grandchildren. I knew that it would bring back many memories for her and I wanted her to have something special to keep those memories. When I gave it to her, she started to cry, which made me start to cry. I honestly didn't mean to make her cry. It's just that sometimes so much emotion is felt that it comes out as either laughter or tears.
   I love you Joan! Thank you for all that you do for us and for all the prayers that you pray for us. So glad that God made us sisters in Christ. I will be lifting you and your sweet family up before the throne today.

Blessings to all ~ S~