Quiet Book

Last year I decided I wanted to make a Quiet Book. I had seen a few in the stores, and thought that I could make a book that was much cuter and much cheaper. Kimberly, Shanna, and my mother-in-law decided they wanted to make one as well. We made a list of our different ideas (which is over 30!!!), and got to work. There are 7 kids in the Foust family, and for Christmas I wanted to make a book for the Trent and Tiona family (since that is who we had for Christmas). We figured we were already making 4 books, so we might as well make 3 more! 7 books, what were we thinking?!?! We spent many hours working on this project. We got together almost every Tuesday from August to December. We haven't even made half of the pages that are on our list, but we got a pretty good start! We all worked together and I think the books turned out FANTASTIC! The true test is if the kids like it, and they LOVE it!!!

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Vitamin Bottle Rattles

I have one nephew that is 18 months and I was trying really hard to think of something to make for him. One day when I had him over he was helping get something in our food storage room and found some vitamin bottles. He played for a long time with them just shaking them up and down, throwing them, and stacking them. I thought it would be really fun to make something similar for him. So I collected vitamin bottles and got some scrapbook paper and borrowed my SIL's cricut (I just bought one so now I can use my own!).

How to make them:

1. I took off the labels as best as I could.

2. Fill the bottle with anything you can find. I put beans, popcorn, jelly beans, rice, and nuts into my bottles.

3. Use some kind of permanent glue, I used E6000 (cause I'm a real crafter), and glue the lids on so they can't come off.

4. Then I cut strips of striped black scrapbook paper and mod podged it onto the bottle.

5. Then I cut the names of different colors, onto the same color scrapbook paper, using the Cricut.

6. Then I mod podged those on.

7. Then I cut circles of fabric and put it on top with mod podge and colored rubber bands.

The next time I do this I'm going to try to think of something different to do for the top cause I wasn't totally happy with the fabric, but I think my nephew liked it! And it was fun to make! Enjoy!

Cloth Blocks/Rings

Here's another Christmas present I made for my nieces and nephew. They are all under a year and when I saw this idea I thought it would be so much fun for them! I found the idea at Make it and Love it. She has a great tutorial on how to do these. I'll definitley make these for my kids!

Crayon Rolls

These are EVERYWHERE! I think they are so cute and such a good idea, so I HAD to make one (or some!) One of my friends has 3 kids and just had another one 2 weeks ago. Another friend and I took her dinner. I wanted to take something for the kids, too! The babies always get all the attention, so I thought it would be nice to give something to the kids.

I did my rolls a little differently. I bought place mats, trimmed them to the size I wanted them, and sewed them together. I tried to make them really fast (I waited until the last minute!) So my lines are a little crooked! Oops! I hope they don't mind! One of the place mats was perfect, the other two were a little thick and a little more difficult to sew! Here are some pics. Don't look too close at my lines!

I gave them to the kids with some coloring books and they LOVED them!

Crocheted Socks

Bow Holder

Lilly has so many bows and headbands, I needed a way to keep them organized and displayed so I could see what we have! I made this bow holder out of a scrapbook picture frame I purchased at Michael's. I screwed in those gold hooks to hang her headbands.

I then realized just how many headbands she has and needed more space for them! I bought the bar, hooks, and baskets at IKEA. More headbands and flowers are in the baskets. The hooks hold her bracelets. I have more, I just took them off to show someone and forgot to put them back on!

This is in the inside of her closet door. I like it there!

Journal

My friend gave me the idea a while ago to keep a journal for Lilly. I bought a notebook and recovered it. I like the way it turned out. I just need to add pictures to it.