Robots invasion in the nursery

Oh my, there are so many pregnant friends around that I get to make the cutest baby gifts ever! And this is what I made for one of our friends that is expecting soon...

I appliqued the design from this really cute fabric in many baby items that I hope will be really useful when the little one arrived. So what is in the gift set?

Two onesies, one in short and the other in long sleeve...

Two burp clothes decorated in one of the sides... 

And two face towels... I now add these to all my baby gift sets. One of my dear friends claims they are really really useful, and I her little ones every time she is with her little boy. They went on her diaper and towel cake for her baby shower... 

And finally the matching bath towel...

Here is a little close up again... sorry it is just that I can't stop looking at it!

I can't believe this little one is arriving soon in only a few weeks, and hopefully he will love his robots as much as I loved making them for him!

Decoupage

WARNING: Decoupage is addictive, if after reading this post you get hooked on it... please do not blame me, but share back your creations.

So it turned out I LOVE decoupage! My mum has been doing it for a while and decorating the whole house buying inexpensive items or just decoupaging and re purposing old ones. So when she was over visiting a few weeks back I asked her to teach me, and there was when my love for sticking thin cute paper onto things started...

So I made this:

That I am planning on hanging from my Christmas tree this year. It was made with three ply napkins (using only the printed paper and discarding the other two). I loved cutting the paper and making sure it would match to decorate the many sides of this little birdhouse.

There are so many sections to the house that it was very entertaining to make! But if you are not so patient I would suggest starting with a less complicated piece like a little box.

And then my mum wanted to make my initial in a cute flower paper we had bought earlier. But instead of using the whole napkin she just cuts the flowers out and makes a new design with it. So here is the back with the napkin used whole (my little short cut to finishing the back after mum left).

And here is the front that my mum decorated especially for me.

I just adore it! And I am starting to think what words I can make and decoupage to decorate around the house already! A few more pictures of our creations...and a little question, would you be interested in a tutorial for decoupaging with napkins... I wonder?

Sneak peak into my crafting week

Hello back, to my weekly update on what I have been up to... and of course a few sneak peaks...but not too many as I have been working on some very exiting new projects but that are a tiny bit secret... like new designs and patterns that will soon appear in the shop.



There has been a little bit of knitting...



And a little bit of sewing, this is a picture of my fabric choices for one of the projects I worked in this week...

And the second project was another baby boy gift... the boy is already born but the gift was still in progress (shameful I know)...

I am very happy with this quite productive week... and of course linking up to Freshly Pieced, Work in Progress Wednesdays. Have a lovely week.