How awesome is this dress. I call it her Minnie Mouse dress.. I made it for her for her birthday last year. Yes I am a little late writing a post for it. This is another Candy Castle Pattern (Princess dress). They really do have awesome patterns and tutorials. It looks complicated and I was fearful that I would end up making many trips to my Aunts' house to get help as well as a 1000 phone calls. Turns out I didn't need to worry at all. If you have read many of my posts, I am

So we have used cloth diapers all along and I enjoyed making some for Miss Maddie. I then tried to make some training pants. (see post here)

I found an awesome tutorial on leggings! These are basically made the same as the pajama pants but more fitted. I really enjoyed this video and found it very easy to follow. They show you two different ways to make them. I ordered these two fabrics online and I have since gone looking for some old cheap t-shirts to make some more for my daughter (as shown in the video). When I cut out my fabric, I had far too much seam allowance. I may have been a little generous or maybe I w

This is a fairly easy project. I has already bought a few extra t-shirts at the thrift store to make more leggings for Miss Maddie but decided to make a night shirt instead. I put her Minnie Mouse night shirt on her for the first time last night and thought she would baulk it as its not pants... and she loved her "dress". One of the t-shirts I bought had spider man on it because being Daddy's little girl, they like "spidyman". I used her night dress for a pattern. You could u

I came across this awesome little bag on Pinterest (where else do I actually search and browse these days). After a bit of searching, I finally found the pattern. It is fairly easy and has good instructions. These can be used for almost anything. I use mine for little Miss's clean or dirty clothes for daycare, while traveling or along with the diaper bag, and for toys. I have made quite a few already as they don't take a lot of time. The possibilities for fabrics are obvious

These little things are great!. So simple to make and handy for all those in between stages of clothes where they aren't quite filling out the jeans/pants. I finally found a use for some of the fold over elastic (babyville) that I have so much trouble using for other things. (That is a whole other post topic I think). These can be made for any size child. I wouldn't plan on this elastic working for adults; although it may be tempting to hand them out to some people as a sugge

Every car seat needs a piddle pad. Especially during potty training! We had bought one for approximately $14 when we got our car seats. I then made one for our second vehicle using the original as a pattern. Once I started planning for potty training, I quickly realized that we would need a back up for each vehicle. I was too cheap to spend another $24 plus tax so I decided I had all the materials and could just make some more lol. You will need: An old towel or some other ab