Dog tag

Last year I made my oldest girl a little something for her backpack.  She was in first grade, her first year that she would be in school all day long.  I knew that it wouldn't be that difficult for her spending all day away from mom because she is such an outgoing child.  (I'm so grateful for that!)  But still, I just wanted to give her a small reminder of home so I came up with this:

Just a simple little backpack tag made out of felt and embroidery floss.  I think it took me a total of 20 minutes and I tied it on the zipper pull with a piece of yarn.

And the back:

After a year I am very surprised it has held up this well.  I kinda expected it to be mauled to death by now!



Tooth Fairy Pillow

I was thinking the other day that it's been awhile since we've had a visit from the tooth fairy.  When my oldest was in kindergarten she came pretty frequently but her visits are few and far between now.  Not that I'm complaining.  I find loose teeth to be kinda of nauseating.  I couldn't pull any of my own as a child because I was deathly afraid of wiggling and yanking a tooth out of my mouth. Yuck.

But that is not the point of this story...

After the first one came out I wanted her to have something cute to put the others in.  I had one of those generic little treasure chests from the dentist.  I'm sure you may remember what I mean.  You could only open and close the lid a few times before it would snap off.  I really hated that!  So I grabbed some fleece and leftover embroidery thread and whipped up this little ballerina.

I stitched a little piece of felt onto the back for the tooth to be kept safe. 

The pink material was actually part of a onsie she wore as a baby.  Sigh...where have the years gone?

Holy Cape Batman

Last year for Halloween brother wanted to be batman and I was all too happy to help him.  I made him this simple cape and a mask with my mad sewing skills.  I think it only took about 3 hours.  Okay, so as you may have guessed I'm not quite proficient with my sewing machine seeing as this should have probably taken only 1 hour or maybe even less.  However he was thrilled and his preschool teacher even commented on my work so I guess the 3 hours was well worth it!  Oh who am I kidding, I would have spent double that time to make him happy.

And some pics for good measure.  The cape I made reversible just in case in later years he wanted something different.  The back is lined in blue.

The mask is made out of felt with elastic sewn onto the sides so he could easily slip it on and off.  I also sewed a piece of fabric in the same pattern onto the back of the mask because I was worried that the felt would feel a tad scratchy.