baby – Creative Kids

Baby DIYs, new arts and crafts projects

As I’ve said before, I finish more craft projects that I post on this blog, let me update you on all the new projects I’ve finished since my last post. And hey, I’ve been working on art projects too! Well I started this post pregnant, since I’ve given birth and the little girl is over 1 week old now! But I’m not forgetting to share!

DIY Baby Projects

I’m happy to have finished my “take baby home outfit”. My baby will actually be born at home so it’s actually a cute outfit matching my magical yellow dress to take pictures once I give birth and we travel from my bathtub to my bed (my bathroom is in my bedroom so we’re not traveling far)

New Sewing Projects

Another red napkin. Now have 4 in this set

Paintings

As I’ve been organizing like crazy, I got out all my canvases out and decided to use all of them. My children painted some and I the rest. I decided to make a sun inspired small gallery to go with the small sun I painted previously. I watched some painting videos on YouTube University and this time my paintings were much more beautiful and I finished them within a day. I painted a sunflower, my favorite flower and a rose (new baby’s middle name), the rose is yellow and orange to go with my sun gallery. On an adjacent wall I hung a larger painting of a tree with a sun around it and a small painting of a peacock, my favorite bird which I painted when I was pregnant with my first daughter and hung behind her crib, that was my first painting other than watercolor.

My mom, the gift that keeps on giving

Mom is the best crafter (is this a word?) I know and obviously I learned from her. During my pregnancies, she has made all kinds of adorable items for my babies, here are new cute ones for this little new addition to the family. Mom is learning new skills and getting so much better (like me)

Mom just learned to paint fabric to save time in embroidery!

Dear friend, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m pregnant. I’m now 9 months and in labor! I have been getting ready for baby, getting the house and children ready, doing last minute shopping, and finishing lots of DIYs and crafts. I have been getting myself really tired and have had to kick count because I rock the baby to sleep with so much movement, and when I got lucky, I slept for an entire day. This is why I’ve not been blogging lately. I hope to blog when I have the baby and spend 5 days in bed. Lol post baby update: I broke the 5 day bed quarantine and when I emerged from my bedroom spring had started!

I’ve more to share! Talk soon!

And now a picture of the newborn!

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What crafts or arts are keeping you busy?

Thanks for visiting,

Eve

Things to do before the baby arrives

My baby arrives in less than a month and as you can guess I have been nesting for a while. I am now in the process of creating a list of things that I need to do prior to the arrival of the baby as well as things that I’ve already done. Since I could find no better way to do this, I am blogging about it, hopefully somebody else will benefit from this but if not then know that I am doing this as a reminder to myself.

Things to do before the baby arrives:

Buy wipes
Set up the crib and bassinet in my bedroom
Install the car seat
Pay midwife fee in full
Get breast milk pump and storage bags
Finish packing hospital bag with my stuff (for when I spend 5 days in bed/ giving birth at home, not going to hospital, it’s really my healing bag): work in progress
Pick out baby’s first day outfit
Decide on newborn photo ideas and pick out outfits: work in progress with my daughters
Have ready to eat frozen foods for first 5 days
Fill pantry with essentials for first 2 weeks
Waiting for delivery of few more essential oils: arrive in 2 days
Get rose 🌹 essential oil (because I’ll love it and have never had it before and the baby’s middle name is Rose, it’s meant to be) I have a doTERRA membership and get free points I can turn into free oils, have 50 points, getting another 50, track when 100 points are available and get oil (might happen after baby arrives but during newborn stage)
Get my older children ready: chores for baby’s arrival and mommy healing time, getting ahead on school work, cleanup and organization of their room before grandma visits, who is taking what pictures and videos? They want to be involved in the home birth so I’ll give each jobs such as taking care of and helping their toddler brother: work in progress
I obviously need a massive burrito from Chipotle after giving birth (doing this for years), arrange for delivery or pick up probably food for the entire family
Clean and sanitize bathroom where baby is to be born, do changes need to be made to decor? How does the vibe feel?: Work in progress
Create a sacred baby birth space (tied to item above but slightly different)
Go through midwife giving birth items needed list and source all
Prepay bills so I don’t have to deal with them during the first two weeks of birth
Place vitamins, supplements, essential oils and other self-care items of mine in my healing bag (hospital bag)
Plan ahead for 5 days in bed
Prepare diaper changing station
Get ready for breastfeeding: breastfeeding tea, breastfeeding pillow
Ideally finish additional baby DIYs but not needed and I’ll be on it during 5 days of healing in bed, yet work in progress
Stock up on single-use items such as paper plates, plastic forks and spoons, paper cups so we don’t have to do the dishes during first two weeks
Set up a budget
Write a birth plan: I have a lot of things in my head but it’ll help to actually write it down and go through it with my midwife and family
Clean my carpets
Take maternity pictures
Choose birth day outfit: in know I’m going to wear my magical yellow dress in this date but no blood please. I usually birth totally nude 😉 lol but this time there’ll be birthing pictures and videos and since I’ll be showing my butt (and who knows what else) I won’t show my boobs too. I’ll probably get some coconuts and fashion a bikini top!
Do special things with my children until the birth day: work in progress
Garden and leave the yard looking nice: lots of work yet work in progress
Enlist family members to take pictures of the newborn baby: children are on it
Get older children ready: do their laundry, get their favorite snacks, and favorite foods, review school schedules, inform teachers of expected delivery day, register for next school year this week
Clean up phone memory and my phone and my husband’s for all the cute baby pictures and videos
Who is cutting the umbilical cord?
Prepare for toddler boy: enough diapers formula and activities, have his favorite toys
Prepare for movie night for when the children need to take a break: daddy got this
Get library books for the big girls who love to read for when they need to take a break, prepare crafts and activities for them
Set up 2 essential oil diffusers: 1 in my bedroom, 1 in my bathroom and fav essential oil station
Get visitor room ready for mom to visit: clean, organize: work in progress
Finish cleaning and disinfecting downstairs “visitor” bathroom: work in progress
Do all laundry

Things I’m grateful I have completed before the baby arrives, as of now, this list is growing and the first one shrinking:

Ensured I have enough baby clothes for a newborn and in a basket in the closet 3 months old clothes: collected little outfits that my other babies worn that are still good, received gifts, purchased items. I have enough. I also have older baby clothes in a bag in my closet and a storage of toddler clothes in storage under my bed
Finished 4 baby DIYs, working on 3rd
Washed and organized the baby clothes
Washed baby blankets and crib sheets
Bought diapers
Decorated matching boxes for baby nursery storage, separated folded newborn clothes, stored socks, bibs, burp cloths, etc
Chosen a baby name
Bought baby bottles and bottle brushes
Packed baby clothes, blankets, diapers in “hospital” bag which it’s really my healing bag (no hospital for me)
Bought favorite essential oils
Have hospital plan just in case and because my midwife said it was time
Prepared postpartum care items for myself: my Midwife already delivered a Care pack and I have a stock of pads and oils, and lotions I love for this time
Chosen a pediatrician
Set up hypno birthing playlist and getting used to the meditations
Spending all the rest of this time learning about labor and hypno birthing which is helpful and soothing
Set up a diaper station downstairs. I did this for my last baby and it was a huge hit everybody uses the drawer including the baby who’s now a toddler. The way I did it was clear a drawer lined it and filled it with diapers, diaper cream, baby clothes so that the baby could easily be changed and little socks I did the same for the new baby next to the last baby’s drawer which is still in use
Reviewed discharge and care information packet from midwife and will discuss with her on today’s appointment

At a glance I can see it he done list is much smaller than the to do list. I’m excited to work on these things which is the great part and now that I have this in writing and publicly, I really love to be here editing this post. I love it when I come read my lists and there are a lot of items that can be moved from the to do list to the gratitude list. I’m feeling great also.

7 Sewing projects but first fixing my sewing machine

It was an amazing weekend! Well, only after I was able to fix my sewing machine. My new sewing machine, which I received as a Christmas present from my dear mother came up with a lovely error code during my second project, it would not sew. I’ve not been able to fix my sewing machines before, I have a broken one in a closet (reason why mom generously bought me a new one) and a kid size one I bought for my girls is also broken, both broken by the children who want to learn but act like they’re toys.

Well, I could not let my new sewing machine go to the closet, broken, so I went to YouTube university and couldn’t find any info on my particular machine but watched a great video on how to fix this error on a similar machine. I had another problem, I had to open the sewing machine, something I’ve never done before, I’ve never even oiled my machines! There was no help so I had to teach myself! Needless to say, I felt like a sewing machine superheroine and now, I intend to fix my old machine and perhaps, even my children’s machine. The weekend took a turn for the best after I was sewing again!

7 Easy sewing pojects in 1 weekend

2 princess cat skirts for my youngest daughters.

3 burp clothes for my baby who arrives soon

3 napkins for my red kitchen (forgive the blurriness please 🙏)

1 cloth for daddy for whatever he would like

And a lovely 😍 new tote bag for me. I’m in love 💕💞

I loved it and I’ll be making charms for it (fabric matches dad’s cloth and I didn’t post this until I had an awesome picture of it)

Of course I have told you that I like fast projects and these are all fast projects except the fixing of the sewing machine took me two days, not all day… I was pretty much crying LOL, I had to take breaks but I fixed it on the second day, so most of these projects were finished in one day.

I have more projects that I want to work on, one being another magical item for myself, a purple skirt (OMG I have not talked to you about my magical yellow dress), also 3 matching bags (that match my new fav tote) for my daughters, my youngest girl asked for a shirt, I want to make something yellow for my baby matching my beloved dress, and I have more awesome fabric I want to use before March. My birthday is in March, and as a birthday present I always buy lots of arts and crafts materials and typically, many of them last me the year and many of this awesome fabrics are from last March.

Dear reader, I do craft much more than I post on this blog and I have lots of newly made items I have not shared with you. See the list of things below that I need to picture and share:

4 throw pillows
1 floor poof
1 t-shirt yarn crochet mini rug
2 adorable plarn crochet baskets
More hats and scarves that I’ve made for my children
I decided to learn macrame and learn easy ways on YouTube University to wrap heart crystals one for me and one for each of my daughters. I learned how to make a sliding knot for jewelry which is the most exciting part!
4 decorated storage boxes for my nursery, I love to look at them already full of baby diapers and baby little clothes. This is all I can remember for now, I’m sure there’s more…

How’s your creativity keeping you busy friend?

Thanks for visiting,

Eve