sewing – 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

Making my new purple skirt

My purple new skirt DIY work in progress

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