Pumpkin Newsboy Hat

A dear friend of mine, Kammi had asked me if I would be interested in making a newsboy style hat that resembles a pumpkin for her baby boy to wear at the Pumpkin Show Festival. She said she had entered him in the Lil' Prince Pumpkin Contest. I told her that I would love to create this hat for him to wear. This is the hat I created.

And here are the details.

I think he makes a cute lil' pumpkin prince.

The Emma Dress Set

I had a dear customer of mine request a very sweet pineapple stitch dress set for her infant daughter, Emma. So for the past few weeks, I worked every moment on it and am so proud to finally show off the finished piece.


She only wanted the matching booties with the dress but I felt it needed that precious little beret to complete it.

For a little accent, I added three fresh water pearl beads to the center of the crochet flower and sewed it on.

I can't wait to see pictures of sweet little Emma wearing this dress. This is going to be her Easter dress.

Crocheting The Days Away

These past few weeks have been BUSY!! My little fingers and crochet hooks have been making some WONDERFUL hats and things for my beloved customers, family, and friends. I actually had to put my Etsy store on vacation until after Halloween, just so I can play catch up! Here are just some of the items I have been working on these past few weeks while I was missing from action in the blogosphere.








The last one is a Valentine inspired newborn stocking hat with matching diaper cover with a bracelet to match. I have a customer that is expecting a precious baby girl in January and I can't wait to see pictures of her wearing this!
As you can tell I have been super busy and this is only half of my orders, so I must get back to work! :)

Caught in Action

Over Memorial weekend Xiera got a hold of my camera and decided to photograph me while I was crocheting.

I must have been either deep in thought in this next picture, or determined. I am not quite sure.

What was it that I was working on, you ask? My cousin had asked me to crochet a Pooh bear baby blanket for her friend who is expecting a baby boy. I finally have it all finished too.

I don't know if you can tell but I made Pooh bear smiling.

I think he looks very sweet when he smiles, don't you think?

Kitty Cat Flip Flops

My oldest daughter's birthday is just around the corner so I wanted to make her a little something special. She adores all things with kitty cats so I thought I would custom make her a pair of kitty cat flip flops.

I think they turned out ADORABLE! I have a few more pairs of flip flops in my inventory so I will have to see if I can recreate a pair similar to this to put in my Etsy store.
Brittney of Ella Rose Portrait Arts shared some more beautiful pictures that she took of a pretty little princess wearing the pretty little pixie hat I had recently created.


I plan to add this sweet hat to my Etsy store the beginning of next week.

Handsome In His Bow Tie

Brittney of Ella Rose Portrait Arts shared these PRECIOUS pictures she took of this very handsome cutie pie wearing the newsie hat, pants, and bow tie set I crocheted.
I just love him in his little bow tie with his sweet little toes peeking out at the bottom of those pants! :)

I will have this set available in my Etsy store tomorrow evening.
I have been busy this week embellishing more flip flops.


I finished these two custom pairs of flip flops in shades of blue for a dear customer of mine.

This Penelope Purple pair was custom made for yours truly. ;)

They match my bathing suit perfectly.

A Precious Little Gnome

I just HAVE to share this beautiful picture that Brittney of Ella Rose Portrait Arts took of this little sweetie wearing the gnome hat I made. How absolutely precious.

I can't wait to see more from this session.
I also wanted to share another set of flip flops I created yesterday.

These Punk Rock Princess Flip Flops are one of a kind and are a size 8-9 in little girls. They are listed in my Etsy store, and you can find them HERE.

Custom Baby Minnie Set and More

I had recently finished another sweet little set for a dear customer of mine; a baby Minnie hat, skirt and bloomer set with matching shoes. This set was a lot of fun to make and I hope to see pictures of the little cutie pie who gets to wear it. ;)

I also custom made these sweet little barefoot baby sandals in silver with white flowers for this little one too.

Absolutely precious!

Simply In Awe

My dear, sweet best friend, April delivered a beautiful baby girl Saturday evening. Keira Lynn was born at 6 pounds and 14.5 ounces and is pure perfection.

I visited them both in the hospital yesterday morning and I was in heaven. I am so happy for her.

Pink And Brown Teddy Bears

Yesterday I hosted my best friend, April's baby shower. We had it in a banquet room at the Ramada Inn hotel. The theme for the baby shower was pink and brown teddy bears. I found the adorable bear banner on Etsy. I purchased two of these banners from Calladoo on Etsy.
Calladoo also made the super cute door sign to match.
For the tables, we put little bears inside pink pails and scattered teddy bear confetti around them.
We then attached plain pink and pink baby feet balloons to the pails. I purchased the pink pails at galvanizedpail.com, and the adorable bears and balloons from oriental trading company. I found the super cute teddy bear confetti on etsy and it was created by vintagehillcreations. The gorgeous cake was made by the talented Vanessa Mitchell who had also made Xiera's fairy mushroom birthday cake.
Vanessa outdid herself yet again because this cake was absolutely adorable and almost too cute to eat! I am loving that little pink bow on the bear's ear!

I put little bowls on the cake table filled with gummy bears and teddy grahams.

As all of our guests came in, we had them fill out these sweet little baby well wishes cards as a keepsake for April. I had purchased these cards on Etsy and they were created by erinsartwork. If anyone brought in any diapers or wipes, we had them fill out a ticket to put into the larger pink pail for the special door prize drawing. Once all of our guests had arrived, and finished eating all of the delicious food we had, it was time for games!! For the first game, we had baby word scramble. Whoever could unscramble the most words in three minutes correctly wins.
Of course we had a 5-way tie and we had to have them guess a number between 1 and 50 to see who could guess the number April chose without going over. For the second game we played the toilet paper square game. Whoever could guess the correct amount of squares that go around the largest circumference of April's pregnant belly wins. The answer was 11. We had a 2-way tie for that one, so we had to have another tie breaker, guess-the-number game. For the third game we played Baby Shower Bingo. Everyone got a blank bingo card and had to fill in what they thought April would open. As April opened her gifts, they would mark off what they wrote on their card. Whoever got five in a row yelled out "Bingo" and won. April had so many beautiful gifts!
She had a lot of help opening those gifts from big-sis-to-be, Emma.
My gift to April and baby Keira was a pink bear baby blanket I crocheted. I think it turned out adorable and April LOVES it.
Here is a close up of the blanket and the bear on it.
I had also made a matching baby bear hat that I had given to her earlier as a game gift (because mommy-to-be had to get a gift for each game played. ;)) The diaper cake I made turned out beautiful and I am so proud of myself especially since it was the first diaper cake I had ever made! I have to thank Pinterest because I found the tutorial on there and of course I have to thank the blogger who posted the tutorial, Susie Stamp A Lot.

Hosting my very first baby shower was a lot of fun and I am so happy to have done so for such a great friend. April is the sweetest and most amazing person and I am so happy for her.
Congrats April and I cannot wait to meet little Miss Keira Lynn; my new Crochet D Lane model, I hope! ;)