Saturday, December 15, 2012

DIY PJ Pants


I have been wanting to make the boys some pajama pants for a while out of some tacky kid fabric that I would never pick out myself and let them pick out. However for a fun stocking stuffer I let them pick out some fabric and made pillowcases.
I had a ton of plaid flannel fabric left over from stockings that I made a couple years ago so I opted for that to make the pants with instead of buying more fabric.
I semi-used this tutorial that I found on Pinterest...
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It is a very helpful tutorial but I was in a lazy mood and thought I could figure it out once I got started. I kind of did :) 
I was also too lazy to drive to the store to buy elastic so I made them drawstring.

My intention was for these to be their "Christmas PJ's" instead of paying money for actual Christmas PJ's that they can only wear for a couple weeks because then it's not Christmas any more. I like to think of myself as a reasonable shopper and cute PJ's are way too expensive for something that 95% of the time they are going to wear when they're home and in bed.
When I mentioned to the boys that these are their Christmas PJ's they wanted to know why there are no snowflakes, snowmen or Santa Claus on them...
So depending on how hard they push the issue I may have to go buy some Christmas-y iron on patches to Christmas them up!
While making these I realized I am getting ready to have a girl because it was all I could do not to put ruffles on them somewhere! :)

Monday, December 3, 2012

I am thrilled to say that I can finally work on my blog from the comfort of my IPad while sitting on my butt! I'm pretty pumped!
As you probably already know I am expecting a baby girl in April! We are so excited and I am consumed with planning the nursery, super cute outfits and wanting everything to be absolutely perfect.
With that said, my job that I love is a little extra stressful this year and would suck every ounce of energy out of me whether I was pregnant or not. BUT I have some fun projects that I want to share so I am going to do my bestest to keep this baby updated. If I don't, I need you to bug me about it!
I'm adding a couple of pictures from some of my inspirations...

Just FYI this is the first post from my IPad on this app so I have no idea how its going to publish!