Crib Bedding

Kelsey's Crib Bedding

I always sew my kids crib bedding, mostly because it is cheaper and it wastes time when pregnancy seems to last an eternity for me. I have to stay busy or I just loose my mind!

The crib always stays in my room. I am one of those Mothers that panics all night long and checks on her baby several times through out the night.  So having the crib in my room is a lot easier and gives me peace of mind. My bedding is gray so I wanted the crib to somewhat match my bedroom. I knew that I wanted the color gray to somehow be incorporated into the crib bedding. I did not want chevron print though! I dont like to go along with trends and chevron print, especially gray and white chevron is super popular right now.

I made a trip to Joanns and found the perfect fabric! It had a gray background with pink flowers and green leaves! I fell in love with it! Except they only had a few yards of it. I bought it anyway and went online once I got home to see if I could order more there. I found it in stock in a store where my parents live in California so I called my mom and asked her if she could pick it up and mail it to me. I was so relieved to have found enough fabric to make all her bedding plus extras with it!

It took me awhile to figure out exactly how I wanted to use the fabric and if I wanted to play off the pink flowers or the green leaves. I couldnt decide! So i went with both pink and green! Next, I got brave and took on making a four level dust ruffle. It was really time consuming but in the end it came out great and I was thrilled with it!

  

Next I decided to make a custom quilt/wall hanging. I wanted it to be hung right above the crib and I didnt want it to be a standard patchwork quilt with plain squares. I didnt have a pattern so I just cut fabric and pieced it together on the floor. Then I started sewing it together. I added pink rick rack to my green pieces, appliqued on green leaves to the pink pieces with some hand embroidery details, and I made flowers out of felt to add onto the gray pieces. The felt flowers took me a while, I hand cut them out and hand stitched around them and the flower details with a button in the middle. I also appliqued the letter 'K' on it for Kelsey!  

Finished Quilt/Wall Hanging

Close up of details 

ribbon ruffle around the edges

I wanted to incorporate pink in my bedroom to match also so I found this pink basket that I placed diapers in. 

I made a matching pillow for my rocking chair and a nursing cover with the extra fabric also.

The crib bedding up close: 

(I need to add a picture of the Bumper Pads - they have a gray ruffle around the top edge)

Cakes I made this year, 2014

Bradley's 2nd Birthday 

Bradley loves animals so I made this fun cake for him. 

Cowgirl Cake

I made one just like this last year for my friend at school. Another friend from school asked me to make one for her daughters cow girl themed birthday party. This was my first paid cake job!  

Baby Shower Cake:

My sister in law asked me to make a cake for her baby shower. She asked for it to be green and pink to match her shower theme. This was also my first time doing fondant over a double layer cake, I was a little nervous but it went really smooth! The 'sweet baby' is a sticker decal for scrap booking that was placed on the cake for her to remove and use later. She loved it!

This cake was made for a friend starting her battle with Cancer. Some women from church were throwing her a 'hat party' the day before she was shaving her head. I was asked if I would make a cake in her favorite colors, blue and yellow with flowers. I also put the words, faith, love, hope, strength... and I cant remember what else that wrapped around to the back.

I was asked to make a cake that would be a silent auction at my kids school fundraiser night. This was my first failed cake! haha! My original intention was to make a lady bug cake but i realized last minute I didnt have anymore red. So I decided to make a turtle! Thought it was a great idea until the turtle was too big for the cake... I just left the funny looking turtle on the side and they were auctioned separately.

Zack's 9th Birthday Cake

This cake is really plain and simple but my son still loved it! He wanted to have a Nerf gun party so I made this cake for him. 

 Haylee's 8th Birthday Cake

The weekend we were going to have Haylee's party I ended up having our daughter Kelsey. So my sweet Haylee had to wait two weeks to have her party. Luckily at two weeks postpartum I was feeling well enough to make the Lego friends cake she asked for. 

My friend asked me to make a butterfly cake for her daughters 1st birthday party. 

Anna Doll Cake

I was asked to make this cake. I was really nervous. Ive never done a doll cake and I was being paid good money to make this for a friends daughter so I didnt want to disappoint. It came out great and the sweet little girl loved it!

(the fondant was still wet from brushing it)