We have been crafting…like crazy over here! Really, we have! Filling orders and costume designing for a variety show this week and I just haven’t had a free moment to write about all of it…but I will when things calm down. For now I just wanted to show that WE CAN DO BOY STUFF! 🙂

Horrible shots that I literally took as I was cutting threads off of it to hand over to JB this morning. This is for her little nephew who turns “1” this week! Happy Birthday to him…and I have more of the cool rocket and monster fabric – so you can bet you’ll be seeing more (and better!) shots of goodies made from this.

Happy Tuesday…hope it’s crafty!

Okay, so it may seem like not-a-lot of Craftiness here today, but believe me, we are busy crafting as we speak (as you read). In fact it is safe to say that no matter when you read this post this week, the Two Birdies will be frantically crafting away for the Spring Boutique this Friday. (PLEASE local peeps – come visit us on Friday! It is going to be lots of fun.)

Anyhow, I’ve been hinting at our newly acquired, magnificent machine and today I have a peek at a little of the coolness we have dreamt up and created with her. Oh yes – our new machine is a girl and her name is Eva (pronounced Ee-vah, ala Wall-E) because she is white, sleek, shiny and…the mother of all creation.

She is fantastic. She cuts any and everything…most importantly (and excitingly) FABRIC! So we whipped up these little cougar-paw (no comments from the peanut gallery, please – Dad!) t-shirts for the jog-a-thon last week.

Yellow for the second-graders….

And red for the kindergartners…

The girls loved them. And I love how the sweet big girls are always taking care of the littles…

The shirts were a huge hit…and we managed to get a few orders for them, so the sample will definitely have a prominent spot at our Boutique, I think.

Oh, and Em and I also concocted these cupcakes for her class and Brownie troop for her birthday.

She found these banana split cupcakes in my cupcake book and I had to reign her in a little bit. We decided on a single, hot fudge sundae cupcake instead. No ice cream was harmed in the making of these cupcakes – just a whole heck of a lot of frosting. Hmmm….maybe that is why I had 18 uncontrollable Brownies at the meeting on Friday?

Next week we’ll have some serious crafting around here, in the meantime – leave it if you got it.

I’m in need of some honest opinions here.

I’m reusing a bunch of old t-shirts that were rescued from the Goodwill pile and I’m making little baby knit hats with them. The tees are perfect, all soft and cuddly sweet. But the pattern I’ve been using has cute little ribbons around the “ears” that, for the girls, are tied into cute little bows.

I’m not entirely sure if it works for little caps that are intended for little boys. Remember it is all girls, all the time around here. So I sent a pic of it to my other Birdie and asked her – “too girly?” Yeah…I’m asking my cohort in crime who also has…ALL GIRLS (even one more than over here), ALL THE TIME.

So I’ll ask you guys instead. Any mommies of boys – would you put this on your little one? Should I ditch the ribbons?

Also…if you are a friend and/or neighbor and are around April 15th make sure to stop by for a some wine and apps and shop some crafty goodness. Spring birthdays, Easter, Mother’s Day…they are all coming up and we have fun stuff for all of your shopping needs! The boutique is sponsored by Two Birdies Workshop and we have several other talented ladies bringing their own crafty flair to the evening. So join us if you can!

And if you are a crafter with some wares to sell, let’s talk! We still have a few tables open.

The other Birdie and I actually got to play with our new baby last week and we had some wicked fun but…I forgot to take photos. Next week maybe we can unveil the beauty of our new love.

This week I decided I needed some new reusable lunch packs for the girls’ lunchboxes. I had picked up a couple of these handy little pouches last year at a craft show, but they were made of fabric on the outside and after a few washings to get rid of the peanut butter and jelly, the fabric looked like it kinda started to mildew. Ew. So I used some oilcloth and made some new ones.

Saving the world three ziploc baggies at a time.

And that is all I have this week since we are still eyeball deep in other stuff that hopefully I can talk about soon. Very soon.

I was going to sneak on here and post and pretend like it has been up all day, but I think I have a few followers who check Chaos first thing in the morning and I’m afraid they would definitely call me on it.

So yes, Tuesday is nearly over, and I’m just now getting CT up for the week. I finally finished Addie’s little study quilt like Em’s.

Hers is much…pinker, and cat-filled, but still just as snuggly. Plus now J. and I don’t have to fight over Em’s quilt each night on the sofa. The quilts go together very quickly – maybe I should just make a more subdued one to leave out on the sofa, make Daddy his own study quilt?

Most of all of the Two Birdies free time this week has been finishing up the pottery project we are doing for our school’s Silent Auction. Each class has a pottery piece and each kid at our school has a little spot for their artwork and name.

So we have 15 pieces floating around, and we have sat with over 300 kids in the past few weeks working on getting them to make their “mark.” Now we are finishing the pieces so they can go to the kiln and be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Once they come back all finished and shiny, I’ll post more pics of them. (Excuse the hastily taken iphone photo.) I think it is back to the paintbrush in the meantime…

Hey, I have a legit Crafty Tuesday entry today!

Finally, I got one of those little study snuggly block quilts done. Yes, those quilts that I had started for the girls awhile ago. Like…um, back before Christmas?

So I started with Em’s – hers is birds, owls and lots and lots of polka-lots.

Hmmm…perhaps I should have smoothed it out a bit before I photo’d it. But I quilted the front and batting together (stitched in the ditch – is that what it is called?) and then backed it with a yummy tangerine flannel.  And then tied it in the corners with turquoise yarn. I got squeals when she came downstairs on Sunday morning, so I think she liked it. She has been snuggling with it ever since.

And, Tiger and I have been using it on the sofa in the evening after she pops off to bed. It is warm and definitely snuggly.

Now, of course I have a certain little 5-year old who asks almost hourly when her kitty cat quilt will be done.  Off to finish that one up.

I apologize for skipping out on you last Tuesday, and today is a thrown together mish-mash of random bits we have been slamming together the past few weeks. Instead of staying home on our “day off” yesterday and getting caught up, I took the girls and we met friends at Disney. It was so very fun and now I’m so very far behind on our “start” of the week.  But it was well worth it and so you get a condensed version of what has been crafting around here lately.

Some more burp rags…

And a taggie blanket. (Thanks to Stacy who warned of the apparent taggie-nazis that will NOT let you list the taggies on etsy. Good FYI…)

I found this fabric awhile ago and have been racking my brain for something to make for my girl scouts. We are preparing for an overnight at the end of the month and found out that they all need bandanas when they cook or are around campfires. Bingo. Easy peasy – 18  little bandanas made quickly with the ‘ol serger. So.In.Love.With.That.Machine.

And Addie and I ripped off this idea from someone (Christina? Was it you??) from last Valentine’s Day. This is her valentine card to her classmates. I can’t tell you how painful the three hours were that it took to write her classmates’ names and sign these. There are only 27 kids…three HOURS! So thankful that one is over.

And Em’s to her classmates. Apologize for the horrible photo – it was literally as we were running out the door. She is holding a conversation heart that says, “You Rock!” and we just attached a little bag of hearts. Not nearly as painful, but she has had two more years of practice, too.

Okay, lay it on me. I’m working like mad to get my “real” work projects done so I can finally finish the girls’ quilts this week. Inspiration??

Happy Tuesday to you all. Welcome to Crafty Tuesday – the apron edition  because we have a cute apron times six!

One of Em’s bestest friends had a birthday over the weekend where cupcake decorating was on the docket. Bella is quite the cook, so I had already planned to make an apron for her and I had aprons started for Em and Audrey too. Soooo I just made a few for the other party goers too. They turned out cute and I got big hugs from Bella, so I think it was a good birthday treat.

And that has pretty much been the crafting this week. I did have another set of fun for a baby gift, but I just threw them into the washing machine before I got a photo, so they’ll have to wait til next week. (But they are in the mail today, Aunt V!)

I still have Em and Ad’s little quilts to tackle, too. It doesn’t look like it will happen this week, though. I have a few websites I need to finish up. You know, real work. The kind that pays the bills – or at least pays for my expensive craft habit.

Yeah, we have a little baby craft deja vu going on this week. My friend needed some baby gifts for new baby twins and so I made more baby bundles bundle for the new little boy and girl.

Burp cloths with initials and little appliques…

And a taggie blanket for each of them…

I like these little “packages” for new babies. We might have to put some of these up in the shop.

I made a little giftcard bag for Nana’s birthday, too…

And I made a bunch of Jen’s coffee cozys for Christmas presents and added some chalkboard fabric to them. We ended up making them as teacher and staff appreciation gifts at the girls’ school before the holidays. I opened my big mouth thinking that we had 16 teachers or so and volunteered to make some, only later to find out that we have 44 teachers and staff!

And after all of those cozys that have left my house, I have one poorly focused photo of one that I put together (again for my mom) last week. One photo. But I have become kinda good at making these, even if I don’t photograph them like I should.

That’s what I’ve got this week – how about you?

Hello my fellow crafty peeps. I hate that I only seem to make it here to Chaos on Tuesdays or Thursdays lately – but I have legitimate crafts this week, so it was worth the stop, and thanks for hangin’ in with me.  I promise to do a dump of all the ramblings rolling around in my brain in the very near future. It just has not been on the schedule lately.

But on to the crafty goodness.

Two out of three of our crafts today can be directly attributed to my new serger. How in the world have I existed for so long without a serger? And now nothing is safe in the house, I am quite enamored with it. I’m going to take a class this Thursday so I can become serger savvy – I can’t wait. The serger just makes all of my stuff look…well, professional!

Emma Grace has a ballet sweater/shrug that is knitted and she hates it because it is so itchy. So I used it as a pattern and made one for Emma Jean for her birthday this past weekend. I have material to make one for Gracie and Addie too, of course, and one for Audrey so all the ballet friends can be stylin’. It turned out really cool…and the seams are beautiful!

I also used the serger when I made some burp rags for a friend who is pregnant with a little boy. Usually I sew the flannels together flip them right-side out and then do a zig-zag around the edge for a little decorative touch. Instead, I just serged it and the edges look nice and it literally took me 5 minutes for each burp rag. Again. How did I do without this machine?

I also made a quilt for Leah’s new baby. I didn’t use the serger for this and it was my first foray into quilting. I guess I didn’t “quilt it” really – just sort of pieced the bits together, and then did a “in the ditch” seam on each of the squares. But I can definitely see the attraction in quilting. I already have some little study quilts cut out for Em and Ad and they have already asked when they are going to get theirs, so it definitely won’t be my last quilt I make.

So that is what I have today. I’ve got orders for more SuperCapes and more baby gifts due on Thursday so I had better go hop to that. But I’ll be back so share your crafty goodies, please!