Oh, crafty me...

I think I have lamented once before about my inability to sew. Well, in the dim future of my pram project, I have decided to remedy that. As of the middle of May, my husband will be gone for no less than 8 months, and possibly up to an entire year. That being said, this should be a perfect time for me to learn my new hobby. I am actually excited.

I plan to start off slowly with a couple of simple projects that I know I can do. I am going to make some cute hairbows for my daughters. I have thought about this before, but it just never really came to fruition. I got the idea that I might actually be capable of it yesterday when I was helping my mom make bows for the Easter lilies to be delivered to the church. I think I could probably adapt this system to making some cute bows for the little ones. I have been frustrated by hairbows since Sadie grew enough hair to have them. First off, they are obscenely overpriced. Second, if you want to pay a reasonable price like at Walmart or Target, they are really shitty quality and fall apart the first time your child tugs at them. Next, I am just picky when it comes to what they look like. I like just a simple bow that is in proportion to the size of the child's head. I HATE korker bows with a passion, my daughter will not wear a headband, and even some of the "boutique" bows I have seen just look tacky to me. I'll give it a try after baby Emmaline gets here and we get a good schedule established. I don't need to make a ton, a I don't plan on reselling them, so it won't cost more than a few dollars to give it a whirl.

The next crafty project I want to take on is making some dress-up tutus for my babies. I had no idea Sadie would love the dress up outfit my parents got for her so much! She wouldn't even let me take off her tutu today when it was nap time. So when I went to get the last minute, cheap Easter basket items, I cruised through the girly toy aisle at Walmart to look at the dress-up stuff they had. Well, once again, it was obscenely overpriced, and once again, it was really shitty quality. One little dress-up "outfit" (a puffy dress of some kind and a plastic accessory) was on average $20. So when I had the chance to get back online and poke around a bit, I discovered a tutu "pattern," so to speak on several websites which is basically just knotting strips of tulle around a piece of elastic fitted to your child's waist. The upside to this is you can use any colors you want, and make it as puffy as you want. I also looked at the price of tulle and elastic on a couple of websites, and I figure that I could make one for less than $4. I am going to go get the supplies as soon as I can get to Hobby Lobby.

I hope that all of this will culminate in my learning how to sew and actually make things. My mom can sew, knit, crochet, and essentially make anything from nothing, and I remember when I was younger she would make all of my Halloween costumes, Easter dresses, and even some of my dance dresses. I never realized at the time that she did it to save money, but it really didn't matter. Those things that she made for me were much more beautiful and detailed than the ones people were paying for. I would always get compliments. I want to be able to do things like that for my little girls. Like Patsy Cline would say, if we can't buy it, we'll just make it...