Minnie's First Month!

I can't believe we've had Minnie for a month already!  She has been quite the interesting cat!  But we both agree that she was the best fit for us!

Minnie had her spaying and front paw declaw surgery shortly after we got her.  She did great!  The vet's office fell in love with her and they had to pry her out of someone's arms when Shaun went to pick her up!  She is starting to get some hair back on her belly and leg.  But it's too cute to see her shaven belly.  It looks like a little troll!

Her "look at me I'm so cute and want attention pose"

She has already found her favorite spots in the house:

the back of the couch

on the first step to go downstairs

most recently in the dog's bed

Oh and a few times in the dogs' toy box

Being the good fur mommy that I am, I made her a little bed.

Even Sadie liked it!

It turned out pretty good for a quick 3 hour project!  I used fabric I already had and even used some scraps from the burp cloths I made!  I stuffed the scraps in the main part of the bed and it made for some ultra soft bedding!

And Minnie's most recent discovery....her tail!  We've caught her chasing it a couple of times and it's a riot!

Baby Shower Fun!

I hosted my best friend's baby shower last weekend.  The days leading up to it were pretty stressful as I was trying to finish some things I was sewing for her gift.  Actually I had been working on sewing her gifts for quite a while...the date just snuck up on me!

So here is what I have been working on the past couple of months...

Burp cloths and lots of them!!  I have so many more that I have to finish yet too!  I absolutely love how they turned out.  Hopefully my friend will enjoy them too!

My first time trying to sew a baby block.  I used scraps leftover from the burp cloths.  It turned out pretty good.  A little lopsided but it works :)  I also made some taggie toys but I forgot to take a picture of them :(

I put these bibs together in about an hour the night before.  I would have liked to make more but just ran out of time!  They look so tiny so I hope they will work okay.

And my diaper cake!  It's not the prettiest thing in the world but I wanted something, small and fun.  I used only one pack (about 50) newborn diapers to create this two tier wonder.

The awesomely delicious cake!  I haven't had a cake that good in a LONG time!

Measuring the momma-to-be's belly.  The person that one the "string" game was about an inch too long!  Not bad at all!

The guests to the shower!

The Momma!

My cousin, momma to be, and their friend

 

Momma to be and me :)

  

And the whole gang (we used to go "clubbin'" back in the day)

The entire day went smoothly.  The games we played were enjoyable and everyone seemed to have a blast and enjoyed the food.  Yay!

Now You See It......

. . . now you don't!

I decided to make a cover for our Kitchenaid stand mixer.  I was worried how it was going to turn out because the directions I had gotten here were lacking in the detailed description part.

So I sort of modified as I went and as I thought the directions were incorrect (at least the way I was reading it), but I had managed to make it work!

Before:

After:

 

I will probably make a little hook and loop to keep the pocket from slipping forward.  The other bad part that didn't really turn out (and you can't see) is the back part.  It only goes about half way down the mixer.  This is where (I believe) the directions were incorrect....oh well!

After sewing this I found this AWESOME tutorial.  I only wish it would have came up in my google search when I was initially looking....

Sadie's Snood

Sadie LOVES to lick bowls, plates, cups...basically anything that has had some sort of food in it!  This is all fine and dandy until she ends up with sticky ears and a neck because they dragged in what she was licking. 

While we were at Bassetfest, they were selling these tube shaped things --a Snood.  Come to find out handlers use them on show dogs to keep their ears and jowls dry before they are shown.

So last Saturday when I finally had some time to sit down in front of my sewing machine I grabbed some fabric laying around and whipped one up!  I'm pretty proud of myself for doing this blind...no pattern, just some measurements that I grabbed from an Etsy store.

So here's the end product....in use!

 

 

As you can see from the last picture, the elastic isn't quite snug enough.  Just have to rip one side back open and make it tighter.

YAY for clean ears and jowls!!