Getting ready for Kelton's 5th Birthday

I can not believe my little baby is going to be 5 years old soon. He is one of the youngest in his class but boy he doesn't let it get in his way.

When I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday he said have a lego party... well he actually said have a lego pirate party.( I convinced him just legos would be best.) SO I hit the net...
all you ladies out there who have done lego parties... YOU ROCK MY WORLD.

All Of the blogs( I will try to list them but forgot to book mark some.) were insanely helpful. Here's a short list of what I have done so far.... but it's missing some photos and what I do have... are kind crappy. Sorry.

Ok ...
-Lego bingo
Just printed and put it on card stock.

-Lego Soaps
I made both blocks and lego men. So that the kids get one of each... But I did get the tag from that site.

-Lego magnets- just glued legos to super strong magnets
-Lego candy-Bought at the Candy store in the mall.
-Lego invites- I will find the link for these
-Lego door sign- Have a picture of the one I found online but no link
-Faux lego blocks (boxes wrapped in paper)- I think I saw this somewhere... but don't remember....
-Lego chocolate bricks and men-melted chocolates and poured into mold.
-Lego Banner- not finished yet... but its the lego font colored yellow around the edges, glued on colored paper.
-guess how many legos jar- just a jar from the dollar store filled with lego.

-Pinata- I got lazy here and bought one shaped like a present at walmart for 9.95
- Lego cupcakes- got the idea here but am using lego men instead.
-Lego Juice boxes- got the idea and printable here, but used multi colors... only made enough for each child to have one.



Still to do
-lego head marshmallow pops
- Lego mini fig board... this might get tossed for lack of time.
- Prep all the gift bags for the kiddos.
-Decorate

I am a goof

I made the cutest baby quilt for my friend Jamie's baby... he is still in belly at this time.
It was actually a wall peice from joann's that you quilt and hang but I wanted to make it useable.

Quilts are great for laying on the floor to let baby play on! BUT I didn't take a picture...So as soon as I get on I will post it!

plus I put satin edging on it and it looked pretty good.. my mitered edges were a little off bu not too bad... anyone have any tips on this?

1ST taggie blanket.

I am making all this baby stuff for the million or so pregnant people I know and I decided to try soemthing I have never done. I decided to make a taggie blanket.

For those of you that don't know Taggie blankets are little blankets with satin or textured tags around the outside edges. The idea is for the baby to use these both as self soothing and as tactile and visual stimulation.

Sounds awesome to me. So here is what I did.

First I picked 4 soft and cozy fabrics, 2 flannels in different patterns, and 2 minky type fabrics, one in flat and the other has like bubbles. I love how snuggley these fabrics are.

Then I ton a small TON of ribbon and cut them all into 3 in. sections. I sewed 4 squares (aprox. 8in by 8in) and then pined the "tags" to it. I covered the whole border with one set of stitches.

Then I placed on the blue minky right side to right side and sewed it to the other side, making sure the tags were inside, I left a small opening between tags to turn. This gave me a 2nd seem over all the tags.

After that I turned it inside out and top stitched the entire thing all the way around! This gave me a 3rd seem over the tags.

I was very concerned about a baby pulling the tags out but after finishing I pulled on the tags pretty hard and nothing moved, I let my 4 yr old play with it for a little while and still nothing so I am confidant we are good to go.

I love the way it turned out... now to make more.