Whip It Up Wednesday: City Mouse & A Baby Giveaway!

For this week's Whip It Up Wednesday I am going to keep it short, hard at work relaxing after a long day of writing and sewing. Today I wrote three articles for a publication I freelance for on a Starsucks Peppermint Mocha. Yum. During Christmas music. Double yum! Sewing didn't start til 7:30 and I just finished. Watching some Seinfield.

I am working on using up scraps and created my little city mouse. I just love him ( squiggly tail and all.)

In preparation for my upcoming event I had a little inspiration for a giveaway....

Baby GIVEAWAY!

Leave a comment on the blog stating the following:

- Think about the last time you went shopping at a craft bazaar. What made you purchase something besides seeing something you liked. Did the booth use a certain color or style, or display that caught your eye ?

 Best comment wins a beautiful handmade recycled wool snowflake baby hat ( size 0-3 months). Perfect for gift giving this holiday season!

Whip It Up Wednesday: Trick O' Treat & Belt

Yup, new weekly posts, Whip It Up Wednesday!  ( my husband doesn't like the name,  he thinks of " whip it out." ) OH well. Wednesdays are one of my sacred days with Giraffe and we try and go out  and have fun. During naps, I hit the sewing machine in the hopes that something pretty will come of it.  Hence, whipping something up on a Wednesday. Get it? Good. 

As always, I make things out of necessity. Today was no exception. Giraffe needed a belt and a Trick O' Treat Bag.  Off I went...

I just love this bag. Love, love, love. We went to the dollar store to try and find something for Giraffe to take to school for his first Trick O' Treat experience but the plastic buckets and plastic bags were not coming home with us. In September, I got the Pottery Barn Kids Catalog and fell in love with their monogrammed bags but not to the tune of $12 plus shipping. So, I sewed one up with scraps left over from other projects. Pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. He's being a Dalmatian and yes its a homemade costume, pics to follow soon! 

Giraffe has no gut just like daddy, unlike mommy. I have seen a few toddler belts but I hadn't fallen in love. They are sooooooo easy to make. 1 inch webbing, 2 D-rings and homemade bias tape. Easy peasy. Little story about the fabric, does anyone recognize it? Its Eric Carle! Bought it over a year ago at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in the scrap pile, a year later it is finally seeing the light of day.