Too many bags

I have WAY too many grocery bags under the sink in the kitchen. But I have to keep them because I mostly use them for stinky diapers before I put them in the big trashcan outside. The other day I saw a grocery bag holder and wanted to buy it but that little voice said "don't do it Mary Beth". THANK YOU for the little voice because I thought to myself today - "I bet I can make one myself" so I googled a tutorial and found that Ashley from Make It and Love It had one. Why didn't I know that? I love that blog and I didn't even think to look their first. Shame on me for wasting time!
So here's what became of the grocery bags. I LOVE IT

(yes I wanted to do a cutesy multi material one like the tutorial suggested but I didn't have enough coordinating fabrics, so I had to deal with what I had and it still worked out nicely and you can't beat FREE.

FAB fabric Flower

I LOVE finding new craft blogs with creative people so I can use their ideas and create precious things for my kids
MZ loves her some Fancy Nancy and I found a VERY Fancy Nancy that is so fabulous (that's fancy for cool)
She had this amazing tutorial on how to make fabric flowers.
I followed and came up with this

Price - $0 (fabric was given to me by my mom and the button was, of course, Momma B's)
Time - 5 minutes, if that - SO easy
(of course I didn't have a bunch of fabulous material like she did, but I used scraps from material that I'm making a dress for MZ out of)

Fawnda and Anthropologie

There is an amazing chick named Fawnda. I adore her. She loves Anthropologie shirts and creates them herself.

So I'm sitting in my room starring at a pile of clothes that I don't want anymore. I thought to myself "What would Fawnda do?"

This is what Fawnda would do....

Shoe Makeover

Going through my summer clothes and finding things I don't wear anymore, I found these two pairs of shoes that I've had for around 10 years. So I tried to come up with something that would decorate them and still be fun.
I'm content with my first "project" that I thought up by myself.

Dresses for MZ

MZ is my 2 year old that loves ALL things girly.

When I found a tutorial for a 15-minute homemade dress, I couldn't help myself.

I bought these bandanas and had the ribbon already
Price: $2 for 2 bandanas
Time: 20 minutes- I'm still new with the sewing machine


I bought this ribbon at Hobby Lobby and this is material that is leftover from MZ's pillowcase I made in November.
Price: $2 for ribbon
Time: 30 minutes - its harder when the edges aren't already sewn like on a bandana


Price: $4 for the ribbon and bandanas (already had other materials for hairbow
Time: 15 minutes

(please excuse the hubby's mess in the background - one day I'm sure he'll get to sorting all those papers)

Price: $4 for the ribbon and bandanas (already had other materials for hairbow
Time: 15 minutes

Giveaway wanted so bad

I'm posting about a giveaway I'm entering. I would LOVE to win.
You know I LOVE Ana Paula at Get Craftin and she's giving away a necklace. These necklaces are AMAZING!!!!!! Check them out, she's so awesome.

FINALLY finished

I stole my curtain idea from Kassie's house. Her mom is a seamstress and made these FAB curtains for her. What was I thinking? What made me think I could sew something and it look like it came from Janelle? Silly me. I know they're not technically perfect but they're perfect for me.


a close up of the pattern - I LOVE it


Material and supplies - $60
My precious time - $1,356,743,245.00
Seeing those curtains and knowing that I made them 100% by myself - priceless