Inside Ellie's Head

Snowman Family Complete

 
 
The snowman family is complete! I have to admit that they have been done and on display for several months now. I just didn't think of putting them on here until now. Scroll down to older posts to see mom and dad. :) 

Crafty Baby Shower Ideas

You know you are in your thirties when FIVE people who are close to you are pregnant all at the same time!!! One sister, one cousin, one best friend, one aunt, and one friend, all waddling around on sore feet with their varying-sized bumps, feeling sick and bloated, as they ready themselves for that day when they can come home with a brand new person in their arms. 

When my sister complained of her morning sickness, which has been effecting every aspect of her life for the past two months, my friends mom said to her: "Oh, hang in there. It'll tough for only a few more months," then quickly added, "Plus twenty years."

Today was my best friend's baby shower. Wanting to be original and creative in our planning of this event, we came up with some wonderful ideas for decorations that WOWed the guests and did not break the bank. 

CLOTHING LINE as DECORATION

 One fun decorative element to add to an outdoor baby shower is the baby clothing line. To create this line, three of us pitched in and got the mom-to-be cute clothes for her soon-to-arrive daughter. She'll get to keep all the clothes in the end, but in the meantime, the clothes can work hard to add a decorative element that made every guest squeal with delight. After all, who doesn't love seeing miniature clothes hanging on a line??

CENTERPIECES:

Pacifier flower Bouquet 

The thought of making flowers with pacifiers in their center came to me when we were trying to come up with some centerpiece ideas for the baby shower. What if we had a different centerpiece for each table? We thought, AND, what if each centerpiece was made of something that a baby would use??

We wanted the centerpieces to be baby-centric, practical, and simple. All the other centerpieces are self-explanatory. And the best part about them: They can be used even AFTER the shower is over and all the guests have gone home. 

Rubber Duckies in a bowl

Baby's First Piggy Bank

Baby's First Picnic Basket

The fans were a perfect decorative and practical addition to each table and were hand made out of colorful papers. 

WISHING TREE

For this wishing tree we cut colorful sheets of paper into 3" x  3" pieces, which we trifolded and hole punched. A small piece of ribbon fed through the hole gave the guests a way to fasten their best wishes onto the tree. The tree is a branch which as been spray painted to give it that shiny silver finish. 

 

 

Side Note: I cannot wrap my mind around what an incredible miracle it is that a being can grow INSIDE another being!!! And speaking of things that should be impossible (but aren't): It is no less of a miracle what trees and plants do. What machine, for instance, can take dirt and water and sunlight and turn it all into a juicy, sweet, nutritious apple? The creation of life blows me away...

The Union of the Snow People

Knit Snow Man

Here's what I've been doing this past week with my free time. What free time? You ask. It is true, I would not know what "free time" looked like if it bit me in the behind.

Let me rephrase: This is what I was doing during the Superbowl game last week and while watching "The Town" last night. 

A few more sporting events and shoot 'em ups and I shall have a whole family!! 

Knitting FEVER

Every day I'm knitting. I think that it comes with the cold. Or perhaps it's just in my blood. Apparently my grandmother (a woman who gave birth to 11 children over the course of 30+ years, 8 of whom where girls!) knit a dress for each of her daughters every winter... It may be an exaggerated tale. I mean, she probably had (at most) 3 or 4 unmarried daughters at a time... Still 3 or 4 DRESSES!!! that's some serious knitting action! 

I lose patience. 

I may be a patient soul... perhaps more so than most, yet I get tired of the same ol' same ol'. 

I want to be knitting something NEW! (every 5 minutes). I'm frustrated with the SLOW progression of knitting. I want to think up a design for... say... a sweater.. and have it be knit into existence in a matter of hours! NOT DAYS!! or WEEKS!! 

Oh! Who am I kidding! I love the process. It's calming. It's relaxing. It keeps me out of trouble. It allows me to procrastinate when it comes to more creative, less immediately rewarding, more difficult tasks... such as writing! 

OH BOY! I have not written in a days!! Not on paper anyhow! 

IN MY HEAD, I've done plenty of it!