Made some Shirts, Crafty Organizing, and a VERY cute boy...

Okay, first things first folks, this boy is SO MUCH FUN!!! He says "Mama"...still not convinced he knows it's me, but it is fun that he says it, and he says it all the time, in Sacrament meeting, at the grocery store, when he's in his crib ready to get up, when John is playing with him, all the time. It's so cute...speaking of John, everyday when John comes home from work, he plays the piano for a couple minutes to sort of wind down. And Every day he plops Everett in his Bumbo right next to him on the piano bench. Everett LOVES this time with Daddy, he plunks on the keys with John and they sort of have a fun duet. Every Day...mmmm, I love it.

And because I never can pick just one, these are my favorite versions of his face right now :)

Okay, on to fabric organization! My friend Amy showed me this idea for organizing your fabrics, she uses comic strip board to do this, and it is awesome. I was looking for a good way to store my own fabric stash, they were in clear bins, sorted by color, but it was a pain to get into them, to see what I had, and they were stacked on top of eachother, and just hard ot get into. I searched online after my convo with Amy, and found these beauties, ahhh, so pretty! Your Fabric can look like a FABRIC STORE!!! Then I see the price, PAHLEESE! $1.60 to store ONE piece of fabric, that half the time I didn't even spend $1.60 on??? not going to happen, so I looked for a similar solution, because I was dreaming of my pretty fabric all lined up on a shelf where I could see and admire it every day, and be inspired and everything! Some crafters use cardboard, like thick chipboard that comes with your scrapbook paper. SO I raided my mom's stash of cardboard and tried it out, beautiful! But I quickly ran out, so long story short, I bought peices of white foam core poster board at the dollar store and cut it with my rotary cutter, and VOILA! Fabric storage that is PRETTY, and EASY and CHEAP!!! I don't have the little tabs like these fancy ones do, but once your fabric is wound once around, it doesn't matter!

LOOKIT HOW PRETTY!!!!!

I love passing by this beautiful display :) So, the foam core poster board from the dollar store is 20"X30". I can get 4 big cards out of one piece, making them .25 cents. I cut them to be 14X10 inches, like the ones you can buy, because when you fold your fabric selvage to selvage and then once again, it fits beautifully. Well, that was great for my yardage fabrics, anything that was 3/4 yard or more went on one of these big ones. Then I had a bunch of smaller pieces, too big to be scraps, and too small to stretch on one of the big boards, so I made boards that were 6"X9" and I can get 10 out of one piece of foam core. Anything that won't fit on one of these is in the scrap basket. I can't tell you how happy I am about this, all my fabric goodies at my finger tips! I'm using this hutch right now, because I lack the shelving needed in my craft space, wouldn't this hutch look AMAZING painted like a creamy white, antiqued and painted teal in the inside?! Someday!!!! The shelf on the bottom is for my green and blue totes, still working on those
Yummy fabric sorted by color:)
It makes me SO very happy!

This shelf is new, got it on KSL, I wanted to have a place in the laundry/craft room where the ironing board could stay up all the time, there used to be a table in this space, but now it's open and I have more storage :)

you can see that I ran out of room in the hutch, so I put some of the fabrics on this shelf, neutrals etc...

Still a work in progress, notice I didn't show you the messy table and the rest of the craft/laundry room! BUT I will say, I put my table up on bed raisers, and now my table is counter height, SUCH a genius idea! My back doesn't ache at all anymore from cutting on the low table! YEAH! PLUS I have more storage underneath! Double bonus!Couldn't stop at the fabric, I did my ribbons too, ahhh, aren't they happy?!

OKay, lastly, the shirts. I recently bought the "Give a hoot" cartridge for my cricut, and last night I couldn't sleep because i was thinking about cute things I could make with fabric with it. SO I got up and played around with it.

(The shirts I use are Pottery Barn Kids, the quality is unmatched. There is a clearance center here in Salt Lake where I buy all of these cuties, the downside is that they have all been embroidered with a name or monogram, so I have to cover that part up, but they looks so cute appliqued, who would ever guess? I get them for around $2, so for the quality, it's totally worth it!)

Houndstooth Hedgehog, I embroidered his little eye with a french knot, and I stitched around the edges. Does anyone else have an obsession with houndstooth? I do.

Happy little tree, this fabric was on clearance at a local quilt shop, and I thought it would look really cute as a tree, I was right, I mean right??

Absolutely my favorite. This little fox was tricky, but well worth the time, he is SO cute! I put him onto a piece of scrap linen, and I'm hoping it will fray up a bit around it...so cute. Again, a french knot for the eyes and nose :)

Dapper Dandy! Now if you'll excuse me, my handsome munchkin is calling...