Teacher Gifts

I don't know about you, but I am soooo ready for school to be out!!  My kids have 3 days left:)  I have done lots of teacher gifts.  I have tried to get them done and returned as soon as possible and haven't gotten pictures.  Here is part of the gifts for my kids' teachers.  I am putting together a summer fun bag.  This first picture is one of my favorite things!!  This is mine, I am picking up the ones for gifts this weekend.  It is a hugger that you put in the freezer.  The inside lining is made of water cubes that freeze.  Each teacher is getting one with a supply of their favorite drink.  I also have a bigger cooler like this that is great!  We take it to the pool, ballpark, park, beach everywhere!  It is great because you don't have to worry about ice melting or those freezer packs taking up space!

 Beach towels are always a popular gift!  Who can't use another beach towel!  These are for kids' teachers.  I found these are Costco.  They are huge and super soft.

 Market totes are also very popular for teacher gifts.  I have done some large and here is a small one.

OK, gotta go monogram and iPad case:)

bumble bee

Someone had requested a bumble bee.  Here are the two that I have.  The first one is all embroidered.  You could leave off the flowers if it were for a boy's outfit.

 This one is an appliqué.  You can use any fabric to match the outfit.   When I get the outfits done.  I'll post them.

Baby Stuff

Wow!  I can't believe so much time has gone by!  When I started back in January, I was so ready to get back into sewing and monogramming.  If you have read earlier entries, you know last fall I was diagnosed with Epilepsy.  I have not had any seizures since the first one at the end of October.  But I have had a horrible time with the medication.  I just couldn't tolerate the side of effects, then had an allergic reaction to the second one I tried.  The third one was ok at a low dose.  I have been on the fourth one now for about 6 weeks.  I think I have finally found one that I can tolerate and feel good while taking.  Changing medicines isn't that easy.  You can't just stop taking one and start a new one.  You have to wean off of one while slowly introducing the new one.  It has been a long process! 


Ok, enough of that, a friend of my neice recently had a baby.  I did a few things for her.  The pictures didn't turn out great, but here they are.

 These next two I bought some simple onesies and bought an extra one to use for the burp cloth.  It is an easy way to take an inexpensive item and make it into a nice outfit!

Monograms

A good friend and neighbor of mine does monogramming too. She was working on a few things for someone else and her machine began to mess up. She called me and I finished them up for her. Here is a cute minky dot dress I added the monogram too. I love the green with the hot pink!

This is the one my friend was working on when her machine messed up. She did the flowers and the swirls. I went back and added the letter "E" in the middle.
This is a simple appliqué. The person she was doing these for brought her the fabric for the appliqué, so they must have pants to go with it. I love this fabric and this is one of my favorite letter appliqués!! I use it a lot.

National Champions!

This is my last post about football - at least until the fall! I grew up with Alabama Football engrained in me by my Dad. I have been going to games for as long as I can remember! So I had to post our victory!! We have season tickets and decided to order some to the championship game just in case we went. My husband met a long time friend and had a blast!

The kids and I stayed up (my daughter made it to the 4th quarter) and watched. Here's the kids this morning at my in-laws. They went to Academy Sports last night after the game and got their shirts and my son's hat. We stopped on the way to school to get them so they could wear them to school!

Roll Tide!!

Roll Tide!!

Baby gifts

Here are the items I did for a girl in my Bible Study group. She is having her third baby, her 2nd boy in a few weeks. So I did her a burp cloth, bib and a blanket. I couldn't decide on the blanket if I wanted to do the cross or an appliqué letter. So I did both on opposite ends. It turned out really cute!