Jan Andreas' Sleeping Baby What's nice about this site is it gives you instructions for lots of popular baby items that you can make yourself at a fraction of the cost!I hope everyone had a happy Easter!
We did alot of driving both Saturday and Sunday going to the 2 different sides of the family to visit.
It's nice to see people you don't usually get to see.
Something else that happened was we purchased a new mini van!
We got an '06 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT so we now have enough room to put 3 extra people in the car if we need.
My mother has lung cancer and she stays with us half of the week (the other days with my other sisters) and we were driving a Pontiac Vibe and it was just big enough for 2 adults and 2 car seats, I guess you could fit a 10 yr old in between the car seats but that was about it, so when the hubby and I and my mother decided to go out to eat, we had to drive 2 cars!
I really liked my Vibe it was little sporty and blue, that's where I got the idea for my business name. We always called it the Blueberry and I'm the mama that drives it so therefor I was Blueberry Mama.
Now what do I do? This new van is twice as big and gold (so the dirt don't show:)
I think I'll just stay Blueberry Mama. :o)
The new van has stow and go seating so I will be all ready for craft shows this year!!! yipee!!!!!!
In the past I've had to depend on others to help me get all my stuff to the shows but not now.
I will have to take baby Gus this year, ya know with me breastfeeding and all.
I don't mind, he's going to be my little display model.
What better sales booster then a little adorable baby in one of my hand embroidered onesie?
I can't think of one single thing better then that! :o) xoxoxo
Introducing Groucho at 3 months! 
See! He really didn't mind mama having a little fun. :0)
April is use what I have month ! Started over at Simple Sparrow and I think this is going to be great and a bit of a challenge and she designed this recycle symbol with fabric patterns.
Adorable!
Friday I went into town and stopped at Hancocks and picked up some patterns, one for baby shoes and one for some cropped pants for Jaden. I'm thinking of making some reversable pants but I don't have that large of quantity of any one fabric so I just might have to wait. bum.
But on a happier note... I have tons of fabric I can use to make just about anything that requires 1/2 yard of fabric or less. I think I could make baby Gus some pants though. ;o)
Have a breautiful Saturday!
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She also makes lots of other cute baby and little kid stuff.
Check her out!
Can it really be 3 years since you were born?
Today was a beautiful day for a birthday, we started off with some brand new Toy Story dolls that I got on Ebay that were originally from Burger King that you paid extra for but of course that was 10 years ago so I had to try Ebay and lucked out and got Buz,Woody,Hamm and Rex they're all puppet dolls so that was kindof neat. I let him open them first thing and then put the movie on.
I'm making him a Woody's Roundup themed birthday party for the family with cowboy stuff and the Toy Story carictures. I'm making him a cow print vest and a red bandana just like Woody! He already has the boots and hat. Well he IS a cowboy after all.
We went into Wichita (20 min away) to see Grammie, Aunt Joni and my niece Amanda and her little boy Ryland and we all went to IHOP because Grammie thinks it is the only place to go right now so we humor her. :o) (but oh yum! pancakes!)
Jaden had pancakes with whipped cream, sausage and bacon of which he dipped in the whipped cream. That's right sausage and bacon in whip cream!!! Apperantly it's quite delicious!
The picture in this post is from when Jaden was about 1 1/2 and I let him climb on the fence to the horse arena. He is an adorable kid!
Happy 3 rd Birthday Jaden!!!
Mama loves you with all my heart!!!!
Here are some tags that I made the other day!
I think they turned out kind of nice, they have a laminated fabric feel and they washed up really well also!
Here is a picture of the tags after I made and cut them.
Sorry about the dim light but it's late and dark and I just couldn't wait to share!
I plan to use these on my sewn items that I sell on Etsy.com and craft shows.
I thought some for the kids clothes will be cute too.
I don't think I like the pinked edge for comfort on baby items so I'll probably make more with a strait edge.
Now you ask "How'd you do that?
Well.... I used iron on transfers for t-shirts and ironed them on a light weight gingham fabric and cut them out! Yes it was that easy!
Just make sure when you make your own, you reverse the image when you get ready to print or you'll have reverse images on your tag! (no I didn't do that this time!)
I also used a return address label making program so I only had to type the information once and it printed 30 on one sheet!
But I plan to make an assortment of tags that I can sew in my kids clothes, because have you ever looked at the pre-made ones at the fabric stores? UGLY!!!!
Wouldn't "Mama's little Monkey" look cute?
I'll post some more when I get them made.
I got out the camera and angel wings today and this is what I did...
Mr. Baby Gus is just about 3 months and quite the charmer!
Can you see the little wings?
I really love this little guy to pieces. xoxoxo
This is what bein' a mama is all about.
Here he is!!!!
Jacob Augustus "Baby Gus" for short.
He came into the world on December 29th 2005
at 3:03pm by c-section weighting in at 8lbs 7oz and 19inches long. What a sweetie!
I had went in for a sono at 1:00pm and the tech thought he wasn't moving enough (not at all) but all the other stuff was fine so she called the doctor up stairs in his office and they sent us up and by 3 I was a mama again!
It was really fast! I was kind of worried because my sister and mom wasn't there and we had our 2 year old with us!
They ended up having a nurse play with him so daddy could be in the room. My sis and mom showed up about 10 minutes later. whew!
I had a regular vaginal birth with my first son and so this was into the unknown again!
Gotta go... Gus is crying. ;)
Here's a photo of my booth at one of the last shows I was in back in Nov. 05.
I was getting kind of big in my pregnancy and decided I needed to quit for a while. Man...sitting on a bar stool for 8 hours is ruff on pregnant legs! ;)
See my display idea to show off my onesies? It's like something you would hang a regular tshirt on but I slide a onesie on each arm and it's really cool because it draws my onesies up to eye level and really makes people come into my booth.
It took me a couple of sleepless nights to come up with a good display idea that wasn't too heavy and that I could make myself and carry easy. If anyone want's a closer look I can take some pictures.
If the weather clears up sometime and I can take pictures, I plan to post how I package my onesies. Pretty cool I think.......
I'm sorry about being gone for so long, but with a new little baby in my arms and a active soon to be 3 year old, I seem to just get behind.
I plan to start using my idle time a little (hopefully!)better.
This weekend I'm doing a little open house show in my little town, where the local realtor has 6 homes open and has a few vendors in each house.
The majority of vendors are home parties like Stampin' Up! and skin care products etc...
So to say the least I am an original!
I hand embroider onesies with little sayings like stinky butt, mama's boy and the list goes on ans on.
You can see some of my saying at my web site www.blueberrymama.com .
The average onesie is $5 but some are a little more if there's lots of writing.
If anyones interested drop me an email.
I'm trying to upload some pictures but I'm having some difficulty for some reason....hum...
I know I'm not dence but something isn't working.
Soon I plan to start showing off some of my creations (crafts and kids) so you can see what makes me tick...
Well, I made Jaden a costume last year that's an adorable puppy outfit (pic coming soon!) and at the time I was well over 7 months pg and my mom was in the hospital so after visiting her in town I ended up not feeling up to taking Jaden trick or treating, I know bad mama but he was just little enough that he didn't mind and really didn't need that kind of quantities of candy, and mama and daddy didn't either! LOL.
Anyway, I took Jaden this year to a couple of different Halloween activities and I was just putting Gus in some store bought costumes that Grandma CJ had bought Jaden for his first Halloween, there was a clown, dalmatian, bumble bee and a chili pepper.
I felt like I was kind of giving Gus the slip on his first Halloween and being that he's so cute and he has a mama that can sew I thought I should step up and do something.
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally cool with store bought or hand me down costumes but I had everything in the house so I sat down Saturday morning and got my furry felt out I didn't have a pattern, I guess I've made a few too many stuffed animals in my time so I just winged it and this is what I came up with!
I call him Blue Jean Teddy!
I started with the hat first then I got to thinking about how to make feet with little bear toenails and after I made those and put it all on Gus, Jaden said "you have to make him paws!" so knowing how little ones don't like there hands covered, I devised a wristband with a little paw on it. All in all it took me maybe 1 hour to make and I didn't have to rip anything! It felt like this was the 100 bear costume I had made....smooth sewing, rather strange if you ask me.
I guess the Halloween costume fairies were watching over me that morning! HA!
He doesn't even mind wearing the whole contraption!
I just have to give him something to play with when I put it on and he leaves it on. What a sweetie!
I'm getting bigger and bigger by the day so it seems! My belly button is getting ready to "go flat" he he! I wasn't one of those mama's that belly buttons pop out. :D
I decided that I wanted to start a blog because I've been so inspired by Soulemama and a few others that I will be certain to add links to soon!
I'm really into sewing thing for babies and my little toddler and I also have to get started on Christmas gifts for all the people in my family this year because with the new baby coming Jan 14thish I don't think I'll have the energy to go shopping!
I plan to post pics of my creations as they get created! :)
Here's a pic that Soulemama inspired me to take of my pregnant belly at 29 weeks!
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