Baby Shower Gifts

My friends and family have been keeping busy.  I am happy to say I ended this weekend with my best friend Justine sharing that she is engaged!!!!! And to be ready for a wedding, possibly before the end of the year.  Well before I get into wedding mode I have 7 friends/family members having babies, and my best friend Erin is having twins.  So I have 8 babies to shower!  I have 7 beautiful babies arriving within a 6 week span.  My sister-in-law is having her bouncing boy in November.  I have been searching Pinterest for ideas and found so many.  Now i like to say that I am an organized person but sometimes I loose track of time.  Here are a couple of gifts I tried to make from my Pinterest boards.

I made a burp cloth, with fabric i had at home as well as using an old t-shirt.  I am so proud of my skills, I might be making burp clothes for all our baby showers.

Here is the "cute" side of the burp cloth.

Here is the "functional" side of the burp cloth.  I am still working on my sewing skills but I had so much fun making these, I'll keep practicing and will get better.

And the final presentation of this lovely homemade gift:

My friend pinned a wall decoration to add a nautical feel to a nursery rhyme.  I decided to make her the wall decoration but turn it into a picture frame.  (The star is a starfish). Since she is having twins I made two picture frames.

One of my favorite gift ideas is a Dr. Seuss theme.  Now my fellow teachers that have worked with me know my love for Dr. Seuss and I couldn't resist this gift idea.  I found someone who threw a Dr. Seuss themed baby shower online/Pinterest and a poetic person wrote a poem about items a baby will need based off Dr. Seuss' "Oh The Places You'll Go."  I will buy the book to add to the gift.

Dog Show and Baby Shower

This weekend kicked off baby shower season. Unfortunately there have been two showers that we missed earlier this year but we mailed the babes gifts. I celebrated my first and only girl baby shower this past weekend (our cousin Rose is having the other girl but her shower for the family was in the fall).  I was feeling adventurous and brought out the sewing machine and tried a Pinterest craft.  Stay tuned, I will post my shower gifts on another post.

While I went to the baby shower Will and Wally went canoeing but they did not take any pictures, but sounds like Wally loved jumping into the water and feeling the breeze on his face.

Sunday was the Dog Show.  I had so much fun but next year will get there earlier and possible go by myself so I can see all of the Best Of awards.  It was hard to get a good picture because the dogs kept moving, but here is a dog that looks like Wally.