Oct 3, 2009
Shrunken onesie revamp #2
This was the second NYC souvenir shop onesie that I revamped. I kept the skirt really simple for this one. She really loves twirly skirts. I have got to get more made. And yes I know the shoes don't match. They are the ones she picked out.
Mini pumpkin pies
Bakerella does it again!!! I love checking her site and being tempted to no end. How did she know my latest pregnancy craving was for pumpkin pie and that I have zero resistance right now? Well I could hold out no longer and I just had to make some of these super cute and very mini pumpkin pies. Click on the link above to find all the instructions. Man, her lighting is so much better than mine too. Her pies look orange not brownish green like mine. But I can assure you they tasted delicious just the same.
The only thing I did differently was I drizzled mine (a healthy drizzle of course) with caramel sauce and then topped them with...
A dollop of cool whip. Real whipped cream would have been so much better but I didn't have any on hand. These were so easy to eat one right after the other. I did share with small fry but she wasn't really into them, sad I know but someone had to eat them. Can't let them go to waste as my dad would say.
Wouldn't these be so cute for a buffet or a party. Seriously easy and delicious. Thanks a million Bakerella.
The only thing I did differently was I drizzled mine (a healthy drizzle of course) with caramel sauce and then topped them with...
A dollop of cool whip. Real whipped cream would have been so much better but I didn't have any on hand. These were so easy to eat one right after the other. I did share with small fry but she wasn't really into them, sad I know but someone had to eat them. Can't let them go to waste as my dad would say. 
Wouldn't these be so cute for a buffet or a party. Seriously easy and delicious. Thanks a million Bakerella.
Happy 100 Giveaway
This giveaway is now closed. Thanks!
Boy, ask and ye shall receive. From last night to tonight 109 followers. WOW!!!! You guys are awesome. I hadn't had a chance to check the computer all day and tonight when I got on, what a great sight. Thanks for all the support. I had grand plans of a fabulous photo shoot of the giveaway prize today but with my husband still out elk hunting and small fry pretty much forgoing naps today, the day was not my own. But I didn't want to wait any longer to show you what you could win, so I took a shot in my craft room tonight and maybe tomorrow I can get out and take the pictures I want to of these beauties. Then I will post them again.
So here it goes. My happy 100 followers giveaway prize is........
this set of 5 fabric pumpkins. They are in varying sizes and made out of different materials. The biggest one is just under 9 inches across. I have a big stack of these by my front door. I love, love, love them and I hope one of you will too. To enter you just need to leave a comment. I am assuming anyone who leaves a comment is wanting to be entered. If you are just commenting but don't want to be entered let me know. I must apologize but unfortunately for this giveaway you must be in the USA. These are pretty bulky and will fill a good sized box and I just can't afford to send them out of the country. I really apologize. Blame USPS. Now for those of you who leave a comment to win the pumpkins I have a little bonus prize......
these, well more specifically.....
this set of 4 witch cards. I didn't come up with these myself. You can find the down loadable pattern here. Theirs are so much more adorable than mine but I was feeling in the mood to make a few cards so I thought I might as well add them as a bonus prize. If you are the lucky winner of the pumpkins and you are a follower you will get these as well.
Boy, ask and ye shall receive. From last night to tonight 109 followers. WOW!!!! You guys are awesome. I hadn't had a chance to check the computer all day and tonight when I got on, what a great sight. Thanks for all the support. I had grand plans of a fabulous photo shoot of the giveaway prize today but with my husband still out elk hunting and small fry pretty much forgoing naps today, the day was not my own. But I didn't want to wait any longer to show you what you could win, so I took a shot in my craft room tonight and maybe tomorrow I can get out and take the pictures I want to of these beauties. Then I will post them again.
So here it goes. My happy 100 followers giveaway prize is........
this set of 5 fabric pumpkins. They are in varying sizes and made out of different materials. The biggest one is just under 9 inches across. I have a big stack of these by my front door. I love, love, love them and I hope one of you will too. To enter you just need to leave a comment. I am assuming anyone who leaves a comment is wanting to be entered. If you are just commenting but don't want to be entered let me know. I must apologize but unfortunately for this giveaway you must be in the USA. These are pretty bulky and will fill a good sized box and I just can't afford to send them out of the country. I really apologize. Blame USPS. Now for those of you who leave a comment to win the pumpkins I have a little bonus prize......
these, well more specifically.....
this set of 4 witch cards. I didn't come up with these myself. You can find the down loadable pattern here. Theirs are so much more adorable than mine but I was feeling in the mood to make a few cards so I thought I might as well add them as a bonus prize. If you are the lucky winner of the pumpkins and you are a follower you will get these as well. The deadline for entering is Tuesday night. I will announce a winner Wednesday morning. Good luck to everyone and thanks again for your support.
Oct 2, 2009
You can help
My husband is off elk hunting tonight, small fry is in bed and I have the whole night to myself. Is that possible? Kind of wondering what to do with myself. Not really, I have tons of projects in my craft room to be working on so I must get to it but I just wanted to add a couple of posts tonight; this one being the most exciting.
I have had my little followers section from the day I started Small Fry & Co. and have been watching it grow ever so slowly over the past 10 months. It is wonderful to have perfect strangers like what I do enough to want to "follow" what I am posting. I don't know how others feel about their followers section but there is nothing better than checking my blog and seeing that I have new followers. So I have a deal to make: when that little followers box shows me that I have reached 100 followers, we are having a fall giveaway. Can't tell you yet what it will be, well okay, I will give you a hint: they are orange and plentiful in October. That is all I am going to say. So those of you out there (my friends and family included HINT HINT) that are not yet followers, you can help get this giveaway underway faster if you decide to add yourself (and why wouldn't you want to???). You don't have to be a follower to win, I just won't announce the giveaway until I reach the magic number. Having said that, I also won't announce the giveaway until I have the giveaway prize complete, hence another reason to quit blogging for the night and hit the craft room. Something inside me wants to yell out "ring those phones, ring those phones" but only a couple of you will know what the heck I am talking about. Anyway hope someone out there can help. Looking forward to sharing a fun giveaway.
I have had my little followers section from the day I started Small Fry & Co. and have been watching it grow ever so slowly over the past 10 months. It is wonderful to have perfect strangers like what I do enough to want to "follow" what I am posting. I don't know how others feel about their followers section but there is nothing better than checking my blog and seeing that I have new followers. So I have a deal to make: when that little followers box shows me that I have reached 100 followers, we are having a fall giveaway. Can't tell you yet what it will be, well okay, I will give you a hint: they are orange and plentiful in October. That is all I am going to say. So those of you out there (my friends and family included HINT HINT) that are not yet followers, you can help get this giveaway underway faster if you decide to add yourself (and why wouldn't you want to???). You don't have to be a follower to win, I just won't announce the giveaway until I reach the magic number. Having said that, I also won't announce the giveaway until I have the giveaway prize complete, hence another reason to quit blogging for the night and hit the craft room. Something inside me wants to yell out "ring those phones, ring those phones" but only a couple of you will know what the heck I am talking about. Anyway hope someone out there can help. Looking forward to sharing a fun giveaway.
Oct 1, 2009
A question for the mothers out there.
I have been slowly checking things off my "to do list" before the baby arrives (p.s. thanks for all the nickname suggestions) and I have come to making a set of bumper pads for the crib for little girl #2. I didn't have any for small fry because I read everything I could get my hands on before she was born and there were a lot of things that said that bumper pads are not safe/recommended/whatever. So I was a firm believer that I was going to do just what the books told me. Problem was she was and still is a binkie girl and that blasted binkie would get knocked down between the slats of the crib almost nightly (when she was more mobile) and we would have to get up and do a major binkie search to find it and the other problem was that small fry was a night crawler. Long before she was able to crawl she was crawling/creeping in her crib at night and constantly we would wake up to a loud thud as she would hit her head at the end of the crib.
So this time around I am thinking I want to have bumper pads because I think they will be very useful to us and help eliminate some unnecessary waking up in the night. So my question to the mothers out there is: did you use/do you have bumper pads in your babies crib? Were you worried about safety and SIDS because of them? Did you feel like they were necessary or helpful?
So this time around I am thinking I want to have bumper pads because I think they will be very useful to us and help eliminate some unnecessary waking up in the night. So my question to the mothers out there is: did you use/do you have bumper pads in your babies crib? Were you worried about safety and SIDS because of them? Did you feel like they were necessary or helpful?
Sep 27, 2009
Question
The other night as my husband I were laying in bed I said to him, "honey, what are we going to give our second daughter as a nick name that would go along with small fry?" We started brainstorming. Here is what we came up with:
lil' sprite
fry sauce
side salad
mini frosty
lil' nugget
small shake
Just wondering if anyone out there has any better ideas?
Car Seat Cover
I have been seeing these around lately and I love the whole concept and wanted to get one or more made for our new baby on the way. The only problem is that I haven't got a lot of time. I decided that there must be a way to make one out of a blanket I already have which would save me a bunch of time. If you want to make one from scratch go here for a tutorial on how to make this one.
Here is what I did to make this one.
I took a receiving blanket that I already had and made sure it was big enough to fit over my carseat and cover everything that I wanted to be covered. I then found a scrap of fabric that matched to make my straps to attach it to the carseat.
I found that the blanket was not a perfect square so I folded it in half the longest way and pressed the crease with my iron.
Next I placed the blanket over the handle of my carseat like this with the crease on the handle and marked where I would want the attaching straps to be with a pin.
Like this.
Next I measured from each side of the blanket to my pins to make sure they were even. Mine were not from my eyeball measurement so I adjusted my pins to be 10 inches from each edge. This would of course vary some from carseat to carseat and blanket to blanket.
Next to make the straps I cut two strips of my coordinating fabric 4 inches wide. That was just a measurement I pulled out of my head.
I did not worry about length at this point. I placed two strips together, with the right sides of the fabric together.
Next I sewed a seam down each side. My seams were 3/8". There again I just pulled that measurement out of my head for no particular reason. I did this for each strap set (you should have 2).
I then turned each strip right side out, pressed flat with the iron and top stitched at 1/8".
Next I turned under a 1/2" twice on one end of the strap. I sewed along my bottom fold to hold this in place. NOTE: I was using flannel and this was a bit thick for sewing through. I will share my solution in a couple of steps.
Now I pinned this strap piece to the center crease on my blanket and....
Wrapped it around my carseat handle to see just how long I wanted the strap to be. I found that the tighter the better. I cut off the extra part of my strap piece.
I found that 8 3/4 " was the length I wanted. NOTE: After completing this project I decided I would probably go 8 1/4" for the length next time and make it a bit tighter.
Now repeat your folding and sewing step from above at the other end of the strap. Do this to both.
Because of the thickness of this fold I found it was easier to sew starting in about a 1/4" from each edge like this:
I wanted my straps to attach to the carseat with velcro. I know that buttons or snaps or ties would work too but my husband who often calls himself "fumble fingers" would find velcro the easiest to do so I chose that. I cut two strips just slightly shorter than the width of my strap pieces.
I sewed each piece to one end of the strap. Make sure you sew them on opposite sides.
When fastened it will look like this.
Now fold this strap in half to find it's center and match that with the center crease on your blanket. I centered the pin that I had marked with in the middle (width wise) of the strap.
Sew down the center of each strap (I used the crease on the blanket as a guide). Technically you are finished here, and can attach this to you carseat. I did that but found that I didn't like how it hung (seemed like it needed more stability).
So I went back to my machine and sewed another row of stitching on each side of the center row.
I felt like this hung better. That is it, you are finished. A nice little tent for your little one that you don't have to worry about falling off as you carry your carseat.
Here is the side view.
Here is the second one I made.
Here is what I did to make this one. I took a receiving blanket that I already had and made sure it was big enough to fit over my carseat and cover everything that I wanted to be covered. I then found a scrap of fabric that matched to make my straps to attach it to the carseat.
I found that the blanket was not a perfect square so I folded it in half the longest way and pressed the crease with my iron. 
Next I placed the blanket over the handle of my carseat like this with the crease on the handle and marked where I would want the attaching straps to be with a pin.
Like this.
Next I measured from each side of the blanket to my pins to make sure they were even. Mine were not from my eyeball measurement so I adjusted my pins to be 10 inches from each edge. This would of course vary some from carseat to carseat and blanket to blanket.
Next to make the straps I cut two strips of my coordinating fabric 4 inches wide. That was just a measurement I pulled out of my head.
I did not worry about length at this point. I placed two strips together, with the right sides of the fabric together.
Next I sewed a seam down each side. My seams were 3/8". There again I just pulled that measurement out of my head for no particular reason. I did this for each strap set (you should have 2).
I then turned each strip right side out, pressed flat with the iron and top stitched at 1/8".
Next I turned under a 1/2" twice on one end of the strap. I sewed along my bottom fold to hold this in place. NOTE: I was using flannel and this was a bit thick for sewing through. I will share my solution in a couple of steps.
Now I pinned this strap piece to the center crease on my blanket and....
Wrapped it around my carseat handle to see just how long I wanted the strap to be. I found that the tighter the better. I cut off the extra part of my strap piece.
I found that 8 3/4 " was the length I wanted. NOTE: After completing this project I decided I would probably go 8 1/4" for the length next time and make it a bit tighter.
Now repeat your folding and sewing step from above at the other end of the strap. Do this to both.
Because of the thickness of this fold I found it was easier to sew starting in about a 1/4" from each edge like this:
I wanted my straps to attach to the carseat with velcro. I know that buttons or snaps or ties would work too but my husband who often calls himself "fumble fingers" would find velcro the easiest to do so I chose that. I cut two strips just slightly shorter than the width of my strap pieces.
I sewed each piece to one end of the strap. Make sure you sew them on opposite sides.
When fastened it will look like this.
Now fold this strap in half to find it's center and match that with the center crease on your blanket. I centered the pin that I had marked with in the middle (width wise) of the strap.
Sew down the center of each strap (I used the crease on the blanket as a guide). Technically you are finished here, and can attach this to you carseat. I did that but found that I didn't like how it hung (seemed like it needed more stability).
So I went back to my machine and sewed another row of stitching on each side of the center row.
I felt like this hung better. That is it, you are finished. A nice little tent for your little one that you don't have to worry about falling off as you carry your carseat.
Here is the side view.
Here is the second one I made.
Sep 25, 2009
Shrunken onesie revamp
I bought these onesies for Small Fry when I was in New York at a souvenir shop. Of course when I washed them they shrunk terribly. I didn't want them to just be put away without her getting to wear them so I decided to turn them into dresses. I started a tutorial with the white onesie which says, "somebody in New York Loves me" but as I was making this little outfit it got more and more complicated and I realized that there was no way I could explain in words what in the world I did. So instead you can just see the before....
My lovely assistant sitting on my knee at the sewing machine...
And the after!!
It ended up being shorter than I wanted so I just put a pair of leggings on her too.
I will make one confession about this project: I have had these for a while and wanted to try this out and today I just decided to get it done but like I say it got more complicated as it went and I don't like to start something and not finish it so poor small fry was left to watch mindless cartoons and entertain herself and I didn't even feed her breakfast until 10am. I know, I know, send the bad mother award right this way please. At one point she was really quite so I went to the living room to see what she was doing and saw her slouched in a ball in her little rocking chair with her play cell phone to her ear. The look on her face said, "I will just have to call grammy since mom is not paying enough attention to me." But she looked really cute in her new outfit today. The other one I made much simpler and will add a picture when I get it on my little model.
My lovely assistant sitting on my knee at the sewing machine...
And the after!!
It ended up being shorter than I wanted so I just put a pair of leggings on her too.
I will make one confession about this project: I have had these for a while and wanted to try this out and today I just decided to get it done but like I say it got more complicated as it went and I don't like to start something and not finish it so poor small fry was left to watch mindless cartoons and entertain herself and I didn't even feed her breakfast until 10am. I know, I know, send the bad mother award right this way please. At one point she was really quite so I went to the living room to see what she was doing and saw her slouched in a ball in her little rocking chair with her play cell phone to her ear. The look on her face said, "I will just have to call grammy since mom is not paying enough attention to me." But she looked really cute in her new outfit today. The other one I made much simpler and will add a picture when I get it on my little model.
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