Vance's Birthday outfit

Vance's birthday theme was Monsters!  I found an awesome Monster fabric and had to make him a pair of pants and shirt.  The pant pattern came from a book I got from a friend, Simple Sewing for Baby by Lotta Jansdotter when Olive was born, but I hadn't actually used it until after Vance was born!  I made him the super simple pants (same pattern as the animal pants for Olive's birthday) - they are so easy and pretty darn cute on the little ones.
The tshirt I just cut out one of the monsters from the fabric and sewed it on - then I stenciled the words around it.  I think he is the cutest one year old monster on the planet!!
Here are a few professional pics take before his 1st birthday - complete with a crocheted monster hat that I made him!

Original Amigurumi

So I finally created a few original crocheted pieces!!  I made a few monsters for my kids!  I am currently working on a whole slew of monsters for Vance's 1st birthday party - for the favors - but we will keep those under wraps for now. 

But introducing jeni ro exclusives - one of a kinds..... 

 Vance's Green Monster

Olive's Pink Monster (she picked out the colors and I let her choose some features).

I think they turned out pretty cute!!

More gifties!

So as I said in my first post back (a few minutes ago) I am really trying hard to focus on projects for my kids this year - I have a list a mile long of things I want to make for them.  But I did get in a few gift projects - mostly for family!

 Spongebob fleece hat and scarf for Jacob's birthday

 Coloring tote for Tess.  I did make Olive one too - but didn't manage to get a picture of it.

 Crocheted crown for Noey's adoption as modeled by Olive.

Crocheted Oshawott pokemon stuffie for Cado's birthday.  He loved it!

Crafty Christmas!

It was a crafty Christmas from the Robertson's last year! I think I made about 90% of the gifts we gave. Yes, I am impressed with myself!!
I am grateful for the money left in our childcard account since that is probably the only way I was able to get everything done - Olive got to spend a few days at school so Mommy could craft!!
It was actually a lot of fun and I think everyone like their gifts! I had tons of inspiration (and help) from the craft blogging universe! There is some fun stuff out there!


Camo beanie! I made these for my brother in law, sister's boyfriend and my dad. Pattern from "The Happy Hooker" by Debbie Stoller

Wash mitts - for the Boise kiddos. Thank you Martha Stewart for the idea and patterns.

Camo bear and beanie for my cousin's little boy! Hat pattern from Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller, Bear pattern by Ana Paula Rimoli (but I added the J).

Chalkboard clipboards and bags for my nieces and nephews - I found the tutorial for the clipboard on one of my favorite sites - Little Birdie Secrets.

Holiday wall decoration for my Mom - totally my own design!!

Fabric key fobs for all of the girls! Found the tutorial here.

Sock dog and crocheted fire hat for our best friends' little boy. Sock dog instructions from Martha Stewart.

Bunny for my niece - Pattern by Ana Paula Rimoli

Mobile Fun!

I made a monkey mobile for my daughter's room and a friend saw it and loved it so much, she asked me to make one for her daughter's room. So I found a cute ladybug pattern (courtesy of Lion Brand Yarn) and sent Kaitlyn one for her birthday! Super cute!


Kaitlyn's LadyBug mobile


Olive's monkey mobile

Welcome to my blog!

So I am going to do it! I am going to start displaying and hopefully selling my crafts! I gave birth to my first daughter last year and have been scrapbooking, sewing and crocheting all year and loving it! After making tons of gifts for people and getting a lot of nice compliments, I decided why not join the crafty craze and see if anyone wanted to own a jeni ro!

Here are some of the things I have been working on - starting with the crocheted toys! I learned how to crochet last year after I found the cutest Amigurumi pattern book and asked my mom for some lessons - since then I have been busy making toys for our peps friends - who all turned ONE this summer!

Cute girl doll, bear in pjs and squirrel. All patterns by Ana Paula Rimoli