Family Portrait

My inspiration for this project for my nieces Christmas gift came from a book called, Bend the Rules with Fabric by Amy Karol. The pattern for the dolls came from the Donation Dollies website.

Jo and Lydia holding "themselves".

Swedish Dala Screen Print

I took the image from LiL Blue Boo's Blog (tons of cool stuff!) and turned it into a screen to print some Christmas tees for my family to celebrate Mom's Swedish heritage.

Each Snowflake is Unique

A couple of days of advent we spent studying, reading about, and making our own snowflakes. What miracles! And such an awesome testimony to our Creator God. The thought that we are infinitely more unique and created for such a greater purpose than even these beautiful ice crystals is amazing!


I used a paper doily for the "snowflake" shape on the shirt.
Then we sprayed the shirt with fabric spray paint over the snowflake.

As that dried, I made a screen using the photo emulsion technique.

I applied the emulsion to a handmade screen (organza fabric in a 14'' embroidery hoop), made a transparency of the above image and "burned" the image into the screen by exposing it in the sunlight for a couple of minutes (not a recommended method due to it's inconsistency, but it happened to work this time!)

After the fabric spray paint dried, I silkscreened the "unique" image onto the shirt!! One for each of my very unique daughters!!

Naomi's presents

Jo's friend, Naomi just turned 5! I made a fabric journal cover: Craftypod, Pencil case: Sublime Stitching and appliqued a flower on a ball cap.

Matthew's Bib

Tata's "skirt"

Here's a skirt I made from an old dress shirt of my dad's that had a stain on it. I chopped off the bottom, hemmed the waist with some elastic inside and then just sewed a ribbon to the bottom. SOOO easy!!! Inspired by Oliver + S tutorial

Easter Dresses

I made these dresses from McCall's 5966. Jo's turned out great size wise. Lydia's got about 3 more years of wear in hers :-)