Talented Mommies

Just wanted to share with you the georgous purple wool fleece I just dyed tonight. I cleaned the wool straight from the raw (yeah there was debris) which took about 4 hours in total but the transformation was amazing, here are a couple of photos for your enjoyment. I will soon make these into wool dryer balls and scent them with something delicious. I recently ordered more essential oils. I will show those off later enjoy these pictures for now!

So the rule around this house is “necessity is the mother of invention” and this little number is no exception. I can barely keep pj’s on my son let alone a bathrobe and with the weather finally turning colder something had to be done. My mother had made a caftan for my father several years ago and that was my inspiration for Aidan’s. I had this fleece laying around (my sister had bought him 1/2 a yard while we were at Joanns one day), so I layed out the measurements and started sewing away. It was all done in less than 30 minutes! What a cool project and a VERY forgiving fabric. I am thinking about making one for each of us, maybe adding sleeves next time! (side note, the floor is clean it is just stained lol!)

Aidan has been wanting letters for his room for a while now & there is a WAHM store that sells AMAZING ones that I would have loved to have ordered but at $10 + each letter they are wayyy out of my budget. Here is the solution I came up with. These wooden letters were on sale at Joanns (they are not exactly perfect but what can you do) I painted them with acrylic paints, about 4 coats in all. I took Aidan to the craft store to pick out what embellishments he wanted to have for each letter, we are missing K, Q, X, Y & Z but will be on the continuing hunt for those while the hang on the wall in his room. He Is so excited about them it makes all the effort worth while. It took a little over a week to complete this project with drying times and embellishment searches but well worth it to have such a happy preschooler!