Hair Bow Organizer

          Although I wish every great idea was mine, I have to say that they are not.  Most the time I see something I like and I personalize it.  A lot of people have probably seen the hair bow organizers on Pinterest.  I have seen them made with a single large picture frame and ribbons down the back to hand the bows on.  Well, I needed something to hang Kat's hair bows on and I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money on a picture frame.  I also only had a small amount of wall space for this project.  I found these 8x10 picture frames at Walmart for $3 each.  I bought 3 because I was planning on using two for bows and the one in the middle for hats.  I attached plastic hooks to the bottom so that I could hang headbands.  The only thing I used to decorate the frames themselves was ribbon and hot glue.  I think it turned out pretty good, but my only complaint is that I couldn't figure out how to attach the hats to the ribbon.  This made me a little sad seeing as though I crochet hats and wanted to hang them there as well.  So, if anyone has a suggestion on how I could attach the hats then please let me know.  =)

Newborn Hats

 

These are just some of my favorite hats that I have made.  The one with cat ears and the last one are my favorites!  

Baby Shower Decoration

My Baby Shower Picture Holder

Picture Holder Before

My baby shower is next Saturday and I've seen what my decorations look like.  I saw Pink, Purple, and White polka dots!  Well, I had thought of a Valentine's theme myself because i came across a cute little onesie at Target that said "Mommy's Valentine."  Since Kat is due 2 days after valentine's, I loved it (it did help that there was a cute little kitten on the onesie too, but we're not going to talk about that right now...haha!).  For mine & Dale's wedding reception, I had decorated in red hearts since my color was red.  I went digging through our wedding stuff to see what I had.  I came across the picture holder with red hearts pictured above.  At our wedding reception, this had pictures of Dale & I.  I thought it would be cute to put Kat's ultrasound pictures in it.  Well, we aren't exactly doing the "Mommy's Valentine" theme after all, but I still liked the idea of the picture holder with Kat's pics in it.  So, seeing that I love doing crafty things, I decided to make it match the shower decorations.  

My Etsy Shop

The Crafty Little Kitty began as just a thought of mine in June 2012. I began posting pictures of crafts I made in a blog. At that time, I had only sold a handful of items that I had crocheted. Family, friends, and coworkers have been telling me for quite some time that I should open my own Etsy shop. With the start of a new year, I felt this was the best time to introduce my new shop: TheCraftyLittleKitty Crochet!

My Etsy shop:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheCraftyLittleKitty

Like my Facebook Page:   http://www.facebook.com/TheCraftyLittleKittyCrochet

Bandana Dress

  
          I've been wanting to teach myself how to sew for years now.  About a year ago, I bought myself a sewing machine.  I attempted to thread it a few times and then it sat around to collect dust.  Finally, a few months ago I pulled it back out and finally figured out how to thread it.  I made a pillow for the rocking chair in Kat's room and then pushed it aside...where it again began to collect dust.  I pulled it out again today to attempt to make something again.  So for my second attempt at sewing, I decided to try to make a bandana dress because it looked pretty simple.  I still have a lot to learn about sewing, but I think it's pretty cute for being one of the first things I've ever made.  I hope that this will fit Kat this summer.

Kitty Baby Mobile

So, I've been told that I am a little too obsessed with cats.  I guess it's no secret that I love my four legged babies.  You have probably also guessed that if was living alone, I probably would be the crazy cat lady.  =)

Anyway, since I am decorating Katherine's room with kittens, I needed a cat baby mobile.  These are actually very hard to come across.  I have searched and searched the internet looking for these.  I found probably a total of two.  And I wasn't really "in love" with the either one of them.  This is when I decided to make something of my own! 

I started with two wooden dowels.  I sowed pink felt around the dowels and  then attached them.  I then made myself 4 of what I have been calling my mini-kitties.  I used colors that I had already been using in Kat's room.  I also used yellow and green yarn, which were not colors in the room, but they went well with project.  I made some flowers as the center of the mobile for something else for her to look up at.  I then made itty-bitty flowers to come down off the chains the cats were hanging from. 

I actually had everything that I used to make this, so I paid absolutely nothing for her mobile!  It did take me around 10 hours total to make this, but I think it was well worth it.  The picture just doesn't do it justice.  I think this is my favorite thing that I have ever made! 

Kitties!

 

I made these kitties this week!  I found a very simple crochet pattern and made it.  Then I started wondering what the pattern would look like if I only did half of the amount of stitches that it said to do.  I am very pleased with the result and am now addicted to making my mini-kitties.  Below is a close up of one of my mini-kitties.  I have a big project that I am working on where I am going to use these mini-kitties.  So check back in a few days to see that!  Sometime in the near future, I'm going to try a few other things with these kitties and I even plan on making a bigger kitty by doubling the pattern.

Mini Kitty

Original Kitty

12/2/12 Update --  I took bigger, softer yarn and a bigger crochet hook and created a big stuffed kitty for Kat.