Taggie Blanket

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When I was pregnant with Dawson we got a Taggie Blanket as a gift from somebody and I honestly didn't know what it was... Fast forward a few months when Dawson was about 6 or 7 months old and started finding the tags on all of his toys and sucking on them! Seriously, the tag was totally his favorite part of any toy! And then a light bulb went off, THAT is what that blanket is for! (It's not really a blanket, I don't know why I keep calling it that...) Anyway, I got it out for him and he really liked it. We even bought him a taggie book and can you guess what his favorite part of both the book and the blanket were? Yep, the actual tag. :P There's no fooling this kid, he's been a smarty pants from the very beginning. :D Here is a picture of him sucking on the tag of his taggie book.


I hope that Ashlynn likes tags as much as Dawson did because I made her a taggie blanket. :) I hope she's not disappointed that it is missing a real tag!


I am loving my new sewing machine! I have made so much progress from the first time that I sewed, my seams are so much straighter!!! I am looking forward to getting lots more practice!

DIY Car Seat Cover

Pin It now! I sewed! I sewed!! My wonderful husband bought me a sewing machine a couple of months ago! Yippee! It took me a while to make anything because before now I had never sewed, I always talked about all the stuff that I wanted to make but didn't really think I ever could because I didn't even know how to use a sewing machine. I'm learning now though! I'm glad that my husband knows how to work a sewing machine and could teach me what I needed to know because I didn't know how to work it at all! In one night I went from not even knowing how to turn a sewing machine on -- to making this:


It's basically a blanket with velcro straps and boy is it handy!! I always throw a blanket over Ashlynn's car seat when we go out and then I either have to hold the handle with the blanket over it (which makes me nervous because I don't feel like I have good grip on the handle) or I have to put my arm under the blanket to hold the handle and then she's not completely covered like I would like her to be. So this car seat cover is perfect for me. :) I followed a few different tutorials that I found by Googling car seat cover tutorials.

I still have some practicing to do but I am beyond happy with how this turned out.


I have a long list of things that I want to make and I'll be sure to post them here as I finish them. :)