|
|
|||
A great Advent Activity for your family! Order my Jesse Tree Ornament Tutorial today and create your own holiday tradition. Find out more here.
Sew this hood style animal hat to keep your child warm this winter. Purchase pattern here.
Easy to make mermaid costume pattern for American Girl Dolls or 15" Bamboletta. Purchase pattern here. 
Sew this beautiful ruffled tote bag for yourself or a friend. It's sure to bring compliments. Purchase pattern here. |
Thanks to all of you for being such great readers and followers of my site! Today I am giving away this handmade (by me) Doll Mermaid Costume for standard 18″ dolls. Costume is as pictured above. Doll and doll stand not included. All you need to do to win is enter below. Winner will be chosen on November 23rd. Good luck!
We are already on week 2 of my Handmade Holiday posts. You saw in an earlier post that my youngest daughter loves mermaids. Of course her doll needed a mermaid costume on Halloween too. Now I have this mermaid doll costume pattern available for you to purchase. My daughters have had so much pretend play fun with their dolls dressed up as mermaids and my boys pretending to be the pirates. I just know your daughter will love putting this costume on her doll. Continue reading Handmade Holidays | Doll Mermaid Costume Pattern
Remember earlier in the week when I teased you with the hint of a free pattern? Here it is. A free pattern download to create a matching fleece animal hat for your daughter’s American Girl Doll or 18″ doll. This hat will also fit a 15″ Bamboletta or various styles of Waldorf dolls too. This free doll hat download has the same animal ears to match the Fleece Animal Hat Pattern for children that you can read about and purchase here. I hope you are getting inspired to make your holiday gifts handmade! And please share my website with your friends so they can be inspired to create handmade gifts this year too. Continue reading Handmade Holidays | Doll Fleece Animal Hat Pattern
It is the first full week of November and I am kicking off my Handmade Holiday series with this adorable fleece hat pattern that is available for purchase! Wouldn’t your son or daughter love to wear one of these warm hats outside on a chilly winter day? Animal style hats are already really popular this season. This hat is worn similar to a hood to help keep their head extra toasty. Front flaps tuck easily underneath their coat to keep their neck warm and covered while they play. As you can see there is a lot of animal ear variations that can be done to create different animal styles. Lucky for you, all the ears shown here are included as part of the hat pattern. Continue reading Handmade Holidays | Fleece Animal Hat Pattern
It is super cold here today, just like winter actually. The weather is giving me a little push to get the holiday plans laid out for my blog. So, I wanted to let all of you know that I have a lot of exciting things planned for my blog for this upcoming holiday season! A giveaway! Yes you heard correct, a giveaway for a lovely item handmade by me. I will also be continuing my Handmade Holiday series this year and it will feature a couple different sewing patterns that will be available for purchase and one or two free pattern ideas. I will also have some free printable downloads available as Christmas gets closer. If you are a follower of my blog you may have seen my Advent Activities lists. To check out my previous year’s list of activities you can click these links: I would also love it if you would follow me on Facebook, just click the “Like” button over there in the sidebar! There are lots of fun things coming up this November and December and you won’t want to miss any of them. Also, I will be starting a new sponsor/advertising program for my sidebar area. If you have an interest in advertising on my site just shoot me an email! I would love to have you!
Does your little guy or gal need a cape for Halloween? My little dude has had a sudden idea for a new costume. It involves a super hero cape, in green. I didn’t want to spend much time or money creating a super hero cape for him, so I came up with an easy way to make my own super hero cape. Fleece works great for this project because you don’t have to sew the edges and it will keep your little super hero warm on Halloween night. Continue reading How To | Fleece Super Hero Cape
This week we used yarn again to make another Halloween critter, a bat. I believe you should try to use the supplies you have on hand and since we already had black yarn I came up with a way to create this little bat. Kinda cute isn’t he? You can even change him up a bit by adding some vampire teeth or making him a her by adding a cute tissue paper bow. Give it a try and see what you can turn your little bat friend in to! Continue reading How To | Yarn Pom-pom Bat
Over the weekend we were busy making some new Halloween decorations. I try not to get my kids too excited about Halloween until it is at least October. That usually means we don’t do any Halloween related projects until October either. My two older kids (ages 6 and 7) loved making their own spider and web out of yarn. When they were finished we hung them off of the mantle of the fireplace. We are hoping to make some more to hang nearby for a really scary spider effect. I think they would also be fun hanging in the corners of a doorway. Continue reading How To | Yarn Spider and Web
I want to introduce all of you to my new friend Sarah of Simply Sweet by Sarah. She makes the coolest boot socks and legwarmers, just perfect for the Fall season. I just couldn’t resist asking her to be a sponsor of The Craft Nest because I knew my readers would love her socks and legwarmers just as much as I do! Continue reading Blog Sponsor | Simply Sweet by Sarah
Can you tell she is posing and saying “cheese” for all of you. It is tricky to get a picture of her because she pauses for about a half second before she runs up to the camera and tries to see herself in the display on the back. So, she wanted to be a mermaid for Halloween. How did I know that this 21 month old spitfire wanted to be a mermaid? Because she can talk loudly, forcefully and in long sentences already. She loves all things mermaid and of course wants to have a mermaid costume. Who wouldn’t, look how it sparkles, and as she says, “it is prip-pee” (that’s pretty in adult speak). Continue reading How To | Toddler Mermaid Costume |
 I was a Design Manager in the scrapbooking industry until the birth of my first child. I then turned freelance designer, crafter and stay-at-home mom. I reside in MI with my husband and our four kids. Find out more about me here.    
  
`
© Copyright 2007-2012, Alanna George. All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce contents or images from this site, please email alannageorge@alannageorge.com. |
|
|
Copyright © 2014 Alanna George | The Craft Nest - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
|||
Follow Me