Peek-A-Boo Pull Bag

Made a new product for my shop tonight. It's called the Peek-A-Boo Pull Bag. As with anything the first time I make it I find all my mistakes! So this one will be for my daughter. I'll still photograph it in the morning because I have enough fabric to make at least a couple more just like it. I'm quite pleased with how it looks, just need to tweak a few things!

Homemade cleaners

So one of my latest projects is working on a Home Management Binder. I've gotten a lot of great resources from my Susie Homemaker group on Cafemom. Part of that binder is going to be recipes for homemade cleaners. This will both save money and be more organic! Double yay =) So I compiled a bunch of the recipes from this group to create one document for me to print and put in my new Home Management Binder. I do NOT claim ownership of any of these, I simply found, copy & pasted them into a document which I formatted to my liking. I made it a PDF for easy sharing amongst my readers. Enjoy!

Download homemade cleaner recipes here.

Hairbow Holder

Ay! Sorry it's been so long since I posted. First thing I wanted to share was this hairbow holder I made. I got the idea off another blog, but it's been so long I don't remember which (sorry!).

Materials:

• canvas
• enough fabric to cover the canvas (be sure to allow a couple inches of slack on each side)
• 1 (or more) types of ribbon
• staple gun

This project is really quite simple. Cut your fabric to the size of the canvas, allowing an inch or two of slack to be stapled to the back side. Iron the fabric. On a clean, flat surface lay the fabric, print side down, with the canvas face down on top of it. Begin stapling the edges to the back of the canvas frame. Once you have the first side done, staple the opposite side. Be sure to pull the fabric taut, but don't stretch it to make your pattern askew. Then fold and staple the opposite sides. You may have to snip the corners in order to get them to lay flat.

Then, determine how many columns you want to make with your ribbons. (Perhaps using your child's bows to measure would be a good idea.) Cut the ribbon, again leaving slack for stapling, to the height of the canvas. Staple each piece at the top and bottom, to the back of the frame. Voila!

Welcome to Mommy's Favorite Things!

As a new mommy I'm constantly finding new products and resources that I love and want to share. This blog will be where I record all my favorite things, hence the name ;).

A little about me: I'm a 24 year old married mommy of one. I work full time as a teacher. With summer break approaching I'll be working full-time in retail. I go to school online full time, getting my Master's. I enjoy organizing, photography, cooking, reading, blogging, graphic designing, shopping, sewing/crafting and more! My parenting style is less-extreme attachment parenting, I breastfeed and make all my own baby food. We vaccinate and co-sleep.

And I have opinions on everything!