Old school baby tricks and comfortable baby sling

How to carry your baby African style - More DIY How To Projects

I am currently working on making some baby slings and I saw this on instructables and thought it was great. I was also watching a movie series the other day called Into the West.. I'm not a huge western fan but really enjoyed it. One of the Indian women was carrying her baby in a basket type thing on her back, similar to an odd version of a backpack.
It looked super comfortable so I am going to try to figure out how to make one. We'll see, I might bring back really old school, eco-friendly baby backpacks!!

Another old indian trick- swaddling! Here is a good tutorial of how to use a simple baby blanket. I am also going to be coming out with easy velcro swaddling blankets soon!!


Help Your Baby To Sleep .......... - Funny bloopers R us

Adventures of baby photography

I went over to my soon-to-be sister/brother-in-law's house last night to take pictures of their adorable little baby, Geran. When I got there he was asleep and woke up very hungry! His schedule has been off after he got his immunization shots... poor guy. He refused to be my model until he gt some wonderfully, delicious milk from mommy. When he decided he was full he was almost willing to be a patient model. The first outfit he was a little cranky but looked so amazingly cute in the 'Lost Bo-peep' set. which is now on sale in my etsy shop (there is my shameless self-promotion).

He was such a little trooper! We got through almost 5 outfit changes!! Although, all of the pieces will need to be washed because of baby Geran's yummy milk left overs that didn't come out during the first burping session end up on every single piece of clothing he modeled. Now you know that they are baby tested, mother approved an will withstand everyday baby wear and tear *smile*.

Geran even passed as a lovely little girl when he modeled the pink and yellow ruffled onesie. Don't tell dad, but he looked great!!
Most of the pictures turned out blurry but at least I got enough to post for the listings on my shop with a few pictures of the items not on little Geran.
Thank you Geran for being such an adorable baby; you will definitely be a super-star on my etsy page/blog and will return when I need you to model more outfits. Special thanks to Susan for letting be photograph Geran after such a long shopping day.

Check out my shop! There are a lot more items not shown on my blog.

Craft addiction

I have to admit that my name is Rachel, and I am a total craft junky. I just bought 3 patterns from buggabug. They are so amazingly cute I can hardly stand it!! I am super excited to make the baby basket, cinammon rolls, and the tea set! I will keep you updated! They will for sure be in my shop in the near future!

The bubble jester

I took one on my sketches and scanned it on my printer and printed it on transfer paper!! It turned out very cute ironed on the back of a onesie. Another drawing is ironed on the front. I will try to take a picture of it. *mental note.

Lesson learned: color on the sketch and not the transfer after it is ironed.
It work ok putting the color on after but if looks a little rushed in putting it together. I drew the bubbles up and over the shoulder to connect the two drawings. I am so happy with how it turned out!

Yay!! I finally got my clothing labels!!! They are very cute! Big shout out to
mommiemadeit.etsy.com. turned out great!!

Super Productive

I said I would post again a couple of days ago but I have been working on some adorable projects. I found this little onesie in a thrift store and a friend of mine gave me a little baby cardigan to use and they work great together! I added the yellow and white trim and ta da! it looks like I bought them together!
Sticking with the mother goose theme... the lamb lost Bo-peep! How is he to find her??
I was super excited that my aunt bought me a sizzix machine for x-mas and then I realize that the dies are sold seperately! So I had to wait until I had a little extra money to buy some. Here is a cute little lamb die I got! I gave him some detail with fabric markers. So cute!!

I added two snaps to the jacket and realized AFTERWARD how thin the fabric is! I reinforced the snap the second time... lesson learned! I then used fabric glue to put the little flower/pearl embellishments on and used clear thread to secure them!
I realized how much easier it is to use the clear thread! It would have been such a pain to try and hide the thread with the transparent flowers!
Ta Da- cute little Bo-peep "Easter" outfit!!

First Post!

Everyone has been telling me that blogging can be as therapeutic as my crafting but I'm not so sure. They also say that it is useful to let people know what I am up to and updates about my shop that I just opened up at mothergooseandgear.etsy.com. I have been working so hard at getting this whole thing up and running. It has been very difficult to find time. I was diagnosed with Lyme disease last August and treatment has been horrendous. I am more sick treating the lyme than when I didnt know I had it. I am constantly sick but my motivation is to get this business going and my fiance, Matt. He is so encouraging and sees how much happier I am when I am creating my masterpeices.

I will post more later because it is getting very late. Please check out my shop. I have a lot more items to add and descriptions to type but it is now in progress!