Craft Show Prep

Sorry that I have been a little MIA lately.   I have been feverishly prepping for a craft show that I have coming up on Saturday.  I actually had plenty of inventory, but I needed a pretty way to display everything.
I thought I'd share these little dandies with you.  I made bonnet stands!

These were so easy to make.  I simply bought 4 inch round wooden plaques (already had the routed edge), wooden candlesticks (I was lucky enough to find some on clearance for about 1.50!), wooden napkin rings and a wooden ball for the top.  A little wood glue, a little paint and... tada! Bonnet stands!  I did give them a good 3 coats of clear spray polyurethane, also, to keep the paint from getting scratched as easily.

I am just giggling over how cute these things are and they were so simple!
 

I built a bigger display stand, too, but that is a post for another day. :)

Gift giving...

I just finished a few gifts and I thought I would share them with you.

I couldn't show you this one before because I wanted the recipient to get it before pictures went up. Here is "Dot" made for a special little guy who had a birthday.




One of Jason's co-workers became a grandmother for the first time... and second time.... all within the last week. How's that for a life changing week? Her son now has a little boy and her daughter now has a little girl. I made these for each of them as gifts. The bibs are reversible and I sort of took my own twist on Amanda's tutorial. For the burp cloths I followed this tutorial, well sort of anyway. :)

Here is the girl's set. I love this floweredey fabric!





And here is the boy's set.





All in all a pretty easy, fun, inexpensive project.
The package of diapers was about $12.00 (and I still have 4 left), I used 8 fat quarters that I got for $.99 each, two packages of bias tape at $1.60 each and scraps of batting that I had leftover from quilts. That comes out to about $9.50 for each set. I found that you could actually get two two bibs and one burp cloth out of 2 fat quarters if you laid them out right. I just chose to do one bib of each combination for the sake of getting them done in a timely manner. I actually could have done two of each combination.

I have some other projects waiting in the wings, too, but I will save those for another post.