A bed for Dolly

I found this sweet wooden doll crib at the thrift store and knew it would be a great imaginary play toy for my girls. When I brought it home, LittleA said it was missing bedding, so I let her go through my sewing supplies and pick out some fabrics she liked. I used foam to make the mattress and pillow and covered them both in fabric. I like how she picked all coordinating colours. Ever since we got the crib LittleA has been pretending that the she is me and the doll is her sister LittleS. She takes very good care of her doll, and copies me right down to the swaddling :).

Big Sister

Big News! My daughter A, has become a big sister, Alhumdulillah! In preparation for the big day we made a 'big sister' shirt for her to wear when the baby came home. She is smitten with little sister S, and she can't wait for her to become a not so sleepy newborn and play with her.

Raglan Tee

Today I made this Raglan Tee for my daughter while she was away at Tae Kwan Do class. I am waiting for her to come home so I can show it to her and have her try it on. I really hope she likes it! I will try and take some better pictures tomorrow of the tee when the sun is out inshaAllah. To make this tee I followed the tutorial on the 'Craftiness is not Optional' blog, here. I really like how it turned out, and the instructions were really clear and easy to follow. I also added a flower applique cut out from the accent material to complete the look.

Handmade Stamps

I remember making stamps in high school and how much fun it was to do print making. My favourite stamp was a large one I made of a collage of masjids to make a really cool architectural night time scene. Today I introduced this craft to my daughter and she really enjoyed it. We even got her Baba involved in the stamp making!

My daughter simply drew her design on the rubber with a pencil and cut it out using a lino cutter. Both items I got at Michaels using a 50% off coupon a few years ago so I got a great deal.

Since we didn't have any ink pads we used black acrylic paint instead which worked just as well. This stamp below, that my daughter made, is one of my favourites.

We put our new handmade stamps (and a few old premade ones) to good use by making some thank you cards and some early Eid cards. We decided that watercolours were the perfect addition to brighten them up.

My daughter declared this to be a really fun craft :). I agree, alhumdulillah.

Beaded Bubble Wands

With the weather getting nicer we are spending a lot more time outside. This week we decided to make some new bubble wands using wire and beads! The last time we made some we used wire and wooden dowels.

This was a fun way to use up some random stray beads we had from broken bracelets and things.

We also bent the tops of our wands into different shapes like circle and heart. Blowing bubbles is definitely one of my daughter's favourite things to do on our balcony. Happy Spring!