Baby shower crafts and gifts

On Sunday I am helping put on a baby shower for one of my friends and former roommates. I have been having fun looking through Pinterest to get good ideas and she has been sending some my way as well. Here are a couple of the things I have been putting together...

Burp Cloth from towel and fabric

Before: no paint
After: with paint (I used Q-tips)

And for a slightly more complicated project I tackled turning a T-shirt into a bib. I again used a towel for the back of the bib and LOVED how these turned out. And it only takes me about 30 mins to make one.

Shirt

Cut it open

Pin down pattern

Cut out around pattern

Pin face down onto fabric for the back

 At this point you pin the two pieces together, cut the fabric out, and then sew the two pieces together leaving a space to flip the bib inside out. Once it is flipped the correct way you pin the opening shut and sew around the entire bib again.

Finished!

The last step is sewing on Velcro.  For the full instructions and to get the pattern here is the web-site: http://www.alittletipsy.com/2010/11/baby-week-shirt-bib.html

Three Rivers Festival

Last weekend Dan and I wanted to go to the Three Rivers Festival in town. They always have a fun assortment of food (known as Junk Food Ally) and an area for crafts and other activities. Dan had a meeting downtown on Saturday morning so I tagged along and used the time to finish up a couple books I have been reading and study for my exam. By the time the meeting was finished we were ready to eat...

Pizza and Sausage! Yummy

After we finished eating our first round of food we went in search for a funnel cake. And strangely I heard my name (which I never expect to happen) and there was one of my friends from College whom I haven't seen in years. We had a great time chatting with her and her fiance. It was so fun hearing how she was doing,  their up coming wedding plans, and how they met on-line :)

We parted ways so they could get food and I could get my funnel cake and so we could walk through the craft tents. They had a lot more booths set up from last year and even moved their cultural tent to another location, which we found later. Before we left we did get round three of food which was beef tips and red potatoes (a personal favorite for me) and some refreshing lemonade.

By this time we were pretty hot and tired so we headed home to cool off and relax for a while before heading off to a movie. But the movie projector wasn't working so they gave us money back for our tickets and two free tickets each! Not what we had in mind but we were fine with it :)

Detroit Part 2

After spending the day in Dearborn we grabbed some dinner at Buddy's and headed into downtown for the game :)

Really good pizza!

Ready to eat :)

Happy to sit down

 We had a little bit of trouble finding the stadium due to cell phone troubles but we were able to find it.

Heading in

Lion's stadium right across the street

View from our seats

One of Dan's fantasy Baseball players

Prince Fielder

Enjoying the shade and breeze

Love this advertising campaign!

Fountain

Carousel

Tiger at main entrance

Heading home from the game

Fireworks after the game

It wasn't the most exciting game but we still had fun and were glad we went. We left the game and drove back to Hastings, which meant we got back to our tent around 1:45 am :) But we got to sleep in before going to church in the morning. We ate lunch in the cafeteria and then packed up to head home. Lastly I got pictures of the campground and then we bid camp good bye till next year. We were pretty excited to get home as I forgot to pack the air mattress...which meant sleeping on the ground and a few nights on cushions from my parents trailer, but they left before we did.

Detroit Part 1

On Saturday Dan and I decided to drive from Hastings to Detroit as it was just over 2 hours away. We started the day out in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, just outside the city. Greenfield Village was created by Henry Ford and is amazing. He moved or replicated different houses, farms, and old ways of doing things.

Working Farm

Cooking food for the workers

Weaving

Pottery

Painting

Printing

Tin lanterns

Making tin objects

We love learning :)

Rag time Street Fair

 They also had a Rag Time Street fair on the main street. They had food, live music, and dancing. We bought some hobo bread and I got fresh lemonade. We also got pictures of Dan's favorite building, a courtroom from Illinois where Abraham Lincoln practiced law.

Inside the court room

Corner Cabinet Lincoln made

Outside of the court room

Bike rider

 In the afternoon they play an old game of baseball...meaning they use rules from the 1800's. It was fun watching them play and they had Theodore Roosevelt throw the first pitch and give part of his campaign speech when he ran for the presidency.

 Parade to the field

Roosevelt

Game time

First Pitch

Waving to the train

Old Windmill

Dictionary in Webster's house

Ladies having afternoon lunch on the lawn

Learning to dance

We had a great time and were ready to go when we finished, it was a lot of time being on our feet in the hot sun...we were ready for some dinner!