Flower Headband

This was a really easy-to-make felt (aka cheap!) headband. I got the pattern from here. Instead of using elastic bands for the headband part, I used baby pantyhose. You can get several headbands out of each pair of pantyhose and it's nice and soft on baby's head and doesn't leave those red marks. 

Halloween Romans

A couple months ago, I went to Target with my son, who spotted this super cool gold Romanesque looking headband. I can't remember exactly how much it was but it was around $15, and because I'm cheap, I let him play with it while I shopped around. During that trip, I kinda fell in love with it and bought it, with the excuse that I would make my son a Roman for Halloween so I'd get some good use out of it. So here's my cute little boy with his little Roman baby sister. Doesn't he look thrilled?!

Now, I'm no seamstress, but these costumes were super easy! I didn't even use a pattern, I just eyeballed it.  I bought a two pack of pillowcases at Target and that was more than enough fabric for both costumes. The ribbon, gold rope, trim on my daughter's costume, and little gold thing for her bow cost maybe $10, and the sword was $5 at party warehouse. The pillowcases were $5, and the red sash was scrap fabric I found in my garage (well, it was an old tablecloth that I never ever use). Halloween costumes are expensive, and usually too thick and hot for October in Florida. So don't be afraid to make your own! 

Always a Bow

When I found out I was pregnant with a girl, I told my husband she would always wear a bow in her hair...even in her ultrasound picture!

I printed out her ultrasound picture (just on regular paper on my printer...nothing fancy), taped a little felt bow on her head and put it in an old Ikea frame I found in my garage. This cost me about 25 cents for the felt (well, it came in a 15 pack or something) and I think the frame was $4 or $5. Nice, eh? This was by far the easiest and cheapest thing I did in my little girl's nursery. 

Alphabet Wall Art

My son was learning the alphabet while I was putting together my baby girl's room, so I decided to make alphabet wall art for her nursery. I got my inspiration from here, but since I wasn't cool enough to discover Etsy until very recently, I decided to make the letters myself. 

Basically, I bought a bunch of scrapbook paper for around $5 for the background. Then I cut out the letters and glued them to the paper. Then I went to the Dollar Store and found a bunch of frames (easier said than done to find 26 of the same frame). They were black, so I spray painted them white. Then my son thought it'd be awesome to touch all the letters and one of the frames fell and broke. I went back to the Dollar Store and they had no more of the frames I had used, so I bought some similar ones. Now I was about 8 months pregnant at this time and it was July and hot and humid, so I decided against more spray painting and decided, why try to hide the different frames? So I put all the vowels in the different black frames. 

To hang these frames, I got some wall putty and stuck them all up in a line slightly lower than where I wanted them to actually hang. Then I measured the middle of each frame and drew a little line where I needed to place the nail. Then I nailed them and hung them up. Tedious? Yes. Crooked? Maybe. But it was easier than  trying to eyeball it because I just know I'd end up with a gazillion holes in the wall.