Mr. Roboto

Robot Pillow for Jonah

The Robot Says: "Beep!"

 Natalie and Jonah posing with Mr. Roboto!

Monkey Mobile

I made this mobile months ago for my brother and sister-in-law's precious baby girl Rowynn. Her room is a sock monkey theme. =)

I found the monkey at Walgreens and made her a little piano and a tutu. There is a heart on the C#/Db key because her mommy and daddy used that as their wedding theme. They are essentially the same note, but can be written two different ways. Therefore C# = Db: it's a love metaphor. =)

These are the ribbons that hang all around the monkey.

And here is the assembled mobile hanging from my art room ceiling fan!  =)

Monkey for Liam!

I made this monkey pillow as a gift for my friend Brandy's baby Liam. =) I love that little monkey! And I will love Liam even more.

I stitched a little banana on the back of him. =)

I'm going to miss that little monkey!

I'm thinking I need to make more in various colors: pink, purple, yellow, green, orange, blue....yes!

Fire Hydrant for Cody =)

My friend Ashley just had her precious boy, Cody.  His room is decorated in a firefighter theme, which I think is adorable because his daddy is a firefighter! So, of course, I made him a firehydrant pillow for his cute room! It was so much fun and I can't wait to give it to him!!

Lately I have been adding an edge to the pillows I make. I think it helps them keep their shape better and they just look so much nicer. =)

O for Olivia

This is a stuffed letter "O" I made for my baby cousin Olivia back in August. It was a challenge to make something with no corners! It is hand stitched with felt and ribbon.

Bass Clef

I made this bass clef pillow this weekend. My husband sings bass so I am somewhat partial to this symbol.

The music notes are hand-embroidered and embellished with buttons. The treble clef and "music" are also hand-embroidered. It is stitched together with a blanket stitch.

This is a picture of it hanging from an iron shelf in my dining room just to show that it can hang quite easily and still look normal and cute.

This is a photo of it resting on one of our bed pillows.
The great thing about felt is that it is clingy!

A for Anders

Bold Initials

These are the fanciful felt initials I made for KF. :)

(about 10 inches tall, hand-stitched with button and bead accents)

Here are some close up shots of the details:

Letters are some of my favorite things to stuff. I can't wait to make more!

Wise Old Owls

I have a recent fascination with owls. It all started when I found an adorable brown and ivory owl-printed apron with lime green accents at Anthropologie. I fell in love with it immediately.



That was about the same time I began loving Anthropologie. I registered for the apron and several other things that were perfectly unique. It turned out that Anthropologie wasn't a popular stop for our wedding guests, so I didn't get much on my list. I did, however, get the owl apron from a very good friend. Soon after I received the apron, my sister gave me a very cute olive green ceramic owl from Pier One. He is very sweet and sits perched in my dining room.




After living with this olive green owl for several months I took up the hobby of making stuffed animals. my sweet olive green owl inspired one of my first stuffed animals: Owliver. A very cute children's book inspired his name. :)


My next owl project will be a stuffed version of one of the little guys in that apron. They are too adorable not to create in stuffed form! I may even make them into a baby mobile.


What is the reason for my owl obsession? Perhaps it is the fact that they represent wisdom, which I often feel is being drained from today's youth. So many young kids are being raised in a lazy lifestyle. Parents don't want to put forth the effort to teach their children something or entertain their "burdens," so they end up ignoring them or sticking a video game in their hands. I just think too many parents do not give their children enough responsibility. Nor do they hold them responsible for things.


My husband and I watched a very small example of this type of parenting unfurl before our eyes last night at the mall. A little girl dropped a piece of plastic (trash) on the ground. She looked up at her dad with an expression of "what is he going to say? Is he going to make me pick it up?" on her face. The dad simply looked away and kept walking. This may seem like nothing to you, but it seems to me that these "small" things usually transfer to larger things and scenarios.






Or maybe I just like them because of Mr. Owl from the old tootsie pop commercials.









Hedwig from Harry Potter?

The Buzz

I am recently married and my new last name starts with the letter B. I am a teacher and I figured bees would be the perfect theme for my room! I am now obsessed with bees. :)

I made this stuffed bee recently and I love her. She is perfectly buzzy and fun.

I found some other fun bee lovelies to share. :)

Adorable Hand-Felted Bee

From "fing" on Etsy

Bee Hairpins - Talk about CUTE!

From "abitOfColor" on Etsy

A very adorable felted bumblebee - I need to try felting

From 5erg on Etsy