Oh sweet little blog, with your few followers, I do have some fancy ideas for you this year.

Numerous tutorials, patterns and shameless plugs for my etsy shop are in the works, as are a few other ideas.

But here is the teaser of what to look forward to:

a toddler sized bubble skirt

ain’t it just so cute?

Happy December! This is my favorite time of the year, and also the busiest around our house. Not only do we have two more holidays (yay!) but we have two birthdays smack in the middle of both Christmas and New Years. It adds some extra crazy to my already crazy holiday prep, but I love it.

Since my Christmas shopping is all but finished (everyone aside from the Hubs and Bean are getting hand made items this year), I’ve had some extra time to craft and design.  So, my etsy shop is updated with two new hair accessories and two Christmas photo cards to help you guys check some gifts off your lists! Yay!

I’ve had a few people ask about what age group the headbands are for and my response is, any! There’s no reason for little girls to have all the fun, so adults, teens, kids, anyone can wear my headbands. I haven’t successfully made the crochet ones for babies yet, but the flowers themselves can be ordered with just a clip so they can go on a baby headband.

First up is the Clementine headband, which you may remember from my previous post. I also made one in orange and I can put them on clips, too, so if you want another color or it on a clip, just send me a message on etsy.

Second is the Grace Headband, which can also be made as a clip. Sorry folks, it only comes in off white right now, but once I get my lazy derrier up to civilization, I’ll be adding a few more colors. This sweet headband I made on Thanksgiving morning to make my other wise drab outfit feel a little more fancy for the holiday. I can also put both the Clemintine and the Grace on a stretchy headband for little babies, if you are looking for a gift for a younger sweetie pie.

Now for the cards: one is the Manny and the other is the Berry. There we originally designed for a contest, which I didn’t win (sad), but now you all can order them for your own use. Just drop your photo in and print them off at Costco or Shutterfly. Super easy. They come in 5×7, 4×6, and 6×7.

Check out my shop eviesbeans.etsy.com, where you can also find my oh so cute crocheted headbands, too!

A good friend of mine is having a baby girl in February. She’s actually the sister of the Hubs’ best childhood friend, whom I was on a date (of sorts) with when I met the Hubs. And whose mother was my coworker at Barnes and Noble and takes credit for my marriage, since she set her son and I up, leading to the “date” on which I met the Hubs. And my friend married a good friend of the Hubs and her brother/the childhood best bud. Follow? Good. Anyways, love that girl and am so excited for her to be a mommy. And dying to find out what her name will be (they are keeping it a secret).

So excited, in fact, that I whipped up this little sundress number for the bundle of joy to wear next summer, using B3405 .

The fabric is from an old dress of my sister-in-law’s, of which I totally forgot to snap a picture. Think this (which is actually the dress, but chopped short), but with this length skirt. I have more than enough fabric left over to make a dress for Bean.

The cotton eyelet lace is from my Mom’s amazing stash (she and I have an affinity for the stuff). As are the buttons which of course I forgot to take a picture of. Geeze, I really dropped the ball on picture taking with this project, didn’t I?? Just picture cute white buttons down the back. Anyways, I love the fabric with the lace – gives it a feminine feel with out all the pink or heinous purple.

I just can’t wait to see the little squishy she-whose-name-will-not-be-said in this number next year!