Brylee's 1 Year Photo Book

Here I am finally getting around to blog about Brylee's 1 year book. Someone suggested months back that I do this. So here I am! I really wish that they would have had this type stuff when I was growing up. This will be so special to Brylee (and Lord willin' our other kiddos!). This is something I plan to do each year. I got the idea from my sister-in-law who makes one for each of her girls, though she gives their book to them for Christmas. I love the idea of having all the pictures in this one little book. I started working on this a couple months before her birthday. I told myself I would never do that again. I would add and work each month because it is quite time consuming. Do you think I've actually done that? NO! Though I'm only 2 month behind now. I can catch up! Here is the front:


I added pages introducing Mommy and Daddy, grandparents, cousins, aunt and uncles, great grandparents, and other special people in her life:


I added the different ultrasound pics:


Lots of hospital pictures:


Welcome Brylee Shower!


Holiday pages:


Monthly pictures:


Lots of "first" pages:




Like and Dislikes pages:




Special moments page:


Message from Mommy and Daddy page:


I made a blank page for everyone to sign at her birthday party:


And here is the back of the book:


There were so many other random things put in there but that's the "jist" of it. Couldn't add all 80+ pages!

Getting my "sew on!"

Here are my recent sewing projects. For a while now, I have been wanting so badly to learn how to make pillowcase dresses. Well guess what! I finally learned! Had I known it was going to be so dadgum easy I would have learned a LONG time ago. The first one I made I don't have a picture of (will post later) because it is getting appliqued. But it is a turquoise corduroy fabric. It's going to have an orange pumpkin with white polka dots on the front and I added orange with white polka dot ribbon. The 2nd dress (below) when I saw this fabric, I fell in love. There's just something about owls I love. Especially with the fall around the corner! (screaming inside with excitement!) I am totally not digging the "ribbon" on this. I didn't have any to go with this dress so I used some leftover fabric from the torquoise dress and made my own "ribbon." Yeah well that's 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back. I hate it!

















Hey, remember in one of my past posts about my favorite bible that I had to ghetto rig because pages were falling out?? Well, "walla!" No more tacky looking bible. I actually got it a little too big because while making this, my worst fear was that I would make it too small and my bible wouldn't fit AT ALL! I'll do better next time!













Here's a look inside. I love the cute little pen pocket!












Happy sewing!
-Lisa E