Yummy!

I was thinking the other day while I was sewing that I wanted a snack. I found some yogurt covered pretzels that I had bought earlier this week and now they are officially my favorite snack while sewing or crafting.

The reason I am telling you all this is because I would love to know what all of your favorite crafting or sewing snacks are. What keeps ya going?? I think it is so interesting what people love and I don't want to miss out on a great snack idea!!

What is it that helps you keep your craftyness on? :)

We need your prayers

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Heuer Family. We love you! This is My brother writing this about our very close family friends.

Friends,

This week has been the most difficult week I have had to witness in life so far. Last week things started out so great. Some of you may remember my Friend Jens Heuer from Germany. We met as foreign exchange partners in the 9th grade. We have remained close friends. Jens had visited a couple of times through the years. He contacted me months back trying to arrange a family vacation for his family to visit Utah. On April 15th Jens , his wife Katrin, daughter Frida (almost 3 yrs old), and son Jackson (13 month old) arrived at our house. They were so excited to visit Utah, and for Jens to show off his family to all of us. After a short trip to Bryce Canyon that was cut short due to bad weather, they returned back to North Ogden to spend more time here as a family. As I was returning home from work on Thursday I received a phone call saying that their son Jackson had choked on a carrot and had stopped breathing. Jens did everything that he could to dislodge the carrot. Bystanders immediately called 911. Responders were there within minutes. Life Flight was called, and Jackson was flown down to Primary Children's Medical Center. Jens and Katrin were alone in Ogden, not knowing where Primary Children's Hospital was located. A perfect stranger (Margaret from N. Ogden) Told them to follow her and that she would guide them down to Primary Children's Hospital. Gina and I raced down to the hospital. We arrived 2 minutes after Jens and Katrin. They were taken into the back, and we were left to wait in the waiting room with their daughter Frida. After some time we were called back to a room. My heard sunk, Jackson did not make it, he had passed away. A perfect 13 month old little boy returned back to his Father in Heaven. There is so much that we do not understand about this life. My Heart goes out to Jens, Katrin and Frida. It was an awful thing to have "front row seats" to witness the worst thing I have had to see, and at the same time it was an even greater experience to see the rush of love that came flooding in for the Heuers. I am so thankful for an incredible family, friends, ward members, and the best neighbors anyone could ever have. Each of them opened up there hearts to the Heuers. People took our friends into their arms and cried with them as if they had known each other for years. It amazes me how many good people there are all around. We would like to thank you all. Jens, Katrin, and Frida left today to return back to Germany.


We have decided to try to help in the ways that we know how.

We have set up a Memorial fund available at any America First Credit Union Branch. It is set up as the "Jackson Heuer" Memorial Fund. This will directly help cover costs of Medical, Burial, and associated costs to the family.


It has been an honor to have them in our home.
I hope that we can all hold our Families a little closer. It has helped me realize just how fragile life is.


Thank You, The Tippets (Nate, Gina, and Tyler) Written by Nate
by:Nate Tippets

Bath Toy Bag

This was a really quick and fun one! If any of you are like me it drives me nuts when there is no where to put the bath toys and I'm sure now that Carsen is getting older that more of his toys will be migrating to the bath tub. I kept looking for one at the store and just couldn't find one that I liked....So I found this tutorial HERE and went shopping for the materials. I found everything at Joann's and the mesh fabric was really quite inexpensive. I think I was able to finish this project for under $7.00 including the hooks! Hope you all have a great day! Happy sewing!

8 Months and Easter

So I know that Carsen didn't turn 8 months on Easter, but I thought I would put them together since they are pretty close and those are the most recent pictures I have of him.

Carsen is such a sweet baby! We have loved watching him grow. He does new things everyday that make us laugh and tend to crack him up as well. :)
Some of his new funny things are:
~He just figured out how to click his tongue and loves it!
~He laughs at himself in the mirror!! so cute
~He does this little inchworm thing, but doesn't crawl yet
~He loves when we sing "Families can be together forever" at night before he goes to bed. He gets the biggest smiles.
~He has officially learned how to throw a fit (fists clenched, jaw forward, tense body and scream!)
~Loves Peek-a-boo. He laughs so hard when Maci does it!
~Loves to chew on his fingers and toes
~Loves to be in his stroller

He has had a few firsts lately that are pretty cute:
~He felt the grass for the first time on his feet
~He just started loving to grab at the grass and pull it out
~We just got him some sunglasses and he seems to really like them

The list could go on and on! Oh how I love this little man!

Easter we spent with both families and he was a very spoiled boy!! Thanks everybody! You are all so so sweet! We love you all. Thanks for a great holiday!!

I don't have some of the pictures yet so I will post those later :)

Burp Cloths

This last week I helped my sister start on some darling burp cloths. Her baby girl is due in 3 weeks!!! so exciting! I only got to do one of them and then Carsen was not about to let me do anymore, so she finished them but I thought I would post about them for last Thursday's sewing project because we did them on Wednesday but I forgot my camera so I just got pictures of them this last weekend.
What a fun and quick project. We picked up just some of the plain white cloth diapers and some of those great little pre-cut squares of fabric (you can get 3 burp cloths out of one square of the decorative fabric by the way) She decided to add some ric-rac which I think is darling on them.
You can do it with or without embellishments. They are all so different, that is half the fun! We started by cutting 6" x 20" pieces of the cute fabric and folding the edges just slightly pinned the fabric and ric rac to the middle portion of the cloth diaper. Continue folding and pinning and then fold just the fabric on the ends under and pin that down. Start at any corner and sew along the edge as close the the edge of the fabric as possible all the way around.
Voila!! you have a darling burp cloth for a gift or keep for your own baby!!
I hope this all makes sense. :) let me know if you have any questions
Happy Sewing

Sorry the pic didn't work the last time I tried:P

Easter Eggs!

I know this one is way past due, but I still wanted to post about it because these are too fun and you can have an idea for next year or whenever I guess.
A week before Easter my mom called and told me that her work was doing a contest for decorated Easter eggs. There were 5 categories and you could win 50$ So I thought I would see what I could come up with and enter 2 for a better chance of having one of them win. (You could enter as many as you like, but you could only win one of the categories)

So here is what I came up with: (They are both plastic eggs by the way)
The first one is Mr. Egg-tato head. I cut pieces of felt and hot glued them on

The second one I cut strips of scrapbook paper and mod podged them on and then created this little paper flower (thanks Helga for the idea) and used a pin for the center of it and to keep it attached.


And........Mr. Egg-tato Head won!! for most colorful. Wahoo!!!
Thanks again mom for telling me about this contest! If anyone knows my mom we can't let a contest go by! we love them :)

Scripture cover n' carry!!

Here is the long awaited scripture cover n' carry that I have been working on for a while now. I am so excited that it is done and that I can use it now. It took me a little longer than I thought, just because I had to come up with a pattern for it. I have seen some like this on a craft blog, but I don't have a "quad" set of scriptures so I had to figure out how to make it work for my separate book set. It was mostly experimenting for me so now that I know what order to do it in to make it easier, I don't think it would take nearly as long. I don't have pictures of the whole process, but if anyone wants to make one, I would be happy to explain it further. I think these would make such a cute gift for kids getting baptized or just about anyone.
Happy Sewing!!

Baby Chicks

This last Monday, we went to Cal Ranch to see the baby chicks for Family night. (we have a friend that works there and let us hold them, so we didn't just ignore the "don't touch the chicks" sign ha ha)It was so fun to see Carsen's reaction to them. I don't know that he really knew what to do with them but he wouldn't take his eyes off them. What a funny boy, Love you buddy!

Craft Crazy!!!

I have been a major slacker on getting my craft and sewing projects posted on here, sorry! I had one of my projects not work out at all, (dang) I will have to try to figure out how to make it work later. But for right now I will post about the awesome crafts I have done this last week. We had a Super Saturday at my ward this last weekend. It was a lot of fun and we made some really cute things.
These aren't sewing projects, but I thought I would post cute craft things as well!!

The first thing we made were these really cute cards that you can choose what little saying is going to go on it so they are good for every occasion!! We even made a little box to hold them all in! SO cute!!

Then we made this darling WELCOME sign that is wood and cute paper, ribbon and vinyl lettering. We have a girl in our ward that her family's business makes these kits!! They are awesome!

Then Lastly I made "The Living Christ" frame. It turned out so nice. I just bought the frame and then they had the pass along cards and The Living Christ paper for us. I just cut the pictures to fit the matte and stuck them on with tape stickers. I love all these pictures. It is so nice to have these in our home.

Happy Crafting!!

If anyone is interested in making the crafts listed above, I can get you in touch with the girls that make these things!! They are wonderful and so sweet.

P.S. I promise I will get back on my regular weekly posting about sewing and crafting!! What a fun busy week!