Fall and Christmas appliques and embroidery

My very first t-shirt that I embroidered was a Christmas ornament ball for Addison and it was actually one the first things that I ever embroidered. I think it turned out great and even Aunt Nan was impressed with my first project. I then made a few other appliques including applique squares with a monogram, and I also found the cutest flower applique and I have made it twice - one with pink and brown daisies and one in red, black and white daises. At Christmas time I monogrammed an outfit I bought for Addison with a large red A in the curlz font - it turned out so cute. I also appliqued a Christmas ornament with red and green polka dots. I made the ornament into an outfit for Ansley (Aaron's daughter) and also as a bib and burp cloth set for my friend Jennifer's new baby Allyson. I did also make a shirt for Austin but only with his name on it in Christmas colors to coordinate with Addison. He is now seven and thinks that appliques are for girls and babies. :) Here are some of the things that I made this Fall and around Christmas time.

I also am including a couple of pictures of Austin & Addison's cousin Grey. I made him a "ball shirt" for his 2nd birthday since he loves balls. :)

Travel mugs and Sports bottles

I have seen cute travel mugs that people drink their hot cocoa, coffee, water, etc... in with the cute monogram, so I thought I could do that... I found this awesome embroidery paper and tried making some this weekend. I made a travel mug with black and white toile with a J on it for a co-worker's birthday and I made Austin a sports bottle with a "karate boy" including the purple belt with his name on it for Karate. I will have to make more - these turned out so great, the pictures however didn't turn out quite as well, so I will try again and post more pictures.

Here's another travel mug that I made for Austin's teacher for Valentine's Day! She loves pink and green... Isn't it cute?

I added a better picture of Austin's karate sports cup with his purple belt. He just earned his blue belt and so I will be making him a new insert for his cup with a blue belt karate boy!

I also made Aunt Nan and TiJuana a cup so I uploaded pictures of those cups...

Happy "Boo" to you - Halloween dress and costume

Aunt Nan, Karen and I got together to design a Halloween dress for our girls. We went to the fabric store and found this pale orange stripe material that would look perfect with our girls (pale) complexions. And then right in the store - it happened - Karen and I came up with the cutest design - an appliqued ghost with appliqued black and white letters that said: "BOO"! We also wanted black and white polka dot bows and trim. The results were fantastic! Aunt Nan made three dresses - one for Addison, Maddie and for a friend's daughter, Victoria. We will upload pictures of the dress as well as pictures of our girls. Also note that the only pictures I can find of Addison in the dress - she is having a come apart... I am also posting pictures of Austin as "Anakin Skywalker" from Star Wars. Aunt Karen made Austin's costume this year and it looks fantastic - so authentic, but then Aunt Karen is a Star Wars expert. Note: she didn't make the fairy princess costume Addison is wearing or Chase's "skateboarder" costume, but we all know she could have. Karen also made Max and Maddie's costumes this year as well, so I will ask her to add those pictures when she has time.