Hey mom. Hey Marie (mom in law). So I’ve now just ruined Mother’s Day for you because these kid’s art pillows are your gifts. I know you read my blog, but I really wanted to share how cute these turned out with my readers. Happy Mother’s Day!
I love when my kid’s draw. They come up with the greatest characters. When my youngest son drew this guy, I knew I had to turn it in to fabric. And since Mother’s Day was coming up, it made sense to make the fabric in to pillow covers. If you have never made your own fabric before it is SO easy. I used Spoonflower and all you have to do is scan in the image and then follow their prompts. It can be pretty expensive but I think it is well worth it to be able to create one of a kind fabric (and a keepsake). Your local craft store sells pillow forms that are pretty inexpensive and make it so you don’t have to stuff your pillow with batting. Super easy.
Once the fabric arrives, you just have to find someone awesome to sew up the pillow covers. And also to take pictures of the pillows for you since you are still trying to find your plates in your moving box hell. (Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lauren!)
Have you ever made your own fabric?
Some of you may have seen this on Instagram. I love it. He picked out the colors and did all the decorating. I purchased a couple of items to give it a little pizazz but he and his brother and cousins did all the amazing artwork. P.S. there were bits and pieces of that small tissue garland all over the house stuck to things with washi tape. It was amazing.
Although I controlled the menu and bar, he wrote some food signs including this one. I will help translate in case you can’t read his six year old writing. ”Make a whiskey sour or an apple cider whiskey or juice box.” Complete with a guy holding a cocktail shaker. He totally nailed the details. By the way, the apple cider whiskey cocktail was delicious! I used 
I had this idea for New Year’s Eve Countdown Surprise Bags for Kids (yup, that title IS too long). I wanted to share it with you as New Year’s Eve will be here before you know it. So this is what I call a “Nap Time Tutorial.” While my kids don’t nap, I can often find bits and pieces of quiet time that I can use to shoot a tutorial. But sometimes in the middle, things go haywire and I have to scramble to finish. Such as the case with this craft, but you get the idea and can totally cuten it up.
I’ve created a few examples of things to include in the bags. For this one, I would also include a card that tells them to get dressed up like a business man and create a character. Then they need to pretend they have to finish up one last job before the clock strikes midnight. I don’t know about your kids but mine are great with impressions and accents. They will use their imagination and put on a fun little show for the whole family. When they get bored with that, the watch (found in the favor section of 
This next bag would include some “party animals” and a cd of our favorite dance songs. It would tell them to get their dance on. Then we would try to guess, if animals danced, which animal would be the best dancer. Come on, this is good for at least 10 minutes, right?
Of course you can change this one up if your family doesn’t use the word suck. With this bag I would say something about how waiting for midnight sucks and then we would drink root beer floats. I get it. Totally unclassy use of the word suck. But its a play on words. If I can turn it in to a teaching moment, doesn’t that trump class?
Add a little pizzazz with some silver tassels (I made these for my son’s upcoming birthday party so they were already on hand to zhuszh these up. Anything will work. Get as carried away as you want.
So there you have it. A quick and easy idea to keep you family entertained on New Year’s Eve.
AND they are giving you a discount! Get 20% off a purchase through October, 24, 2012. Just use the code above. If I were you, I might go ahead and start my Christmas shopping a little bit early. 
