Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts

Monday, August 25, 2008

a sidebed for a baby (or cat...)


damion left for volleyball camp with our digital camera in tow. that leaves me with no project picture this week. which, really, isn't such a bad thing because i'm ready to throw my window treatment project out the window. so, i wracked my brain about what to show you this week. i think i've dug up almost every project i've ever worked on already!! then i remember my 'cat in the sidebed' picture.

eden slept in our room for the first few months. we had her in the little bassinet on the floor by our bed at first. then, one day, i came across this brilliant idea. a side bed. because we have a platform bed i could make a knock off that i could screw right into the wood of the bed base. although the bottom piece was long enough that when it was slipped under the mattress the weight of the bed kept it pretty securely in place. i made it out of 3/4" plywood. the foam came from the local craft store.


i can't tell you how many times i thanked the designer of this little bed during the 3am feedings (and apologized for ripping off the idea)! it was perfect.

i have a whole series of pictures of my cat, oli, sleeping in eden's things. i think it was his way of adapting to her presence. i have him in her car seat, her bassinet, her little vibrating seat, her sidebed...not her big crib though, sadly oli is too fat to make the jump up and over!

Friday, February 8, 2008

diaper caddy

back to back episodes of pushing daisies on sidereel (a fun and quirky little show) are getting me through the monotony of hand stitching beads on to those crazy curtains!

while i work my way through my latest project i thought i would show you an older project. this project was born out of necessity. a small room and a poopy new daughter. this is a diaper caddy that i built to house the truck load of diapers we go through every day.

the idea is diapers get loaded in to the top and come out the bottom. the door slides up and down so you can take a handful of them out for road trips when needed. and the circle cut outs let you know how your supply is doing.

Monday, February 4, 2008

eden's ibbs (itty bitty booties)

i got a sewing machine for christmas and, although i don't know what i'm doing, i'm trying my hand at it. this is my first project with my new toy. i've spent the past 7 months trying to get eden into a pair of booties that actually stay on her feet...so, i decided to try to make her some funky little shoes. now that i have, and had a lot of fun with them, i'm going to quit my job and make booties full time. i'll start off by selling them at the weekend farmers market where they'll get discovered by a baby footwear manufacturer. i'll design a whole collection of booties. then, i'll start to sell them worldwide and eventually take over the baby shoe market and...oh, ok...here is a photo of my humble attempt at making my daughter something to cover her feet....
i got the pattern for these booties online from heather bailey. heather has set up a photo group on flickr for everyone who's used the pattern. click here to view.

eden's crib

the first project i'll post is my favourite. it's my daughters crib. it's not my own design, but it is my own build. i fell in love with a designer crib online, but being as cheap as i am i decided i would make a knockoff. so, we bought a $100 ikea crib and pimped it out. i posted the project to instructables (although it is still not officially published), click here if you want to pimp out a crib of your very own.