Baby Gifts: Mobile and Monogram Letter

So with the new baby boy arriving that I previously mentioned here, I decided to make him a couple things that were actually done right after he was born, but I havent posted them on here until now. The first thing was a cardboard JoAnn letter 'U', for Uriah, covered in fabric scraps. Another friend of mine, recently had a baby boy and a friend made her one, found here, on her blog, with the letter H for her baby Hudson. So I decided that it was just so adorable I would give it a shot. I bought the U from JoAnn and I already had Modpodge, and since I didnt have any fabric, because Im just starting to be crafty and have never sewn in my life..I thought I would give it a shot with cute boyish sheets of scrapbook paper from JoAnns. Well that was not going to be happening, it was too stiff and unmanagable. So I asked Sarah, the one who recieved the H for her baby, if she had any leftover scraps I could have, because she is quite the crafty sewer :) And she did! Woohoo, so i couple days of working on it here and there and I had myself a cute little U for baby Uriah...

The second project I did was actually super easy, it took me about 45 minutes of just sitting on the couch watching TV to finish it. I saw the idea here, which I found through this lovely blog. So I thought I would take the basic method of sticking white price stickers back to back on white floss and then use a embroidery hoop and paint it blue and tie the floss to it to creat my own baby mobile. I actually ended up finding a baby blue emroidery hoop so I didnt even have to paint it! It was perfect, then i just tie floss to it in varying lengths and stuck the stickers to it, then I tied floss around it in a few spots to pull up and tied a hoop at the top to hang it from the ceiling, it turned out wonderfully and now the baby has a cute mobile to stare at :D Here it is all finished and hanging in their bedroom...