Posted by Ethne~
Ok, I am NOT preggers, and I am not gonna get preggers,
TRUST ME. Two rascals are more
than enough for this mama. I’ve
pretty much always been one to know my limits, you know, don’t want a chip
diamond engagement ring, don’t need to drink tequila too many times to know
it’s bad news; my maternal instinct is telling me that I will be the best
possible mother if I stick with mothering two young. I shall heed this.
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My two lovies |
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My wise |
But my kiddos are into babies right now. They tell me, each other, Grandpa Paul
– basically everyone, that we’re pregnant. If I eat too much for dinner, I look pregnant. Thanks sweetums. Fortunately, this craze can be
alleviated with their babydolls.
They have several and Grandma and Grandpa D also gave them each a new
babydoll for Christmas (which turned out being fortuitous because KD’s
‘son’ ended up losing his head this past weekend, which was the last injury he
could sustain because he had already lost an arm).
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KD and as-yet-unnamed babydoll |
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Easy Mac and Nina |
I don’t make doll clothes, thanks, but Target’s always
helpful there. I’m totally into
doll accessories though.
This past weekend I made a baby station in the girls' playroom
downstairs because we were rather tired of tripping over the sleeping babies
all over the house. They needed
one spot to change, bathe, sleep and so on. Done. The
station doesn’t have beds so there isn’t much to show yet (I have a hunch that
is the Christmas gift from Uncle Rich and Aunt Lissa, but we haven’t gotten
together yet), but I did think there were a few other necessitites.
I have smallish-medium clear storage tub that can hold the
baby clothes, rattles, bottles and diapers; the best part is that it doubles as
the perfect height for being a baby-changing table when the top is on. But how can one wipe baby butts without
butt wipes? Impossible.
Also, without beds, the babies were laying ALL OVER the floor
covered with small blankets. I
thought that a little napping mat would be nice, so I added that to my sewing
list for New Year’s Eve weekend.
The wipes were cut to fit into the little plastic doll wipes
case that, as it happens, contains no wipes. I didn’t make them foldable, just strips to lay in the
container – 3”x5”. (I sewed the
edges with my mom’s serger sewing machine hem stitch – if you want to make
these with your sewing machine, you will need to turn the edges down for
stitching, so cut about ½” bigger all the way around. Or cut around with a pinking shears at 3”x5” and you won’t
need a machine at all!!)
I cut the baby napping mats out of a piece of fabric into a
rectangle of approximately 22”x16”.
It doesn’t have to be exact – you can eyeball this to go with the size
of your babydoll. Since I had the
serger out, I also used the hem stitch to sew these, right sides out.
I sewed the fabric rectangle, wrong sides together, making a
long rectangle, leaving one of the small ends open, for stuffing. I stuffed the mat with fiberfill
batting, not too full, but with every section filled, then hem-stitched the end
shut. To finish, I divided the mat
into quarters and sewed three lines to divide sections of the mat. This will keep the batting from
shifting, and it makes the mat pillow-like.
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I made the babydoll Christmas blanket a few years back. |
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I used a swirly stitch on my sewing machine. |
So those are the additions to the baby station. The girls are pretty excited for their new accessories…and I’m
excited that it’s all for pretend.
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And while we're on the subject of make-believe, this babydoll was on the trailer hitch of some man's truck in big city this summer. Weird. |
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