November 2010 - Belle Bébés

Posts from November, 2010

Real rooms : Oscar & Phoebe

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

After yesterday’s post on the Wee Wonderfuls created by Hillary Lang I just had to share with you the two rooms she created for her children: Oscar & Phoebe. Because they’re gorgeous and show off Hillary’s creativity!

Cosy quilt

Phoebe’s bookshelves host the most adorable books and toys with a vintage feel. I adore the wooden circus mobile above the cot and Hillary’s crafty sewing skills have been used for a fantastic feature on her daughter’s wall…

Real-room-Phoebe

A wall full of quilts! Amazing! I love the idea of sitting there sewing beautiful quilts as your bump grows bigger and bigger. I love the fact it’s an old-fashioned craft that makes a rather contemporary feature when displayed differently.

Olive for Oscar

Oscar’s room is a fab shade of olive, features some great toys (note the Fisher Price record player - I had one of them!) and his mum’s super sewing skills are evident in that cute duvet!

Real-room-Oscar

Awesome images courtesy of Hillary Lang

Two very different rooms that are both creative, colourful and ace!

Debs

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Wee wonderfuls

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Buying pretty things for your child is lovely but making things for your child, provided you have the necessary skills and time of course, is really wonderful. It’s such an amazing feeling when someone asks where you got such an adorable item and you can say you made it yourself! So today’s post is for the crafters out there who want to make something sweet for their little one.

Gnomes & robots

Chicago-based Hillary Lang makes the sweetest toys, and shares the patterns for them in her online shop aptly named Wee Wonderfuls. If you want to make dolls, bunnies, bears, robots, even gnomes… Hillary has created a pattern for you!

Patterns

Make-a-long

One of my favourite patterns is for the Make-A-Long Story of Olive & Archie. The pattern shows you how to make Olive and Archie themselves but also all the accessories and other clothes found in this super-sweet story.

Make-a-long

Sweet stitches

Hillary also offers embroidery and cross stitch patterns if these are the craft for you.

Cross-stitch-&-embroidery

Decorative ideas

And if you’re looking for ways in which to use your embroidered designs then how about several embroidered designs in different sizes of embroidery hoops arranged on the wall to make a feature? Or absolutely adorable bunting for baby that would look so beautiful in the nursery!

Embroidery-idea

Freebies! Woo!

Hillary’s also been kind enough to share some freebie patterns! So for those of you who perhaps aren’t as experienced and want to give some projects a go, before parting with cash for the more in-depth designs, then what about trying one of these…

Freebies

I absolutely love the elf stockings and there’s still time to make them before Christmas (just)!

Beautiful book

And then there’s this beautiful book featuring 24 different doll designs to make. Great if you want to make several toys for you and for friends. It would also make a gorgeous gift for an expectant mother who’s nifty with a needle and thread :D

Book