Kawaiiiiii!!!!!!!

Oh my god I have to share something right now.....I am totally losing my mind for Japanese prints right now - TOTALLY!!!!

Kawaii!!!  (This apparently means "cute" in Japanese...I think)

I am talking about fabrics of course,  and now I have to post pictures to show what is turning me completely gaga...  look and see!

Kittens!  Read on for more...

Placemats from nowhere...

Here are 2 of my 5 new tablemats.  They look super on the table (they now each have a bow on one corner too) and everyone likes them which is a major plus!  Table mats may not seem very exciting to some, so I should explain why they are are important enough to me to get in the way of making cool stuff like stuffed bunnies...  It's quite simple, I have frequent headaches, and a large glass topped dining room table on a tiled floor next to a huge window with not much soft furnishing to soak up the resounding "CLANG!!!" of plates and cups plonked onto it by the less sensitive members of the household.  The noise bounces off the afore mentioned hard surfaces and amplifies into a brain mushing sensation when it hits my ears....I can't take it I tell you!!!  Placemats it had to be, pronto!  

Kwazy Wabbits!

These lil' rabbits were SO much fun to make!  Just look at those little faces!  Adorable...and I am so proud because I embroidered and appliqued the faces myself to make them completely baby and child safe.  From what I have read, if a toy is intended for a child of 3 or under there must be nothing on it that could possibly be chewed off and become a choking hazard.  This means I could not use any beads or buttons for eyes or anything like that.  The free pattern I used recommended "safety eyes", but I don't have the luxury of running out to buy anything I want and I am too impatient to hold up a project when something else I already have can be pressed into service, so I bought absolutely nothing for this as I had all the materials around the house.  The pattern also called for me to buy pompoms but I got around that too....  So before I say more, I just want to say a big THANK YOU! to the person who posted this wonderful bunny doll pattern for free.