Collaborative Art Project for Fundraiser

This year I volunteered to come up with an art project for my daughter's Second Grade class that will be bid on at our school annual fundraiser auction. Each of the kids carefully and meticulously made a flower of felt circles (squeezing in a lesson in geometry :)) starting with the littlest circle and ending with the biggest. They loved working with the Fabric Scissors, and their favorite part was choosing the Next Color. Each flower ended up being special and beautiful. I then sewed their names on a leaf, and attached it to their flower. Then I sewed 18 flowers onto a lovely cream velvet pillow cover from Ikea to make a soft and cosy garden of little flowers. I think it turned out beautiful!!

Laying it out.

Details.

All done!

Natural Baby Company

At the end of February I went to Bozeman, Montana to visit a very special little friend.

While we were there, we went to the Natural Baby Company, where I had the pleasure of meeting the lovely ladies there, as well as taking a look around their beautiful store. The sweet play area under the stairs was the cutest! All of you in Bozeman, Montana are lucky to have this wonderful store as your go-to baby resource.

NYIGF 2013

Here are some pics from the Trade Show in New York that we went to in January 2013. As usual it was fun, hard work, and fantastic to see all our lovely customers.

 Icy New York from the plane.
 

 Setting up.

 Day one!

Imagining a white christmas

Yesterday's Holiday craft was to make ornaments, and my daughter decided to imagine herself in a snowglobe. She painted a wooden doll, and pasted it to a sheet of felt which we pasted to the bottom of the clear ball (plastic ball ornaments available at Michaels). We snipped a bit of the Christmas tree and added that in. Painted snow on the outside - isn't it pretty!?

Check out these really cool ball ornaments made by Pink and Green Mama.

Gift Tags - Free Download

It's that time of year!! Here's our gift to you, downloadable tags for the Holiday Season. I usually print on sticker paper, and stick it straight on to a gift.
Download it here.

Wee Gallery Tee Design on Spoonflower

For all you DIYers out there, Spoonflower is I'm sure one of your favorite destinations. Check out Wee Gallery's Tee Design entered in this week's contest. There are a lot of cute designs out there, so we will be thrilled if you voted for us!

Spiral Mobile Tutorial

Love this window!

Via Fine Little Day. See the artist Tyra Von Zweigbergk's work here.

Make your own Baby Blanket

A special handmade gift for baby using Wee Gallery Fabrics from Spoonflower. Check them out here.

Dressing up

With our son in his last year of Elementary School, I was happy he wanted a homemade costume. This cool snake fabric was from Joanns. It was a lot of work, but he's so happy with the result! Our daughter is a poodle. This one was really easy and inexpensive to make. Highly recommend!

Download a Free Owl Calendar

Have you heard of My Owl Barn? It's a site where you can download a calendar of owls made by different artists - how cute is that!? We are proud to have contributed one of the owls. Still, I would have a hard time choosing...

ABC Kids 2012

Last week we attended ABC kids in Louisville, KY. We took our kids out of school for a week, and went as a family. The drive there was absolutely gorgeous, and we drooled over the fall colours, which we never get to see living in Florida. Louisville was really cute, we loved it! Our kids were 'at work' the whole week, and were amazing little booth helpers. They helped decorate the booth, gave out freebies, and did product demonstrations. It was a full and fun week, and we are happy to be home.

Wee House of Cards

If you have some Wee Gallery Cards at home, and your baby is a toddler, it might be time to convert them into some Wee building cards. Inspired by the classic Eames House of Cards, these are a version for younger children, as they are made from sturdier card.

Halloween Download - Spooky Owl Shade

Spice up your Halloween decor with this sweet download. Click on the black and white picture (the middle one), download and print, cut out the owl and moon, and stick it to the inside of your lamp shade (I used double sided tape). When the lamp is on, Mr Owl will show up, and he will disappear when the light is off. Spooooky!

DIY Pyramid Mobile

Since geometric mobiles are trending right now, we had to make one. We tried to include aspects that babies are drawn to, such as faces, high contrast and bright colors. Here is the result! Try it by going the the freebies page on our site, download the file, print on card, and assemble. Let us know what you think!

Announcing new Activity Books!

This little dress-up trio wants to keep your little artists busy! Use scribbles or paint, collage or markers to find creative ways to dress up the fox, piggy and bunny. This little 5x3.5 inch book is perfectly sized for little hands, and can be easily packed for restaurant or car trips. Printed in the USA using soy inks on recycled paper.

And the winner is...

Claire Garbat! Please email me at surya@weegallery.com with your address and I will send you a package. Congratulations on being the winner!!

Organic Cloud Baby Blankets

We are so excited to show our latest product at the New York International Gift Show. 

The Cloud Blanket from Wee Gallery is made in traditional ‘dohar’ style originating in North India. It has a layer of printed fabric sandwiched between two unprinted layers of fine muslin, so that baby’s soft skin is untouched by printed inks. Described as ‘woven air’ and ‘wonder gossamer’, this fine and delicate cotton muslin has been loomed in India since ancient times, and was once exclusive to royalty! It is said that the Emperor was displeased by the trasnparency of the new sari worn by his daughter, even though she was wrapped in six layers of the finest muslin! 

To win one of these lovelies, leave a comment on this post, and when we get back we will pick a winner. Thanks for playing!

(Illustration by the talented Alli Arnold)

Make a cheater quilt from Spoonflower

These adorable pictures were sent in by Miko, she made this quilt with Wee Gallery fabric from Spoonflower. Love her cutie! Great job, Miko!