This week I had the pleasure of having a close family friend, Priscilla, come stay with us for the week with her 3 year old daughter and 5 week old baby boy. It was a whirl wind week, fun but exhausting. It has been so long since I had little ones around, 18 years to be exact. I just don’t know how all the mommies out in blog land do it! I have a new found respect for all you mommies who juggle their time to craft such creative things, re-purpose furniture, take pictures, blog and post about them, email, facebook and twitter. Not to mention all the other daily activities and chores it takes to keep a family. My hats off to you gals, now that I have had two little ones here for a week it just boggles my mind how you do it. You mommies rock!
Priscilla asked me to help her make or sew some type of holder for her daughter’s blanket and pillow she will taking to preschool next week. She brought the pillow and blanket she got at PB outlet and wanted to do something to match. We thought about making a bag, but she showed me ones she liked on Etsy {I needed a visual since I have totally forgotten about all things relating to a toddler} Once I saw what it was she was looking for, I told her I could just sew removable straps around the pillow and blanket. Oh and for the record, I am not a seamstress in any shape or form. But I am really good at faking my way through it. I take lots of short cuts, pretty much can’t sew or cut a straight line and continually have to use a seem ripper over and over again. So with that in mind, here is a short unprofessional tutorial of how I made the nap straps. 
I measured out 2″ on my fabric and ripped 6 lengths of about 50″ long strips. (see this is one of my short cuts. since I can’t cut or sew a straight line, ripping it is faster and it rips straight. I convinced Priscilla to go with the tattered edge look, so I wouldn’t have to hem the sides. thank goodness she agreed) Then I used my ruffler to ruffle all 6 fabric strips. I sandwiched the purse strapping in between two layers of the ruffles and sewed them together.
Then sewed the pre-made white ruffled fabric from Joanns to the top.
I sewed velcro to the bottom straps that wrap around the blanket part. 
At the middle of the wrap around straps I sewed the shoulder straps.
And here is the little pre-schooler modeling it for me. 
Priscilla was cringing that I was taking a picture of her daughter with bed hair, one sock and in her pj’s. 
She loves to pose for the camera. She is so stinkin cute! Even in her pj’s I am linking to
