The vintage style baby loves anything from the 40’s and 50’s especially if it is re purposed, recycled or renewed. My own vintage style baby is surrounded by pink, white and baby blue. And if you are going for the mid century look you just have to reuse chenille bedspreads. I recycled a scrap of bedspread from my grandma with a tshirt into a sweet newborn gown. I also used a 40’s chenille bedspread scrap and vintage beads for the hanging moon. If you have a vintage style baby, crochet is a must along with vintage furniture. We have tons of gorgeous crochet blankets made from the lovely ladies in our lives to decorate the old bassinet that we dry brush painted blue. Vintage baby gowns are fabulous for those summer babys wanting to show off their vintage flair. Sweet and keeps them cool! I hope you find some fun projects to reuse some old things in your life and make them fabulous!

I had fun today and yesterday making pendants out of leftover glass marbles, beads and 24 gauge wire I had from a craft project. They are now re-purposed into wearable art! The process is really just wrapping the main marble with wire creating a loop at the top at the same time and then taking a blue wire and beads and twisting those around the edges of the pendant. Voila! Fast and really pretty.

Love, love, love crayons and coloring but we had tons of pieces and decided to recycle them into new ones. I kind of did my own twist on the melting down and mold process, I used the same color family for each new crayon and poured them into soap molds. It took about 2.5 minutes in the microwave on paper plates and then about an hour for the new seashell crayon to be hard. VERY hot craft so have an adult do the melting and pouring and wear an oven mitt!

I loved the melted wax colors!

Well, June came in with a sweet surprise Baby shower from our small group leaders Adam and Rachel! They had this lovely flower arrangement waiting for us, baby petit fours and gifts! How sweet. We also celebrated my other baby’s, now 4, birthday with an impromptu Speed racer party. It was fun to mix and match all of the birthday supplies from my pantry cabinet and he loved it! We even had a racing stripe bandana from our dress up box that did double duty as a table runner. Inexpensive and really fun. I also did some more “recycling” this week with a vintage pattern from my great grandma and a white dress that was going to the dump, but I reclaimed it and spruced it up with our baby’s initial. Sweet and free project! I hope you have fun this summer in a creative way!

recycled baby dress

Barbie and Ken giftset

the birthday boy and family