Annual Family Vacation Album {part 2}

Here's the second set of pages from our annual family vacation album. I even included years we couldn't make it due to hurricane or the birth of 2 babies.

Annual Family Vacation Album

I wanted to share an album that I created a few years back for my Mother-In-Law. Every year my husbands whole family takes a vacation together to St. Augustine. We always go over labor day weekend. I used a simple 8x8 album and added pictures from each year. I try to keep it updated for her (I had just finished adding in the pictures from this year which is why it was at my house). I love annual albums because it's so much fun to see how the kids have grown through the years. These are the first few years. I'll post the more recent pages tomorrow.

No Sew Book Sling

I am not good at sewing. I don't own a sewing machine. I MAY own a needle and thread, but I'm not sure. So when I saw the book sling tutorial over on the penny carnival site I almost had a stroke. I wanted to make one RIGHT NOW! I quickly figured out how to use her pattern and instead of sewing it, use an iron on hem tape to secure the binding. I think it turned out pretty darn good. I'm not going to go through all the steps, you'll have to visit the penny carnival blog to get those. I'll just share how I adapted her steps for my non-sewing ability.

When you go to the store to get your fabric pick up a roll on iron on hem tape.

Instead of stitching your fabric closed, iron on the tape around the outside of the fabric.

Here you can see where I ironed it onto a small section of the fabric and then flipped it inside out and folded it under and ironed the rest of the tape.

Here is where I ironed on the tape to create your loops to slip your dowels through. I measured to make sure my lines of hem tape were even.

And here are the finished book slings hanging in our office. We have been wanting to do something in this corner forever. I knew this was the perfect project as soon as I saw it. To hang the slings on the wall I used a double curtain rod holder similar to these.