And one that I won’t be wearing anytime soon. Let me preface this by saying that I really like the dress…just not how it looks on me. Yes, another dress that looks better on the hanger than on my person! It was quite eye opening when I took pictures of myself wearing it. It reiterated […]
Category: Creativity
I am hosting Crafty Tuesday this week since Carrie is gone to Hawaii. Lucky ducks! I love Hawaii, and hopefully someday we can brave the 8 hour flight again and take the kiddos. I think they would love to swim with the sea turtles, which was exceedingly cool. The whales weren’t too bad either. I […]
Since Kailan hasn’t been acting up and getting all attitudey on us, he has been getting clothes sewn for him. Anya needs to earn more dresses, even though mommy really wants to make more. These shirts are the same pattern as the last one. I just used buttons instead of snaps and only one pocket. […]
I’m not sure how many times last week he asked me if I was done with his clothes…but it was many. Many, MANY. Upon further review of his closet last week I discovered that he had way too many clothes as it was, so I don’t feel like I need to make him a ton […]
Adding tulle to a dress makes it princessy, right? Anya had a princess birthday party this past weekend, and they were supposed to wear princess dresses. Well, I didn’t get this done in time so I sent her in the dress I made her for her birthday. Hey, it has princesses on it, so it […]
Okay, seriously…I didn’t get all of this done this week. I need to eat, too. 😉 I signed up to do a stash sewing competition on a (mostly) children’s sewing forum I frequent. Basically for the month of May you try to use your fabric, notions, etc. and you get points for everything you make. […]
On Sunday the Princess had her party with friends. The occassion warranted another dress, of course. This one has a bunch of butterflies on it and is seersucker. It’s very twirly, too, of course. The same self-drafted pattern as the last one. The seersucker definitely gave it some volume…beyond just being twirly. It was plenty […]
I don’t think I really need to tell anyone that most toys these days are plastic pieces of you-know-what. Why should they be anything else, really? Kids have such short attention spans with their toys because so much advertising is thrown at them. They go from one toy fad to another, so long-term use doesn’t […]
I wanted to make Anya a new dress for picture day at daycare last week. I had two all cut up and ready to sew, so I knew I could get it created within a few hours. I started sewing it at 9:25 and finished at 11:35pm…and it was hanging on her door for picture […]
Since I’ve got nothin’ this week, I thought I would talk a little bit about sewing and how I go about getting things done. I get asked fairly often about it, so I thought I would just write up a few things. Feel free to tune out if you don’t care about all this boring […]
