Disboutiquers Part 15 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[jham]

Thanks! I live in Utah. I love the mountains!

 

[mirandag819]

I finished Taylor's Magic Kingdom birthday dress today. Once again HeatherSue is my hero (and Marah too). Thank you ladies for coming up with such cute birthday appliques! I don't know what I would do without you!

Of coarse Taylor was convinced today was her birthday when I wanted to try it on her. She was really excited about this one, so forgive me for too many pictures. I was trying to get a decent angle on all the appliques, and she was so happy about the dress. I think I snapped at least 100 pics in just a couple mins time.

I am hoping to finish 3 more outfits before we leave on the 15th.... plus some stuff for the adults.... I have way tooooo much to do and I have to be out of town all next week for work. Hopefully I can get another outfit done before I fly out on Monday.

This is her grinning sooooo big because she thought it was her bday today!

And I have to post at least a few twirl pictures

 

[3huskymom]

I finished Taylor's Magic Kingdom birthday dress today. Once again HeatherSue is my hero (and Marah too). Thank you ladies for coming up with such cute birthday appliques! I don't know what I would do without you!

Of coarse Taylor was convinced today was her birthday when I wanted to try it on her. She was really excited about this one, so forgive me for too many pictures. I was trying to get a decent angle on all the appliques, and she was so happy about the dress. I think I snapped at least 100 pics in just a couple mins time.

I am hoping to finish 3 more outfits before we leave on the 15th.... plus some stuff for the adults.... I have way tooooo much to do and I have to be out of town all next week for work. Hopefully I can get another outfit done before I fly out on Monday.

This is her grinning sooooo big because she thought it was her bday today!

And I have to post at least a few twirl pictures

AWESOME! What size hoop do you have?

 

[mirandag819]

AWESOME! What size hoop do you have?

Thanks! I just have a 5x7 hoop.

 

[mirandag819]

Here's a fall dress for Lily. I haven't made her official first day of pre-school dress yet but I have the fabric all ready to go. It won't be anything fancy, but I think it will be cute. The pre-school asks that you take "first day of school" photos at the orientation day which is coming up in a couple of weeks.

Sorry about the giant photos. Photobucket shows them as having been resized so hopefully it will correct itself. UGH>

So cute! I love that fabric, it is so pretty for fall.

 

[Camping Griswalds]

I really think the Vida works without any extra applique or embroidery. I did this dress last Halloween and really liked the look.

I was thinking of documenting how I do the 'butt ruffles' for the Feliz since I'll be doing those for a special dress very soon. I now there are various ways to do them but the pattern itself is very vague about it.



I should make another version of that. I did that one not long after I started doing applique so it was pretty basic. I think it would be really cute with some of the large scale appliques I like to do. Hmm, ideas are forming...

I love the look of this Vida. it makes it seem like "ordinary" people can do it too Not that your fabrics are ordinary You have unbelievable skill in fabrics!

So that feliz you are making....you know with "butt ruflles"?????? A person can never have too many of those Oh and a tutorial would be great. I have seen lots of people complain about the "vagueness" of that pattern and the butt ruffles. Well not the butt ruffles themselves....really how can anyone complain abut butt ruffles??

 

[ireland_nicole]

I have the exact opposite problem! My bodices are coming out WAY to small I started out making a 4 and could barely get it on Mollie. However she was so excited over her Tigger Halter that she didn't fuss getting it on I read where the halter was a tighter fit so I did the jumper style in a 4 next. . .TOO SMALL AGAIN: I have now went up to a size 5 and I am still VERY worried that if it shrinks AT ALL or she grows too much then she will not be able to wear it in Oct. She will definately not be wearing any of her WDW outfits before we go b/c I can't wash them if she does for fear of shrinkage. BUT, I did learn my lesson and I am now washing ALL fabric before sewing it! I just REALLY wish I new if I was doing something wrong! I even measured her for the size 5 to MAKE sure I was doing the correct size for her measurements, and I am doing 1/4 in seam so I am LOST as to what I am doing wrong.

I always wash my fabric first because it can shrink up a bit the first time, plus it gets the sizing out. As soon as I get home, I throw it in the washer, and then it's ready to go!

Hi everyone ~

It has been quite a while since I last posted - I think last year right after our June trip. I have not looked at my machine since DH's diagnosis and since his passing I am just now starting to feel like I want to sew and started to lurk again. Seeing all of the lovely creations is giving me the itch! I just wanted to pop in and let you know I am lurking and when I get going again I am sure I will post more.

Welcome back; looking forward to getting to know you and seeing what you come up with

It is official. Our original trip of 4 for September has morphed into a trip for NINE for September. Our party has become 4 adults, 3 toddlers under the age of 2, a 9 year old diva, and a seven-turning-eight little boy (menatally a three year old)!!!!!

I had been planning on the addition of one of the almost two year olds (my grand daughter) so I have been making her dresses all along. Our original plan was we were all wearing matching Tshirts during the day with matchy dresses/Tshirts for dinner.

Now, with this newest addition, I have no clue what to do! I'm sure I can whip up some easy fits for the boys, and maybe put a few Mickey heads on a couple of Tshirts... but am having a hard time coming up with the actual fabrics to use...I know pink and Tink are out...

For the girls I am still looking at making a Vida with some Butt ruffles with some cute Pooh fabric I found at Wally World yesterday. I was able to find some fabrics to compliment the fabric and not look too babyish for the 9 year old...if I run out of time I may make the stripwork jumper instead. This will be for Crystal Palace.

I have made a Round Neck dress in the Minnie Dot; a Round Neck dress with some green Tink fabric; a cute Stripwork jumper with Animal Kingdom in mind (totally CASED!!!); a Simply Sweet in a cute Pink Mickey fabric from that auction site; planning a simple Aline with Tiger print for Boma....and have started a cute overalls deconstruction/embellishment for Garden Grill. (the boys won't be with us that night...probably the easiest one to figure out for them!)

Ideas/suggestions?

I PROMISE I will post pictures....although they ae not up to standards previously set here, I am kinda proud of them. Right now I am fighting some sort of URI (not good with the combi of meds that lower my resistance to these things...I DON'T have time for a hospital stay!) As soon as I get a couple more cups of java in me I will start to look for the camera cord to upload the pix....promise!


Nini

Can't wait to see what you do; there's really cute red mickey sillouette fabric at HL that coordinates well with the minnie dot; I also do mickey head applique shirts for boys w/ minnie head (gotta love the bow) shirts for girls; for ak; anything animal themed is pretty much unisex; you're going to be fine; happy sewing!

Here's what I got done last night. I've had the AK outfit done for a while just needed to do the applique. I like the finished product but HATED the pattern I used. I will never use that one again! Thanks HeatherSue for the great appliques!
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w276/jmkapp/100_2028.jpg
[IMG]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w276/jmkapp/100_2035.jpg

those are cute! I really, really love the peek a boo outfit!

Please pm me if you need the address or size info for Margaret and family. I just want to make sure I don't miss anyone who wanted to do something for this sweet little girl and/or her family

They are leaving for Disney August 7th, packing on the 6th.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/margaretromph

Got your PM, just need to know her faborite characters. ALso, are there any clothing restrictions due to her being on the vent?

I could have sworn I flagged a bunch of posts to quote but now I don't have any. I know I don't remember them all so I'll try to do my best:

Elisa - Love the Halloween dress!
Kira - Wow, I love the smocked dress. I'd be afraid to put something like that on Zoe.
Tink561 - Gracie looks amazing in pink and red.

I finally got the Vida done so I could get photos for my tutorial. Click on either photo to check it out. I'd love feedback if I missed anything. I'm not crazy about how it's formatted but I didn't want to mess with it too much... I can lose way too much time if I let myself obsess about such things.

Love this! Can't wait to see the tute!

These are some pics of the fabric I got at another local walmart that is closing the fabric department. I love the wow wow wubzy fabric, wish I had purchased more and I love the pink eeyore. I would have loved to buy more, but DH kept giving me "the look"

I stalked for this pooh fabric. I believe jham made something with it, I don't know what I am going to do with, but I love to look at it !!

Great score!

Here is Isabelle's Back 2 School set!

Adorable!

Hi Everyone!

We made it home late last night. I had to run and pick up the pets and some food this morning...then I think I'm gonna crawl back into bed for a while!

Thank you so much for sending us prayers and pixie dust (and to Melissa/mommyof3princess for being such a great friend, my link to the outside world and helping me hold together that last bit of my sanity.)

As for the trip...I just don't know what to say. I saw as I scanned through someone mentioned about "disney expectations", etc. I do want to make sure I let everyone know it was NOT anything Disney that impacted our trip! The service was great, the events were phenomenal, loved the shows, had great food. Other than an Ariel and Mulan who were nice but probably not having their best days (kinda running on automatic, y'know?), every character greeting (especially the fuzzy ones, Belle, and amazing Pirates League people!) was phenomenal. We will not return to Pop Century but again, it wasn't a Disney thing, I think it was just our personal preference with the kiddos- nothing was wrong with it, just didn't feel like as good a fit as our last resort- we all have our favorites, right? But that really wasn't anything we had complaints with or that made the trip bad, either. We had some very magical moments, but some very very horrible ones kinda overshadowed the whole thing.

I'm sorry to seem so "vague" but it doesn't seem right to do so over the public boards. I just wanted to make sure you all knew it was NOT Disney (and our little family of seven is strong and holding it together!)

So, it was not anywhere close to what we'd thought would happen, which is the bad news. The "good" is that where before hubby was hemming and hawing over when to return, he now says we have to go back, this needs to be different, and how about December 2010! So off we'll go!

I had hoped to put up a trip report on the report boards (after Aug 7th) but I just don't see how that's possible now without leaving out a ton of stuff and making it seem fakey. I think I will try to find a way to do it (blog with password protection?) so that I can share the good and bad with those who want to hear it, since I feel like you'll all become friends/extended family these past few months! Any suggestions on how to do this (sites that might work, etc) would be greatly appreciated! Then I'll just ask whomever is interested in sharing our trip with us to PM me and I'll pass along the info.

((Hugs)) and thanks so much for all your concern and caring (and I'm off for a nap!)
Love,
Marah and The Husband
Emmy, Lizzie, Hannah, "Phineas" and "Ferb"

Oh honey, I'm so, so sorry. I just hope everyone is ok; please let me know if there's anything I can do.

Here's a fall dress for Lily. I haven't made her official first day of pre-school dress yet but I have the fabric all ready to go. It won't be anything fancy, but I think it will be cute. The pre-school asks that you take "first day of school" photos at the orientation day which is coming up in a couple of weeks.

Sorry about the giant photos. Photobucket shows them as having been resized so hopefully it will correct itself. UGH>

Cute! I love it; I saw this pattern (i think) and was on the fence, but may have to go for it.

I finished Taylor's Magic Kingdom birthday dress today. Once again HeatherSue is my hero (and Marah too). Thank you ladies for coming up with such cute birthday appliques! I don't know what I would do without you!

Of coarse Taylor was convinced today was her birthday when I wanted to try it on her. She was really excited about this one, so forgive me for too many pictures. I was trying to get a decent angle on all the appliques, and she was so happy about the dress. I think I snapped at least 100 pics in just a couple mins time.

I am hoping to finish 3 more outfits before we leave on the 15th.... plus some stuff for the adults.... I have way tooooo much to do and I have to be out of town all next week for work. Hopefully I can get another outfit done before I fly out on Monday.

This is her grinning sooooo big because she thought it was her bday today!

And I have to post at least a few twirl pictures

Super, super cute!!!!

 

[Camping Griswalds]

Here's a fall dress for Lily. I haven't made her official first day of pre-school dress yet but I have the fabric all ready to go. It won't be anything fancy, but I think it will be cute. The pre-school asks that you take "first day of school" photos at the orientation day which is coming up in a couple of weeks.

Sorry about the giant photos. Photobucket shows them as having been resized so hopefully it will correct itself. UGH>

I love the colors of the fabrics!

I finished Taylor's Magic Kingdom birthday dress today. Once again HeatherSue is my hero (and Marah too). Thank you ladies for coming up with such cute birthday appliques! I don't know what I would do without you!

Of coarse Taylor was convinced today was her birthday when I wanted to try it on her. She was really excited about this one, so forgive me for too many pictures. I was trying to get a decent angle on all the appliques, and she was so happy about the dress. I think I snapped at least 100 pics in just a couple mins time.

I am hoping to finish 3 more outfits before we leave on the 15th.... plus some stuff for the adults.... I have way tooooo much to do and I have to be out of town all next week for work. Hopefully I can get another outfit done before I fly out on Monday.

This is her grinning sooooo big because she thought it was her bday today!

And I have to post at least a few twirl pictures

Perfect birthday dress!

 

[mirandag819]

Hi Everyone!

We made it home late last night. I had to run and pick up the pets and some food this morning...then I think I'm gonna crawl back into bed for a while!

Thank you so much for sending us prayers and pixie dust (and to Melissa/mommyof3princess for being such a great friend, my link to the outside world and helping me hold together that last bit of my sanity.)

As for the trip...I just don't know what to say. I saw as I scanned through someone mentioned about "disney expectations", etc. I do want to make sure I let everyone know it was NOT anything Disney that impacted our trip! The service was great, the events were phenomenal, loved the shows, had great food. Other than an Ariel and Mulan who were nice but probably not having their best days (kinda running on automatic, y'know?), every character greeting (especially the fuzzy ones, Belle, and amazing Pirates League people!) was phenomenal. We will not return to Pop Century but again, it wasn't a Disney thing, I think it was just our personal preference with the kiddos- nothing was wrong with it, just didn't feel like as good a fit as our last resort- we all have our favorites, right? But that really wasn't anything we had complaints with or that made the trip bad, either. We had some very magical moments, but some very very horrible ones kinda overshadowed the whole thing.

I'm sorry to seem so "vague" but it doesn't seem right to do so over the public boards. I just wanted to make sure you all knew it was NOT Disney (and our little family of seven is strong and holding it together!)

So, it was not anywhere close to what we'd thought would happen, which is the bad news. The "good" is that where before hubby was hemming and hawing over when to return, he now says we have to go back, this needs to be different, and how about December 2010! So off we'll go!

I had hoped to put up a trip report on the report boards (after Aug 7th) but I just don't see how that's possible now without leaving out a ton of stuff and making it seem fakey. I think I will try to find a way to do it (blog with password protection?) so that I can share the good and bad with those who want to hear it, since I feel like you'll all become friends/extended family these past few months! Any suggestions on how to do this (sites that might work, etc) would be greatly appreciated! Then I'll just ask whomever is interested in sharing our trip with us to PM me and I'll pass along the info.

((Hugs)) and thanks so much for all your concern and caring (and I'm off for a nap!)
Love,
Marah and The Husband
Emmy, Lizzie, Hannah, "Phineas" and "Ferb"

Welcome back Marah, I have been thinking about you, and hated to hear your trip wasn't going well. Get some rest. I can't wait to hear about your trip (especially the good parts, but I just hate you had bad parts too). I can't wait until Aug 7th when you can show us some pictures of the whole family!

 

[teresajoy]

Here is Isabelle's Back 2 School set!

I love this set!!! It is so cute!

I could have sworn I flagged a bunch of posts to quote but now I don't have any. I know I don't remember them all so I'll try to do my best:

Elisa - Love the Halloween dress!
Kira - Wow, I love the smocked dress. I'd be afraid to put something like that on Zoe.
Tink561 - Gracie looks amazing in pink and red.

I finally got the Vida done so I could get photos for my tutorial. Click on either photo to check it out. I'd love feedback if I missed anything. I'm not crazy about how it's formatted but I didn't want to mess with it too much... I can lose way too much time if I let myself obsess about such things.

Cute set Lisa!!! And now we have two complete vida tutorials for people to read!!! (and two partial ones) I have put them all in the bookmarks, under dresses.

Hi Everyone!

We made it home late last night. I had to run and pick up the pets and some food this morning...then I think I'm gonna crawl back into bed for a while!

Thank you so much for sending us prayers and pixie dust (and to Melissa/mommyof3princess for being such a great friend, my link to the outside world and helping me hold together that last bit of my sanity.)

As for the trip...I just don't know what to say. I saw as I scanned through someone mentioned about "disney expectations", etc. I do want to make sure I let everyone know it was NOT anything Disney that impacted our trip! The service was great, the events were phenomenal, loved the shows, had great food. Other than an Ariel and Mulan who were nice but probably not having their best days (kinda running on automatic, y'know?), every character greeting (especially the fuzzy ones, Belle, and amazing Pirates League people!) was phenomenal. We will not return to Pop Century but again, it wasn't a Disney thing, I think it was just our personal preference with the kiddos- nothing was wrong with it, just didn't feel like as good a fit as our last resort- we all have our favorites, right? But that really wasn't anything we had complaints with or that made the trip bad, either. We had some very magical moments, but some very very horrible ones kinda overshadowed the whole thing.

I'm sorry to seem so "vague" but it doesn't seem right to do so over the public boards. I just wanted to make sure you all knew it was NOT Disney (and our little family of seven is strong and holding it together!)

So, it was not anywhere close to what we'd thought would happen, which is the bad news. The "good" is that where before hubby was hemming and hawing over when to return, he now says we have to go back, this needs to be different, and how about December 2010! So off we'll go!

I had hoped to put up a trip report on the report boards (after Aug 7th) but I just don't see how that's possible now without leaving out a ton of stuff and making it seem fakey. I think I will try to find a way to do it (blog with password protection?) so that I can share the good and bad with those who want to hear it, since I feel like you'll all become friends/extended family these past few months! Any suggestions on how to do this (sites that might work, etc) would be greatly appreciated! Then I'll just ask whomever is interested in sharing our trip with us to PM me and I'll pass along the info.

((Hugs)) and thanks so much for all your concern and caring (and I'm off for a nap!)
Love,
Marah and The Husband
Emmy, Lizzie, Hannah, "Phineas" and "Ferb"

Oh Marah, I'm so sorry things didn't go very well! When you figure out how to do the private TR, I would like to read it.

I got the AK fabric at my local quilt shop. I've had it done for a couple months just hadn't taken the time to put the applique on. I was so frustrated with the pattern that I didn't even want to look at it!

Do you know what brand it is?

Here's a fall dress for Lily. I haven't made her official first day of pre-school dress yet but I have the fabric all ready to go. It won't be anything fancy, but I think it will be cute. The pre-school asks that you take "first day of school" photos at the orientation day which is coming up in a couple of weeks.

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They look the perfect size to me Jeanne.

Lily looks darling in her new outfit! She looks great in those colors !

I finished Taylor's Magic Kingdom birthday dress today. Once again HeatherSue is my hero (and Marah too). Thank you ladies for coming up with such cute birthday appliques! I don't know what I would do without you!

Of coarse Taylor was convinced today was her birthday when I wanted to try it on her. She was really excited about this one, so forgive me for too many pictures. I was trying to get a decent angle on all the appliques, and she was so happy about the dress. I think I snapped at least 100 pics in just a couple mins time.

I am hoping to finish 3 more outfits before we leave on the 15th.... plus some stuff for the adults.... I have way tooooo much to do and I have to be out of town all next week for work. Hopefully I can get another outfit done before I fly out on Monday.

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Love it!!! That is so cute!!! Heather is pretty amazing with those designs, and you made EXCELLENT use of them!!! The only thing that outfit needs is a petti to fully show off the skirt!

 

[mirandag819]

Love it!!! That is so cute!!! Heather is pretty amazing with those designs, and you made EXCELLENT use of them!!! The only thing that outfit needs is a petti to fully show off the skirt!

I know she is VERY VERY amazing. I begged for some bday designs last Sunday and for her to finish soooo many super cute ones so fast and then for me to be able to stitch them out so quickly, I love how she makes super cute designs that don't take 5 hours each to stitch out. (I could never have done that many in one night if the designs came from anywhere else).

HAHA I already planned to use a petti under it, I think my sister is bringing them to me when she comes to watch Taylor while I am out of town. Which reminds me I need to call her and make sure they did come in. I was just trying to decide if I should use the white one or the pink one under this dress.

 

[teresajoy]

I know she is VERY VERY amazing. I begged for some bday designs last Sunday and for her to finish soooo many super cute ones so fast and then for me to be able to stitch them out so quickly, I love how she makes super cute designs that don't take 5 hours each to stitch out. (I could never have done that many in one night if the designs came from anywhere else).

HAHA I already planned to use a petti under it, I think my sister is bringing them to me when she comes to watch Taylor while I am out of town. Which reminds me I need to call her and make sure they did come in. I was just trying to decide if I should use the white one or the pink one under this dress.

OOOH, either one would be cute, but I am liking the idea of the pink one!

On Tuesday, I'm taking my embroidery machine to Heather's house and she is going to help me figure out how to use it!!!!

 

[teresajoy]

Hey, if you don't see me posting, anyone with my phone number, call me when we start inching closer to page 250!!!

 

[Tweevil]

Hi everyone!
Quick question - I have a futura but apparently didn't get the program that allows you to use different fonts I don't know why because I thought I did - but anyhoo....

If I buy a set of lettering designs from someone on line - how do I get them all to line up on the PC program? Can you tell I have no clue...

I want to emb "thanks for all you do" and can't figure it out. I need them for our staff luncheon.

Can anyone help me?

 

[revrob]

Hi Everyone!

We made it home late last night. I had to run and pick up the pets and some food this morning...then I think I'm gonna crawl back into bed for a while!

Thank you so much for sending us prayers and pixie dust (and to Melissa/mommyof3princess for being such a great friend, my link to the outside world and helping me hold together that last bit of my sanity.)

As for the trip...I just don't know what to say. I saw as I scanned through someone mentioned about "disney expectations", etc. I do want to make sure I let everyone know it was NOT anything Disney that impacted our trip! The service was great, the events were phenomenal, loved the shows, had great food. Other than an Ariel and Mulan who were nice but probably not having their best days (kinda running on automatic, y'know?), every character greeting (especially the fuzzy ones, Belle, and amazing Pirates League people!) was phenomenal. We will not return to Pop Century but again, it wasn't a Disney thing, I think it was just our personal preference with the kiddos- nothing was wrong with it, just didn't feel like as good a fit as our last resort- we all have our favorites, right? But that really wasn't anything we had complaints with or that made the trip bad, either. We had some very magical moments, but some very very horrible ones kinda overshadowed the whole thing.

I'm sorry to seem so "vague" but it doesn't seem right to do so over the public boards. I just wanted to make sure you all knew it was NOT Disney (and our little family of seven is strong and holding it together!)

So, it was not anywhere close to what we'd thought would happen, which is the bad news. The "good" is that where before hubby was hemming and hawing over when to return, he now says we have to go back, this needs to be different, and how about December 2010! So off we'll go!

I had hoped to put up a trip report on the report boards (after Aug 7th) but I just don't see how that's possible now without leaving out a ton of stuff and making it seem fakey. I think I will try to find a way to do it (blog with password protection?) so that I can share the good and bad with those who want to hear it, since I feel like you'll all become friends/extended family these past few months! Any suggestions on how to do this (sites that might work, etc) would be greatly appreciated! Then I'll just ask whomever is interested in sharing our trip with us to PM me and I'll pass along the info.

((Hugs)) and thanks so much for all your concern and caring (and I'm off for a nap!)
Love,
Marah and The Husband
Emmy, Lizzie, Hannah, "Phineas" and "Ferb"

I'm SO SORRY! I know that you can post a "note" on facebook and set up a list so that only the people that you designate can read it. I understand that you need to leave some things private, but if you decide to write something up, please PM me.

Here you go! I hope you'll share photos of Hannah in it... once she gets to actually wear it.

BTW - I'm always nervous to send something to someone who sews! I worry that my seams, stitching, etc. will be inspected with a magnifying glass.

I hope the tutorial makes sense. I wrote the steps last weekend and then added in the photos once I'd had a chance to edit them. They aren't the best photos but hopefully they show what I mean.



Thank you! I have to admit I'm not a fan of the 'cuties' but I'm definitely changing my mind now that this dress is done.



I really think the Vida works without any extra applique or embroidery. I did this dress last Halloween and really liked the look.

I was thinking of documenting how I do the 'butt ruffles' for the Feliz since I'll be doing those for a special dress very soon. I now there are various ways to do them but the pattern itself is very vague about it.





I should make another version of that. I did that one not long after I started doing applique so it was pretty basic. I think it would be really cute with some of the large scale appliques I like to do. Hmm, ideas are forming...

BEAUTIFUL! LOVE Alice!

Here's a fall dress for Lily. I haven't made her official first day of pre-school dress yet but I have the fabric all ready to go. It won't be anything fancy, but I think it will be cute. The pre-school asks that you take "first day of school" photos at the orientation day which is coming up in a couple of weeks.

Sorry about the giant photos. Photobucket shows them as having been resized so hopefully it will correct itself. UGH>

I need to break out this pattern. Jeanne - this is just fabulous! Love the fabric choices. Great job!

I finished Taylor's Magic Kingdom birthday dress today. Once again HeatherSue is my hero (and Marah too). Thank you ladies for coming up with such cute birthday appliques! I don't know what I would do without you!

Of coarse Taylor was convinced today was her birthday when I wanted to try it on her. She was really excited about this one, so forgive me for too many pictures. I was trying to get a decent angle on all the appliques, and she was so happy about the dress. I think I snapped at least 100 pics in just a couple mins time.

I am hoping to finish 3 more outfits before we leave on the 15th.... plus some stuff for the adults.... I have way tooooo much to do and I have to be out of town all next week for work. Hopefully I can get another outfit done before I fly out on Monday.

This is her grinning sooooo big because she thought it was her bday today!

And I have to post at least a few twirl pictures

This is SO CUTE! I agree that a petti would be great with it! Gotta love that Heather Sue and her applique designs. I stitched up a giant one yesterday, and it was less than 8000 stitches! unbelievable!

Hey, if you don't see me posting, anyone with my phone number, call me when we start inching closer to page 250!!!

I'm about to take a nap, but I'll check in in a few hours. If it looks like we're close and you're not around - I'll give you a call!

 

[Tink561]

I finished Taylor's Magic Kingdom birthday dress today. Once again HeatherSue is my hero (and Marah too). Thank you ladies for coming up with such cute birthday appliques! I don't know what I would do without you!

Of coarse Taylor was convinced today was her birthday when I wanted to try it on her. She was really excited about this one, so forgive me for too many pictures. I was trying to get a decent angle on all the appliques, and she was so happy about the dress. I think I snapped at least 100 pics in just a couple mins time.

I am hoping to finish 3 more outfits before we leave on the 15th.... plus some stuff for the adults.... I have way tooooo much to do and I have to be out of town all next week for work. Hopefully I can get another outfit done before I fly out on Monday.

This is her grinning sooooo big because she thought it was her bday today!

And I have to post at least a few twirl pictures

I love that!!! Amazing!!! She looks adorable.

 

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You guys will get to 250 today for sure! I am out of town, but trying not to get lost. Be sure to grab me before you transfer to a new thread.

 

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Ok, here are some butt ruffles!!!


Lydia's Wall-E dress:

and the same dress on my ugly door, with a petti under it:

Lydia in her Marie dress (still one of my favorites!)

and, because I love this picture: (she doesn't need the stool this year! and, I added an extra ruffle on the dress for our last trip)

my Wild Minnie dress, she wore this agian this year, it was just a bit shorter:

Hmm, I think that's about it, although I'm planning another one with Eeyore fabric for our October trip.

Cute! I love the ruffles.

 

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Hi Everyone!

We made it home late last night. I had to run and pick up the pets and some food this morning...then I think I'm gonna crawl back into bed for a while!

Thank you so much for sending us prayers and pixie dust (and to Melissa/mommyof3princess for being such a great friend, my link to the outside world and helping me hold together that last bit of my sanity.)

As for the trip...I just don't know what to say. I saw as I scanned through someone mentioned about "disney expectations", etc. I do want to make sure I let everyone know it was NOT anything Disney that impacted our trip! The service was great, the events were phenomenal, loved the shows, had great food. Other than an Ariel and Mulan who were nice but probably not having their best days (kinda running on automatic, y'know?), every character greeting (especially the fuzzy ones, Belle, and amazing Pirates League people!) was phenomenal. We will not return to Pop Century but again, it wasn't a Disney thing, I think it was just our personal preference with the kiddos- nothing was wrong with it, just didn't feel like as good a fit as our last resort- we all have our favorites, right? But that really wasn't anything we had complaints with or that made the trip bad, either. We had some very magical moments, but some very very horrible ones kinda overshadowed the whole thing.

I'm sorry to seem so "vague" but it doesn't seem right to do so over the public boards. I just wanted to make sure you all knew it was NOT Disney (and our little family of seven is strong and holding it together!)

So, it was not anywhere close to what we'd thought would happen, which is the bad news. The "good" is that where before hubby was hemming and hawing over when to return, he now says we have to go back, this needs to be different, and how about December 2010! So off we'll go!

I had hoped to put up a trip report on the report boards (after Aug 7th) but I just don't see how that's possible now without leaving out a ton of stuff and making it seem fakey. I think I will try to find a way to do it (blog with password protection?) so that I can share the good and bad with those who want to hear it, since I feel like you'll all become friends/extended family these past few months! Any suggestions on how to do this (sites that might work, etc) would be greatly appreciated! Then I'll just ask whomever is interested in sharing our trip with us to PM me and I'll pass along the info.

((Hugs)) and thanks so much for all your concern and caring (and I'm off for a nap!)
Love,
Marah and The Husband
Emmy, Lizzie, Hannah, "Phineas" and "Ferb"

I am really sorry things didn't go so well. We had a trip like that in 2006. My DH even wrote a trip report about it.

Anyways, I hope that you and the kids are all right. And I hope no one got sick or ended up at the emergency room. Your DH is right about going back. We went back soon after our bad trip and it really helped us get over it. Best wishes for the upcoming adoption!

 

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Hi everyone!
Quick question - I have a futura but apparently didn't get the program that allows you to use different fonts I don't know why because I thought I did - but anyhoo....

If I buy a set of lettering designs from someone on line - how do I get them all to line up on the PC program? Can you tell I have no clue...

I want to emb "thanks for all you do" and can't figure it out. I need them for our staff luncheon.

Can anyone help me?

I have a Futura and I think you need Auto Punch to get it worked out. I tried to import fonts and I wasn't able to, then I figured out that I needed that Software.

My DH found me a software called Sew What that did the same thing as Autopunch, but I didn't have time to figure out the program. It is available as a free trial for 30 days though so if you have time you may want to download it and then try to make your file. For me it is just easier to get someone else to create the names I need.

I can do Monograms one letter at a time.