I wanted to share my other contribution to Barbara's auction. My sweet daughter inspired me to give a little more after she asked to donate $10 from her piggy bank. So Proud!!!
There are so many cute things! Jessica made a darling girl scouts apron. A super cute Minnnie bag was listed tonight and Heather put up another FrouFrou gift certificate.
Beautiful! Love the pinks.
I haven't even started Alexa's Halloween costume yet and still wanted to make a couple more Halloween outfits. Don't know if they're going to get finished or not! Alexa is going to be Rapunzel and I really wanted Connor to be Flynn Ryder but he wasn't having it! So I bought him a Spiderman costume instead. Is it pathetic that I feel bad that he doesn't have a mom-made costume this year?!
A store bought costume!!!! I actually had to do that one year when dd wanted to be a unicorn and ds was a horse. I wanted to make ds a knight's costume for under his horse but he refused
And dd already had a gorgeous fairy dress that we received as a hand me down so coudln't make that to coordinate with her horse either
Oh, sorry about the broken link! Hmm, it appears that site won't allow a direct link. Try
this instead. It should be the first or second article down.
Regards,
C.
Good thing you didn't show this to me before I started my costumes otherwise I would have been tempted to bid -- after all i got my satin for less than $1.50 a yard so according to FHA I think I could then get a million dollar pattern.
I don't see the pants pattern shown either -- I'm sure the must have used Carla's Easy Fits (even though she probably wasn't even born then) just like I am.
I'm trying to get some ideas for Christmas Gifts for teachers, therapists and doctors that we see on a weekly basis. This has been a struggle for me for the past few years. I don't want to repeat myself, but each year the expectations get bigger and bigger.
I found some glass ornaments from a couple years ago. I was going to use them for place card holders at my Christmas table, but we ended up doing Christmas at my DIL's house and we did something different. They are clear glass, I put a few drops of paint in each one (different Christmasy colors) and swirled them around, then drained the excess paint.
They have a sort of marbled appearance. If I took these, and wrote either the Teacher's name or year on it in Gold leaf pen...would that work for a teacher's gift?
Part of me thinks it is fine, but another part thinks it is a bit cheap and uninspired. I've never reused something for a gift before...
In past years I have made goodies (included homemade hot cocoa mix and homemade marshmallows) in a fabric basket, hand embroidered and appliqued wall hangings, machine embroidered guest towels, Matching key fobs and purses, and a few other that I can't remember.
They all start out simple and end up taking about three times as much actual time to complete. I'm looking for something simple and easy...and quick!
Any ideas? Doe these ornaments sound too cheap?
Nini
PS...Since DD is now in middle school her teachers do not have the same high expectation as her previous elementary teachers...
My teachers get generous Target gift cards for Christmas and American Express cards for end of the year. They get homemade at Teacher's Day. But in your case you have a gazillion people and I would never do gift cards for that many people. I think the ornaments sounds cute and I like the idea of using them asa gift topper to home made treat for the more special folks.
The last couple of years of elementary school for teachers, scout leaders, therapists, etc I did a tin full of peppermint bark. Very easy to make and tastes great. Plus it looks expensive even though it isn't. Last year for middle school teachers we did "melted snowman" cookies for each teacher. They were large cookies so each teacher got one in a pretty cello bag tied with a ribbon. They were very well received.
We've also done insulated coffee cup cozies that I sewed and a small Starbucks gift cards.
Those are cute! I like the idea of the coffee cozies with gift cards. I'm not a coffee drinker, but starbucks has yummy hot cocoa!
everything posted this week is beautiful....especially love the pink christmas idea!
here are Kensliegh/lavender,Gracie/green and Chloe's/floral Ingalls dresses...
all 3 together...Kens & Gace saw thiers on FB a minute ago and are cheering and saying they love them they are perfect! Chloe loved her's too!
the veggie cans we did for their treat buckets...gotta add gems to one gold one and a lightening bolt to the other for the greek god/goddess { Elli & Blaze} i forgot to get a pic of Elli's dress...the Ingalss have silver gray buckets...th orange handles don't match but thye re what Pawpaw had and he put them on so that will work! they are the food service size cans...
ging now to decorate the gold ans...crunch time...
They are going to make such cute Prarie Girls!
Yay! And lucky you that soccer will be over! Phalen has a make-up game that weekend (and DH will get to see since he'll have to take him) and playoffs the following weekend . . . I am ready for the season to be OVER!
Y'all I have lost my mind! We tried using the spray in stuff to color Finn's hair blue for his Gil the Bubble Guppie Halloween costume. He went with spray in blue hair to the Halloween party we attended last night. But, by the end of the party (which was only 3 hours long) his hair was silver and he was leaving a cloud of blue dust in his wake. For whatever reason, that spray in stuff does NOT stick to his hair. Without the blue hair he just looks like a half nekked Ariel that lost her hair . . .
So, back to Sally's we went today . . .and consulted with our two new friends (we met them the other day when we went in for the "good" color hair spray) and bought a bottle of semi-permanent blue hair dye.
not only does that smilie guy show what my brain was doing as I was making the purchase, he also is a good representation of the color my child's hair is now.
It will wash out (and after only a few washes with a clarifying shampoo) but it's still the real deal BLUE HAIR.
What will I do when they're teenagers and want to dye their hair? I've already allowed him to do it at age THREE.
Here's a pic of Finn while the color was processing . . . it's not QUITE this "bright" now that we've rinsed and dried. . .
Our last soccer game is Nov 12 unless we get another make up game! We have practice twice a week and I am ready for that to end -- Ben has a lot of homework this year (we're really used to no homework b/c the kids are Montessori but they do 4/5/6 grades as a transition class so he gets some homework every night now and has to read to an adult for 20 min every night).
OMG on the blue hair! I hope his forehead didn't stay blue! I had a purple ear once from a mishap with regular haircolor that had a reddish tint.
I had a moment of inspiration in my Etsy name quest. What do you think of WellingtonPuddleduck?
LOVE IT!!!! And hope I can change my name -- must go check. I don't have a shop yet but have a name in mind that wasn't taken a couple of months ago. Just hope it's available for a business license as well, but I guess they wouldn't have to match exactly.
Hi Everyone!!!
Just got back from my conference in Ft Lauderdale - and a quick swing by the World for our Anniversary and a side trip to see Winter the Dolphin! We had a great time!!
Love all the auction items and new outfits created. And I LOVE Finn's blue hair!!!! lol!!!!
Question for you - I need to make Hannah into Isabella from Phineas and Ferb for Halloween. Any ideas of what pattern I could use?? Im stumped!!!!!! I tried hard to find a leftover tshirt type dress at walmart, but no luck!!! I also thought of using a pink tank top a size bigger so it would be long and maybe adding a longish ruffle on the bottom? Also - what to do for the belt thingy!!
Thanks SO MUCH!!!!!!
Quick hi cuz have to get the kids off to school -- I would do an Aline and belt it.
I finished Rosetta bag #3 today. I used Dorrine's directions for how to add the zipper. I am pretty happy with how the zipper turned out. I think next time I need to make it slightly shorter than I did this time. I have one more bag to make!
I made it to go with the Patricia tunic I sewed last summer.
This set is for my mother in law. I thought that I messed up the bag trying to put in the zipper, then I could just give her the tunic and she'd never know. Both of my kids said they preferred their bags since they have the magnetic snap.
Awesome!!! A zipper is on my to do list. Must try one. I'll like get to it in my next life if all goes well!
Sorry I am no help with the Etsy names. I have a shop with nothing in it
but my name is CreationsbyMI (real original
) but it was so hard coming up with something.
I was just going to do VBAndrea Creations since I already have VBAndrea as my user name on etsy as well as here -- I guess my etsy name would still just be VBAndrea but would make my business cards etc with the full thing. May change it now as a had a more creative one in mind -- providing i can change it without already having a shop open.
Ok, now for something to share:
Some of you would have seen this already. It's my second rendition of the World Showcase Insa for Barbara's auction. In the third picture, you can get a glimpse of my sewing room (and my very pink sewing machine!)
Great skirt! I'm sure it will do well.
I think you could get it done in a few hours. Especially if you are not appliqueing/embroidering it. Good Luck!
I love everything that has been posted lately. Way TMTQ for me, I have been trying to follow along for the past 2 weeks but haven't posted much at all. I am working on some BG stuff today and hope to get some pics posted while I do that, we went to
MNSSHP and F&W over the weekend.
Just wanting to say hi as I've been wondering what you've been up to lately!
I stitched out the design for the bag tonight. It was pretty easy. I made one very small mistake but I was able to fix it before I went on to the next step. This is for a bat mitzvah gift. I am going to put a gift card inside along with the bag. I added a double strap so that she can use it as a little purse.
My DD12 has been invited to another bat mitzvah next month. I think I am going to make another little bag like this to give along with a gift card. I think they make nice presents. I have had this design for a while now but this is the first time I stitched it out. I saw Pickle Pie at the Sewing Expo and talked to one of the ladies there. She showed me the completed bag which inspired me to try one out. Of course now both of my girls want me to make them little purses too.
Cute!!! I really like it!
Who's up for an all night sew?
Ugh! I am so tired! We leave Thursday and I still have 6 tshirts to embroider. Want to get them done tonight so I can get everything packed tomorrow and I can just relax Thursday before we leave.
I am, but mine will be Halloween costumes! I actually wanted to stay up last night, but was getting tired and knew I'd be in for many mistakes if I continued.
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Here are pictures of a recent project for a Big Give:
Front:
Back:
(I really like how the "patches" worked on the shorts! It was one of those random ideas I had one day and I decided to try it out.)
And I decided to model the skirt (with yoga pants under it as it would be a little short for me!)
It looks much better on the recipient as her hips are narrower than mine.
Thanks for looking!
Well you know I love it since I'm very fond of embellished patchworks! I adore the shorts patches -- I will case that for future designs!!!
) But I will say IMO, the fireworks are the best I've ever seen at Disney and the parade was fantastic, too. The kids all had a fabulous time! F&W was wonderful of course. I was full by the time we hit our 3rd stop! 
I am glad you liked MNSSHP - it was/is my favorite thing at WDW, so I think that everyone should love it. 
