Disboutiquers Part 13 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[Dreamer & Wisher]

Kids Sewing Machine,,,,

Hi Everyone - does anyone know where I could get a kids sewing machine pretty cheap? I am working with a little girl who has many disabilities and would like to try sewing with her as part of her therapy session - Im a bit afraid to use the department machine (yes, believe it or not we have a machine in our department) with her and am wondering if the kids machine would be safer?? I want to try to gain her interest because that is when she pays the best attention and learns.....she is a sweetie, but has sooo many issues....tips or help from those who have a kiddie machine???

Thanks so much!!!

Update on Daniel - I know many of you continue to pray for my Daniel - he is doing pretty well right now as far as his health goes. His 2 big issues are weight loss ( he is getting sooooooo thin so he has no reserve if he were to get sick) and then just the damage from the tumor removal is resolving so slowly (posterior fossa syndrome) - I know too much compared to the others in our family, and sometimes that makes it so hard. He is still just very silly all the time and laughs and giggles at anything - makes him have a hard time with any school work they are trying to do with him.....but better than than being depressed and crying all the time, right??? Keep praying - he still has a long road of recovery!!!

Thanks friends!

Prayers for Daniel. He sounds like a really fun kid.
I was going to say don't buy the kids sewing machine they sell at JoAnn's. It is a "White" machine. I purchased one for DD and it is awful.

I found this for you, however they are sold out. Maybe you could e mail them and see if they will give u a rain check or notify you if one becomes available. looks simple enough, and the price is definitely right.

http://www.collectionsetc.com/Sewin...Ntt=sewing+machine&productname=Sewing_Machine

Then I looked at this machine when she posted the link and it looks like the same machine. This looked like the same machine I bought at JoAnn's. It is awful.

Doggie party

I don't have many pics without other kids in them. Here are a few

The kids all started out adopting a doggie. I had adoption certificates for each kid. The doggies:

Then, they made a tag for themselves and their doggies:

Then the vet center

Then some doggie treats (combos, slim jims, cocopuffs, cereal straws that looked like raw hide)

There was also an obstacle course, but all of those pics have other kids in them. We had hot dogs and burgers. The kids all ate out of dog bowls. Cooper really got into the spirit of the doggie party-

Lots of other kids "ate with their faces" as Cooper puts it. They had soooo much fun! Lastly, my little guy with his cake and cupcakes. Lots of our friends won't eat either chocolate or vanilla. you can't please everyone, but i try- chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cake.

Thanks for looking.

WOWOWOWOWOW!!!! I love the party theme and decorations. The dog bowl cake is adorable!!! Great job!!

quick update. I'll be 31 weeks on tues and haven't taken a belly pic yet so her ya go!

Mind you I have NO makeup on and I'm exhausted so excuse the circles!!!

...t.

AWWW you look great!!! How are you feeling??

Thanks!

We're adopting two boys. One will be "anytime now", he just turned 1 on Friday. We are also adopting his "older" brother (by only 11 months!), he will be 2 at the end of May, and his adoption is scheduled for August. We also have 3 girls, aged 12, 8 (on Saturday) and 9.

I wish I could show you a pic of them all! One of the things I'm looking forward to about having the adoption over with is being able to show off pics of my new sons!

Congratulations on the upcoming adoption! What a great reason to go to Walt Disney World!

I was looking through some older pics and came across some that I got a kick out of......

Morgan's first thoughts on SW (She had been in this country about 2 weeks LOL)

She is adorable! How old was she?? What a cutie pie

 

[MouseTriper]

Have any of you ever seen Buzz Lightyear applique designs for an embroidery machine?????

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explaining it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

I am sorry about your Grandmom.

 

[livndisney]

Ok- Somehow I keep missing the pic of T-beri!!

You look wonderful!!!!! to you and Little!

 

[livndisney]

She is adorable! How old was she?? What a cutie pie

She was 4. WHERE did the time go?

 

[t-beri]

I was looking through some older pics and came across some that I got a kick out of......

Morgan's first thoughts on SW (She had been in this country about 2 weeks LOL)

Awwe, poor baby Morgan!

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

Thanks for the many compliments guys. I am feeling rather large and gross lately. I've always felt really pretty during my pregnancies and this one -not so much.
I really would like one more but this pregnancy is kicking my butt. It's kinda funny, I felt REALLY great all of the time w/ Little except I kept landing in the hospital for ridiculous things. I got into a car accident and the ER kept me from 9 am to 5 pm w/ no water or food which caused me to dehydrate and start contracting-DUH- so I had to stay over night for "preterm labor" which it WASN'T. Then I had some kidney problems due to her position and that put me in the hospital a couple of times and about 4 weeks left to go and I pulled an intercostal rib muscle typing at work b/c my belly kept the keyboard so far away I can laugh about it now but I couldn't even breath w/out excruciating pain and it took them 2 days to figure out why. Come to THIS pregnancy and I haven't had to go to the hospital ONCE but I feel pretty crummy a lot of the time. I am ALWAYS tired. The other day I got up at 8:45 (15 minutes before I had to take Mac to school, he's such a good kid he can always tell when I need a little extra sleep and will wait as long as he can to wake me) and by 10:30 I could barely keep my eyes open. It's miserable to never feel like you've had enough sleep. I keep telling B my body is just prepping me for the months of little sleep ahead LOL.

OK, vent over. Thanks again for all of the kind words!
...t.

 

[NaeNae]

Have any of you ever seen Buzz Lightyear applique designs for an embroidery machine?????

I've purchased one from this seller: http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Tigerlilyhill-Embroidery-Designs__W0QQ_armrsZ1
She's not showing it in her store right now but you can email her and ask if she still has it.

 

[NaeNae]

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

This is the book that my kids got when someone in our family died.(It was 1984 so I don't remeber who it was.) Grandpa & Me we learn about death by Marlee & Ben Alex, Bethany House Publishers.

On the back it says: Maria & her grandpa have a very special relationship, and she learns many valuable truths about life and death as they explore the farm and get to know the animals. Then Maria's grandpa becomes very sick and has to be hospitalized. "Are you going to die, Grandpa?" she whispers. "I'm not afraid of death, Maria," her grandpa answers.
Grandpa & me will be an important tool in talking naturally to your children about the subject of death. For 5-9 year olds.

My kids were 2 & 5 when I bought it. I happened to have written in it or I wouldn't have remembered. It is written from a Christian viewpoint.

I'll keep all of you in my prayers.

 

[mrsmiller]

the big give outfits all I can say isit is so hard to do a snow white theme outfit for boys !! it looks perfect,

Love the Puppy Birthday love the idea !!!! my older boy was really into dinosaurs ,when he was 4 yrs and we did the Dino theme party including "digging for dinos" , hunting dinos, and dino pinatas ...we spent the most for that party , but was the best!!!! the kids had so much fun, OH how I miss those days!!!
Love the kids pictures!!!

T you look beautiful, I looked so bad when I was pregnant I never took a picture!!


thank you so much for the compliments on the mickey disco dot top, I did not use a pattern as it was one of those accidental things , I had less than 1/2 of the fabric and decided to work with it , the bottom shape was part of what was left from another cut and I decided to just use bias tape to keep it at a good length ,the straps I made them too long so I had to add the hoops at the back , really simple

I am working on a Cinderella sundress ( this picture the dress is only hand basted) I hand basted to have an idea how it will look , as usual I am wondering if you think Cinderella when you look at it (dress is not finished)

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TIME TO VENT AND I NEED ADVISE!!!

OK, so today I have our friends (with their two daughters) come over, we did a little sewing ( I was teaching them) and one of the girls was telling me how she got in trouble for stealing, I gave her a little talk about why it is bad to steal, how God do not like it, and how you hurt a lot of different people with your actions (parents, friends , etc) and asked her what her brain told her when she did it ...her response was ...I knew it was bad we kept talking and BTW the last time (last week) she came to my apartment I promised her if she did good in school I was going to buy her a PSP or Nintendo dsi,


My youngest son collects trading cards, some of the cards are really expensive and he has quite a collection, the little girl asked me for some and I told her that they belonged to my son , they were really expensive but she could asked my son to give her one maybe of lesser value that he did not mind sharing ( he gave her 2 cards), well after the family left my son came to the room crying that half of his collection cards were missing!!!! more than 30 cards ( he's been collecting them since he was 5 and had them in a tin can even thought we bought him a binder with the pages to keep them and told him over and over to take care of them as they were expensive and as some of them were so rare , hard to get)

at this point I am so MAD!! I wanted to call the parents and let them know what happened , but my husband told me to let it go, that it was my little one's fault for being careless , I pointed out that one of the card I spent a good amount of money(it was for his birthday) and the told me let him learn a lesson

the family is to come back next Sunday and I really want to talk to the parents, to me is the principle of the matter, she knew we spoke about stealing and that being WRONG, if I only had a tape of the speech i gave her about it...I spoke for about 15 min to her and i thoughtshe "got it" , I feel so stupid and upset at the same time,

I told my husband that I will let her know that she will not be getting anything from us, but my husband says we have to because we promised her, I really do not want to get her anything , my husband keeps saying let it go...What will you do????????????????

sorry for the vent but I am so HURT!!!!

linnette

 

[Tykatmadismomma]

My Aunt called me tonight my grandfather passed away this afternoon. He had been sick for a long time. I was hoping to see him during our Florida visit.

 

[t-beri]

Linette, If it were me (and it's NOT) I would talk to the girl and if she didn't confess and give back the cards I WOULD talk to her parents. True your son didn't keep his cards as safe as they could have been but they were in the protection of his own home. He should not have to learn a lesson while a little thief gets away w/ her wrong actions. I had my car broken into a few years back and my door had been unlocked so the cops acted like it was MY fault. NO, it is wrong to take another persons property regardless of how it is secured. I think just the prospect of losing the cards probably taught your son a valuable lesson and he will guard them a little more closely (I always lock my car doors NOW) I think the parents should know that their daughter has a problem and should take a little responsibility. I know if it were my son I would want to correct the action.

Of course I never want to tell anyone to NOT listen to their husband, you don't need it to cause a conflict between the two of you but maybe you can get him to see that the girl is at fault not your son...why would he think his cards were in danger in the security of his own home and that she should be held responsible in order for HER to learn a lesson.

...t.

 

[t-beri]

My Aunt called me tonight my grandfather passed away this afternoon. He had been sick for a long time. I was hoping to see him during our Florida visit.

I'm so sorry!

 

[emcreative]

I was looking through some older pics and came across some that I got a kick out of......

Morgan's first thoughts on SW (She had been in this country about 2 weeks LOL)

Aww! This one even made The Husband smile.

I can totally see our toddler making the SAME face this year!

 

[Piper]

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

Read The Tenth Best Thing About Barney (I think that's the title.) It is not about a person, but about a dog. I think it helps get the message across abut death without being too morbid. It's been several years since I read it, but several teachers read it to their second grade classes when one of our second grade students died a few weeks ago.

 

[Piper]

Linette, Please do not let her go Scott-free. If she gets away with this, she will steal again....and again....and again.

I had a student this year that took anything not glued to the table. It got so bad that I had her turn her pockets inside out and open her backpack before she left the class (in private and away from the other kids.) Her mother just blew it off--saying that she was young and didn't really understand.

Then one day I noticed her giving money to the other students (no reason for a 4 year old to be handing out $20 bills!!), I found $230 in her pocket.....took it and her to the office and called her mother. Well, she had gotten the grocery money out of her mother's purse. Mom was furious and it suddenly wasn't okay for her to steal anymore. I haven't had anything else missing from the classroom since that day!!!

Sometimes, it takes a wake-up call. And I would explain to her that she cannot have a game because you don't have the money to buy it since you had to replace the "missing" cards. Actions need consequences!!

 

[disneylovinfamily]

I have been MIA this weekend and skimmed many of the pages---lots of cute stuff! We had a yard sale and made $400 to put towards the Disney fund!

the big give outfits all I can say isit is so hard to do a snow white theme outfit for boys !! it looks perfect,

Love the Puppy Birthday love the idea !!!! my older boy was really into dinosaurs ,when he was 4 yrs and we did the Dino theme party including "digging for dinos" , hunting dinos, and dino pinatas ...we spent the most for that party , but was the best!!!! the kids had so much fun, OH how I miss those days!!!
Love the kids pictures!!!

T you look beautiful, I looked so bad when I was pregnant I never took a picture!!


thank you so much for the compliments on the mickey disco dot top, I did not use a pattern as it was one of those accidental things , I had less than 1/2 of the fabric and decided to work with it , the bottom shape was part of what was left from another cut and I decided to just use bias tape to keep it at a good length ,the straps I made them too long so I had to add the hoops at the back , really simple

I am working on a Cinderella sundress ( this picture the dress is only hand basted) I hand basted to have an idea how it will look , as usual I am wondering if you think Cinderella when you look at it (dress is not finished)

back

TIME TO VENT AND I NEED ADVISE!!!

OK, so today I have our friends (with their two daughters) come over, we did a little sewing ( I was teaching them) and one of the girls was telling me how she got in trouble for stealing, I gave her a little talk about why it is bad to steal, how God do not like it, and how you hurt a lot of different people with your actions (parents, friends , etc) and asked her what her brain told her when she did it ...her response was ...I knew it was bad we kept talking and BTW the last time (last week) she came to my apartment I promised her if she did good in school I was going to buy her a PSP or Nintendo dsi,


My youngest son collects trading cards, some of the cards are really expensive and he has quite a collection, the little girl asked me for some and I told her that they belonged to my son , they were really expensive but she could asked my son to give her one maybe of lesser value that he did not mind sharing ( he gave her 2 cards), well after the family left my son came to the room crying that half of his collection cards were missing!!!! more than 30 cards ( he's been collecting them since he was 5 and had them in a tin can even thought we bought him a binder with the pages to keep them and told him over and over to take care of them as they were expensive and as some of them were so rare , hard to get)

at this point I am so MAD!! I wanted to call the parents and let them know what happened , but my husband told me to let it go, that it was my little one's fault for being careless , I pointed out that one of the card I spent a good amount of money(it was for his birthday) and the told me let him learn a lesson

the family is to come back next Sunday and I really want to talk to the parents, to me is the principle of the matter, she knew we spoke about stealing and that being WRONG, if I only had a tape of the speech i gave her about it...I spoke for about 15 min to her and i thoughtshe "got it" , I feel so stupid and upset at the same time,

I told my husband that I will let her know that she will not be getting anything from us, but my husband says we have to because we promised her, I really do not want to get her anything , my husband keeps saying let it go...What will you do????????????????

sorry for the vent but I am so HURT!!!!

linnette

I love the cindy dress and I thought cindy when I saw it! LOVE the back I too would speak with the other parents. It is not right and her behavior will continue to get worse unles the parents are aware and take action now. Good luck

My Aunt called me tonight my grandfather passed away this afternoon. He had been sick for a long time. I was hoping to see him during our Florida visit.

I am so sorry, I will keep you and your family in my prayers.

 

[minnie2]

Thank you to everyone for the nice comments about all my outfits I forgot to put the actual disney one on her so here it is. It was nice to hear how everone liked the jellyfish skirt. It is starting to grow on me maybe I won't take it apart to see where i went wrong. I love all the new twirl skirts and darla I love the costumes. I wish I had the sewing machine that was pictured. Look like it would be fun to have. Well I hpe you all have a nice day I am off to finish cutting out my 45 headbands. And sew them if I make it through all of them I will share. To all.

Realy cute! I love that purple material.

Here are the completed outfits for 6 yr old Joseph's Big Give! He is really looking forward to meeting Snow White so I made a bowling shirt with a cool fabric picture on the back. I ordered it from . Then I made a stripwork twirl dress for his 2.5 yr old little sister, Abbigail. What a blast and I really enjoyed trying out the new machine. I made Joseph's entire outfit on it (I already had the dress done). Now its onto trying out a machine applique!!!

I hope they like them and I hope they fit ok...I followed the measurements and the bowling shirt I enlarged via photocopier directions from Carla!!! Its such fun doing these projects!!!!

Great job! Love the pleating.

Hi everyone. I have no experience with sewing but all of your outfits are wonderful. I found this tote on youcanmakethis and I would like to try it so I have a bag big enough for student teaching. And it's really cute as well. Before I buy the pattern do you think you could tell me judging from the picture if it would be easy enough for a beginner?

Thanks

Here's the picture:

Usually the stuff from YCMT are pretty easy so I bet you could! If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Kids Sewing Machine,,,,

Hi Everyone - does anyone know where I could get a kids sewing machine pretty cheap? I am working with a little girl who has many disabilities and would like to try sewing with her as part of her therapy session - Im a bit afraid to use the department machine (yes, believe it or not we have a machine in our department) with her and am wondering if the kids machine would be safer?? I want to try to gain her interest because that is when she pays the best attention and learns.....she is a sweetie, but has sooo many issues....tips or help from those who have a kiddie machine???

Thanks so much!!!

Update on Daniel - I know many of you continue to pray for my Daniel - he is doing pretty well right now as far as his health goes. His 2 big issues are weight loss ( he is getting sooooooo thin so he has no reserve if he were to get sick) and then just the damage from the tumor removal is resolving so slowly (posterior fossa syndrome) - I know too much compared to the others in our family, and sometimes that makes it so hard. He is still just very silly all the time and laughs and giggles at anything - makes him have a hard time with any school work they are trying to do with him.....but better than than being depressed and crying all the time, right??? Keep praying - he still has a long road of recovery!!!

Thanks friends!

Thanks for the update on Daniel.

A few weeks ago, I had the kids portraits made- I am just in LOVE with these. I had to take pics of the framed pictures. To reduce the glare, I had to take them slightly from the side.


And the GIGANTIC (24x30) pic that we got. I didn't realize how huge it would be. I love it though.

What beautiful pictures! You have such handsome boys!

That doggie party looked like so much fun!! What a great idea!

Thought you ladies would enjoy this one. We went to look at a house today. There is a master suite with bedroom, walk-in closet, bath, and then this random other little room off of it. I guess some people use it as an office/others as a nursery. Randy response to it: Well that would make a nice scrapbooking/sewing room for you FINALLY, I got through to him

LOL So are you going to buy the house?

SO I have a question for you crafty ladies...(of which I am NOT one, but I love what y'all create!)

Is there some unwritten rule that says you don't dress your kids in awesome handmade Disneywear once they wear more than a 6?

Okay okay I know I'm kinda kidding here, and I do understand that a lot of patterns are made for the little ones, but it seems like there isn't much ebay etsy anywhere for the bigger girls so I wondered if it was just a lack of patterns available or something?

I do art (I would post my link but I'm not sure if you could do that? It's nothing for sale) so I did make them wear matching iron=ons our last trip, but that's as crafty as I get with clothes.

My girls really like a lot of the stuff we see, but then I find it's usually only toddler sizes!

I unfortunately cannot sew on a button, but I've loved going through this thread today seeing what you all have created. Decided I'd better say hi so I didn't feel so much like a stalker, lol!

My DD is 9 an dI still make stuff for her and her friends. In fact I just made a peasant dress for her bff's bday!

 

[Eyore4Ever149]

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

I'm so sorry for your loss. i know I worry about Megan when my Dad dies, she is the only realy Grampy she has. I hope your kids understand and can appreciate the memories they have and perhaps help them now by writing down stories they tell you about their Great- Grandma. As they get older they will be able to reflect back on just how much they knew her and the way that she was special to them. Then have them make a little "cover" for their stories out of construction paper and make a "book" out of it, they could draw a pic of them and G-Grandma on the front.

the big give outfits all I can say isit is so hard to do a snow white theme outfit for boys !! it looks perfect,

Love the Puppy Birthday love the idea !!!! my older boy was really into dinosaurs ,when he was 4 yrs and we did the Dino theme party including "digging for dinos" , hunting dinos, and dino pinatas ...we spent the most for that party , but was the best!!!! the kids had so much fun, OH how I miss those days!!!
Love the kids pictures!!!

T you look beautiful, I looked so bad when I was pregnant I never took a picture!!


thank you so much for the compliments on the mickey disco dot top, I did not use a pattern as it was one of those accidental things , I had less than 1/2 of the fabric and decided to work with it , the bottom shape was part of what was left from another cut and I decided to just use bias tape to keep it at a good length ,the straps I made them too long so I had to add the hoops at the back , really simple

I am working on a Cinderella sundress ( this picture the dress is only hand basted) I hand basted to have an idea how it will look , as usual I am wondering if you think Cinderella when you look at it (dress is not finished)

back

TIME TO VENT AND I NEED ADVISE!!!

OK, so today I have our friends (with their two daughters) come over, we did a little sewing ( I was teaching them) and one of the girls was telling me how she got in trouble for stealing, I gave her a little talk about why it is bad to steal, how God do not like it, and how you hurt a lot of different people with your actions (parents, friends , etc) and asked her what her brain told her when she did it ...her response was ...I knew it was bad we kept talking and BTW the last time (last week) she came to my apartment I promised her if she did good in school I was going to buy her a PSP or Nintendo dsi,


My youngest son collects trading cards, some of the cards are really expensive and he has quite a collection, the little girl asked me for some and I told her that they belonged to my son , they were really expensive but she could asked my son to give her one maybe of lesser value that he did not mind sharing ( he gave her 2 cards), well after the family left my son came to the room crying that half of his collection cards were missing!!!! more than 30 cards ( he's been collecting them since he was 5 and had them in a tin can even thought we bought him a binder with the pages to keep them and told him over and over to take care of them as they were expensive and as some of them were so rare , hard to get)

at this point I am so MAD!! I wanted to call the parents and let them know what happened , but my husband told me to let it go, that it was my little one's fault for being careless , I pointed out that one of the card I spent a good amount of money(it was for his birthday) and the told me let him learn a lesson

the family is to come back next Sunday and I really want to talk to the parents, to me is the principle of the matter, she knew we spoke about stealing and that being WRONG, if I only had a tape of the speech i gave her about it...I spoke for about 15 min to her and i thoughtshe "got it" , I feel so stupid and upset at the same time,

I told my husband that I will let her know that she will not be getting anything from us, but my husband says we have to because we promised her, I really do not want to get her anything , my husband keeps saying let it go...What will you do????????????????

sorry for the vent but I am so HURT!!!!

linnette

Oh Linnette, I have to say, I think your DH is thinking he is being kind, but really he is doing a dis-service to that child by not addressing the issue. Your son's cards should certainly have been safe it his house! It's not like he took them to the park to play with them. If someone stole your TV- would you DH learn a lesson???? Also, I wouldnt wait until next weekend- I would call and ask to speak with the girl- she may trade, sell, lose or give them as gifts by next weekend. I know- my bestfriend growing up came from a VERY wealthy family and she stole a lot, her family had so much money, they never noticed the "extra" stuff, and since it wasn't hers, she was happy to give it away as "gifts" to friends and make herself look generous.
Everytime someone sweeps this under the rug to avoid conflict, embarassment, etc, you are hurting that little girl's future. I think since you already had a convo with her, you have a perfect platform to talk with her again. You DH may also be worried that if you address it, she denies it, and he's concerned the parents will think you are accusing their "innocent" girl. Just tossing my thoughts out there.
i do think the kindest thing you can do is talk to this girl- AND her Mom about it. And i agree- no WAY should she not have the Nintendo gift revoked AND get off scott-free!!!
Now it's up to you on if you decide to talk with her, get the cards back, and then give her the gift, or talk with her and explain because of her behavior she can not have the gift. (I would wait to see how many of the cards your son gets back)
Im really sorry, and to be honest, I think it's extremely ballsy of her to ask for the cards in the first place and it was exceptionally nice of him to give her 2! It teaches your son a lesson too- never trust anyone- not a good messege.

My Aunt called me tonight my grandfather passed away this afternoon. He had been sick for a long time. I was hoping to see him during our Florida visit.

Prayers for you and your family

 

[minnie2]

You have to rip open the jeans up the seams. Depending on the brand depends on whether I open the inside or the outside seam.

Here is a pair that I did "by hand"

and one using the machine

Look how little Dallas is! Very cute outfits!

Thanks for the tutorial. Made perfect sense! The outfits are awesome!!!



Wow, glad to hear you are getting settled. Did you ever finish your trip report? I need more pics from your cruise! Please, please, please




I LOVE my ruffler. It was expensive, $100 But I can't imagine sewing girl clothes without it. BTW, I really only use it for 2 to 1 ruffling.




Cutest party ever. I second the "mother of the year" award!





I dress my 9 year old in lots of customs and her favorites are the twirl skirts. I'm starting on one for her tonight. Here is her in one I recently made for a Big Give (also for a 9 yo).

The one thing she won't do, no matter how much I try to pay her... is wear anything that looks like a costume (no Cinderella dresses for her)

very pretty! Don't you just love that our girls still like stuff we make????

quick update. I'll be 31 weeks on tues and haven't taken a belly pic yet so her ya go!

Mind you I have NO makeup on and I'm exhausted so excuse the circles!!!

...t.

T you look wonderful!!!!!

Thanks!

We're adopting two boys. One will be "anytime now", he just turned 1 on Friday. We are also adopting his "older" brother (by only 11 months!), he will be 2 at the end of May, and his adoption is scheduled for August. We also have 3 girls, aged 12, 8 (on Saturday) and 9.

I wish I could show you a pic of them all! One of the things I'm looking forward to about having the adoption over with is being able to show off pics of my new sons!

Congratulations! What a wonderful thing!!!!!!

I was looking through some older pics and came across some that I got a kick out of......

Morgan's first thoughts on SW (She had been in this country about 2 weeks LOL)

Look how stinking cute she is! Love the look on her face!

My Grandmom dies last night. She had breast cancer with mets to the brain. She was started getting morphine every hour for the pain she was in. It has been really hard explainning it to my girls, Juliet gets it kind of, but Joci keeps saying "we can go see her when she gets better", Evie will never remember her though. I tried to read the only book I had that dealt about a child losing someone but had a hard time reading it without crying. She is the first death we have had in the family that was someone they knew & saw. I am not sure how else to explain it to them so they understand. Any one have any good kids books about someone who was sick and died not just really old & died?

I am so sorry for your loss...

Have any of you ever seen Buzz Lightyear applique designs for an embroidery machine?????

have you checked a stitch in time? I have one but it came with my machine.

the big give outfits all I can say isit is so hard to do a snow white theme outfit for boys !! it looks perfect,

Love the Puppy Birthday love the idea !!!! my older boy was really into dinosaurs ,when he was 4 yrs and we did the Dino theme party including "digging for dinos" , hunting dinos, and dino pinatas ...we spent the most for that party , but was the best!!!! the kids had so much fun, OH how I miss those days!!!
Love the kids pictures!!!:

T you look beautiful, I looked so bad when I was pregnant I never took a picture!!


thank you so much for the compliments on the mickey disco dot top, I did not use a pattern as it was one of those accidental things , I had less than 1/2 of the fabric and decided to work with it , the bottom shape was part of what was left from another cut and I decided to just use bias tape to keep it at a good length ,the straps I made them too long so I had to add the hoops at the back , really simple

I am working on a Cinderella sundress ( this picture the dress is only hand basted) I hand basted to have an idea how it will look , as usual I am wondering if you think Cinderella when you look at it (dress is not finished)

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TIME TO VENT AND I NEED ADVISE!!!

OK, so today I have our friends (with their two daughters) come over, we did a little sewing ( I was teaching them) and one of the girls was telling me how she got in trouble for stealing, I gave her a little talk about why it is bad to steal, how God do not like it, and how you hurt a lot of different people with your actions (parents, friends , etc) and asked her what her brain told her when she did it ...her response was ...I knew it was bad we kept talking and BTW the last time (last week) she came to my apartment I promised her if she did good in school I was going to buy her a PSP or Nintendo dsi,


My youngest son collects trading cards, some of the cards are really expensive and he has quite a collection, the little girl asked me for some and I told her that they belonged to my son , they were really expensive but she could asked my son to give her one maybe of lesser value that he did not mind sharing ( he gave her 2 cards), well after the family left my son came to the room crying that half of his collection cards were missing!!!! more than 30 cards ( he's been collecting them since he was 5 and had them in a tin can even thought we bought him a binder with the pages to keep them and told him over and over to take care of them as they were expensive and as some of them were so rare , hard to get)

at this point I am so MAD!! I wanted to call the parents and let them know what happened , but my husband told me to let it go, that it was my little one's fault for being careless , I pointed out that one of the card I spent a good amount of money(it was for his birthday) and the told me let him learn a lesson

the family is to come back next Sunday and I really want to talk to the parents, to me is the principle of the matter, she knew we spoke about stealing and that being WRONG, if I only had a tape of the speech i gave her about it...I spoke for about 15 min to her and i thoughtshe "got it" , I feel so stupid and upset at the same time,

I told my husband that I will let her know that she will not be getting anything from us, but my husband says we have to because we promised her, I really do not want to get her anything , my husband keeps saying let it go...What will you do????????????????

sorry for the vent but I am so HURT!!!!

linnette

Gorgeous!
I am shocked at what that little girl did! Stunned!
I really hate saying to go against your DH BUT I keep thinking the old saying 'It takes a village to raise a child' Maybe the parents have no clue. If you don't say something they will never know and it will start at small stealing then progress to much more expensive stuff if she isn't stopped.
Could you question them all with out accusing?
Personally I don't see how it is your sons fault at all. They where in his room in his house where they should be safe ad where he should feel safe. JMO. Maybe I am missing something.
I agree with Piper don't buy her anything saying you just don't have it because you now have to replace the cards...

So sorry you have to deal with this!

My Aunt called me tonight my grandfather passed away this afternoon. He had been sick for a long time. I was hoping to see him during our Florida visit.

So sorry for your loss!

 

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Here is my first Big Give outfit. This is for Jacob's sister Abbigal.

I was going to have DD2 try it on and model it, but I thought better of it. I'm pretty sure she would have thought it was hers and I might not have been able to get it off of her!!! Does it look okay? I only make stuff for my kiddos and my neices so I am really nervous about this outfit! I can see about a million things I should have done differently. I hope little Abbigal likes it.