Disboutiquers Part 16 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[ncmomof2]

I just wanted to thank you all for your kind words of symapthy in the loss of my Granny. You are all right, she was an amazing woman with so many gifts that she took time to share with so many. I was lucky to have her in my life. God truly blessed us all.

I can't sleep this morning...just the thought of the funeral today is in my mind...I really have no motivation to go...other than to honor her.

Plus...our water heater stopped working yesterday...I can't even deal with that right now...I'll make my way to the YMCA in a few hours to shower...thankfully no body is staying at our house. We are driving back and forth to my parents during these days since so many out of state people are here, they can stay with my parents, we are only about 1 1/2 hours away, so not too bad...but I think my van can drive itself now!

Prayers for you today.

 

[pixeegrl]

Hi all...I have to share some very sad news with all of you today. In the past year and a half you have all been so sweet to pray with me and for me and my Granny as she has battled against many health problems. During each of these times I have been so lucky to have her with me and my family a little longer. Saturday must have been the most wonderful day we all enjoyed in some time. She was in an assisted living facility that was beautiful, clean, great staff, wonderful roommate...it was perfect and she was happy. We had my birthday party at the home with 16 members of my family. She had a great time. We all got to tell her we loved her...I held her hand, kissed her cheek...PERFECT DAY! She enjoyed ice cream and cake...she laughed.

That night at 10:00 she went home to be with my Papa in heaven. I know she missed him so and I think in my heart she knew we were all happy and safe. So, today I miss her, but I know she is happy, she can walk, she can breath with out any trouble...she is healed and happy. I will carry her with me forever and there will NEVER be a time I will not sit at my sewing machine and think of her. When I needed to know how to do something, she was always just a phone call away. I sat in her home at her sewing machine yesterday and knew she was with me...it is a love we will always share. I walk around her house and I can smell the collards she taught me to cook (all good southner has to be able to cook good collards!) or hear the gospel music playing. My heart is breaking for her to be near.

Please say a prayer for her today.

I am sorry for your loss but it seems you know she is in a better place HUGS!

Here is a pic - nothing fancy, but the girls loved making them!!

Okay, these would be perfect for my friend Angie's little ones to do for Disney...where did you get the little books?

 

[princessmom29]

I have a foot question.... well not my foot - the Futura's feet. The one that came with the machine is this really wide thing that doesn't hold pressure too well and I was trying to over stitch something and the material bunched up and was being pushed into the bobbin hole. (How are those technical terms - lol)

Is there anywhere that you guys could recommend to go to see what feet are used for what and where I could buy different feet for this thing?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

(I suddenly have the craving to make a pair of socks )

I know that you can order the feet on singer.com. If you put in your model number it will show you what is available for your machine and give you a discription of what it does. I have a CE-150 that I only use for embroidery, but I thought the sewing foot that came with it looked really big and awkward.

I just wanted to thank you all for your kind words of symapthy in the loss of my Granny. You are all right, she was an amazing woman with so many gifts that she took time to share with so many. I was lucky to have her in my life. God truly blessed us all.

I can't sleep this morning...just the thought of the funeral today is in my mind...I really have no motivation to go...other than to honor her.

Plus...our water heater stopped working yesterday...I can't even deal with that right now...I'll make my way to the YMCA in a few hours to shower...thankfully no body is staying at our house. We are driving back and forth to my parents during these days since so many out of state people are here, they can stay with my parents, we are only about 1 1/2 hours away, so not too bad...but I think my van can drive itself now!

So sorry to hear about your Granny! I will say prayers for you and for her today. The hot water thing stinks! We just got ours fixed after 2 weeks of lighting it everytime we wanted a shower.

 

[MinnieVanMom]

It is my totally commitment to insanity that keeps me going

Today is the entries for baked goods at our local fair. I stayed up until 10 pm last nite and then got up at 6 am today. The entries have to be in by 9 am. I have to wake up Hunter and load him up too and then drive 40 miles. Insanity! Then a full day at work. Fun.

We have all kinds of yummy treats, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, rice krispy treats, blueberry muffins, etc.

 

[disneygirlsanddrew]

Dallas has 4 Wall E jibbitz in his crocs (and we tend to wear crocs with socks). I know the socks look weird but for school I think it is better. Watch Tim's! We lost SO many in Dallas Mickey's. He is in a size 12/13 right now and we haven't lost one yet but in he 10/11 we lost several. Disney even has the little plastic pieces to put on the back in the shoe but our Christmas ones still managed to come off! I rebought one and Lin found one! I was getting irritated. I know we lost a CARS one before that and I am sure more! Now I put two little plastic pieces on one jibbitz if it is on a Mickey croc. But I have still had one fall out! I don't know how either! When at disney I am constantly checking his shoes!

What plastic pieces can you put behind the jibbitz? Can you buy just those pieces somewhere? My dd has teh mickey mary jane crocs and we have lost pretty much all of her jibbitz!!!

 

[mirandag819]

Are your second and third tier patches really 11 inches wide? They just don't look that wide -- I guess you really gather them in ruffling! I was looking back at old threads to get ideas and tips and I am in awe of you. I can't believe you just started sewing in the spring. You are truly inspiring!

I finally hit the fabric stores and started printing some patterns today. I'm going to start with a back to school dress. I want to do lots for Disney but want it to be a surprise. I think if my daughter receives her customs at the hotel with notes from Mickey and the princesses she'll be more excited about them. Then again, every little thing she sees on here she says she wants for when she meets that particular character. So I figure I'll do a back to school dress to get the sizing correct and dh will be gone all of October and most of November, so I should have some good sewing time then (we're military as well).

Anyway, just wanted to let you I'm very impressed with all of your talent and you give me hope. I can sew a little, but very little. My only training was high school home ec (years and years ago) and I even managed to accidentally cut a hole in the skirt I was making. Hopefully I'll do better this time around.

Aww thank you, you are so sweet. I am so glad I found this thread, and I am still a little impressed with myself, I never would have imagined I would be able to make so many things I like for Taylor for our trip in 11 days!!

I think my first post on this thread mentioned I wanted to learn to sew, but I have never touched a sewing machine (I never even took home ec, I took accounting instead). I said I didn't think I would be able to finish 1 outfit before our August trip, but that I would love to practice so I would be better for next year's trip. Everyone was very encouraging and told me I could learn to make lots of things by then.

I still can't believe I have made Taylor 21 outfits I LOVE for our trip in such a short amount of time. This thread has been so helpful and encouraging, and I am really glad I found it (even though I have no time to do anything but sew these days).

Trust me... if I can do it, you can too!

And to answer your question... yes the middle two tiers started as 11 inches wide before seam allowances (1/4 inch) and gathering to half their size. The top was 5.5 inches wide and the bottom was 22 inches wide.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I just wanted to thank you all for your kind words of symapthy in the loss of my Granny. You are all right, she was an amazing woman with so many gifts that she took time to share with so many. I was lucky to have her in my life. God truly blessed us all.

I can't sleep this morning...just the thought of the funeral today is in my mind...I really have no motivation to go...other than to honor her.

Plus...our water heater stopped working yesterday...I can't even deal with that right now...I'll make my way to the YMCA in a few hours to shower...thankfully no body is staying at our house. We are driving back and forth to my parents during these days since so many out of state people are here, they can stay with my parents, we are only about 1 1/2 hours away, so not too bad...but I think my van can drive itself now!

OH no!!! I'm so sorry. What horrible timing! Your parents are "only 1 1/2 hours away"????? That not a quick trip my friend. Anway, thinking about you today and I hope the funeral is beautiful- I'm sure it will be

 

[WDWAtLast]

Okay, these would be perfect for my friend Angie's little ones to do for Disney...where did you get the little books?

At Hobby Lobby - in the scrapbook section with the albums. They have a label on the front that says "Memory Book" and they were $3.99 each (but all albums were 50% off when I shopped!) They I went to the sticker aisle and got the Disney stickers.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

As for the autograph books - I wanted a "pretty" book, too, but ran out of time. I LOVE all the printed pages - but I would have to make two books. So I went to Hobby Lobby in the scrapbook section. On the aisle that has albums, they have 4 x 6 inch "Memory Books" which are spiral bound notebooks with 18 thick cardstock pages - perfect for sharpie markers!!! No bleeding through like I was afraid would happen on my printed pages. The covers were red, purple, black or white. I grabbed two each of red and purple and some scrapbook stickers - Mickey and friends and Princesses. The girls had a blast decorating the covers and in about 10 minutes, they were done!!! And since I caught them on sale, $12.00 for all of it!! I also like the fact that they can just open the book for a character to sign - they will not have to search for the character's printed picture page. Good luck!!

Good find!!! Here are the ones I made for Aisling (sorry, I didn't resize them in Photobucket)

As I mentioned, I only made specific pages for the Fab 5, Tink, and the Princesses. I'll add the embellishments for the other characters afterward.

 

[aksunshine]

I have to add to the natural childbirth...

I wanted to have Isabelle natural. 42 weeks came around and I was induced (I hate petocin and staydol!) I went in (at midnight) having light contractions that I couldn't really feel, the nurse told me I was contracting. If they had sent me away, home, whatever, I just know I would have been back soon to do it on my own like I wanted. Instead they softened my cervix and started a drip. Fastforward about 12 hrs. I was EXHAUSTED! I desperately wanted sleep, but my contractions and all of my family, particularly MIL, were driving me CRAZY! This is when they snuck me jello and gave me staydol. Hours later I finally talked the nurses into letting me walk, b/c they staydol was NOT working on me! Finally, about 8PM, I told them to give me the epidural, I don't think I really wanted it, but I was so TIRED! At that point I had cat napped, but had no real sleep for about 36 hrs. Naturally, it knocked me out! My water broke about 10PM. Of course, occasionally, my dialation was checked, by midnight I'd only dialated to 5cm. And little Isabelle was under too much stress. They began to prep me for c-section. I thought having my first child would be rough, especially since I wanted to do it on my own, w/o meds, but it was starting to become a nightmare! I had 2 student doctors instead of one good doctor, I swore that I would never let another student work on me again! Isabelle was born at 2:40AM, April 25, 2002. I was coming off of the drugs and shaking so badly I was terrified I was going to drop her. It was awful! The recovery for the c-sec was terrible. I hated the whole situation, except Isabelle!

I was told that I would be able to have my next child naturally, but when Levi was conceived, I was told they really don't do that anymore. We almost changed doctors, again, b/c of this, but I'm glad I stuck with him. A scheduled c-section with a doctor who knows what he is doing is A-OK in my book!

 

[VBAndrea]

I am sorry for your loss but it seems you know she is in a better place HUGS!



Okay, these would be perfect for my friend Angie's little ones to do for Disney...where did you get the little books?

FYI, I bought a hard covered sketch book at ACMoore (used a coupon and it was probably around $4). It is 5.5 x 8 and has perforated tear out pages that I will then be able to transfer to a scrapbook. I plan on decorating the cover with stickers. One thing I haven't tried yet is to see if a big sharpie bleeds through the pages. If it does I will just likely use every other page as there are 80 sheets and I can't imagine getting more than 40 autographs. The pages are thicker than paper, but not cardstock. For dd I'm making a fancier book. I just thought I'd let you know what I found b/c I couldn't find any of those small scrapbooking books (we do not have a Hobby Lobby here).

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

FYI, I bought a hard covered sketch book at ACMoore (used a coupon and it was probably around $4). It is 5.5 x 8 and has perforated tear out pages that I will then be able to transfer to a scrapbook. I plan on decorating the cover with stickers. One thing I haven't tried yet is to see if a big sharpie bleeds through the pages. If it does I will just likely use every other page as there are 80 sheets and I can't imagine getting more than 40 autographs. The pages are thicker than paper, but not cardstock. For dd I'm making a fancier book. I just thought I'd let you know what I found b/c I couldn't find any of those small scrapbooking books (we do not have a Hobby Lobby here).

Just wanted to comment on this! Depending on the length of your trip/how often you want to stop and wait in line/and how many character meals you eat at you might reach 40 autographs EASILY!!! You'll be shocked!

 

[TinaLala]

These are school bags I made. I have been into bags lately!!
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I love your bags - What pattern did you use for to make these bags?

 

[HeatherSue]

Absolutely adorable!!

I love the outfits!! SO cute!! The cake looks really cool, too! It must have been disturbing to cut into Mushu. I know it greatly disturbed me to cut into Sawyer's Nemo cake!

I've never seen any feature on Et** that allows for notification of new listings. However, you could start a mailing list and put a notice of that in your shop announcement so people know how to sign up. Then all you need to do is send an email maybe once each week to let people know of new items. That way you know it's going only to people who want such a notice.

BTW - Bravenet has a free mailing list feature that many people use for this purpose.

Thank you for the tips! I hadn't thought of using bravenet for something like that!

That sound slike experience to me (have you ever seen house of babies - that is where I am going - http://www.miamimaternitycenter.net/). Anyhow, if the baby isn't in a good position or showing any signs of distress it can't be born there, same goes for me. I love the attention and time I am always given there at my appointments and wouldn't change my experience thus far for anything - but our mom's don't agree and my mom doesn't think I can make it without drugs - geeze mom, thanks for the vote of confidence! My grandmother had two of her four at home, and she is the only one that seems ok with it.

I love that show! I was wishing there was someplace like that around here when I had Sawyer!

They look so cute! When I visited my in-laws in Arizona, I was so surprised to see how the school is set up! It's all different buildings with no hallways! It was so different from what we have around here!

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That's a great idea, Beth!

So I finished Isabelle's Pooh top, but I am ripping the bottom 2 teirs off. I'll redo them tomorrow. It will still look basically the same, just rufflier!

Very cute!

Those bags are great!! The Minnie outfits are cute! It's hard to do small details like that on a regular machine. I always hand embroider the faces when I'm doing regular appliques (not on the embroidery machine). There are very few people that can make little eyes and such look nice on a regular machine! Another tip- bigger appliques are easier to do on a regular machine. It's easier to get around the eyes and such when the applique is bigger. They are more time consuming since they are larger, though.

Bigger pictures, please!! These all look like they'd be really cute, but my poor eyes can't see them!

Serious help needed with patchwork twirl skirt/dress before I go any further.

Ok..help..I love the fabrics and all..but as I piece together the tiers..they look HUGE..like..I could drag them across the house! LOL

I am following Miranda ?sp improvisions as described.

instead of yoke, I used 10--5 1/2 inch wide patches
next tier...10--11 inch wide patches
next tier--20--11 inch wide patches (this looks *insanely* long..even folded in half...) will match up 2 to the 1 above it
bottom ruffle will be 20-22 inch wide patches folded in half.

HELP!!! I can't imagine one petite little 5 year old wearing so much fabric. I want to do this so bad, but don't want to mess it up.

I have until end of day tomorrow to finish at which time Mara, my nanny/housekeeper puts everything away and helps me get ready for a housefull of company for a week and hosting a baby shower saturday.

Part of me says "give it up..you did 2 adorable princess sundresses..be proud and leave it at that" the other part says "noooooo, you cut all those strips, made the bodice and want to do this...do it!"

I'm putting so much pressure on myself I'm almost making myself cry. I really want to do homemade autograph books and passports too but I'm just woman and there's less than three weeks left till our trip..not to mention I do have a business to run.

A little perspective please from anyone who can relate?

That sounds about right! When I made Tessa a dress with a tiered skirt, the bottom layer seemed impossibly long. But, it looked great when it was done!

We started school here today too! They get out in May sometime towards the end. We get a week for fall break in October though! My favorite! Here are a couple of pictures!

Look at that little cutie! He gets more handsome all the time, Jessica!

Well, not to create controversy, but I consider myself a "victim" of natural childbirth and in NO WAY found it wonderful or empowering. Pain and torture would be the words that I would choose.

I was induced and it had taken almost 20 hrs to get my first contraction. My water had broke but nothing was happening. They wouldn't give me the epidural for fear it would stall the contractions. They did however give me staydol (sp???) which basically puts you in a coma but doesn't remove pain. So I would pass out cold and wake up screaming in agony. At one point I vaugely remember some issues with the heartbeat, umbilical cord around the neck and an internal fetal monitor. I was totally out of it and had no idea what was going on and in incredible pain. It was the worst of the worst.

So, like you say, everyone has different thresholds and what works for one person doesn't always work for others.

You must be one tough woman if you "enjoyed" natural childbirth

YIKES! I think every woman's birth experience is different. We all experience different amounts of pain and find different things helpful. I'm sorry you had such an awful experience! I didn't have an epidural, but they actually gave me morphine when I was in labor with Tessa! It did absolutely nothing for the pain, but it made it so I couldn't walk or move. Great! With Sawyer, I had some sort of pain meds that really helped me to relax between the contractions, but I was still coherent and the contractions still really hurt. I didn't want a lot of interference because it seems like the more stuff they "do" to you, the more it leads to a c-section!

 

[VBAndrea]

Just wanted to comment on this! Depending on the length of your trip/how often you want to stop and wait in line/and how many character meals you eat at you might reach 40 autographs EASILY!!! You'll be shocked!

You may be right ~ we're definitely planning on 1900 Park Fair dinner and Akershus and I may also do the Tusker house breakfast. I also know we'll be seeing the fairies at Pixie Hollow. DD and I will be "into" the characters so dh and ds can ride the trains while dd and I wait in line. Let's hope my book doesn't bleed through -- I'll have to try a page to test.

 

[PrincessMickey]

I'll share my natural birth story. I was still in the military when I had my oldest. I was in VA and DH had just gotten out so he went back to PA to get a job. That way when I got out a few months later it would be an easy transition. I called the Navy hospital when my water broke that I was coming in. They said no you're not we're full go to the nearest hospital. So I going to have to use the doctor on call. DH was on his way down and the nurses told him to take his time I would be there all day. A few hours I was still only 2 cm so they gave me 1 drop of pitocin and a sedative because i would be there all day and needed my rest. MIL was with me and she left to get something to eat. When she left she had the remote for the tv near her which also had the call button on it and she forgot to bring in back by me.

I woke up after 45 minutes and had to push. I didn't have the call button near me and no one was around. I had to yell to get someone to come. The nurse didn't believe me but said we'll check any way. Sure enough I was ready to go. They had nothing ready and the doc on call was delivering another baby so a midwife came. A nurse ran down to the cafeteria to get mil and they got back to my room with only a few minutes to spare. I did tear alot and took almost an hour to stitch me up. DH missed the birth by 2 hours. Looking back I wish i would have said no to the pitocin at least until DH was there.

#2 was a much different story. I said no pitocin but was talked into the epidural. That birth went so smooth and was a normal birth. But I liked the birth with no epidural better. It was easier to push and the actual birth was painless. It is just the contractions that hurt. If and when we have another one I want to do another natural birth.

So there is my birth stories. Now I really should get to packing more. We decided to move using PODS and the first one comes on Friday and I am nowhere near being ready for it.

 

[MinnieVanMom]

I am done with fair now other than cat show on Thursday.

Unfortunately, my applique got 3rd place which is like last place. I just don't understand?? The stitching was all even and the edge looked good. Maybe next year.

 

[princessmom29]

I had to come here and share with ya'll b/c I knew you would understand. I just managed to slice my finger with my rotary cutter while cutting an outfit. I don't think it is deep enough for stitches, but it is not pretty. I got it to stop bleeding an got a ouple steristrips on it, and it is closed, but it hurts like you know what. I called DH at worh to let him know what hapened, and told him I was upset b/c I couldn't finish the outfit. He thought that was somehow funny! He said just be glad you don't need stitches. I don't think it could be stitched anyway, as it is close to the joint. Any medical type people want to offer an opinion. It is about a cm long, and was just deep enough to open up a little. I doused it in alcohol and put two steristrips over it, and it is sealed and no longer bleeding, just throbbing a little. Do I need to get it looked at or will it be ok?

 

[Adi12982]

I had to come here and share with ya'll b/c I knew you would understand. I just managed to slice my finger with my rotary cutter while cutting an outfit. I don't think it is deep enough for stitches, but it is not pretty. I got it to stop bleeding an got a ouple steristrips on it, and it is closed, but it hurts like you know what. I called DH at worh to let him know what hapened, and told him I was upset b/c I couldn't finish the outfit. He thought that was somehow funny! He said just be glad you don't need stitches. I don't think it could be stitched anyway, as it is close to the joint. Any medical type people want to offer an opinion. It is about a cm long, and was just deep enough to open up a little. I doused it in alcohol and put two steristrips over it, and it is sealed and no longer bleeding, just throbbing a little. Do I need to get it looked at or will it be ok?

No opinion on if you need stitches. . . but I wanted to say sorry to cut your finger open - I've done that with my rotary cutter a few times. . . . now I am extra careful when I use it, but have clearly messed up after the first time. My DH just tells me i need to be more careful - um, ok. . .lol! Hopefully it starts feeling better soon!

 

[jham]

Here is a pic - nothing fancy, but the girls loved making them!!

I love those! I may just have to take the very long journey to HL!

I had to come here and share with ya'll b/c I knew you would understand. I just managed to slice my finger with my rotary cutter while cutting an outfit. I don't think it is deep enough for stitches, but it is not pretty. I got it to stop bleeding an got a ouple steristrips on it, and it is closed, but it hurts like you know what. I called DH at worh to let him know what hapened, and told him I was upset b/c I couldn't finish the outfit. He thought that was somehow funny! He said just be glad you don't need stitches. I don't think it could be stitched anyway, as it is close to the joint. Any medical type people want to offer an opinion. It is about a cm long, and was just deep enough to open up a little. I doused it in alcohol and put two steristrips over it, and it is sealed and no longer bleeding, just throbbing a little. Do I need to get it looked at or will it be ok?

Ouch! Neosporin with pain relief might help it hurt less. I love that stuff!