Thanks JeanneIs there a FB list somewhere or is there a network? I will go check FB lol.
I have snow white ones too but they are on another memory card. 
What about Heather's safari hat mickey head? Super cute- I just bought it for my DH.Hi:
Would anyone like to share how they coordinated themselves and/or husband to the kids? I've been embroidering matching shirts for the last three years and don't know what to do this year. I'm thinking of Heather's swirl Mickey for one of our days but have no idea what to put on my husband's shirt for our Animal Kingdom day.
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The tie dye is too cute! You could probably find nemo fabric on ebay.Thank you for your kind words about the Nemo outfit, I hope the little stinker will agree to wear it at least once or twice!! Yes, I looked all over for Nemo prints and came up with NADA!! It's too old of a movie I think- bummer!
You could do the balloon shirts, that birthday girl outfit is so adorable!! Our family does a lot of matching tie dye on our trips, since I do it for a part time job. It goes a lot faster than sewing customs for everyone too, but I do a little of that too...
So cute! ok, I'm totally going to regret asking this, but are the applique's on your t's 5x7 or 6x10? I know I should just be grateful for what I have, and I am, but I can't help but think 5x7 is going to be too small design wise for our grown up t-s. However, your's look amazing, so I'm holding onto a tiny thread of hope that they just might be 5x7.I was going to tell you to search disboutiquers but it looks like you already did!
Here are some photos where we all coordinated on our last trip. I can't believe I'm posting them because I look horrid.
And here is Lily's The Princess and the Frog dress. I used Heathersue's frog/Naveen embroidery.
We have done these a few times with iron on's.
For my DH's 40th bday, I made him a shirt with 40 mickey heads on it and said celebrating 40 "ears" of disney - the mickey heads all were different, and showed his favorite things in them!! he got a TON of compliments and questions as to where he got the shirt!!! lol i wore a shirt with a party hat on it saying celebrating Bill's birthday..
and once on my bday, we just all wore shirts that said celebrating wendy's birthday disney style...
iron on's are fun and pretty easy to do!! the creativedisigns board is so helpful!!!
I was going to tell you to search disboutiquers but it looks like you already did!
Here are some photos where we all coordinated on our last trip. I can't believe I'm posting them because I look horrid.
And here is Lily's The Princess and the Frog dress. I used Heathersue's frog/Naveen embroidery.
Here's some of my holiday sewing I did for gifts...
This Nemo outfit was for my neice, sewing for little girls is so much fun!!
The little stinker wouldn't smile for a picture because she didn't want to wear the dress. In hindsight, I now see I should have placed the embroidery on the pants a little lower, but maybe when she's older she'll be able to wear it for a capri set and the characters will show then?
She only liked the pants! *sigh*
And this is a Disney knock-off I did for my MIL. While we were at Disney she pulled me aside and said "this is what I want for Christmas, but I know you can make a nicer one" I'm not sure it's nicer, but she loved it so that's all that matters right?
Here's my little goofballs modeling it
I made this for my daughter's birthday. I used ribbons for the strings. You could definitely do balloons on shirts with your sewing machine.
Shannon, my heart is breaking for you.Glad you are staying positive and your cruise sounds awesome!
Hmmm...I'll trade you some Nemo fabric for some tie-dye shirts!Those are great! My kids would LOVE them!
Of course I remember you! I don't know about a trade board but lots of us disboutiquers are on Facebook and you can talk about stuff like that over there.
Lyddie likes the ruffle straps. I always find it funny when people refer to kids Lydia's age as older children. She's my baby, so I always think of her as a younger child!She's usually quite opinionted about just what she wants when I ask her about the design of her dresses. For that reason, I don't always ask her! But, so far, I have done pretty well making what she likes.
Another question....I've never made a Simply Sweet, but have planned out a Minnie Dot one for my DD who is 7. What are the best kind of straps to make? The problem with choices is always having to make a choice!!!
Anyone want to share their preferences for an older girl? She told me, "You choose, Mama, you're the one making the dress." Helpful, huh?
Patty
Thanks so much! I feel like I've been distant for FAR too long!
SOOOO... here's an update on my life. I'm sorry, it's going to be LOONG! It may contain more information about my life than you've ever been interested in knowning, so, consider yourself warned.
I guess I'm gonna start with this. In real life, I am a Salvation Army officer. That means that my husband and myself, together, are the pastors of the local Salvation Army church and administrators of the charitable organization work of The Salvation Army. I guess I've assumed that people realized that about me for a long time. I didn't realize that it wasn't known until about a month ago when I mentioned it to a group of friends on facebook that have known me for a really long time and they had no idea that's what I do. SO, there it is.
For the past two months, I've done very little sewing. I've been busy, busy doing Salvation Army work. Donations were way down this year and the local need for assistance was way up. That meant lots of work for me. I'm by no means complaining, it just means that I had very little time to actually sew.
In the last month, I took a ministry trip to Cuba. It was a pretty stressful trip for me. Lots of sitting in airports, cutting through red tape and very little actual ministry time. When I got home from that trip, I was full fledge into Christmas work.
I was SOOO ready for Christmas to be here so that I could finally spend some time with my family and relax a bit. On December 23rd, a tornado touched down in our county. It threatened to put a halt to our Christmas plans. However, the damage was minimal and we were able to go ahead and go to my parents house for Christmas.
Shortly after arriving at my parents house on Christmas eve, we learned that a dear friend with whom I attended seminary and was ordained at the same time had been shot and killed in North Little Rock.
(I think the whole world has probably heard of this - http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/dec/25/majors-shooting-tragedy-community-say-authorities/ )
What a tragedy. I couldn't think of anything else until the time we got to Little Rock for his memorial service. I just kept thinking that it could have been my husband. It could have been me. It was so senseless. Why Phil - of all the people in the world. He was one of the kindest, gentlest people I've ever known. It has completely shaken my world.
I'm back at my parents house now. And feel like for the first time in weeks that maybe I can just relax for a few days. I need a vacation!
As far as Christmas day goes, our family did have a good day. We revealed to our children that we are going on a cruise for Spring Break. They are so excited! AbbyGrace just came in and said, "We leave for our 4 night cruise in 78 days!" She and Ethan both are just thrilled. So are we!
The cruise was our big gift this year. I did, however, receive a subscription to Sew Beautiful magazine as well as Creative Designs in Machine Embroidery. I'm so thrilled! My hubby did great (he followed the subscription links that I sent him perfectly!
This week, I am working on a personal goal plan for 2010. I am going to make a list of things that I hope to sew in 2010 and work firstly on those things. My goal is to do my best work for my family in 2010. That's my sewing resolution!
ANYWAY, there's my update. If you're still reading, thanks for sticking with me! Hope to be back in the sewing groove soon and have some things to post!
on the cruise. We are cruising on March 14th too. We are doing a 7 night on RCCL Liberty out of Miami.
She only liked the pants! *sigh*
Thank you for your kind words about the Nemo outfit, I hope the little stinker will agree to wear it at least once or twice!! Yes, I looked all over for Nemo prints and came up with NADA!! It's too old of a movie I think- bummer!
You could do the balloon shirts, that birthday girl outfit is so adorable!! Our family does a lot of matching tie dye on our trips, since I do it for a part time job. It goes a lot faster than sewing customs for everyone too, but I do a little of that too...
And here is Lily's The Princess and the Frog dress. I used Heathersue's frog/Naveen embroidery.
I was going to tell you to search disboutiquers but it looks like you already did!
Here are some photos where we all coordinated on our last trip. I can't believe I'm posting them because I look horrid.
Sooo glad to finally be back on the boards. We have had a crazy month around here. About two weeks after we got back from our Nov trip, on dd's 4th birthday, I found out we "brought a little of the magic home with us". Unfortunately, I ended up miscarrying which has had me down and not chatting on the boards. The good thing is that I am healthy now and the dr. has given us the green light for our January cycle, and the best part is that I will be most fertile during our January trip to Disney. Keep your fingers crossed that the magic will work again for us
I did a lot of sewing over December for the Holidays. I did monogramed "slankets" for dh's female coworkers. They were a big hit! For dd's holiday dance recital I made up CarlaC's new pettiskirt pattern with a simply sweet top. The Candy Canes are my first ever digitized design! I am so hooked on digitizing. Last but not least I entered a Simplysweet in our county fair and came away with Grand Champion!
Next up for me are some newborn pettiskirts, I need to really reduce CarlaC's pattern, and possibly a Tianna dress for our Jan trip.
Happy New Year everyone!
I kinda wish I had a WDW trip to look forward to. But I do have the cruise in March, and I think we are taking my parents to Italy in June 2011, so that is probably enough right now.
And here is Lily's The Princess and the Frog dress. I used Heathersue's frog/Naveen embroidery.
Have any of you ever done family tshirts/outfits to celebrate a special birthday? While our March trip is the same week as my birthday, we are actually going to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday - 2 parents, 3 grown children with spouses, and 3 little girls ages 4, 5, and 7. We have ADRs at Crystal Palace so my girls will have Pooh outfits.
I have considered doing little appliques of a balloon on t-shirts for the adults with the expectation that Dad will put his birthday button on his. Other ideas? (and unfortunately I don't have an embroidery machine)
Here's some of my holiday sewing I did for gifts...
This Nemo outfit was for my neice, sewing for little girls is so much fun!!
Here's my little goofballs modeling it
I have always had a lot of admiration for the work of the Salvation Army. This summer when my DH's car died in our driveway we decided to purchase a new car. His car had a water leak and I didn't like the idea of my kids riding around in a moldy car. We chose to donate it to the Salvation Army rather than risk that the trade in would be less than the $1,000 repair bill. The Salvation Army sent us the receipt for what they got for-$2,700. We were thrilled!!! We never would have gotten that for it but we were happy the the Salvation Army got so much. They were so easy to deal with too.
Shannon, my heart is breaking for you.
Oh my, Shannon, how tragic about your friend. Sounds like you have been very busy. Hopefully you will have some time to relax and renew now. Also
Sooo glad to finally be back on the boards. We have had a crazy month around here. About two weeks after we got back from our Nov trip, on dd's 4th birthday, I found out we "brought a little of the magic home with us". Unfortunately, I ended up miscarrying which has had me down and not chatting on the boards. The good thing is that I am healthy now and the dr. has given us the green light for our January cycle, and the best part is that I will be most fertile during our January trip to Disney. Keep your fingers crossed that the magic will work again for us
I did a lot of sewing over December for the Holidays. I did monogramed "slankets" for dh's female coworkers. They were a big hit! For dd's holiday dance recital I made up CarlaC's new pettiskirt pattern with a simply sweet top. The Candy Canes are my first ever digitized design! I am so hooked on digitizing. Last but not least I entered a Simplysweet in our county fair and came away with Grand Champion!
Next up for me are some newborn pettiskirts, I need to really reduce CarlaC's pattern, and possibly a Tianna dress for our Jan trip.
Happy New Year everyone!
So sorry for your loss.
Congrats on the Grand Champion!!!I'll 2nd Carla's A-line top & dress. I just love Carla's patterns. Such good instructions that she teaches you skills you can apply to other projects. If you start with her A-line then it isn't much more difficult to make the Vida. OH...and I really LOVE her easy fit pants. If you want to improve your sewing skills that is the perfect pattern to start with!
I LOVE that Candy Cane top!!!
When are you going in January? I'll be at AKL 1/20 to 1/27 for my DD's 7th birthday. I better get busy!!!!
