I am back from helping my Daughter and her family. Little Molly (1 year old) does have confirmed flu, but not confirmed H1N1, but they also tested for that. They are treating it as H1N1. She is still sick, cranky and has some coughing issues, but hopefully she is getting better. Miss Kadie went to school on friday and was running a temp again this morning, so it looks like she is sick again too, which is what Molly did. DH and I planned to spend Halloween with them, but I called him this morning and told him not to come to their house and I packed up and came home!
We had a few trick or treaters, and luckily no rude ones!!
I remember Miss Kadie in that awesome pettiskirt pirate outfit! I had made a corset for AbbyGrace to wear with her pettiskirt the same year. That was the first time that I ever made anything for someone else, as well. That corset set was a real hit! Miss Kadie was and is such a cutie!
LOL, I remember your corset set well! It was so cute!
Here are a couple of pics of my guys as they were leaving for school in costume today.
Tyler in his Wally world Ghost Pirate costume.
And Liam as the Hippie. We used a converted Tie Dye Mickey Head T-Shirt and I Bell Bottomed some Cords that we got at the local second hand store.
So cute!
I LOVE All of the costumes posted in the last couple of days. Last night Jenna changed her mind on what she wants for her Halloween costume. I'm ok with the change, because 1. it is easier than her last choice and 2. not fabric was cut for the first one. Her new costume choice: Tinkerbell from the new movie. Anyways, I know that I can do this easy.
Linnette had sent me an email on Face book and is asking if she could get some prayers for her oldest son. He fell and hurt himself while playing Basketball at school and at first they just thought it was a sprain, but it turns out that it is much worse than that and will require surgery to fix. She is quite worried about him going under anesthesia which is understandable. Thank you for keeping her and her family in your thoughts.
And this is what Jenna wore to school today for Halloween shirt day at school.
I love the web collar!!! Miss Kadie would always change her mind all the time so making costumes are sometimes really hard!
Thanks for the update with Linnette. I will keep her son in my prayers.
Here is a photo of my dd and my niece at our city's Halloween party last night. I made both the costumes. My dd is the tinkerbell. The snow white is the new toddler simplicity pattern that I had to alter to fit my 11 month old niece. The tinkerbell is a combination of the simplicity children's pattern and the simply sweet. Dd won runner up in the costume contest in the 3-4 year old group and won a princess aurora barbie! It wasn't for my sewing though...she just happened to do a twirl in front of the judges at just the right time and was pretending to fly around the wing. After seeing what shape tink was in after the party dh agreed to just save the pink cinderella for disney since we will be there a week from tomorrow! The pink cinderella was originally going to be her official halloween costume and the tink just a back up. Last year she stepped on the front of her belle costume at a halloween party the day before halloween, the one I posted a few days ago, and I was rushing to replace some of the skirt because it was beyond repair. I was up well past midnight repairing that dress...never again!
Don't you love to combine patterns!!! So cute, both of them!
Really just a standard old embroidery question....
Why do most of the designs call for different colors of thread to outline and tack down the material? Just curious.
Since I now have about a whole 3 days worth of embroidery experience, I feel qualified to make an observation - little girls t shirts are a pain in the patootie to "float" on the hoop and embroider! It's hard enough to just do it - forget getting anything straight or centered!
When I first started doing embroidery, I would search high & low for the exact colors they asked for. It took a few things to realize that they had a reason for the different colors.
And yes, Tshirts can be tricky. When I would mess one up, I would use the back side to practice on! Had quite a few of those! I also learned one day that embroidery stitches can be taken out!
This is going to be my first trip making customs for my girls, and the motivation is simple - my whole reason for learning to sew beyond mending and curtains was to be able to have my girls match! The options for buying matching outfits for an 8yo and 1yo are rather slim and quite expensive, and my 8yo has been very clear that half the fun of a little sister is matching dresses.
That is adorable! How long did it take to make the top? All the buttons scare me, but that is such a perfect match with the poodle skirt! DD8's Brownie troop is having a sock hop on the 12th so of course I'm making her a poodle skirt as soon as everyone is set for Halloween. I could probably get a shirt done too, so long as its a fairly easy pattern.
Miss Kadie who is 6 loves to match her 1 year old sister, so that is why I make outfits for them! In fact, she asks to dress alike all the time! Your girls will be so cute!
The bowling shirt is CarlaC's and it was pretty easy!! You do the button holes on the placket and you do them before you attach it to the rest of the shirt! My machine has a one step process for buttonholes so they are pretty easy. I always found that button holes are scary because you do them as the very last step and if there is a problem, the whole shirt can be ruined. But I have also found that button holes can be taken out too, as long as you haven't cut the fabric! My seam ripper is my best friend! The skirt was also CarlaC's, it is the flouncy shirt! So easy and I used felt that was on sale at Joanns for 2.50 a yard. One yard got Kadie's skirt, one for molly and one for baby, her AG baby doll! See they always have to match!
It has been awhile but this last 2 months has been horrible. We moved and I was able to finish the customs for DL. I am having trouble posting pics, but hopefully they will be up shortly. 4 of the 6 of us got the swine flu...a couple weeks before disney. So we were just a fun group at the park.
The day we drove up to anaheim, my husband got a call from his mom that his sister passed away. I posted before that his sister suffered liver failure. She had been transferred to baylor and they had a liver for her. The night before the transplant, her heart stopped. We decided to continue the trip, because she was being creamated in dallas and her services weren't going to be for a couple of weeks.. I told my DH that we need to have a disney do-over, it was a different trip.
JHAM, I saw your family in California Adventures. It was your DH and 3 older kids. They were wearing their Mickey pumpkin shirts. I didn't see you, so I didn't approach...didn't want to appear to be a crazy lunatic to your family.
I got a lot of comments about my customs. I even was aproached by someone wanting to know if I had a busines card. That made me feel good.
I don't have names, but there has been some really cute stuff on here. To the person who made the appliqued turkey on the t-shirt, can I case that? It was adorable. I am hoping to finish up projects, I have a lot of things in the works for the holidays.
Thanks for listening, or reading my ramblings.
I am so sorry to hear about your SIL. And the swine flu. I too, saw someone at
Disneyland on Oct 17th in customs. There were, I think 3 little girls with strip work twirl skirts with embroidery on them! So cute, but we were on a tour and couldn't stop to ask if they were Dis'ers! We saw them later in the day, but only the dad was with them and I thought he would think I was nuts, so I didn't ask him. So if anyone was at Disneyland that day, I saw you!!!
Hi Everyone,
Well my Halloween plans just got cancelled because my cousin and her oldest son are
hope its not the flu. Now I only will get to see pictures of my neices and nephew. I made tutu's and got wings for the girls to be
but hannah (3yo) says that they are
: Tim is going as pit crew for Lightning McQueen
.
So please post more pictures of your cuties - this is another one of those holidays that kinda stinks if you dont have any kids.... I just cant convince DH to walk down that adoption road with me!! So, anyone want to rent their kids for a while????
I agree with you about Halloween being for families. We were suppose to spend the time with 2 of our granddaughters, but they too were sick and I came home from visiting with them. We did give out candy, but its so not the same. I wish Bill would get on board with the adoption. You guys will make such great parents!
Short version?? or long??
Short:
8th grade
gym class
Flag Football
elastic waisted pink velour sweats (very cute I might add)
FLAG FOOTBALL!!!
I had the ball
I got out
So did my pants
cute boy standing on the sidelines, who I also sat by in the next class.
He was rather "cheeky" with me after this...
I originally had 6 of those scared thingys but had too many images.
OH THERESA!!!!!!!!!!
Ok - obviously squirrels find pumpkin very tasty!!! They devoured ours!!! I could just hear them - Pumpkin buffet at the Harrons house!!!
OMGosh, I had no idea. When I saw the pictures on facebook, I thought you did that on purpose and I couldn't figure it out. I did see some tutorials this year on "carving" the pumpkins, so I thought that was what you did!
I'll give posting a picture a shot too, since I'm proud of the Mover suits I made for my boys this year
The preschool took them to the retirement home for trick or treating yesterday and my Ryan gave one of the cute little Grandma's back a pixie stick she gave him and told her "I don't eat these because they are sugar, and sugar isn't good for my body"...Out of the mouths of 3 year olds!
The outfits are too cute! And how funny about the sugar not good for him!
Well............. it came home with me today!!
It was pretty much the same price as the 750, with a rebate. 
So I brought it home!! I haven't had time to look at it. I'm in the process of getting ready for a craft show (my theme is cupcakes!!) and I don't want to mess up my plans with trying out a new machine. So now I'm going to have to look into selling my 180D. It's only a 4X4, but a great beginner machine.
I can just imagine what I can make with this new machine! 
Sally
Just because they are so stinkin' cute and likewise because I got tons of compliments on the costumes (especially the train) here's another photo of my babes (and excuse the sweat on ds; it was unseasonably warm here today ~ 78 degrees when we starting trick or treating -- normally on Halloween it's in the low 60's):
So cute! Thanks for sharing them out and about on Halloween
Okay, off to gargle with warm saltwater!! I hope I do not get the flu!!
because my cousin and her oldest son are
. I just cant convince DH to walk down that adoption road with me!! So, anyone want to rent their kids for a while????
My youngest DD gets horribly car sick. We live like maybe 5 minutes away from our church and she has thrown up on that car ride before!
, but my kids like it. The last few years it has been a lot better than it used to be!
My kids costumes ended up being covered by coats because they wouldn't fit under their dresses. We put long sleeved shirts and pants and tights and all of that stuff on but it was just too cold without a coat! They even wore gloves - a little disappointing after making that cute bo peep costume! Oh well. What are you gonna do? 
