Beautiful! I've commented on this before but no one every answers me. I see you guys say sometimes "well they'll only wear it once".. Do you guys really only let them wear it to the occasion you make it for? I must be nuts. Hannah wears dresses everyday... the fancy ones too. Am I just weird?
I've answered this question several times, it was probably lost in a big ole multiquote though!
My girls wear their customs everywhere. Just the other day Arminda (she's almost 12, same day as my ticker is counting down to) wore her Belle Cutie's shirt. She loves Heather's Cutie's designs! But, both girls will wear pettiskirts to
Walmart or the fair, or wherever we happen to be going! Arminda tried to wear her Drizella dress to church the other day, but Brian wouldn't let her.
They have both worn their flowergirl dresses several times.
Hi!
I'm pretty good, but busy busy busy! How are you doing? How's the homeschooling going?
We aren't too bad, I'm loving homeschooling. I'm worried we may be having too much fun though!
Oh my heavens, how sweet is that picture. I really like your Ariel dress. It turned out really nice. They all look so fantabulous!
Well, its been bit since I have been on, I've been sick and trying to focus on Peach and the new house and school. She hasn't totally made the change likable yet. She won't sleep in her room yet and we have been here two months now. Change is so hard on her....ugh. But we are slowly getting things done the way they need to be to feel more homely which makes things a little easier for her. Little by little I guess.
Just when she started to light up and have no problems with school anymore the "other" teacher came back. Georgia has a split teacher class. Three weeks on for one and then switch. One of the teachers is not very nice and is old school and doesn't listen to me, the IEP or anything. I have had soooo many meetings with the school and her and nothing helps. The "Golden" teacher is just AWESOME with Peach. Does everything to help her with out making it easy for Peach to get used to someone doing things for her. She actually watches for Peach's visual signs when things are about to go behavior central and does the correct things for her to help her calm down not wind her up like the "other" teacher... Anyway, Georgia went back to school yesterday from spring break and the "other" teacher is back, and we have had two very HARD mornings of "I don't want to go to school"... wish me luck I can get her going again... its like I need to make a count down chain for when "golden" comes back! oooh say...thats not a bad idea! Thanks
Everything posted lately looks amazing. You ladies are really whipping some grand beauties up!
I'm sorry the one teacher isn't very supportive of Peach. That has to be so hard for her! and you!
I finally finished the Ariel set a few days ago. I had some leftover fabric after I cut out the stripwork twirl so I made some ruffled Easy fits too, then some Easy fit shorts, and with the very last scrap, appliqued a square onto a t-shirt. So now a mix-n-match set. I had intended for the dress to be a top--but it looks fine as a dress.
Those are so cute!!!
Oh.. YAY FOR WICKED TOMORROW NIGHT!! FRONT ROW SEATS!! YIPEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such a dream come true for me.
Please don't think I'm nuts. If I screamed that outloud right now irl my hubby would laugh at me.
I wanted to make a shirt for myself that says "Defying Gravity" across the chest.. then I thought about it some more and realized it was a bad idea.
I LOVE it!!!!
I just dropped Megan off at Preschool and her teacher said she needs a clown suit for April 30th!
I would love ideas- I peeked over at etsy for ideas. I saw 2 different things...
I saw Tutus with suspenders and striped tights and I saw some traditional clown suits-
I would have to buy the tutu and I dont even know where I would find tights or suspenders this time of year..
can you girls give me ideas of cute clown suit patterns?
I'm thinking the Cathy pattern and Easy fit pants, with a ruffle around the bottom.
Hi all! We took our pettiskirted children to the boardwalk Easter Sunday! What a blast! The weather was unusually warm and they even had an egghunt on the beach!!! They got lots of compliments on the skirts! Thanks Teresa for making sure we got them on time and helping us pick out such pretty colors! 
Cathy thank you SO much for posting these! I needed a smile today!
I am so against this. It just makes me cry when I hear about schools doing this. Thankfully, in Kirstas 1st grade class, she had some boys make fun of her because she believes in the Disney characters and her teacher stuck up for her. I can see when a child is older. But who is to tell a child that Santa isn't real, except her mother? It's just not right. Can you imagine what would have happened if Walt has his imagination nipped in the bud? Maybe that is what is wrong with the world today, reality is presented too soon to children and they grow up too fast.
Why did I think Kirsta was older than that? I don't get why schools think they need to do this to little kids! Like you said, they grow up too fast. They need a little bit of make believe in their lives.
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My DD7 wasn't in the mood to help me out. The girls these are for are 5, so that's why it doesn't fit DD!
I love this set!!!
Is this a good deal for $2,500 I think it is but I need to convince DH
Bernina 165e Sewing and Embroidery Machine
with additional sewing feet.
Editor Plus Software/Designer Plus embroidery software (Version 5).
Burnette for Bernina/Funlock 007D Serger
with ~ 20 spools serger thread.
Horn Cutting Table (collapsable).
Horn Sewing Cabinet.
Books (11 - sewing, serging, home dec).
Thread (~ 100 spools of mainly Isacord embroidery thread).
Needles (many packs of Organ embroidery needles) and sewing needles for all types of fabric.
Blanks (70 linen cocktail napkins, ~20 handtowels, shower wrap, 4 baby bibs).
Stabilizers: (4 types - large ).
Ott-lite with extra bulb.
Chair, home dec patterns, fabric, notions, ironing board and more.
Will only sell complete contents of this sewing room (listed above) - will not sell individual components.
This is a "home sewer's dream room" that has been meticulously maintained. My price is firm, cash only
It sounds like a really good deal to me!
I love everything that I have viewed lately. I'm trying to stay off of the computer lately.
I decided that we needed more outfits for the baseball park.
Aww, how sweet!
I just got digitizing software for free! It is SticthEra Universal. Does anyone have this? Do you like it? I am going to start looking at it this weekend. I have to work tonight & tomorrow night. I have a couple designs I want to digitize so badly and DH wants me to digitize something for his friend's tree service business. Plus My dad would love to have new racing shirts. (He runs a dragster at Atco Raceway, NJ)
Wish me luck!
I've had this for awhile now. I posted about it several threads ago. I posted a link in the bookmarks for it too, if anyone else would like to find it. I'm not good at it yet, but I did digitize a Stitch for our trip in October, it turned out acceptably. Like all digitizing software, it's not exactly easy to use. The place I got mine from did send out an email the other day saying that they were going to be selling some lessons (a PDF, I believe)for it, but I'm to cheap, so I didn't buy them. I've also done some lettering, and used it to combine some patterns together, and tweek some others. Being Heathersue's sister, I haven't had a big need to digitize much of my own stuff, but it's fun to play with, until I get frustrated with it!
Thank you to everyone for suggestions on the clown outfit! I have to go do some more research now.
Hannah's eye appointment- so she still has strabismus with esotropia and one eye has an "upward shoot" Which means it turns in and up at the same time, both eyes do it so she will have to have surgery on both eyes. 2 muscles on her left and 1 on her right.
scheduled for April 27
ETA: The Dr said she has no depth perception whatsoever and that it's not unusual to see young children develop much faster and become much more abulatory. So while I am pleased we can help her, anxious that she has to go thru, and excited to see her have a desire to move more. Right now she will sit up and scoot a tiny bit on her butt, but will only reach for toys within a short radius, I think this is because she can't see the toys further away from her or even things I hold too far from her face.
They say its a 1 hour procedure (so not too long to be "under") and will go home with out a patch or anything and will only need tylenol afterwards and her eyes may feel scratchy to her for a day or so. She has a 50% chance of needing it again- but he rarely sees it happen, he's been doing this for 35 years and the lady who schedules surgeries told us he has children from other parts of the USA as well as other countries come to him.
Her surgery will take place a a Children's Hospital, so all pediatric experts.
I'm glad you have a date, and I hope everything goes really smoothly for you guys!
While we are on the subject of embroidery software(well, sort of on the previous page)....does anyone have the Ped-Basic that you download from the computer to a memory card with? As we have already discussed, my new Brother machine does not have USB port and I was wondering if this is a good one to buy?
I posted some detailed directions for using the PED Basic about a month ago, I put them in the bookmarks and on the Disboutique blog. (you can get there through the link in my siggy)
Hey sweetie! How are you?
Thank you Heather and Jeanne. It's nice to know.
Does anyone else feel compelled to hold onto their children and NOT let them go right now? And WHY is this always so hard. We know by the very nature of our Big Gives that the passing of some of our participants is inevitable and yet in the (is it 2 years already?) time we've been doing it it has been heart breaking to see these kids lose their fight. I am so glad to be a part of a group of such wonderful people helping to bring smiles to their faces and WONDERFUL memories to their parents to hold onto.
THANK YOU DISBOUTIQUERS for being who you are.
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Yep, that sums up how I feel too! It's SO hard to lose these precious kids. It just tears me apart inside.
What Shannon said.
It is still amazing to me that I held this little one. We sang together. She snuggled up to me and stole my heart.
Oh C. I've been thinking about you all day. How are you honey?
My pic didn't post: 2b4him: LOVE THE PETTIS!!!
I have to ask y'all to be honest: can you please tell me who/what this looks like? (I still have to trim threads). It didn't come out quite the way I envisioned, and I was going to toss it, but my mom says she loves it. I need opinions before I make the rest of the dress (or not
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I love it! Unless, you were going for Jasmine and Aladin, then you REALLY missed the mark!
Hi everybody,
Here are the 2 dresses I made for the girls of one of my co workers. They are leaving tomorrow for WDW.
The left one is a size 7 and the right one is a size 12 - I had to size up the pattern. They aren't really crooked, I only had a second to snap a photo and didn't straight them out.
Don't mind the background - it is the back of my office door!
What a sweet thing to do! They look beautiful!
After drooling over this thread for two weeks (there's a TON of pages!) I'm finally posting my first Dis post. You guys are amaaaaazing! Totally in awe of some of the creations here!
!!!! Did you read the other threads too?
Thank you all very much!MinnieVanMom- what do you mean by CASE?
Have a Magical Day!!
OOOH! Someone didn't read the first post!
I had to gather up 10 posts before I could add pictures
We leave for WDW this weekend and I thought I would squeeze in just one more dress today. It's by far my favorite! I'm kind of thinking the front needs a little punch though. Maybe black buttons or a Mickey head?
This is really cute!!! I love it! I like the way the front looks this way.
ETA: I am off to renew my driver's license....thought you all would like to know that....lol
Why yes, we DID want to know that!
I tried to pull it off and pulled the top flat part of the bobbin off but the rest is still stuck. So I wound a bobbin on my regular brother machine and now the tension is totally off on my embroidery...and I know it is because I didn't use my machine to do it. I want to seriously cry right now. I am absolutely terrified to take my machine in to the shop because I tore up that bobbin and it looks like I masacared my machine. What the heck am I going to do? I am seriously considering just getting a box of prewounds and ignoring it but I have stuff to finish now and can't wait for shipping. 
