Disboutiquers Part 7 Kids Disney Boutique / Customs Clothes psst..we sew

[SallyfromDE]

Hey, this is mine!!! It is the new Feliz pattern that just came out. I made it at the last minute for this little girl. She was making her first trip to WDW and Ariel is her favorite. I wish ya'll could've see how excited she was when she first saw it. I'm not sure what part has been "cased" since it is new pattern, but it is adorable. I am sure we will be a lot of these dresses (I mean this pattern -- not necessarily Ariel) popping up on ebay really soon. I know I have several in the works myself.

We had someone case another outfit, and they both used this fabric. When I saw this picture, I just loved the pattern. I'm going to have to get it. I have about 4 of the Farbenmix patterns, but I haven't made any yet. When I'm done with my Disney trip, I'll have to work on them.

Hey everyone!! I have been loving all of your creations, you guys are sure an inspiration!! Well I Have finally finished my project, and a couple more! I am so proud of myself for learning to sew, not a big thing for you guys, but I am still proud of my simple accomplishments!!

Thanks for looking!!

I think you did a great job! I think it's really hard to start anything that is new. Your projects look great! Thanks for sharing. Now we want more.

Where do you all get the red with white dot minnie fabric? I have small white dots but I have yet to see the big white dots. Thanks!

You'll probably start sewing it now that Halloween is on it's way. It's comes out around this time.

 

[Tinka_Belle]

I made a school outfit for Tessa this week. I'm not sure if it's going to be her first day outfit or not. She LOVES it, so I'm leaning towards yes.

I used my dad's SLR camera. That thing is so cool! I think I might steal it from him. So, these pics were taken in their yard. I also had fun decorating them with Corel paint shop.

I don't think we'll have anyone searching ebay for THIS pout anytime soon!

That is so pretty.

 

[t-beri]

There's usually a code they give you to use on most messageboards. What site are you using?



Thank you so much, T! I'm so glad you noticed the pocket, I was particularly proud of that! I looked through the bookmarks at a few different a-line skirt tutorials. Then, I sat down and made up a pattern for one since I didn't see just what I was looking for. I cut the striped fabric on the bias and then made sure the stripes matched up when I sewed it together. The shirt is Carlac's portrait peasant top, but I lengthened it (and flared it out) and then ran 3 rows of shirring around the middle. I sewed 2 striped pieces together for each sleeve, then cut out the sleeve pattern. It was much easier than I'm making it sound!

SHIRRING ON A BROTHER CS6000i
I did the shirring on Tessa's shirt on this machine. I wound the bobbin with the machine, and I left all the settings the same (2.5 stitch length and 1 tension). It shirred right up!


I'm sorry things aren't working out with your sinkhole. That must be so frustrating!!

1. Nope, no message board code. just a web/blog html. Trust me, I looked.But I thought I'd try putting it in a few different ways which just proved I don'tknow what I'm doing
2. That's exactly what I thought I'd do (though I wasn't sure the fabric wasn't already a chevron stripe) I am quite impressed by the pocket!
3. Thanks. It sucks, and I'm trying to get over it...while bursting into tears randomly. I just think everytime it seems we are about to turn the corner and finally start to make it we get knocked back. We bought our house after having the BEST year ever...we got married, replaced our crappy car w/ no car payments, got pregnant and made a killing on the sale of our house in the ghetto and had our most prosperous year monitarily as well. Then 2 years later things just went south and everytime I can see the light at the end of the tunnel there is another avelanche.

OH crap, you were being sympathetic and I was monologuing....I'll just stick to thank you very much from now on.

I was thinking about the skirt sewing for adults that we were talking about..um, recently... I had seen a tiered skirt at target and instead of an elastic band it was shirred for about 4". I thought that was a clever idea. Also I have a circle skirt that has a cotton jersey knit type band about 4" or so at the top, I like it b/c I can pull it up a little or scoot it down depending on the top and shoes I wear giving me a couple of length choices. B has a gig in Orlando this sat and I really want to make something to wear but I don't want to use great fabric on something that I am going to HATE so I am a little hesitatant.

...t.

 

[billwendy]

Hi Everyone,

Great back to school stuff - Tessa looked so cute!!!

Steph - would you think that if I measured one of the kids heads and made patches to fit around that size, winged a circle for the top and a brim it would turn out at all? i'd love to try but until my i find something else to sell on ebay i cant purchase patterns I have to dig through the house some more!!! but anyways, I wasnt sure if it was a terribly hard thing to make...????

Thanks, Wendy

 

[lovesdumbo]

Hey everyone!! I have been loving all of your creations, you guys are sure an inspiration!! Well I Have finally finished my project, and a couple more! I am so proud of myself for learning to sew, not a big thing for you guys, but I am still proud of my simple accomplishments!!
Here is my first creation

Here is a Winnie the Pooh shirt(no she is not holding the cat, she decided to jump up when I was taking the pic..lol)

And back

Minnie dress with matching doll dress

And back

Skirt (I had made that for Abby to wear to her cousins bday party on Sunday, well they had a musician playing a guitar and singing, and some of the people were dancing around, got hot and decided to take the cover off of the easy set pool (about knee deep on an adult) and dance around in it, well they put Abby in it too and the skirt got all creased and muddy and yucky, I was scared because I hadn’t had time to stitch the elastic together and tuck it into the waist band so I thought it was going to break, but it didn’t!)

Twirling...lol

Thanks for looking!!

Those are wonderful! Love the Pooh top!

Here is my latest stuff.
A purse I made my mom along with a sunglass case. I am not happy with how it came out but oh well. My ,machine kept jamming I think because the fabric and the interfacing were too think.

The matching skirts I made for Nikki and my niece. I put it on her AG doll and had her hold the extra fabric in the back, Problem is now she wants one for her Nicki doll!

she matches so well huh I am going to make them both white peasent tops to go with them.

My favorite part the twirl factor!

I had such a hard time with Nik's skirt ugh I kept screwing up on it. I sewed the ruffle ad the yellow peice on the wrong way but there were too many layers of stitching so I just cut it off and sewed it on the other way!

SO cute! Love that Minnie skirt!!!

So I just got word from my mom that she is going to help me pay for Georgia's 7th birthday.....at DISNEYLAND!! I am soo darn excited. We are just going to say we are going to visit Grandma for the weekend and not tell her until we get down there. hehehe

So I guess I better dust that machine off asap and get to work on her outfits! on top of school clothes. ha!

What a great thing to look forward to!!!

I don't know if anybody else has received this message, but I thought I would go ahead and post it.

Thanks for posting. Hope she's feeling better soon.

I made a school outfit for Tessa this week. I'm not sure if it's going to be her first day outfit or not. She LOVES it, so I'm leaning towards yes.

I used my dad's SLR camera. That thing is so cool! I think I might steal it from him. So, these pics were taken in their yard. I also had fun decorating them with Corel paint shop.

I don't think we'll have anyone searching ebay for THIS pout anytime soon!

WOW!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!! Great photos too!

Just got bad news about the sink hole.

That stinks!

 

[iheartdisney]

Alrighty...here is my first picture post!

These are the first dresses I made my DDs and their dolly...

And here is the first Disney outfit so far...This is the one that the bias tape was giving me so much trouble on. And I don't know why the top came out so wide on her, but she's excited! (me too...I finally finished something in less than a week!)

And I started on making a Wall-E shirt for DS, since last night I finally learned how to make a buttonhole!

 

[100AcrePrincess]

Just got bad news about the sink hole. It looks like the ins. co. is going to pay for the structure remediation directly to the contractor and is only giving me $11,000.00 for cosmetic damages and I owe the Public Adjuster I hired to handle the thing 10% which is roughly $9,000.00 So, I will have $2000.00 to repair all of the cracks in the stucco and block, my grout joints in the bathroom, the cracks in all of the drywall throughout the house, replace my linoleum that is molding and lifting from water damage fom the cracks in the block, replace molding and my kitchen backsplash which are lifting from the same thing. and I'm not sure what all else....OH YEAH paint my house after the cracks in the block are repaired. Not to mention whatever damage they cause to landscape and or the house when they put my house on jacks to drill large holes under it to pipe in concrete.
This was me when they told me: furious:
This is me now :

My public adjuster recommends that I hire an attorney b/c he feels that the ins. co. is not working in my favor. I will see what the attorney has to say but basically it comes down to THIS

I owe $164000.00 on the house. The attorney will charge me 20(ish)% and the Public Adjuster 10% of whatever the settlement is. So in order to pay them and my mortgage I'm going to have to get 3x what they are currently willing to give me.

If I go ahead and sign a contract to repair the damages and take the 11 grand then I am stuck w/ a $1500 a month mortgage on a house that is falling apart due to the sinkhole. Having repaired it the damage shouldn't be getting worse but I am going to be left w/20,000.00 worth of damage that I can't repair and a house I can't get rid of b/c it is now worth less than I mortgaged it for b/c of the problems caused by the sinkhole.

I called the attorney but I am not getting my hopes up.
It's a good thing that I didn't register for classes b/c I am going to have to look for a full time job now as the situation w/ my parents was only supposed to be for the summer.

I didn't mean to get all whiney but I needed to vent. Sorry and thanks.
...t.

I hate that you keep having problems. I can relate. I think you maybe got some of the math wrong on this though. 10% of $11,000 is $1100 which would leave you with $9900. Maybe I missed soemthing in what you posted though. I hope you get it all figured out soon.


Heather, that is such a cute outfit! I love the pocket.

 

[EnchantedPrincess]

THanks everyone for the birthday wishes for my dd!

The cookie insert in those cakes contains wheat. They should have put an allergy sticker on the box that it came in.

DQ'a blizzard cakes are gluten free?!?!? Did they make it with out certain things for you because I was always told blizzards are a non no for Nik at least from my research.
Poor Nik always asks for a blizzard but we always tell her no because I am nervous that the DQ people won't clean the blizzard machine well enough after they made something that wasn't safe.

Please let me know what they did special so maybe Nikki can have one of those for her bday!

Does she have Celiac or a true wheat allergy? We always say Nik's celiac is a wheat allergy even though it isn't but most people get allergies they don't always get Celaic.

That is what I thought unless I am thinking of Carvel? I sure hope we are wrong I am actually getting excited for my dd about maybe having a cake from there.

My dd has true wheat allergy. The regular DQ cake has cookie layer in it. The cake that I got has a layer of cotton candy blizzard in between two layers of vanilla ice cream - it doesn't have the fudge crunch layer. You brought up a really good point about the blizzard machine not ever getting cleaned, and it didn't even occur to me when I ordered the blizzard cake that there could have been cross-contamination! Thankfully, she was fine after she ate it and didn't react! I would hate to have had to pull out the epipen on her birthday and a trip to the ER! I have never gotten her the blizzard - she usually just have a softserve. My DQ isn't very accomodating....I wanted just vanilla and chocolate ice cream cake without the cookie layer, and they said they can't make them because the regular cake comes pre-made.

Just curious, are there any gluten-free product that your dd loves that you can recommend? My dd is so picky, and I have spent a fortune on gluten-free bread and cookies that she won't even eat.

Those are great outfits..you should be proud of yourself!!

That looks great,a nd what a great twirl!

So I just got word from my mom that she is going to help me pay for Georgia's 7th birthday.....at DISNEYLAND!! I am soo darn excited. We are just going to say we are going to visit Grandma for the weekend and not tell her until we get down there. hehehe

So I guess I better dust that machine off asap and get to work on her outfits! on top of school clothes. ha!

Woo hoo!! That is so great and exciting! Can't wait to see all the outfits that you make for her.

Looks like so much fun! Glad that you and your family had a great time.

That is a very pretty dress!!! Love the fabric, and the coordinating stripes.

 

[t-beri]

10% of $11,000 is $1100 which would leave you with $9900. Maybe I missed soemthing in what you posted though. I hope you get it all figured out soon.
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I wish I'd gotten the math wrong but I pay 10% on the total claim which includes another $80,000.00 for the actual sinkhole remediation. 11000.00 was just to cover the cost of the cosmetic damage.

 

[t-beri]

You know Lily is allergic to red food dye and that is a BIG pain in the butt BUT if she has it it only causes a little bit of hives on her face and neck and they never even seem to be itchy and they don't last too long. Ranch dressing tends to do the same thing. SO i don't really stress about it, even when she tells me she had a red juice ice pop at school or I pick her up and I can see red splotches on her face (that everyone seems to be oblivious too until I point them out) I cannot imagine what it must be like to have Celiac's or be allergic to something like wheat or peanuts. God bless all of you that have to deal w/ those types of allergies.

I am extremely allergic to dust mites and mold (I'm allergic to, like, everything) and when I was young the doctor told my mom to ditch our cats and throw out all my stuffed animals. Instead she vacuumed and dusted DAILY and washed all my stuffed animals, bedding and curtains every week. She didn't want me living in a bubble. What a mom!

 

[HeatherSue]

How cute!!! The daisy outfits are so pretty. Love the pooh outfit, too! Your kids are adorable! Good luckon the Wall-E shirt!

I am extremely allergic to dust mites and mold (I'm allergic to, like, everything) and when I was young the doctor told my mom to ditch our cats and throw out all my stuffed animals. Instead she vacuumed and dusted DAILY and washed all my stuffed animals, bedding and curtains every week. She didn't want me living in a bubble. What a mom!

Wow, what a wonderful mom!!! How sweet! Henry and his grandma are both allergic to mold. We figured this out when his grandparents lived in an old house built in the early 1900s. Every time we visited, Henry sneezed and coughed and was miserable the whole time. His grandma had constant allergies. They moved into a new house and his grandma's allergies disappeared and Henry didn't sneeze at their house anymore!

 

[Tinka_Belle]

You know Lily is allergic to red food dye and that is a BIG pain in the butt BUT if she has it it only causes a little bit of hives on her face and neck and they never even seem to be itchy and they don't last too long. Ranch dressing tends to do the same thing. SO i don't really stress about it, even when she tells me she had a red juice ice pop at school or I pick her up and I can see red splotches on her face (that everyone seems to be oblivious too until I point them out) I cannot imagine what it must be like to have Celiac's or be allergic to something like wheat or peanuts. God bless all of you that have to deal w/ those types of allergies.

I am extremely allergic to dust mites and mold (I'm allergic to, like, everything) and when I was young the doctor told my mom to ditch our cats and throw out all my stuffed animals. Instead she vacuumed and dusted DAILY and washed all my stuffed animals, bedding and curtains every week. She didn't want me living in a bubble. What a mom!

I'm also allergic to red dye. Unfortunately red dye is used to make most colors and most foods. Mostly I just suffer through it. I am also allergic to cake icing (the kind made in a bakery). When I worked at a bakery regularly I would get a very itchy reaction that caused blisters under my skin from the icing being on my hands. This resulted in little bitty pin sized scars all over my hands. When I eat it it is not pretty. It took me awhile to figure that one out.

 

[twob4him]

My dd turns 5 yesterday! Hard to believe that my little baby girl is now 5 years old!! She asked for a cupcake dress, and picked out this fabric...here is the dress that I made her:

Her birthday cake is a blizzard cake from Dairy Queen since she is allergic to wheat...

Happy Birthday!!! Really cute outfit too!

I made a school outfit for Tessa this week. I'm not sure if it's going to be her first day outfit or not. She LOVES it, so I'm leaning towards yes.

I used my dad's SLR camera. That thing is so cool! I think I might steal it from him. So, these pics were taken in their yard. I also had fun decorating them with Corel paint shop.

Amazing Heather!!!!! You're a true artist! Tessa looks so pretty and a bit older .... did you tell her she isn't allowed to grow up?????

 

[minnie2]

Alrighty...here is my first picture post!

These are the first dresses I made my DDs and their dolly...

And here is the first Disney outfit so far...This is the one that the bias tape was giving me so much trouble on. And I don't know why the top came out so wide on her, but she's excited! (me too...I finally finished something in less than a week!)

And I started on making a Wall-E shirt for DS, since last night I finally learned how to make a buttonhole!

So cute! Both the kids and the outfits!

THanks everyone for the birthday wishes for my dd!

My dd has true wheat allergy. The regular DQ cake has cookie layer in it. The cake that I got has a layer of cotton candy blizzard in between two layers of vanilla ice cream - it doesn't have the fudge crunch layer. You brought up a really good point about the blizzard machine not ever getting cleaned, and it didn't even occur to me when I ordered the blizzard cake that there could have been cross-contamination! Thankfully, she was fine after she ate it and didn't react! I would hate to have had to pull out the epipen on her birthday and a trip to the ER! I have never gotten her the blizzard - she usually just have a softserve. My DQ isn't very accomodating....I wanted just vanilla and chocolate ice cream cake without the cookie layer, and they said they can't make them because the regular cake comes pre-made.

Just curious, are there any gluten-free product that your dd loves that you can recommend? My dd is so picky, and I have spent a fortune on gluten-free bread and cookies that she won't even eat.

I have a great yahoo group for you with lots of helpful info! sillyyaks there are a few on there with wheat allergies but need to be GF to be safe. My cousin has the true wheat allergy so got lucky having instant contacts at all hour in the beginning!

HUM trying to think of what she eats. Right now she is on a go gurt kick along with these Salsa chips(yummy!) that we get at Costco. She is also all over the Pooh cereal which my walmart has for $2 a box so I stock up every time I go She likes these lemon raisins a lot. Are you looking for every day items or specific GF items. I try if at all possible to only get limited amounts of true gf items I try to stick mainstream as much as possible it is cheaper. Trader Joes has a lot of stuff at a pretty good price. I know in some areas they have this yummy french rolls that I love! Walmart has this to die for brownie mix by GF pantry I swear it is the best brownies I have ever had!

How long has she had this allergy? If you want pm me and I might be able to point you in the right direction. I have a lot of restaurants that are safe!

I am all over the whole cross contamination thing. I am neurotic about it but funny enough we go out to eat a lot you would think I would be freaky about that. Go figure.

Wow she needs and epi pen! I had never know that wheat allergy needs an epi pen! My dd8 just gets awful tummy pains and well you can guess the rest.

what kind of stuff does your little girl like maybe Nikki would like to try something new.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

That's it. I have had it. I have made 3 different kinds of dresses/skirts out of the eyelet I bought for myself (I wanted a flowy summer dress) and all of them look terrible. I either look like a walking down comforter, a nurse, or a volcan. I kept trying different styles after ripping the previous ones' seams out and I have yet to make anything that does not cause snickers or scares small children. I need this outfit for a family photo shoot on the beach. If I was thin this would be much easier but alas I am not. I am very frustrated this evening.

 

[teresajoy]

About halfway thought this post, my computer stopped letting me just ad the th_ for thumbnails (it did that stupid thing where what you type replaces what was already there) so, that's why I only quoted about half the pictures!
Does anyone know why the computer would do that though? It's very annoying!

Hi Folks!
I know its been forever since I have posted!
I just wanted to hop on and post a few things I made for Megan.
Im also opening an etsy shop. Just pillowcases, etc for now, to see how things go. Im working on a sonbonnet sue applique quilt for DD2 now.
Here are 2 robes I made. One is sort of a play robe- I have panda fabric to make pants to match and the other is a beach cover up lined with organic hemp terry- very soft!
Panda robe-
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These are so cute!!!!!

Well, I decided not to bore ya'll w/ more pics from the MK trip. But My DH thinks he's a photographer and every once in a while gets a great shot so I thought I'd share a couple he got while we were there.

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I love this ducky dress! Wasn't it too big when you first made it!!!??? Lily is growing MUCH to fast!!! She is just gorgeous T!

Hey, this is mine!!! It is the new Feliz pattern that just came out. I made it at the last minute for this little girl. She was making her first trip to WDW and Ariel is her favorite. I wish ya'll could've see how excited she was when she first saw it. I'm not sure what part has been "cased" since it is new pattern, but it is adorable. I am sure we will be a lot of these dresses (I mean this pattern -- not necessarily Ariel) popping up on ebay really soon. I know I have several in the works myself.

I love that! I didn't remember seeing it cased either! Glad Sally cleared that up, I'm already confused enough!

We have to wait to see which wish is approved (If any) They said it could take up to 4 weeks but they think it should be a little sonner then that.

Thanks again for letting me share! We are so excited!

Candice

The girls and I are rooting for the night in the castle!!!! Lydia is working on another picture for Olivia, so hopefully she'll let me send it with your pettiskirts!

Went to two wal marts and no eeyore fabric. On a happy note, I had Jacob with me and he picked out two fabrics for himself! That never happens. He wants me to make him a first day of school outfit. Woo hoo!

How cute!!!!

I haven't seen the Eeyore fabric around here lately either. I bought the last of the bolt at a nearby Walmart a month or so ago.

Denise, I hope Riley is ok!

The girls got their haircut today....short!

C A T H Y !!!!!!!!
did you hear me yelling at you all the way from Michigan???!!?? I about dropped off my chair when I saw your little ones short short "haircut"! You got me!

You are pure evil!

But, your other daughter's haircuts look absolutely adorable!!!!!

Those are so cute!!! Could you share the seller please?

I Luckily nothing was broken and she didn't need stitches but she now has a GIGANTIC lump/cut on her forehead and I full anticipate at least one black eye. Just what the poor kid needed...more pain in her head! My poor baby! AND now she is on vaca with my mom til Friday so I can't even take care of her myself.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

Oh no! The poor baby!

LOVEDUMBO- I LOVE THAT SHIRT!!!! My sons would love something like that. Everytime I open this thread I am more and more amazed by the gorgeous work you all do. I have been sewing everyday because I am so inspired. I am teaching myself so sometimes I have to bust out that trusty seamripper numerous times.

Question- I want to try and post some photos. Do I need to put them on a hosting site like photobucket or can I just post them from my photo files?
Thanks and keep up the good work!

Do any of you know any websites that offer free instructions on how to make things like tops? I found a bunch of shirts and shorts instructions but other than a pillowcase top I can't find a thing. Thanks!

The first post of this thread tells how to post pictures and has a link to the bookmarks with lots of free patterns. (There is also a link in my siggy) There is other useful information in the first post too.

http://www.burdastyle.com/patterns
has lots of free blouse patterns.

.Then I ventured off and made myself an A-line skirt (thank you Teresajoy for the bookmark links I'm loving all the patterns out there). It needs to be ironed, but you get the picture. I have to go to Chicago this month for work and I'll wear it with a pink shirt and tan shoes - easy, comfortable - that's me.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Everything looks great!! I'm glad you found somethign you could use in the bookmarks!

My birthstone is pee yellow, too. I was always envious of Teresa's diamond birthstone.

See Teresa, you didn't get ALL the ugly stuff!!

I've always took comfort in the fact that at least my birthstone was pretty!

All 3 of Teresa's kids are SO different in size! Corey was average sized, Arminda didn't even make it on the charts (she was SO tiny), and Lydia is a giant (90th percentile for height, or so)!

Yep, my babies were all over the place!!! Brian and I are nice and short, so I'm not sure how Lydia happened!

I mean, why she is so short! I do konw how she happened!!!

I don't have an issue with it for the simple reason that if someone is around us for more than 2 minutes, they probably already will know DS's name! I'm always saying "Ethan, come here!" or "Ethan, look at that!" etc...



I think diamond is April. My mom was an April birthday and I thought diamonds were her birthstone, but I could be wrong... (wouldn't be the first time! LOL)

At McDonald's a few months ago, there was a mother who kept calling her daughter's name,so when they were leaving I said, "Good-bye Laura." You should have seen the look of surprise on the daughter and mother's faces!

I want to tell everyone about a really sweet thing that Megan did for Tessa. She knew that Tessa was nervous about starting kindergarten, so she made Tessa a little book called "Kindergarten Rocks". She drew little pictures of the different things you get to do in kindergarten. It was SOOO cute! Thank you so much for helping her with it, Steph! Tessa loved it!! I've read it to her at least 20 times already!

Tessa wants to join the club. But, she has so many cowlicks, I'm afraid it would stick up all over the place!

Oh, how sweet is Megan!!!! That was so nice of her!

Tessa looked awfully cute with short hair when she was little. I do like it the length is is now though.

No, she didn't cut Lydia's hair! If she did, I might have to slap her upside the head! She gave Arminda a cute little bob! She looks adorable, but I don't think she's posted a picture yet. Arminda cut all of her hair off for locks of love a few years ago. She really wanted to do it and it was so sweet of her. But, it was SHORT!!
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I also cut my kid's hair myself. Working in the daycare, we saw so many horrible children's haircuts done by "professionals". I figure I can't do much worse myself!

I also cut my own hair, but that's nothing to brag about!
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It was SOOOO short!!! It went from almost to her behind to WAAAAY about her shoulders!!! She was so short though, that it was just barely the required donation length!

I think your hair always looks good! Tessa and Sawyer's too!

My dd turns 5 yesterday! Hard to believe that my little baby girl is now 5 years old!! She asked for a cupcake dress, and picked out this fabric...here is the dress that I made her:
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The dress is great jenny! We have fabric very similar to that!

Now HeatherSue...I think that perhaps you should TRY a Coach bag...so you can understand the depth of love that forms... It's a very emotional experience...

it is.

stop laughing.

and eye rolling.

you'd LOVE IT!

Well, can you throw them in the washer and dryer when they get dirty like I do my .25 garage sale purse, that I've had for over a year?

Of course, if you wanted to donate one of your Coach bags to the less fortunate (meaning me!)I would be willing to give it a chance!!!

Hey everyone!! I have been loving all of your creations, you guys are sure an inspiration!! Well I Have finally finished my project, and a couple more! I am so proud of myself for learning to sew, not a big thing for you guys, but I am still proud of my simple accomplishments!!

I love these! I especially love the picture with your cat in it! How perfect!

Here is my latest stuff.
A purse I made my mom along with a sunglass case. I am not happy with how it came out but oh well. My ,machine kept jamming I think because the fabric and the interfacing were too think.The matching skirts I made for Nikki and my niece. I put it on her AG doll and had her hold the extra fabric in the back, Problem is now she wants one for her Nicki doll!
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I love it! Great purse and skirts!!!!

So I just got word from my mom that she is going to help me pay for Georgia's 7th birthday.....at DISNEYLAND!! I am soo darn excited. We are just going to say we are going to visit Grandma for the weekend and not tell her until we get down there. hehehe

So I guess I better dust that machine off asap and get to work on her outfits! on top of school clothes. ha!

That is wonderful Kell! You deserve this!

I have one coach bag- it's a diaper bag with a changing pad inside. It's nice a big but heavy!

You too Anna??!!!??

Hi everyone! Just dropping in to say Hello and to catch up! We had such a busy weekend...We had a blast at the beach and it was so nice that we didn't have to worry about his arm!

We had a good time just hanging out with the kids.

It looks like you all had fun!

I made a school outfit for Tessa this week. I'm not sure if it's going to be her first day outfit or not. She LOVES it, so I'm leaning towards yes.

I used my dad's SLR camera. That thing is so cool! I think I might steal it from him. So, these pics were taken in their yard. I also had fun decorating them with Corel paint shop.

I don't think we'll have anyone searching ebay for THIS pout anytime soon!

Goodness, for a minute there, I thought that last pictures was Miss Sophie herself!

This turned out F A N T A S T I C!!!!! Seriously cute Heather!!!! The fabric is wonderful! And Tessa as always, is stunning! Dad's camera does take great pictures, doesn't it!

Just got bad news about the sink hole.
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Aww T. I'm sorry.

Thanks Heather, but it's an actual HTML code for a ticker I am trying to add to my siggy. There isn't a link it's an embedded code ( I think)
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I am pretty sure you can't put that in your siggy. It seems like I saw that somewhere.

And I started on making a Wall-E shirt for DS, since last night I finally learned how to make a buttonhole!

These are cute!!!! I love the Pooh one! What pattern is that?

 

[ncmomof2]

I finished my DD animal kingdom outfit today. It is big but I think it looks cute.

 

[t-beri]

That's it. I have had it. I have made 3 different kinds of dresses/skirts out of the eyelet I bought for myself (I wanted a flowy summer dress) and all of them look terrible. I either look like a walking down comforter, a nurse, or a volcan. I kept trying different styles after ripping the previous ones' seams out and I have yet to make anything that does not cause snickers or scares small children. I need this outfit for a family photo shoot on the beach. If I was thin this would be much easier but alas I am not. I am very frustrated this evening.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I just lost a huge multi-quote...I only got part of it...so if you were in the first part...I'm sorry! I'll try to respond later!

Ugh, poor thing and poor mom!!!! Funny, I drive past Water Country every day and have never gone there! Is it fun?

Anyway, I broke down and bought the bucket hat pattern, I love it!

I get migraines, too. It REALLY sucks. I hope that is not what she's been having.

I hope Aisling is feeling better soon!

Water Country was a lot of fun (minus the EMTs!) I was surprised how much stuff they had for the little ones!

How do you all feel about putting kids names on customs?

I would love to do it, but my DH feels that weirdos will use that to kidnap our kids.

What do you think?

I don't put DD's name on a lot of things because I like to hand them down...not because I'm afraid of strangers. If they can figure out how to pronounce AISLING...good luck to them!!!

Poor baby, I am sorry she is having such a rough time. I love that she was concerned about her boo-boo being gone before Disney! You are such a good mommy - teaching your sweet baby about the important things in life - like Disney!!

Yup, she's had a full Disney education. My poor Mother is now putting up with the "Hidden Mickey" search in Maine!!!

Your poor baby. I'm sure Grandma will take good care of her. Hope she heals quickly.

You should try the hat it is much easier than it looks!!!!!

Grammy is taking good care of her! Is the hat really that easy?!?!?

Poor baby!! I hope her head feels better soon.

Thank you!

DD and her favorite birthday present...her very first AG doll - a just like you doll which she named after herself, Kirsten....her poor Sleeping Beauty Doll that she got at WDW has been neglected and possibly replaced!

Happy Birthday Kirsten!!! We have the same AG doll. Ours is named "Miss Claudia"...Aisling tells everyone that Miss Claudia is adopted from Korea!!!

Where in Ireland did you live? My family is primarily from Galway...but I have some cousins who did the unthinkable and moved to DUBLIN! It's a wonderful country isn't it?

Now HeatherSue...I think that perhaps you should TRY a Coach bag...so you can understand the depth of love that forms... It's a very emotional experience...

I lived in Dublin (which I supposed was like living in Boston but with brogues!!!) But I did visit the country often to get the "real" experience!

I hope Aisling gets to feeling better. We have lots of sinus/allergy problems around here too, but fortunately the girls haven't gotten too bad. Yet.

Thank you!

I made a school outfit for Tessa this week. I'm not sure if it's going to be her first day outfit or not. She LOVES it, so I'm leaning towards yes.

I used my dad's SLR camera. That thing is so cool! I think I might steal it from him. So, these pics were taken in their yard. I also had fun decorating them with Corel paint shop.

Great outfit and pic. You should get a DSLR...they are quite fun!!!

Just got bad news about the sink hole. It looks like the ins. co. is going to pay for the structure remediation directly to the contractor and is only giving me $11,000.00 for cosmetic damages and I owe the Public Adjuster I hired to handle the thing 10% which is roughly $9,000.00 So, I will have $2000.00 to repair all of the cracks in the stucco and block, my grout joints in the bathroom, the cracks in all of the drywall throughout the house, replace my linoleum that is molding and lifting from water damage fom the cracks in the block, replace molding and my kitchen backsplash which are lifting from the same thing. and I'm not sure what all else....OH YEAH paint my house after the cracks in the block are repaired. Not to mention whatever damage they cause to landscape and or the house when they put my house on jacks to drill large holes under it to pipe in concrete.
This was me when they told me: furious:
This is me now :

My public adjuster recommends that I hire an attorney b/c he feels that the ins. co. is not working in my favor. I will see what the attorney has to say but basically it comes down to THIS

I owe $164000.00 on the house. The attorney will charge me 20(ish)% and the Public Adjuster 10% of whatever the settlement is. So in order to pay them and my mortgage I'm going to have to get 3x what they are currently willing to give me.

If I go ahead and sign a contract to repair the damages and take the 11 grand then I am stuck w/ a $1500 a month mortgage on a house that is falling apart due to the sinkhole. Having repaired it the damage shouldn't be getting worse but I am going to be left w/20,000.00 worth of damage that I can't repair and a house I can't get rid of b/c it is now worth less than I mortgaged it for b/c of the problems caused by the sinkhole.

I called the attorney but I am not getting my hopes up.
It's a good thing that I didn't register for classes b/c I am going to have to look for a full time job now as the situation w/ my parents was only supposed to be for the summer.

I didn't mean to get all whiney but I needed to vent. Sorry and thanks.
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Oh no

Alrighty...here is my first picture post!

These are the first dresses I made my DDs and their dolly...

Great job!!!

That's it. I have had it. I have made 3 different kinds of dresses/skirts out of the eyelet I bought for myself (I wanted a flowy summer dress) and all of them look terrible. I either look like a walking down comforter, a nurse, or a volcan. I kept trying different styles after ripping the previous ones' seams out and I have yet to make anything that does not cause snickers or scares small children. I need this outfit for a family photo shoot on the beach. If I was thin this would be much easier but alas I am not. I am very frustrated this evening.

Oh that stinks!!!


OK I know that I had more quotes about outfits and haircuts!!!!! Darn it!!!

Aisling update: Grammy said that the swelling went down quite a bit today. I just got off the phone with Ash and she was very excited about a little Canadian girl with the exact same bday as her who was teaching her French so I'm guessing she's feeling ok!!! See, all the well wishes and pixie dust worked. Thanks all

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I finished my DD animal kingdom outfit today. It is big but I think it looks cute.

Oh I love it...Now I want to make a new AK outfit with Minnie Dot!!!