I made her jewlery and hairbows & clips......I leave the sewing up to the professionals
I'm such a sucker for custom clothes. I told myself I wouldn't do it on this next trip and I've already ruined it. I think she has a new outfit for almost every day of our trip....again. What's wrong with me???
We are all suckers around here! Some of us for buying the customs, some of us for spending way too much time and money on making them ourselves! Do you have a sewing machine? You should try your hand at making something simple, like a little elastic waist skirt or something. I didn't think I could sew anything but curtains when I came onto this thread back in July. But, now I'm cruising along.
Okay - here is another video - When we were at WDW for New Years, it was also for my bday, and I was wearing one of those Happy Birthday Buttons (which I got alot of attention with) and they called me over and sang to me!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGdDh8rR7ko
Its all fun!!
And this is my hair "pixied" and then the other picture is the whole New Years Day gang in matching shirts!!!
Aw, what a sweet serenade! It'll be Arminda's 10th birthday when we're at Disney. I love the matching shirts and the pixie dust is too cute! You have us beat with 18 people over our 15. I guess I need to get some more kids before the trip!
I really would like to try my hand at sewing my own outifts, I do have a sewing machine but have only made curtains...probably will just stick with the professionals though.
GLAD TO BE BACK! THE ADDICTION AND A REASON TO LIVE HAS RETURNED! 
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Glad to have you back!! Such great news about the big '09 vacation!!! Now, you really need to try sewing something!!
If you can make curtains (which is all I ever thought I could do), you can make a simple elastic waist skirt. Just get some cheap fabric and try it!!
A) When the timing was off on my machine, I told Mom that I was going to ask Aunt Penny about it, and Mom said that Penny got rid of all her sewing machine repair tools, and not to ask her. I still think you should ask your sister if she has an extra machine in her basement that she picked up really cheap at
Walmart.
B) Beautiful outfit!
I had a difficult time last month when Lydia turned 5. Although, she tells EVERYONE that she is now and will always be Momma's Little Sunshine Baby. For now anyways.
C) Yeah, geesh, that will throw the timing off for sure! Gosh! Just for fun, take it to Mr. J's!
D) Just over two months until she is 5.
E) Aww, you said i was cute!
F)Wow, you have more people than we will in May!!! Great job getting them all to wear the same shirts!!! I love your pixidusted hair! I would like to do that when we go this year.
G) Congratulations on your next trip!!! YEAH!! And, thank GOODNESS you now have a reason to live!!!
A)Heyyyyy.....do you have a machine sitting in your basement that you'd let your sister use?????? I would really, really, really, love to borrow it until I can get the situation with my good 'ol Singer girl resolved!!!
B) Aw, she's so sweet! Tessa just outgrew the shirt I made her that said "Mommy's Little Sunshine Girl". It broke my heart.
C) In my defense, if I didn't tug on it at all, my beautiful Cinderella dress would have been forever trapped in the sewing machine. It was REALLY stuck! Also, I was using upholstery thread in the bobbin to gather the sides up (thanks Tom!
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D) You had to remind me? For some reason 5 isn't bothering me as much as 4. Maybe because I started kintergarden at 4 and that sounded so old to me!
E)Well, yeah!
F) Did you know I would count the people to see who "won", too?
G) Did you know this would make me think of Grandma?
Wow what adorable outfits and your DD is just beautiful!!! We are all "suckers", maybe even cheap suckers since we make the stuff ourselves (no offense anyone,...just kidding!). Actually some of these customs just take hours of work so no wonder they are $100-$200 each! But anyways, welcome to our addiction! 
WELCOME~~~ congrats on your trip!
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No offense, I'm a cheap sucker!! Although, I don't think it's much cheaper to make some of this ourselves- by the time we buy the supplies!! If we factor in our time, we're probably in the hole! Since I started sewing, I don't know how some of the people on Voldemort (I haven't used the "code" in a while, I was missing it) sell their stuff so cheap!
Our Aunt Penny is actually Penelope. The teachers had a time pronouncing her name in school. Her full name is Penelope Jane, so I tried to call her PJ, but she didn't like that at all!
Tessa's middle name is Jane! She's named after Teresa (Tessa) and Henry's high school teacher (Nancy Jane), who is still a dear friend. I feel like we're playing 6 degrees of seperation.
Heather and my Aunt Penny's name is Penelope too. I have NO idea what her middle name is though!
Now, why wouldn't someone want to be called PJ? PJs are warm and snuggly!
My friend had a horse named PJ once.....
PJ was a good 'ol horse!
You know, someone once told me that Tessa was a dog's name when I was pregnant with her. The woman had a daughter named Claire. I didn't think of it at the time, but I should have said "Claire is a fat girl's name. She's skinny now, but I could see her pushing maximum density." I actually love the name Claire, but that would have been a great opportunity to show that woman how rude she was being and to semi-quote my favorite movie all at the same time.
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I logged on a week ago to take a look and now I'm finding myself checking in daily. I thought I'd share some of my favorite customs that Avery wore to DW & our cruise last March.
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you all! Now get over here and help me sew, only 4 days left!
what do you still have to sew? i love your jedi luke t-shirt. We all had those shirts on our trip and got alot of attention..
I frequently start my auctions low, but I still make money on my supplies. Now, you've all seen my stash, but I buy a lot of estate sales and "store going out of business" liquidations, so my cost per yard tends to be very low for fabric and trims. I can usually balance this out with items I may need to buy to finish an outfit.
. I sew because I am WAY too cheeap to pay AG prices for "Matching" doll/child sets 
lmao: ) to talk about here if we didn't sew LOL
