I am going to try to attempt to anwer some of these tonight - since you all were so chatty today!
The skirts are really cute! I like the blue and green fabrics the best. If you don't want one for yourself why don't you deco some jeans or a jean skirt?
Thanks! I am thinking I will do something to that effect - I just haven't decided yet.
Me too. I love seeing people being pixie dusted it is fabulous. I just the looks of pure joy on the kids faces.
Okay so yesterday was stressful and I am determined to make today much better and not let it stress me out.
I have never left my kids with any one but family. I am neurotic like that.
I've never really left the girls with anyone but family either... but when they are babysitting, they are at houses I can see - so they are nearby - that doesn't bother me so much, they know if they need help with the kids or whatever, they can always call me.
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My mom made me take a class in babysitting when I was 13 before I was allowed to babysit. But now that I am a mom I wont leave my kids with anyone but friends and family. Not only do I trust them more, but my kids know them and wont test them as they would a sitter they don't know.
Ok, first of all I love the skirts you made your DD's. Loving the pirate theme and the inside trim.
What great suprise of Pixie Dust. It's always magical when Tinkerbell flys over and sprinkles her dust. Such great treats. I am just loving those Mickey head t's.
Thanks about the skirts... I do love how they turned out. I am still so excited about the PD - it was awesome!
Yes, she did a wonderful job!
Subbing to follow along... I want to go to Disney so badly, so seeing your bags.. is making me BRAINSTORM with ideas on how to EARN money to pay for a trip next year.. besides the new biz my husband wants to start up once we get into our new place of residence (woodworking, he wants to make picnic tables -both adult size and kid size-, benches, porch swings, and work his way up from there) ... and the fact that I'm an Independent Consultant for a Candle Direct Sales company...I also want to do something else on the side to help bring income into our home (Not to mention we both hold jobs, DD works for Lowes DC -Full Time-, and I work for Dollar Tree, -EXTREMELY Part Time-)... and thanks to your pictures/thread... I'm tossing up in the air with buying a sewing machine to attempt sewing (I'm not a very crafty person) and/or making crepe paper rose hair clips and pins that I seen made on the Martha Stewart show. I've already started the pins/hair clips... but I need to buy this plaster that will harden the flower.. it's a bit expensive for me to dish out at the moment, I need to wait for tax returns.
Sorry I sort of "hi-jacked" your thread, didn't meant too... (started my own info thread here, lol) but hey, I'm here to read and learn and hopefully make some friends along the way.
Welcome!!! You can hijack my PTR anytime - well, actually Andrea thinks it's her's - and I do let her think that
(she gets a bit upset if you tell her otherwise). You'll have to let me know if you buy a machine.
roads are clearer this morning so we are getting out
yes I will drive careful D~
going to my pilates class - pick up a few groceries, bookstore, anything to get out and about ---everyone is in a nice outside shopping center close by so don't have too far to go then megan has a make-up ballet class tonight
Andrea - where does your friend live?
we are dealing with lots of down trees and power outages mostly south and east of Seattle...news said that within 24 hours there was almost 2,400 car incidents! people sure are idiots here when it snows!
Glad you were able to get out and get back safely. WOW!!! 2400 car incidents - that's insane. If people would just slow down and pay attention...
Oh my gosh, HOW could I be six pages behind??? I mean come on, it isn't like I am doing anything...BUT, there is so much to comment on I KNOW I am going to forget something! I am excited I was able to see this once the Pixie Dust from Marianne arrived. I don't FB, so I missed the photos she said were blocked from you. I LOVE IT!!! I was so excited for you and could just see the excitement on the girls faces! How exciting it was...having had the pleasure of being Pixie Dusted BIG TIME, I can feel the excitement and I am SO THANKFUL for your posting all of the pics...they really DO tell the story, far more than one little picture would...I am a visual person and I LOVE seeing it unfold! I confess, I miss the Pixie Dust, it made the hard days easier...Thank you for letting me live vicariously through your pictures! It made me smile Marianne...did you MAKE THOSE SHIRTS?!? I loved them both but Goofy was my fave...I need to commission you...or you need to teach me! (IN all of our free time, of course)! Speaking of shirts, I have one I need to post that my good friend Michelle made me...trouble is, it is alway sin the wash because I wear it at LEAST twice a week (every time I wash it is the next day's shirt)!
I didn't see it posted in your TR... did I miss it???
[Lisa...SO glad you are escaping the condo....Good to know you and Megan have survived and are still speaking
Is it bad of me to think that it's sometimes nice when they don't speak. 
^^^ "they" meaning teenage girls in this instance.
[Babysitting at age 12...that is when I started by myself, prior to that my sister and I would team up together for our neighbor's children. My sister never babysat again after the neighbors' motorcycle was stolen while we were there...I used to babysit about 40 hours a week, plus school until I turned 15 and could get a real job...we got paid $1 and hour back then... it was $2.65 when I got a "real" job...minimum wage was a blessing! Rachel is 13 and there is NO way I would let her sit by herself yet...although she would be great at it..so would Lisa, she is such a nurturer. Actually all of mine are great with kids, I am fortunate that way. As for my kids to misbehave???? NEVER! uummm, remind me of that when I write about our Saturday night at GKTW...
I have to chime in here like everyone else D~...Your UP bag is AMAZING!!!! I can hardly believe you haven't been sewing all of your life...your talent and creativity is endless and I just wish I could sew a straight line, much less what you do! You re gong to have the MOST fashionable trip and bags to match everything...is there an envious emoticon?????
Thanks Judy... That means so much... And it really means a lot that you take the time to come over here to read and post on my PTR - I know you have a lot going on, so I just wanted to tell you that. 
[So...I wrote a book and KNOW I missed things...I am TRYING to keep up. I just LOVE your talent and your spirit...Thank you for sharing it with us!
No... Thank you!
The skirts turned out super. I love the pirate material. What will you do with your pirate material if you aren't going to make yourself a skirt? Could you turn it into a bowling shirt or something along those lines? That way you would match with your girls without having to wear a skirt. LOL!
I am still trying to figure out what to do with the material. I purchased it in a jelly roll... So I have about 40 strips of fabric that are 2"x10"... Any ideas??? Maybe I'll just sew them all together and do a Pirate Mickey on a t-shirt with all of them?
The pixie dust from Marianne is awesome! How fun to see the pictures of your girls opening everything. Their expressions are priceless. Your really got some great ones. Marianne's shirts are amazingly adorable. I also love seeing the pixie dust.
It was so much fun to get it - I felt like a little kid opening the box.
I already saw your shirt on the Disbout thread
Hmmm... so, that's where it is... Was it just posted or did I miss it a long time ago???
I started babysitting before age 10 -- same thing, often teamed up with my sister. And we got paid $1 an hour by most (one family with despicable children paid me 75¢ an hour so they received my services a grand total of two times and then I would just always tell them no -- they had three very unruly boys). So yes, I sat back in the days when you got paid less than minimum wage to sit. Today sitters get paid way more than minimum wage which contributes to us hardly ever using them. I'm very selective as well as to who watches them. We have used a total of 5 different sitters on about 7 occasions in 10 years (not counting family). Part of the problem is dh when dh is deployed I have no choice but to get a sitter if needed. All my RI sitters were hired when dh was in Kuwait.
I couldn't even tell you all when I started babysitting... I was very young. I grew up on a dairy farm, so when the cows were being milked the older kids just watched the younger kids and that's the way it was. Not that we were responsible enough to do it or anything...
I have to say, the pictures are even BETTER on my laptop than they were on my phone last night!!!
Yay!!! I am glad you enjoyed seeing them bigger. I felt like I didn't take enough... I am still trying to decide which day we should wear them??? I am thinking one of our MK days - possibly our first full day there??
Thanks y'all for all the nice comments on the appliques. I told D~ I tried to do my very best work since, after all, she is the one that convinced me I could applique in the first place
Marianne - you did an amazing job on those appliques... I just knew you could do it - you'll be whippin' them out all the time now, I can tell! So, what's your next project??? 
Andrea - I have NOT started that scrap fabric tutu yet - I really want to get the pinking blade for my rotary cutter before I start that project. Does anyone HAVE a pinking blade for their rotary cutter? If so, what do you think of it? Better than pinking shears? worse? Is it a "definitely buy that" or a "stay away" ???
I do have a little bit of pirate fabric left, do you want me to send you a few strips? When would you need it by?
I want to curl up with a movie and a bowl of popcorn and relax - it's a cold drizzly day here. Instead the boys & I have been to
Sams Club, then a quick stop at home to put away perishables before meeting friends at the nature preserve and going on a very nice (but a little chilly) trail hike - all of the boys were playing in the creek (and it didn't start drizzling until the end of the hike), THEN to Aldi for more groceries . . . we came home and I put everything away while they cleaned up for our doggie visitor who will be arriving tonight (we're dog sitting for DH's boss for the week) . . . now I'm playing catch up on the computer while they watch Cars2.
I KWYM... DH and I were just talking about splurging and buying new living room furniture... In all of our married life, we have never once bought a stick of furniture, everything we own is hand me downs (except all of our mattresses). I will admit that we have been very fortunate with some very nice hand me downs, but our current sofa is really on my last nerve (if a sofa ever could be)... It's a CHEAP sectional, like 8 pieces or something crazy like that... the cushions don't stay on... the back cushions are all ripped because it was made with NO seam allowance, and when you have 3 or 4 pieces pushed together to make a sofa, you have to sit right in the center of them, otherwise you have this ridge going right up your cr@ck - it's very painful. And not very conducive to our way of life, we all like to curl up on the sofa and watch movies, we haven't been able to do that since we got this sofa... So anyways, DH and I are seriously considering a new sofa - possibly a nice sectional with an extra recliner for him. Seeing as we have never purchased furniture before, we feel a bit hesitant, but also very justified, since we barely do much in the livingroom as a family because we are all so uncomfortable... OK - sorry for the ramble...
the idiots are still out....now they are driving even faster and with all the standing water and slush is spraying everywhere
ACK!!! I'd stay home for a while... I hate when people get like that.
Love the pirate skirts!
LOVE the shirts Marianne made! The purchased Donald shirt is adorable too!
So now you need to make some crayon roll ups for coloring on the plane!
Thank you!
Yes, I will add that to my list...
I like your Russell better than my Dug. I'll have to find a photo to send you.
C'mon now, I bet it's wonderful - don't sell yourself short!
Marianne- what a lovely surprise! The shirts are awesome.
D- I LOVE the skirts. I want one so baaaadly, but I don't think it really would be acceptable for me to wear it... I am simply too old (I don't think I am old, but for the skirt...too old.)
Deb, I bet you could wear one... I'll make you mine - LOL Young at heart, that's the key to wearing it... oh, and a smaller rear end than mine.
That is the reason to have little girls...to put cute stuff on them. However, my little girls don't seem to agree with that premise.
Mine used to, then they grew up... Now I am just forcing them to wear them. LOL Actually, my youngest dd is all for it - my oldest, not so much. But once we get down there, and feel the Disney mood overwhelm us - I am sure she'll be happy that all I am packing is the stuff I made for her.
Totally kidding of course. Maybe....
Your estimate on the time on the bag is wonderful. thank you; I will be sure to let Emma know.
D.... Marianne did a wonderful job.
It was "wicked" cool that I got to see them in progress. Now I can't wait to see you wearing them in the parks.
Wait!! You got to see them in progress??? So jealous!!!
Unfortunately sewing becomes quite addictive and turns people into fabric hoarders and force them to buy whole bolts of SW fabric just in case
or so I heard
I have no idea where you heard that, I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't think sewing is addictive at all... maybe you should see someone about that???
OK, I just have to tell you all that my zebra shoes came today... They are super cute!!! Although, I have super wide feet, so there is one part over the top that is a bit tight, but I am going to break these puppies in good.
And I plan to carry my flip flops in my bag that day - with some, some, some of the minky cover up sticky stuff that I can't think of the name of off the top of my head...
I also have to tell you that I'll be finishing up a bag order tomorrow morning. Whoot! Super excited about it - it's theme is something I have NEVER done before... betcha $$ you'll never guess...
And the rest of the weekend, I will be working on more customs for our trip... First up is my Donald sweatshirt, which will probably make me cry...
Oh - I almost forgot to tell you all... I got an amazing deal at JoAnn's today... The sulky tear away stabilizer - the HUGE roll of it... You know, the one that usually goes for like $40... it was on clearance for, get this... $3.97!!!!!! I couldn't believe it! They only had one left, I frantically searched for more, but I couldn't find any. I hope they are just changing the packaging and not discontinuing it. Also got lots of fabric... Lots of Gutermann thread (it was on sale, and I had an additional 20% coupon)... and I even remembered my zippers!
OK, D~ is off to work on the bag for a little bit - then to bed.
D~
well she's only 11 1/2 don't make her a teenager yet please
So anywho.. LOVE! the Up bag, if I haven't said it already. So imaginative to use the buttons and love that it's "3D" with the extra bling buttons hanging on.
Great job on the appliques Marianne! 
Marianne...did you MAKE THOSE SHIRTS?!? I loved them both but Goofy was my fave...I need to commission you...or you need to teach me! (IN all of our free time, of course)! Speaking of shirts, I have one I need to post that my good friend Michelle made me...trouble is, it is alway sin the wash because I wear it at LEAST twice a week (every time I wash it is the next day's shirt)!
Rachel is 13 and there is NO way I would let her sit by herself yet...although she would be great at it..so would Lisa, she is such a nurturer. Actually all of mine are great with kids, I am fortunate that way. As for my kids to misbehave???? NEVER! 
Our tree on the corner is about 1/4 covered in pretty bright green leaves!
People are crazy. They think if they drive big SUVs they can't get hurt but 4WD won't keep you from skidding on ice or hydroplaning. 
I am simply too old (I don't think I am old, but for the skirt...too old.)
