Christmas frillery

First off.... This is the skirt for Addys Christmas outfit. Its called a Pettiskirt and I LOVE it! and she looks so cute in it! It was a lot of gathering but i figured out how to make my machine do most of it, So it wasnt bad. You can pretty much ONLY get the fabric for this bad boy online. I ordered some in cornflower blue and I am going to make a long dress for her that is along these lines. Pictures to come!

Second. My friend came this weekend and we repurposed an old bridesmaid top into a christmas dress for her little girl. Super cute! I cut the arm holes a little big but still cute!

My new craft desk

I have been needing a new crafting and sewing area. My stuff has just gotten out of control and there is too much of it. So my poor husband has given up his closet in his man room. I took it over and got crazy organized. And the total cost was.... $40! Made the desk myself! A lot of the stuff I already had on hand. So I just needed to buy the wood, a few storage bins, and the light. I LOVE it!

I Have a lot of ribbon. This box was overflowing with spools of it. So I saw this idea somewhere to take large fat craft sticks which I got at the dollar store, and wind your ribbon on them. I still have 5 more spools to do but it has cut way back on the space I need!

The cricut isnt mine, although I think it looks GREAT there! :) I left a gap at the back so I can put all the cords through and if I am sewing something long it can fall back through and it wont end up so bulky. I also mounted a power strip under the desk so i can plug everything in right there.

The Christmas Wreath

This is one of my latest projects. Pretty easy, once i got the hang of it. All you need is a wire hanger, Round ornaments, and a big bow! Shape the hanger into a circle, leaving the actual hanger part in tact since you use this to close it up and hang it. String the ornaments on. (Use all the same size) And close her back up. Tie the bow on and VIOLA! I LOVE this. Im going to hang it on my front door after thanksgiving. Or maybe sooner... hehe

Im still here!

And still crafting... a lot! We have just been really busy lately. The next three posts are new and I even threw in a tutorial. It doesn't have pictures but if you are a sewer you should do fine. I also just finished a couple of projects that I will try to post later.

If you are looking for the car seat pattern, I haven't gotten ambitious enough to finish it yet... but its still in the works!

Tink and Peter

Every year we try to do a family costume. It hasn't always worked out but this year it did and was so fun! We were the peter pan cast. I was Wendy (Kind of boring costume) My hubby was Hook. (bought that one) And the kids were peter and tink. I had a lot of fun making their costumes! We won the best family costume at the ward Halloween party!

Car Trash Bag (with photoless tutorial)

Here are two of my latest projects.
A trash bag for the car. All you need is some fabric, a little ribbon and some boning(Found at any fabric store).
You can make this to be any size you want. But you want the back piece to be a flat rectangle, and the front to be about three inches wider depending on how big you want it.

Gather the bottom of your front peice. Then, with right sides together sew along the sides and bottom of your bag. This will give you the basic shape.

Next you want to fold down the top of your bag to create a sleeve for your boning. The boning will keep your bag open. You are only going to thread the boning through the front half of your bag, not the back half! After you thread your boning through, sew it in place on both ends so that it wont move around.

Finally sew some ribbon on the back so you can tie it around your head rest and you're done! I added a little accent fabric around the top of this one, but that isn't necessary.

I wish i had taken pictures of this along the way so you could better see how it was done. But I know that there are other tutorials out there for this that you might be able to find that are more detailed. I mostly just wanted to show you m y cute bag! Have fun!

Superhero Training Academy

For my sons birthday we created the S.T.A.! All his little superhero friends were invited. All in all I had 17 superheros on my hands... I would NOT recommend this many if you recreate this party... but it was a lot of fun! My camera funked out on me so I dont have pictures of ALL the activities but still... you will get the idea.

First, I made capes with their superhero initial on it. Initials were made of felt. Super glued on to the fabric. I cut out the shape of the cape and left the edges raw. Too much work to finish them. :) I used hot glue to put the initials on. Then I gathered the top and sewed a piece of ribbon across with a Velcro closure so that no one choked.

Next, Superhero masks! I found the pattern HERE. I cut them out of foam and then did some puffy paint work around the edges... not necessary, but i was having fun. :)


Then the belts. I bought some belting and did Velcro closures again. I cut out foam circles in white and the color of each superhero. Then mounted the white on to the colored and slapped on a foam letter of their initial.

Each Superhero had a bag when they got there that had their cape, mask and belt in it. THey got dressed when they arrived and then the training began!

Cross a Boiling Pit of Lava!
For this one they I had a kiddie pool ful of water with red food coloring in it. I used cinderblocks to prop up a board accross it and they had to cross the "Lava". Supprisingly, this was the second favorite activity!

Vaporize the Villain!
For this one I had about 40 helium balloons staked to the ground with forks all over the backyard. I drew faces on the balloons and then the kids had to pop them all.

Magnificent Muscles
I made a big dumbbell with two foam balls and a dowl and this was our picture station. They lifted it up and got to have their picture taken.

Leap buildings in a single bound!

We had 5 hay bales. Three were set up together and one on either side. (Pictures below) They had to use their superhero powers to get accross the bales somehow. This was the favorite activity. It lasted all night! They were jumping from bale to bale!My favorite picture of the whole party! Doesnt he look like he is ready to get the evil villains!?

Heres a picture where you can see how the belt was put together. The foam sticker letter is half torn off but you get the idea. :)

We even had superhero capes for the babies!