Sewing, Crafting & Fun
Naturally my kiddo wanted an Elsa dress. But I felt uncomfortable with her in the slinky one. So I decided to make the toddler dress, not only can she wear it any time, to school the park, every day, because it is an actual dress. My Elsa crochet hat: My Elsa Embroidery designs: Dress Pattern: […]
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Hi all, It was Literary Day at school this last spring and of course my kiddo wanted to be her favorite person Fancy Nancy so we copied a dress from the book “Fancy Nancy and the The Late, late, LATE night.” by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. Simple costume, you might have all the […]
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My son wanted to be the most “powerfulest” of all the Ninjago Ninjas. So the green one it is. Note to all green is not an easy gi to find. This authentic ninja gi is from KarateMart. I followed the instructions from Mojoturbo’s blog on the red Ninjago costume as far as the head piece […]
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This was a fast simple birthday gift we made for one of our friends who was taller than my little guy. I started with this cape pattern. Then added neck tabs with velcro. Print up the standard Superman logo and trace it onto to stiff felt, the background is just yellow cotton. I traced […]
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Hi everyone, sorry about the long wait in posting. Don’t worry I have been taking pictures of my work and have been super busy with work and volunteering for school for kiddo #1. Here is one I did a while back after someone had left soda bottles at me house. This Jango Fett Jet pack […]
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I am a free pattern junkie. There I’ve said it. I also have been searching for an outlet to use my skills and help others. Are you like me and have tons of “beautiful” fabric that is too nice to toss and doesn’t have a purPURSE yet? It’s stitching to be a purse for some […]
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Our children’s birthdays are 2 months apart and we have decided to (for the moment) have large joint parties for the two of them. Especially when their friends are the little brothers or big sisters of each other. One party, one time. So to start off I went to Pintrest to get ideas, I fell […]
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So this is simple, I divided up the books as to whose they were for and I for two different removable book tapes and labeled the spines. That way when it’s clean up time they know which books are their responsibility. It has helped a great deal.
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For Christmas my hubby and I decided that the popular 18″ dolls were too big for daily play and travel for our almost 6 year old. When I was younger my sister and I loved our perfect 16″ Mandy dolls that we both saved and gave our little one last year and a bunch of […]
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So here it is as asked for by clients and demanded asked nicely by my daughter. My interpretation of Queen Elsa’s hair in yarn as a wearable hat. The beauty of the crochet braid is the durability. I used as much yarn in this braid as my Rapunzel hat. Click here for a link to […]
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For Valentines day My love and I have always tried to make gifts for each other, sometimes it was a music CD one time a complicated duvet cover. This time I designed and commissioned a Dune themed Shirt. This was super simple. I found a simple design of something awesome. Turned it into a silhouette […]
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Everyone knows and loves Effie’s big over the top hair flowers. For a Halloween costume my sister wanted to be Effie for a a Hunger Games Premier party in SoCal. I wanted to help. I asked if she wanted me to make her a hair flower like the one in this pic. Of course […]
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