Boutique flowers

I've been having fun making these flowers and decided to try my hand at selling them at a boutique. Here are some sample pictures of the flowers I sold at the boutique.





The thing I like best about them is that they are for all ages. Babies and adults and all girls in between can wear them. They look great in hair on purses and on clothing. Cute!

Alex's costume

Alex needed a costume for student government this year. So we decided to use a pattern for a dress that my friend gave me.

Fabric is getting pretty expensive especially the nicer stuff like brocades that we wanted to use. so instead of buying fabric by the yard at $15.99+ per yard we used one of these found at the local Wal-mart for $9.99. There was plenty to make the dress using only one tablecloth.
So after about a day and a half of fitting the sewing in between jobs and family activities we had planned this fall, we came up with this...It has a train in the back. Kind of hard to see from the front though. so here is a better shot...
The pattern called for eyelets to lace up the back...uh yeah Well I didn't really want to buy the tool for one project so I improvised and did this....
Pretty amazing what you can do with a little thread, some fancy trim, and one of these...
We will get more use out of the dress than just for this Halloween's activities as Kirsti needs a dress this same style for a play she is in that will be in January and Alex's friend is having a "Princess" party next month that everyone is supposed to dress like a princess.

I had forgotten how much fun it is to sew dresses for my girls.

Wood words

I used my birthday money to do something fun...

One seasonal item that I can have up right now...

And one non-seasonal that I can leave up. I hope one day to be able to surround the "Family" one with pictures of family, past and present, in varied size and shape frames.

And in addition get more seasonal ones to replace the "summer" so I will have something up year round.

Baby shower gift

My cute cousin Carrie finally, after many years of waiting, adopted a baby girl. She is adorable and they call her Kate.

Several months ago I made a diaper bag for another cousin when she had her boy and at the baby shower Carrrie asked me if I would make her a pink one if the adoption went through. I was more than happy to hear it was time to make one. I'm so excited for you Carrie!!!
I wanted to do more than just the bag so I was going to do some cute Binky clips to match. but I couldn't figure out a way to make it hook to the kind of Binky she uses. So I decided to make some bibs instead...an idea I got from my friend Stephanie.

They are simple, made out of a wash cloth, which is bigger and more absorbent than a regular bib. I used a ribbon and clips (similar to what you find on mitten clips for kids) for the part that goes around her neck. then I decided (totally optional) to add some matching applique's to the wash cloth.
As you can see I liked the way the flowers turned out way better than the heart which was my first attempt.

It was a fun project and I was surprised how fast it was to do.

Poineer attire

I have to have pioneer attire for Trek this summer. I finally finished one of the dresses.
I'll add more pictures when I get the others done.