The Encourage-Me-To-Blog Giveaway

One lucky winner will receive their choice of hair clippies from my shop!

I will choose the winner via random.org on Sunday, March 13 and announce it here.

How to enter: 

1.  Become a follower of my blog and make a comment on this post.  That's it!

Giveaway will close on Saturday, March 12, at midnight, PST.

 

And if you don't win, I will include a free set of coordinating hair clippies with each dress purchase if you tell me in the note to seller that you follow my blog--through March 31st!

By no means do I aspire to be one of the awesome blog queens out there, but I would like to learn to use this format more adeptly, and if I know there are people out there reading, I'll be more encouraged.  So help me out, man!

Feeling Like I Got Something Done...

I bought these two long sleeved shirts on clearance at Carters and converted them into short sleeve, using the excess sleeve fabric to make tabs. 

I'm really pleased with the results, and how easy it was.  I think I will incorporate the tab sleeves in some new designs for my shop.  Also, I want yards and yards and yards of that lighter gray fabric.  YUM.

I have been envisioning these pictures since we put an offer on this new house back at the end of October, and now it's finally real!  And I love it!  It makes the kitchen feel taller--we have tall ceilings, but with the shorter cupboards (standard, I guess, the last house's cupboards were just extra tall) I didn't sense how tall it actually is in here.  I used some scrapbook paper from the Snack Stack and frames from good ol' Ikea.  Next up, I'm painting that cabinets, and I'm going to copy this gray and white look from Dana at Made.

Per the recommendation of Miss Dolce Vita Mia, I headed up to Sas Fabrics in Tempe last week, with a cruddy feeling K in a stroller.  She was on day one of those little fever viruses, no other symptoms, just general blah-ness.  It made for easy shopping since she just hung out in her stroller with a big cold sippy of fruit punch.  Sad, but helpful.  (Not contagious either--and I did end up on the couch snuggling her pretty much the rest of the week, so I'm not a completely awful mom!)

Anyhow, so these are some fabulous knits I found.  Skulls with white ruffles, anyone?  I know one of my girls is getting one!

Hair Clippies

I'm listing all sorts of coordinating hair clippies in my shop for my dresses.  These will be available whenever I feel like making them, not on a custom basis.  Unless you ask really, really nicely, and you're sweet, and ever so nice to me.  These are some of my favorites:

I think the rose clippies are definitely sophisticated enough to wear as a grown up, especially by a ponytail.  If you don't think so, don't make fun of me if I have one in my hair.  It's bad karma.



My New Love

A couple years ago I got these curtains for my back sliding door.

They go perfectly with the colors of my accessories around my family room.

In the new house, they didn't work for the backdoor, since it was about 100 inches wide.  We ended up doing the curtain panel track system from Ikea. 

But I love those curtains!  So...I decided I'm a big girl with scissors, and I'm going to use them in various new ways around my downstairs. 

First up...my sad, sad ironing board.  I got it when I was a freshman in college for ironing (hahahahahhaaa ohhhh how funny) and it's been perfect for my sewing desk, which I have out in the family room so I can actually hang out with my hubby in the evenings (and watch tv).  It has a perfect mdf base, so much nicer than the metally griddy things.  The original cover had holes and it looked generally depressed.

Now look at it!  Ahhhhhh...

I repadded it with some batting and adhesive spray and then used my staple gun to tack it to the board underneath. 

I may or may not have been actually patting it lovingly as I've been sewing.

Lamenting the Decline of My Little Pony

I was a HUGE fan of My Little Ponies when I was a kid.  Had a whole herd of them.  Still do, in fact, at my mom's house, and my girls play with them when we go to visit. 

When my first was a baby in 2003, I got her her own Little Pony.  They changed a bit, had eyes twice the size they had been in the 80's, but it was still cute.  We now have a herd of those at my house. 

Then a couple years ago, they changed again.  Seriously, why fix what ain't broke?  They had the ginormous, malnourished eyes with oversized heads, little bodies and chunky legs.  I think we got one for a gift, and my kids have relegated it to being a "baby" pony.  Because what adult pony would have eyes taking over 50% of their face? 

Now they've changed them again.  Dude, they don't even look like ponies now.

What IS that thing?  It's like...a...mutant deer...with rat ears?

Sigh.  

Something NEW is coming...

I'm going to be doing this this next week to take pictures of my lovely new coordinating hair clippies I've made.  And even better, I found the lamps on the end aisle at Target today for $3!  Just two ugly green lamps, waiting for me.  It was fate.  So I need to order...

...these this week.  In the hopes that peoples are going to buy my hair clippies. 

Skirts...Coming Monday!

Here's a peek at some of the skirts I will be listing this week on etsy.  They all include a sewn-in panty/diaper cover, since even big girls who play on monkey bars like to wear skirts to school. 


I have been sadly neglectful of my blog.  I'm much better at facebook anyhow, but compound that with moving into a new house in January and getting hired by a friend to make seven bridesmaid dresses for her sister's wedding, and you get absolutely no updates from me.  The jackets for my big girls are ALMOST done, luckily I made them big so they can be worn next winter also.  Here's the dress I'm adapting/recreating for the bridesmaids...

I've finished 3 out of the 7 dresses.  Hooray me!