70's profilettes

I have always wanted to make these funky 70's looking pictures of my kids and finally I did it!

I took pictures of the girls in front of the window and printed it on card stock, cut it out and traced it on colored paper. Then I found some vintage wrapping paper I had in my stash and painted their names and a sloppy circle around them.

Here is a finished one of Anaise up in my newly painted kitchen. I hope husband likes pink!!

my little artists

I am a very proud momma...both of my school age girls had their art work selected for the All School Art Exhibit at our very tiny museum. I am very laid back about school work but when it comes to art work I am so excited!

Eva has been known to cry during her math homework and I try to let her know that math should be fun too and not take it too seriously, she takes everything too seriously.
Anaise is very creative and funky and has been wearing very interesting clothes since she could talk. I can't image making my kids wear clothes they don't like or not letting them express themselves.

Husband wants to take credit for their creative talents but he only draws one thing "boob face" (the eyes look like saggy boobs).

Good job girls!

p.s. Cora is dressing herself and it is the funkiest of all!

told you that frame would come in handy

So I sold my tree painting rather than re paint it. Too blue and I can't believe I said that because all I want is blue right now. Husband said he looked around the house and his bathroom is blue, the ceiling is blue, the front door is blue and now the front room is blue...sorry bud.

So I still have issues with trees but I didn't want to paint one so I quilted one. My kind of quilting and if your grandma sees this she will definaltely say this ain't no quilting. So I cut a tree out of fine wrapping paper and then my fabric. The only one thing I was sure of

Then I layed it on several strips of fabric until I was happy and sewed the strips to a decorator weight fabric. I then zigzagged around my tree and leaves. My tension got all messed up at the end so a few of the leaves may fall off later. I may need to take a break from sewing just to avoid the frustration of fixing my machine.

Then I used my crappy staple gun to staple the entire thing to a frame I got at a yard sale several years ago. Told you husband I would use it some day!

Here it is in my blue front room. I still need to hang it, but I LOVE IT!

finally I'm painting the front room!!!

I am finally painting the front room!! The husband painted this room when we first moved in three and a half years ago and I never liked the brown. He told me no blue but this is almost a grey blue.

This is the dining room and the ceiling I finally finished after working on it for at least a year.

This is the current brown soon to be grey (blueish). Only $8 at Lowes...who can't paint a new room for that? And if you hate it...only $8.
Half way...on the first wall. I'm more of a quick, sloppy painter. You might not like it anyways, so why work too hard?

I finished it!

Here she is in her new dress (notice the sucker I had to give her in order to get her to put it on).

I even did button holes, which I haven't made in 10 years. I had to "practice" for too long, but I can now act like they're really easy.

this is how big it was...for a little bitty 3 year old it seemed like over kill.

just a reminder that the best friend of a sewer is the iron.

So I really finished it...and now Cora will not wear it.

over all I would say it was fun and turned out super cute...Eva wants several so I better get to work.

Cupcake Dress for Cora

Cora with the pattern for her new dress. The pattern is the Cupcake Dress by Pink Fig Patterns and comes in sizes 12 months to 10 years!! So I can make all the girls a dress...some day.

This is the top and it was pretty easy. I didn't do the smocking in the back because I didn't want to learn something new on a big pattern. I'll try sometime on a plain smocked top dress and NOTHING else, possibly a hem.
I try to take my time and now that I'm in my 30's it's getting easier but not that easy, so when I read the pattern and it said cut on the fold and gave dimensions. I felt that rapid heartbeat and slight frustration, only made worse when I asked my mom (who I have never seen sew in my life) and she told me exactly what it said but with an air of understanding that annoyed me. I fugured it out and I'm probably the only one in the world that had to think about it.

I even took my time and zigzagged my edges. That's why I'm still not finished after 3 days. But hopefully it will last longer than 2 washes. Some of you may know what I mean.

I had to walk away from the sewing machine tonight because the thread broke for the third time in ten minutes and I felt angry. But I am almost finished and I think it will be SUPER cute.

The web site for the pattern is www.pinkfig.typepad.com