Curtains

My latest and greatest project has been bathroom curtains. I was given two pictures to copycat and then was on my own which I love! I much prefer making up my own way rather than going off of a pattern.

This is the picture of the window curtain.

And here it is in purple made by me! It's a little hard to tell with it lying on my bed instead of hanging up so you can use your imagination:)

Here is the picture of the shower curtain for me to copycat.

And here is mine! I love, love, LOVE how it turned out! So, hopefully Kasey does too! (the friend I made these for)

Want to know a little secret? I bought a full size sheet set to make this shower curtain. This way I could just hem the edges of the flat sheet and have no seams in the middle of the curtain. Then I used the rest of the flat sheet, pillow cases, and fitted sheet to make the flowers. Saves on work (piecing fabric together and hemming) and is comparable in price (or maybe even saves a few $).


Don't you just love these flowers?

Thanks Kasey for giving me this opportunity! Enjoy your curtains!

Summer jean skirts

Repurpose jeans into skirts for summer!

Cut off between the bottom of the zipper and the crotch.
Add a double ruffle and you have a super fun skirt!
Fit for any princess!
Who can resist?
I followed this tutorial. http://www.maryjanesandgaloshes.com/2010/06/from-high-water-pants-to-super-cute.html#.T0zsXfGLN2A

Nook & Bible covers

My sister got a nook for Christmas from the parents of one of the boys she babysits for. I know, amazing gift! But, she is the best, I must admit:) She has patience like none other and finds the neatest activities to do with these kids! So, I'll say she deserves it! :)

Her birthday is in January, so she asked me to make her a nook cover as her gift. Sure! I love a new project! This is how it turned out. . .

Well, actually this is the first one I tried but I made it too small and had to make another one for her. So, if anyone has a smaller than normal e-reader or some other use for this, I will give it to you!

While I was on the "e-reader making roll", I made another to sell at the GCC spaghetti supper. From that, I was asked to make a Bible cover. Good idea!

Here it is. . .

She asked for a pocket that she could keep notes in, so I added a zipper pocket to the outside.

This shows the inside flaps that hold the cover of of the Bible.

Accessories

I made this birthday tie over a year ago and then decided to try and sell some at Objects.

I've sold some with letters (first initial) and now the one below for a photographer. They're so big and fun and just make me smile!

I used this tutorial http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2011/07/scrap-pieced-belt-use-up-those-scraps.html to make some belts for the Goodfield Community Club craft sale (at the spaghetti supper).
And used this tutorial http://www.happytogethercreates.com/2011/07/double-sided-fabric-headband-pattern.html to try out double sided headbands.

Look what fun things you can do with scraps!

Tank Dress

Warmer weather is on its way! And with the warmer weather comes a summer wardrobe! Of course, my wheels are turning thinking of what I can make instead of buying for my girls:)

This was my inspiration from zulily. . .

I loved the colors and searched for something similar, but didn't find the right fabrics to work with. Then, as I was going through my totes of clothes put away for this summer I found some hand-me-down tanks that would work! I paired them with old t-shirts of mine and hooray! Free summer dresses!!!

Mariah loves it! (she is my dress up girl) She just doesn't understand that right now it is a bit cold for tank tops:)
And since everything "girl" comes in twos at this house, here is another:)

Jeans to Gauchos

I was brainstorming the other day and thought. . .

if you can take jeans and make a short skirt, couldn't you use similar techniques and do gauchos? So, I found a pair of jeans for $1 at a garage sale and started cutting and sewing.

This is how they turned out!
I added some fun stitching to make them look store bought:)
Yay! A new pair of gauchos for just $1!

Sewing for Kelly

Kelly came over last week for a little sewing/mending help.

Remember I'm willing to do most any project for/with you! Spread the word!!!!

Good thing she brought along such a gorgeous model:) Here Brooklyn is showing some jeans we hemmed up. I was excited to try a new technique I had seen online. You can keep the old hem on jeans and still decrease the length. This way it doesn't look so homemade!

If you look close you can see our hem line right above the yellow stitch of the old hem. Not noticeable at all when you wear them, and keeping the same roughed up/washed out look of the old hem. It worked great and was so simple to do!
This is a skirt made from jeans like my earlier post.
But. . .

We added a fun ruffle to the back bottom of the skirt! I love to try new things!
Enjoy your clothes, Kelly, and come back again with more projects!!!!

Letter "W"

My last letter to teach was "W". I went round and round with ideas trying to figure out what to do. I thought it was a hard letter until someone asked me for ideas for "X"! I'll be glad I had "W". :)

I was going to try to make snow globes and call them "winter wonderlands" but I couldn't find fake snow (it was sold with Christmas stuff and I missed it by just a few weeks!). I also couldn't find small enough trees to fit into baby jars. Maybe if I would have looked longer. . . it was a cute idea though!

Instead we cut up and decorated grocery sack vests and called them. . .

Western Wear!!!!

Yes, they are ready (or is it me!) to move on to the next teacher! What a fun group of kids!!!!

Letter "S"

I am way behind on posting preschool pics. So a quick recap on "S". I only have pics of our snack (which isn't that the best part???:)

We folded and cut soft tortilla shells, brushed them with butter and sprinkled cinnamon sugar on top. Then baked them up to make snowflakes! Along with the snowflakes we had strawberry cream cheese, skittles, and snowman soup (hot chocolate). Kind of sweets day, but it was good!

Ella "painting" the butter on her snowflake.
Dylan sprinkling his cinnamon/sugar on top.
Our craft for "S" was a snowman frame. I got a kit to make them from Oriental Trading Co. but didn't get any pictures of this:(