4 shirts to 4 dresses in 4 hours…
I gave myself a little challenge a few days ago, to make 4 dresses for Lilly (D’s girlfriend) from 4 of her mom’s old Trader Joes tshirts, in 4 hours…this one’s my favorite, maybe. LOVE the colors, love the logo placement, love the flutter sleeves…thisone’s just a regular peasant-dress, but it’s still pretty cute!it’s actually a pretty green, not this weird grey, but I wanted to show the gathered ruffle I put on the hemline….this one’s a pretty simple summer dress, in classic little girl pink.the 4th has been stolen by my little one,...
Read Morefluttery and pink and covered in berry juice.
this was a Nike shirt from my friend Angel, and it had a huge swoosh across the front…so this is a shirt, not a dress, but MAN, does the Bean ever LOVE this.she insisted on wearing it as soon as she saw it, (though she put it on backwards, hence the seam in the “front” neckline)…the sleeves are from the scraps of one of C’s paint-stained shirts, so the salvageable fabric there was also scant…I love all of her expressions and poses….especially this one. I asked her to turn around so I could see the back. she hip-thrusted all by...
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….made these for me: I pruned the grapes, and he sat and wove these for me! Aren’t they FAB! (we learned last year that he is MUCH MUCH MUCH better at wreath-making than I am. not sure why, he swears it’s just a natural talent that he discovered last year, but I think secretly he MUST have attended wreath-making summer camps or something all through his childhood to be THIS good at them.Lest you be unimpressed, thinking these are small little doodads, check this out: see that big one? it’s like 2.5 feet high! and sturdy! I can’t WAIT to decorate it!the little...
Read MoreGarage girl…
It’s probably no surprise, but our little princess has her father WRAPPED around her little finger. It was only fitting that I make up some girly little dresses from his old t-shirts… this combo, (a brown striped polo, and a light blue Pedro shirt), just reminded me SO much of C, that I HAD to take the pics with the garage OPEN. I also HAD to show off the car washing in the background. C is constantly struggling with all the kids stuff in the garage (we are saving the baby stuff in case we decide to enlarge our family at some point), and we have so many wheeled toys that need to...
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Um, I need help. My crafty to-do list today is:1) Make paper bag roses (the pic is of the paper bags we painted already, but I need to figure out how to import my templates so my silhouette can cut all the petals and leaves)2) embroider the designs from weeks 3&4 for the stitchalong3) iron fabric for my secret quilt 4) make some dresses for the Bean5) make more snack bags for the kiddos6) make another newspaper wreath7) make valentine barrettes 8) finish quilting the Bean's doll quilt9) blog all about everything I've accomplishedThis list, of course, is only startable after I put...
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