I Do Get Crafty Once in a While
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Church Bag
Friday, January 1, 2021
12 Days of Christmas 2020
Everyone's been missing everyone, so to make some connections again we decided again to do the 12 Days of Christmas for all my 7 Primary activity girls' families (one of them being us). As I was planning it, I got a new partner, so she planned 3 of the days I hadn't purchased for yet. I didn't take good pictures, but wanted to at least make note of what we did for future reference. It was nice because we didn't need to deliver to ourselves, my partner took care of that! Our family all took turns delivering. My 11-year old probably enjoyed it the most, but it was a great family activity. I wonder if anyone didn't know who was making the drop offs since all of them have doorbell cameras!
1. I was going to do pears and a tree and a picture of a bird or something, but my partner got some nice pear chapstick.
2. Turtle candy individually wrapped from the dollar store and Dove soap. I hope the chocolate didn't taste like the soap in the end!
3. I can't remember what my partner ended up doing for this, but I was going to make French bread and shape it like birds.
4. Chicken in a Biscuit crackers.
5. Ring Pops.
6. I was going to do a half dozen eggs, but my partner did those European egg candy things with the toy inside and cute golden-sprayed feathers on top. I'm sure the girls enjoyed the egg/candy more than actual eggs!
7. Hot chocolate pouches with a bag of marshmallows for the swans.
8. Graham crackers and milk (Honey Maid(s) a Milking).
9. Pirouettes, but I got the Pirouline's from Walmart and put a Pirouette label on them, since Pirouline's isn't a balet move.
12. Instead of drummers drumming, I did dummers dumming with Dum-Dum suckers. Yeah, I got *really* creative.
To make things cute, I added a little text to pictures online.
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Parrot Costume
http://littlestonecape.blogspot.com/2012/10/childs-pirate-boots.html
http://www.practicallyfunctional.com/diy-rain-boot-liners/
For my little parrot I just made some wings to pin to a red fleece thing I made her (ok, I probably made it for her brother 12 years ago?), then made a little hat. I really liked this pattern, but made the hat too small, so she really ended up looking like a squid. I didn't bother putting a beak on the hat when I realized it was too small.
Sonja the Hedgehog
Colonial Day
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Sergers Rock
This one was a women's XXL from Target, cut down:
This was a L shirt from Kohl's cut down for a 7 y.o. I might round out the bottom, but we'll see how we like it on.
Then, I bought this HUGE poncho shirt (it was marked a small, but it's more like a man's XXL in width). I found this AWESOME tutorial from It's Always Autumn on making a easy t-shirt and simple baseball/raglan shirt. I didn't want to mess with the cute neck on this one, so I just did the easy t.
I also took in a cute peasant top, but didn't take a pic. My old one is just a little tight in the bust since I'm nursing and fatter thank I'd like to be. I needed a bit more room.
These were my starting experiments with old t-shirts:
I also learned how to put in elastic with the serger!
This is so awesome. The options are endless. I should probably take a class.