Another Purse or two

This past weekend I felt like making another purse so I went to the fabric store to see if any fabric called my name. Courtney was with me and she said she wanted a bag to keep her gym clothes in so I also got some fabric for her. So Saturday night I made hers:







And it turned out cute so I thought I would make mine the same but not so deep.

So Sunday morning I made mine and it turned out like this:



It wasn't quite what I was picturing so I was messing around with it and turned the band down and it was so much cuter. So this is it now:

Dr. Suess' B-Day

Cristian's class is celebrating Dr. Suess Day tomorrow by wearing crazy hats.

He has been asking me for a week to make him a cat in the hat hat, so tonight I did.

Here it is:




He was asleep by the time I got it done so I tried it out on Caleb. I hope it fits Cristian's noggin 'cause he has a big one. We shall see in the morning.

Great Finds

So I went to DI yesterday while I was waiting for the fabric store to open and I found these:



A Yamaha electric piano. Guess how much....? $45.00 And it works.

So I took it apart there and loaded it into my car. Took it home, wiped it down, and played a little popcorn popping to break it in.

The bench is kind of ripped so this morning I did this:





I recovered it with some fabric that I bought to recover a rocking chair that will probably never get covered. I like how it turned out. Better yet I am so glad I found such a great deal.

Next...... we have this beauty. A gynormous paper mache giraffe. I don't know why I bought it but I just had to have it. And for $5.00 who could pass up a deal like that? Not me.






I think it used to be in the Springville library. It is about 5 feet tall.

Can you picture me stuffing this and that piano all in my car? I did it.

Hand Towel Apron

Yesterday I had a planning meeting for activity days and we decided for one of the activities we will have the girls and their moms make and bring their favorite food along with a recipe to share with the other girls. Then after we were done I headed to Joanns to get some fabric and right before I went in I got a call from the other leader and she had the idea of maybe making aprons that day as well. Sounded good to me. So as soon as I went into Joanns I saw these...



They were $2.50 for 2 towels. I think they are so cute!

Anyways so I made this...



And then I made Cristian put on this girly apron to get a feel for it on a human...



If it wasn't for him all you would get to see it on was a pillar...



So there you have it.. It took me about 15 minutes to make it and that's because I put a pocket on it. With out the pocket it would be a 10 minute project.

My model

So on sunday Courtney wore the skirt I made her to church and she said some girls in young women commented on it. Good comments. ANyway, here is a picture of it on her.







And then the next picture is her new friend gertrude. or Gerty as I call her.

I bought it for $4.00 at a fundraiser and Courtney and her friend Zoey had a ball with her. My kids love to poke her head around a corner when someone is in a room and try to scare them. It is rather creepy. Totally worth the money. Courntey loves doing her hair too.

Twirl Skirts

Courtney has wanted a new skirt for a while now. She likes the ones at Down east Outfitters but they are all a lot of money. We did get her a denim skirt there but now that is the only skirt she has to wear. So I have seen some cute fabric skirts on the internet and decided to try to make one. I am very cheap and didnt want to ruin a big piece of fabric so I first wanted to make one out of my scraps so it turned out like toddler sized. That is the one with the bird on it. Then I attempted another one and it ended up almost my size so I serged some inches off of each size and it now fits her but doesnt look the most professional. I didnt ever take pictures of that one. Then I found a big scrap that I had that I was saving to make something great out of and so it is the bottom skirt that is brown and green. She just might wear it tomorrow. That will be the true test...if my almost teen age(1 more week) daughter will wear the things I make.

Fabric Flower Tutorial

I love it when people make tutorials for things. Don't you?

I spent the last couple days looking at different tutorial on making flowers.

I was trying to find a cute flower idea so I could make some out of my mound of fabric scraps. I saw a few that looked cute but then I decided to just kind of make one up as I went.

Here it is. Will I ever wear these flowers....No, but I will put them on ETsy and hope someday they will sell. You never know some people put the darndest things on their little kids. If I had a little girl I would probably put one of these flowers on a headband and make her wear it. But I don't so I won't.

If you have any great ideas for making something cute and fairly easy out of fabric scraps PLEASE let me know. Because my scraps are taking over my sewing room but I can't throw them away and I am too lazy to put them for sale.


So here is my first attempt at a tutorial.

Disclaimer:
I don;t enjoy typing or correcting my typing mistakes. SO I thought I would just let the pictures do the talking and not type anything.