Skirts

I've been away for a bit.

One of the projects that kept me away was for a friend of mine that needed a whole new wardrobe for the next few months.

It's not the clearest picture, but here's what we accomplished:

Out of 15 items, only 3 were pre-existing items that needed alterations. Everything else was made by us (with extra help from my mother and her serger!).

Sorry, we were so busy working our tails off that there wasn't a lot of energy for process pictures. Your imagination can fill in the cutting, ironing, sewing, more pressing, modeling, altering, and one silly moment after 11:00 p.m. when we realized we'd been a little too generous with a piece of material, and it was big enough for both of us...

A winter craft

After Christmas, I told you about a fun craft that hubby's cousin did with the kiddos, and I promised pictures. Well, I finally remembered to grab it out of the drawer to snap a picture.

Grab some fabric paint (she's SO much more brave than I am) and paint the bottom of each child's foot (generously). Press the footprint into the middle of the shirt. Then let them make fingerprint snowflakes all around. Let them decorate the snowman according to their abilities/age.

Yep, his snowman is sporting a baseball cap rather than a top hat! Funny boy.

I decided to go ahead and put the year on the sleeve for memory reference. Later we decided to put his name and handprints on the back. That didn't work quite as well. I wasn't generous enough with the paint the first time, so I ended up doing it again (and tried to line them up again...crazy). I put an outline around each handprint, and that seemed to work.

So now you have a fun kid-approved craft idea for winter or to commemorate a snow-day or something!