Saturday in the park....

I think it was the Fourth of Julyyyyy..... okay, so technically, it's Tuesday, and the First.... but still I finished Halle's fourht outfit! I used a pattern that her grandmother gave me that she had made some of Keet's clothes from (not the dress, obviously) and Halle loves it. The scarf was just sort of an afterthought... but it looks so cute on her little head! She loves her new dress, and I can't get her to take it off... apparently she doesn't care that it isn't yet the fourth... I think I need to work on my seam allowances... as in I think I am making things too big... I need to trust that they are giving me plenty of room to work...

But I used button holes AND a blind hem... so... GO ME!

It's funny that I am blogging again...

haha so I am into a new hobby, and it starts me blogging again? How odd! I guess it was just that I didn't really have anything good to POST... I mean... I have tons of cute pics of Hal, and that is something good to post... but this way I get to post fun crafty stuff that Hal is wearing... you really can't beat that, can you?

I should sleep... Hal has been under the weather, and I think I am disturbing Flower.... so I think I am officially off to bed!

A Halle outfit!

So, this little outfit took me forever, but I finally finished it! Halle looks so adorable in it! I love the style of this shirt! Her little back looks sooo cute, but she keeps saying to me "mom there's a big hole in the back of my shirt..." :)

I REALLY like the shirt... I think I will like the shorts more once I wash them and they get more of the style I am going for. I guess we will just have to wait and see... But either way it is one cute outfit!

I will learn to sew... oh yes... I will.

Meet Flower!

Seriously... I am such a sucker for animals... this little guy was on freecycle, and now he lives at our house! He is currently huddled up in a corner... poor guy! He is ascared! Halle named him Flower... I am not sure why I keep calling it a boy... I have NO idea what it is yet lol! I guess I will lift us his skivvies a little later tonight :)

I made a pincushion!

Okay, so I fell in love with the cutest little pincushions on ebay... and instead of buying them, I decided to just make my own! So, at first... it was tough... but I decided to just take my TIME and bam... PINCUSHION!

So here is my funky skull and crossbones pincushion of awesomeness... (and yes, I am still using my cellphone to take pics... ugh...)

Just not good at it yet...

Okay, so I don't expect to be awesome at sewing yet... but I hate not being good at it! I have these ideas in my head, I try to sew them, and they don't come out they way I envisioned, and it is frustrating me!

This is one of the hardest things about starting something new... I may like it, but that doesn't make me good at it. Practice makes perfect though, right?

Watching my hobby fit on the kitchen table...

So, I haven't scrapbooked anything for myself in almost two years... I have done tons of projects from teaching, I have spent several hours staring and organizing my scrapbooking stuff, but I have NOT scrapbooked... why? Because I miss the days when my entire hobby fit on the kitchen table! I miss being able to sit out with my husband and watch whatever random tv show he was watching and just hang, but still be creative and happy!

Scrapbooking at some point became about more than just scrapbooking for me... it was about teaching it, about being the best... about owning a store.... it wasn't just about being creative and putting my memories on paper anymore... and that's when scrapbooking stopped being fun.

enter... SEWING. It fits on the kitchen table... I am BRAND new to the hobby, so it doesn't matter if i screw up royally and sew some pants upside down (totally happened... I swear) It is JUST about putting something together and making it look awesome on my perfect kid. I am having so much fun with sewing... but I must admit, the more I love it, the more and more of my scrapbook stuff I am freecycling. :)

soooo..... let's sew!

Okay I didn't make it, but...

So, this is the outfit that inspired me to sew... if my kid can look THAT cute... then surely I can sew, right?

My first EVER dress!

Well, I worked my butt off, spent ALL day and night... and I came up with a dress... I am not a HUGE fan of the fabric, but it is cute... and it was on the dollar aisle, so I figured I should go with it.

I think I spent more on my bias tape than I did on anything else!

Please excuse the pic, I am still hunting my smaller memory card, but until then I have my trusty cell phone haha!

More Sewing...

Okay, so my dog ate my camera... well... the memory card anyway :P

How conveeenient :) hehe that way I don't have to show you all my sewing! I have been working on a dress for Hal. I know it will be so bad that I will be too embarrassed to let her wear it, but hey... you have to start somewhere, right?

I made my first thing ever earlier today... a bag! haha it is so tiny, and you can hardly put everything in it, but when I got done with it Halle was the happiest little girl I have ever met, and she just wanted to carry around EVERYTHING in it! Soooo.... I let her! hehe it made me feel good just to know that she loves me so much that no matter WHAT I make, it is beautiful enough for her to carry around. :)

I will see if I can find my smaller memory card soon and get some dern pics up!