Legwarmers for my little ballerina

 Found some socks clearanced out at my fave store Target...

 Cut

 Sew

 Turn rightside in

And viola! easy peasy 

 



Gracie's Cherry dress

 If you know me you know I have a cherry fetish... just a tad ;)

Yes, I'm loving this! (btw same pattern as pennent dress I posted earlier, just tweaked a little)

 

Here's the pattern on Etsy. I really love how she walks you through this one! Highly Highly recommended (you can tell by further posts this dress is my official "gifting" dress... I have LOTS of friends with little girls, its the perfect birthday gift!):

 

http://www.etsy.com/listing/112931888/ella-dress-for-girls-12m-8y-pdf-pattern?ref=sr_gallery_9&ga_search_query=ella+dress+pattern&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery

Caroline and Amelia's bday dresses

I love it when little sis' match...

 

I love this fabric with the pennents and perfect for the girls big, beautiful blue eyes!

 

Here's the pattern on Etsy. I really love how she walks you through this one! Highly Highly recommended (you can tell by further posts this dress is my official "gifting" dress... I have LOTS of friends with little girls, its the perfect birthday gift!):

http://www.etsy.com/listing/112931888/ella-dress-for-girls-12m-8y-pdf-pattern?ref=sr_gallery_9&ga_search_query=ella+dress+pattern&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery

Christmas decor 2012

I so miss this house and its fireplace ;( at least I enjoyed it!

 

Would you believe the "O Holy Night" sign is cardboard from cereal boxes and cracker boxes! talk about upcycle!

 

And thanks to my wonderful cricut!!!

Cole's Harry Potter Birthday Party

So sorry to do this but I need to post pics and don't have much time at this moment to go into details... I will edit this page later with the invitations, (which came out amazing and arrived exactly how they would in the book), and other details... It was a crazy day so I don't have pics of everything (so mad at that) but This'll have to do...

 

 

If you haven't guessed the students (ie: guests) walked in to Ollivandar's to make their own wands!

 

Sorting time... (I used felt, an old box and sharpies to create the sorting hat...) each student was given a shirt (iron on tie and crest I created in photoshop, word and from internet images) to represent based on which house they were sorted into as seen below,

You can kind of see the house pennant banners and each table was assigned to a house, much like the movie (book) You can't see hte decorations and banner for each house as its in the front of the tables...

 

Time for potions class... I found a bunch of spells from the book and movie online (and in the book) copied those into this book with a spell I specifically made one for the birthday boy with several ingredients (the last being vinegar) to make the potion foam at the end:

 

I think it was something like this... (Again, I'll fix this later)

• ground dragon eggshell - baking soda
• cornish pixie dust - blue glitter
• ogre hair - pieces of thread
• kool-aid (can't remember what this was but it made the vinegar smell less pungent)
• vinegar (i think it was water from Gringott's underground bank) can't remember

everything was in marked baggies or viles (thank-you Martha Stuart halloween clearance) the reaction was totally worth it! The kids thought it was awesome when the potion bubbled up and went over! (plastic cauldron also thanks to halloween clearance items!)

of course we had a candy cart (bar) with all the candies that were in the book... (including chocolate frogs with Hogwartz professor playing cards... (found the chocolate mold online and used green Wilton melts to create green chocolate frogs although the movie is regular choc so that would work)

Here's my notes prior to creating party stuff... 

Decoration:

• 9¾ sign
• Brick wall - Need sponge and red paint for shower curtain (may have red paint)
• Pictures of Owl’s in windows or just owl’s
• Shop Sign – need Paper from Alex’s work – draw and paint sign (or have Cole color)
• Cauldrons – All Sizes – Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver – Self-Stirring – Collapsible
• Apothecary “Dragon Liver, sixteen sickles an ounce, they’re mad…”
• Eeylops Owl Emporium – Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy
• Broomsticks with Nimbus 2000
• Robes,
• Telescopes,
• Strange silver instruments
• Barrels of Bat spleens, Eels eyes
• Spell books (look in Chamber of Secrets), quills and parchment  (I USED ELECTRIC TAPE AND FAKE FEATHERS ON REGULAR PENS TO CREATE QUILLS)

• Gringotts (bank) – need fake/choc gold coins
• Words engraved in a silver door:

Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn.

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

• Ollivander’s table
• Candy Trolley
• Lemon drops
• Chocolate frogs
• Bertie botz every flavor bean

Food:

• Large sticky choc cake with Happy Birthday Cole In Green icing
• Golden snitches (I USED GOLD CAKE DUSTING POWDER FROM MICHAELS TO CREATE THE GOLD ON THE SNITCH CAKE POPS... WISH I HAD A PIC, THEY CAME OUT SO CUTE!!!)
• Pumpkin pasties

Maybe stuff

Side room

• Need privet drive sign
• Need to make letters to Harry Potter (look online)

Mr. H. Potter

The Cupboard under the Stairs

4 Privet Drive

Little Whinging

Surrey

• Hang letters with Fishing wire

to take “surprised” pics for flying car thank-you

“the daily prophet”

“Muggles seen stowing away in flying car”

Muggle day at Hogwarts a success!

Birthday Student, Cole would like to THANK all his friends and family for joining in on the festivities at Hogwarts in celebration of his 8^th birthday!

scrap dino library book bag

One of my friends invited us to her son's bday but said No gifts... well, I don't think I'm capable of enjoying a birthday party without partaking in the gift giving experience (hey that's half the fun). Well, the party was themed after a book, so we know he likes to read and seeing as he's turning 4 I'm guessing dinosaurs are pretty intersting to him. I had some scraps from stuff I made for my son years ago (okay about 4 or 5 years ago) when he wanted to be a paleontologist. Yeah, that's Cole... the only 5-year-old I've known to pronounce that word correctly! Dream big buddy!!

 

I matched up a few scraps and measured them out to fit the width of one of the larger books we have.

 

 once I had all the peices cut (as above)
(4) blue/dino skin print for sides pinned to...
(2) dino print for middle
(2) small dino print peices for handle (sew along the two shorter edges then sew together inside out and turn outside in after sewing to create a hollow casing, iron)
(4) green pieces for straps (going the full length of bag and long enough for strap over shoulder) two on each side do the same as small dino print but don't worry about first sewing the two outer edges in as you won't see the edges, You'll be tucking the top ones into the dino print handle casing and sewing shut
(2) lining peices the size of each side (see striped fabric on finished part below)

once your two outside peices are sewn sew the green type strips...

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project of the Day: Hair accessory board for Gracie

So Gracie's hair accessories were all in a basket and it was like fishing everyday to find matching ones, etc... I've been wanting to make some sort of board where I can see them all and have them organized... here's the visual process...

for some reason some of the pics are upside down even though I fixed my file... so weird.. sorry about that...

materials:

• an old box (fairly large) I cut two sides of a box from Costco (my favorite superstore)
• an old large t-shirt (cut two peices front and back) to fit the size of the cardboard you desire
• fabric (enough to cover)
• ribbon you desire 
• hot glue gun



First of all I glued the two box sides together then stretched the first shirt piece over and glued the edges around the board as tight as possible so there are no bumps on the front. Repeat with the second shirt piece.

 Next I did the same with the fabric piece and glued all the sides as tight as I could...  

 

 Next I took one end of the ribbon and glued it at an angle near one of the corners. I tried to measure by looking at the front to see where I wanted it positioned. Okay since I'm cheap and lazy (ie:didn't want to go out and get another spool of the sparkly ribbon I cut each time I glued on the edge. You can keep wrapping it around as you glue if you like... Anyways, wrap in front and glue on the other side edge to make diagnal lines as shown below.

Now criss-cross the front side and do the same .

 This is how it should look when you're done with that part

 

 



Now glue underneith each place it crosses both under the bottom ribbon
and on top of the bottom ribbon to get this as secure as possible. I used scissors to keep from

burning my fingers...


If you don't have a sewing machine you can do the following with a hot glue gun and the rest of the ribbon instead of fabric. I on the other hand, ran out of sparkly ribbon so I improvised with fabric