So I finally used up the rest of the fabric that was sent to me - all that's left are tiny little scraps! I still can't believe I used all that fabric - over 11 yards of it!
I did work on other projects last week but I was in such a hurry to get them out the door I didn't get a picture of them...oh well. There will be more, I can assure you!
Not much to report on the homefront...same old same old. Boring is good, though. I can't tell you how many times something horrible happened and I wished to God that I could rewind to the day before. I've come to appreciate the mundane. I was going to be going to Arizona next month to visit my mom but she talked me out of it. I am the biggest wimp in the world when it comes to heat - and my mom refuses to turn the thermostat below 83! Given that, and the schedules of both of us, I've decided to postpone the trip until December. So until then, back to the grind...
Now that my Halloween costumes are in order, I'm looking ahead to Christmas. I bought some cute flannel and have every intention of making some cute holiday pajamas for the girls. I'm also starting to brainstorm about their Christmas dresses. Maybe I'll put out a cute little holiday outfits or pajamys on my website as well. I wonder if anybody would be interested??
Oh well, enough blabbering for now. Here are the pics!
Just a quick hit and run post...I have done much and have much to do!
Last year I wrestled with what to make my daughter for Halloween. I was going to go for the typical fairy princess dealio and then my friend Rose somehow talked me into making her costume. So after much thought and indecision I finally decided to make her a Snow Princess. The costume turned out very nice, but no sooner was I finished with it that I knew what I SHOULD have made her - Little Bo Peep! So I waited the entire year so that I could make her the costume that has been swimming around in my head. I know I'm a bad mom because I'm making her little sister be her sheep...next year I'll do something fun for her, I promise!
I'm thinking about making and selling one more of these - but it won't be cheap. An unbelievable amount of work went into this thing! There's the dress (of course), apron, pantaloons, ruffled petticoat, and matching hat. It was a lot of work but it was fun and I really think the finished product looks amazing!
I know the pictures stink but my camera doesn't work so well indoors and it's going to be a balmy 37 degrees for a high up here tomorrow with snow...yikes!
It's been one of those days. The kind of day that makes you wish you had neglected your children and just stayed in bed...but I got through it and both girls are napping and dinner is in the crockpot!
My husband underwent knee surgery yesterday so that pretty much means I have to pick up the extra slack around the house, not to mention waiting on him hand and foot...I kindly delegated the task of caring for our dogs to my 14 year old son..who in turn kindly forgot this morning. So first thing this morning I was jumped and drooled on by an overenthusiastic 200 lb Saint Bernard and my derriere sniffed by my Siberian Husky.
Things didn't get much better after a Mr. Hanky moment with my youngest daughter in the bathtub. I ended up giving her 3 baths today. I think it's safe to say that you can measure how bad your day is by how many showers you take and how many baths you give. So far I'm clocking 2 showers for myself and between my girls I've given 4 baths. *sigh*
Oh well, the night is young, right? I think I hear a margarita calling me tonight...
So in Crazy Daisy news, about a month ago my dear friend Gwendolyn gave me a bit of a challenge that I jumped into with both feet but then my enthusiasm petered out a bit once I ended up seamripping half the dress and having to redo it...only to seamrip again and redo it AGAIN! It's a prairie dress made from corduroy with a pleated bodice and puffed sleeves. Good thing I love the finished product! FYI...I have no intention of ever making another one of these things!
Ready for a picture overload? A couple weeks ago I received about 10 yards of fabric and told to make what I wanted and send her the bill...pretty much a designer's dream! The good news was that the fabric coordinated very nicely together so that I would be able to make many matching outfits to mix and match. The bad news is that it almost coordinated too well. Remember that part of The Brady Bunch Movie where Mike Brady (the dad) was to show off his architectural design to different firms and it was always the same design (his house)? Well, I was terrified of making the same outfit over and over because the fabric was so similar...so I had to get creative! I have to admit that I am soooo bummed to have to give these outfits up because my little one looked downright edible in them! I made them with my husband in mind...I know that sounds weird, but the dude seriously cannot put a matching outfit on my daughters to save his life. These outfits are perfect because you just cannot mess them up! Each pair of pants matches every top (or pretty close!).
I LOVE this dress/top. I think at first it'll be a dress but it fits my 4 year old perfectly as an adorable top! She'll get a ton of use out of this one! Plus the bee fabric is tooooo cute!
Peasant Apron Dress
Peasant Top w/ Ruffle Pants (you can't really tell here, but the pants have little fairies along the bottom ruffle - love em!)
Peasant Top w/ Ruffle Pants
Bee Knot Top w/ Flare Pants
I still have enough of this fabric to make a few more things...so stay tuned for another fashion show in another week or so!
Yesterday, I noticed that the trees around here are starting to turn colors. My first reaction is dread, because I know what happens after those leaves are gone, and it feels like we just got them! But then I remembered how much I love the fall and the Halloween anticipation! Fall really is my favorite season, though I can never silence that inner dread in my belly when I think about the coming winter. I'm trying to live for the moment for now!
So, I promised you that I would show pictures of my latest project but I have a surprise for you...I have TWO outfits to show you! Yes, I've been a busy bee this Labor Day weekend, trying to make sure the girls are stocked up on clothes for the fall and winter.
This first one is a comfy stretch knit cotton dress in Cranberry. There is still a little tweaking I need to do on it, but I have the overall pattern set up now. I'm honestly considering making one for myself!
This next one is almost exactly like the piece I blogged about the other day, but I think it looks better on an older girl than a toddler (my humble opinion, of course). She LOVES this outfit and is still wearing it at this very moment. She just thought that little kerchief headband is the coolest thing she'd ever seen.
And because she's funny when she's mad:
I'm going to warn you in advance - I'm completely bogged down with orders this week so it might be a bit before I get to my next blog! I'm going to *try* to get some of my own stuff squeezed through, though, so it won't hurt to check back!
I feel like I'm always apologizing for my lack of blogginess, but here I am again. I have several good excuses though! First off, I've been incredibly busy with orders these last couple weeks. That's a good thing, of course, but it leaves me very little time for designing. On top of that, I've been incredibly sick...well, I don't know if sick is the right word for what the heck is wrong with me. It started out as a headache, spread to my neck and then to my entire body and stayed with me for over a week now. However, I am on the healing end of it now and feeling about 90%! In addition to those things my poor little kitten died of God only knows what and everything's been turned upside down! Fortunately, it looks like things are going back to normal a bit, except orders are still piling in, keeping me from adding to my fall collection, so I have nothing to photograph, thereby I have nothing to blog about....
I also spent a few days in San Francisco! I'd never been there before - it's quite an interesting city! I went to a friend's wedding in Berkeley and got to hang out with my cousin, who showed me around the city and I INSISTED that she drive - I've been to countless metro areas before but I've never been so terrified to drive in my life as that city! The hills, lack of traffic lights and people everywhere scared the bejeezus out of me. It's entirely acceptable to just stop your vehicle in the middle of traffic and get out. Crazy.
Here are a few pics from my trip!
But here I am now! I actually have managed to create a couple pieces in the last couple days, though I'm only going to show one for now. That is partly because I'll need something to blog about tomorrow or Monday and partly because I only just finished the second piece and I don't have any photos of it yet. But I do think it'll be a big seller...here's a hint: it's stretchy and soft!
So for today's piece...I actually just finished it yesterday and I took my little supermodel out in it today and I can honestly say I've never had such an amazingly overwhelming response to anything I've ever made before. It's a vintage themed shirt and bellbottom set with a sash and I'm sure to be making more of them soon. It was inspired by a Pink Fig pattern that I saw and fell in love with but I made a few changes to it to make it mine. I realized, after I cut out my fabric, that I really should have made it for my older daughter because the actual lines of this outfit should be longer so keep your eye out for the "real" version coming soon. In the meantime, like I said, this outfit was an enormous hit, even on my younger daughter. She looked like a little doll and somebody actually said she looked like she just came out of a box. I think that was a compliment, right?
I promise to be back soon with pics of the new outfit! In the meantime, don't forget to vote in my poll!
