Some Christmas Stuff

I had hoped to have some Christmas outfits on my site this year, but after sewing myself silly and not seeing my family for about 3 weeks I decided to only offer them to people on Facebook or my Blog.  If you are interested in any of these please contact me.  It will take me 2-3 weeks to get them to you, just FYI. 

This one is my FAVORITE!  I am in love and of course Sam decided she wants a gingerbread girl applique instead, ugh!  But here is this one. 

I've made stuff with this adorable moose in the past.  I loved these two dresses my friend ordered.  Too cute!  I have one for Sam from last year that is without a monogram but after doing these I think I may put one on this year.  I also have this in lime green corduroy as well.  I will try to put some pics of that up soon. 

I'm doing another outfit and then a little boy outfit. You'll find I have a red theme!  I'm into the red and white this year!

Yay!!!!

Update!!  Found the fabric! I can now offer this at my store! 

I found it at Above All Fabric which happens to be the same store I have my "Mommy Messenger" through...you can go to her store and choose your fabric! See the listing for details on that one.

New Bag!!!!!

I now have a new bag style!  It started out because I saw something similar and already knew I was in LOVE with this fabric from Sweetwater.  I went and ordered the fabric and designed the bag and the voila! here it is! 

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It is super cute.  It looks like a drawstring, but it's actually elastic!!!  I put two cell phone and wallet friendly pockets inside as to not make it another "black hole" for these items.  I mean, it IS pretty big.  I was able to fit a binder, wallet, little shopping bag, and magazine in it and it STILL had ample room for more.  It's SO going to travel with me!!!  It would be a perfect PERFECT diaper bag.  The coolest (and not-designed-on-purpose) feature is that it's REVERSIBLE!!!  The ties on the side are for looks, so those would go inside, but it could totally be reversible if you wanted it to be.  The little pockets would be on the outside, but to each his own!

 

See! Look how CUTE!  

Alright, so here's the hinky part.  I went to go order copious amounts of this fabric because I wanted to get it started on my site...well....the polka dots are GONE!!! I mean I can't find them ANYWHERE!!!  I'm finding the flowers, but not the dots.  I'm so depressed.   My neighbor wants this bag so badly and I feel like it's so cute that I want to offer it, but we'll see.  Maybe one day.

In the meantime, I also designed this in another fabric for my dear friend who just had a precious little boy. You'll notice the applique for the monogram instead of just stitching.  I'm totally happy with this look right now.  I'm thinking it may pop up again!!!

I hope she loves it too.  It's a fun fabric!

 Well the colorful one is available on my site now.  I'm hoping to eventually find the fabric for the other bag.  But don't hold your breath.  I'm not.

Chuck Smith 10K Race Report

Today Mike and I ran in the Chuck Smith 10K in Beckley, WV.  Everyday this week has been sunny and 70's, naturally it was 50's and drizzling today.  I'll be honest, I think that's why I did so well.  You see, I lived in Alabama for 7 years and HATE the heat...almost as much as I HATE open water swimming!  Give me a ski resort and keep your beach!  I need the cold weather.  Well...I need it,but I could have done without the drizzle. 

So we started off and I watched the Garmin to make sure I didn't sprint out of the gate (my downfall).  There weren't too many 10K women runners, but it's nice to have competition!  So I kept my pace between 8 and 9 minute miles and watched my back and ended up coming in first overall female!  Kinda rocked!  It was my longest running race every and I am just happy I did so well.  I wanted to hit 54:00 and ended up with 51:42!!!  There really are no words for how you feel during an actual race!!

I did have some violent knee trouble about mile 3 and worried I'd have to drop the race, but I prayed and ran and prayed and ran and then before I knew it, I was done!  I'm feeling like crud now, but hopefully some ibuprofen, ice, and rest will help.  Guess I won't be doing my 11 mile run tomorrow...grrr. 

I am also so proud of my spin class chica's who rocked the 5K!! They are working so incredibly hard and I'm so incredibly proud.  They hung back and watched me get my trophy....despite the freezing cold rain trying to run us off.  What a good race!

First item!

Yeah, um, I'm the WORST blogger EVER!  I have had the busiest summer and now I'm thrown into a wildly busy school year! Still no excuse...

Sam started Kindergarten!

I'm sad, happy, confused.  Ugh.  So many emotions.  Trust me, she's doing MUCH better than I am...MUCH.

Well I've got some new stuff coming this weekend to my store.  And here's the deal. I didn't think I'd do Halloween stuff and I waited until the eleventh hour to get it completed.  Part of that was because I just didn't know what to do!  So here's the first item.

I kept seeing black and white for Halloween.  I bucked it at first and thought it was irritating and something that just Martha Stewart was doing.  Well....I've changed my tune.  I've now embarrassed it and sort of love it.  I wanted to do something black and white in an A-line. I found a wildly adorable black and white pin dot fabric at Hobby Lobby and a precious little spider applique on Etsy. I already had the "Spooky" font and I just played and this little number was born!  Could you just die over this sweet little model I borrowed from my friend??!!  

I did the cutest spider in the world out of minky fabric, so it's almost like a 3D!  I'm actually LOVING this dress.  I had a lady in my spin class ask for one in an adult size, LOL!  I actually DO want to make it into a pillow for a throw, so that I can have a spider of my own!

Keep checking my store.  More to come!

Happy Halloween, or is it?

Well I'm stumped.  I received an email from a lady who purchased one of my Halloween dresses last year for her little girl.  She was looking to see if I am going to be listing dresses again this year.  I LOVE Halloween, I love the dresses, the outfits, the costumes, the decorations, the food, the fun, the everything!  This alone makes me want to do Halloween dresses, but I'm creatively blocked right now.  You can actually see the direct result of this on my stagnant Etsy store!  I haven't added anything new all summer!!!


Okay, so I want to do dresses, but they take a long time to do, they have to be done per order (like the bags) if they are to be monogrammed or personalized in any way.  And, oh yeah, I have no idea what to make!!!  I'm about sick of pillowcase dress and A-line's, however, these possess the best applique surfaces.  I need to browse some patterns or make one of my own.  I thought of doing skirts, but not everyone likes skirts and I hate HATE putting stuff on t-shirts.  So, ho hum, what to do, what to do. 

If anyone out there has any ideas, or anything they'd like, let me know!  If you come up with and idea and I use it I'll make your little one (or a friends, whatever) the spec dress!!!

Here's last years (and some previous years) little numbers:

My little girly girl

I really should have posted this weeks ago, but I have been really busy getting myself on track while my beautiful and VERY energetic daughter is home with me all day during the summer.

Well the night of her graduation I wanted to give her a very special gift of a new dress.  I first saw it on the blog for Above All Fabric and then it was offered as a kit! Score!  I had intended it to be a birthday gift (back in April), but I stay busy, so unfortunately I didn't get to it until May, but it was DEFINITELY worth the wait!  Samantha LOVED it! She loved it so much she begged me to wear it 2 more times in the same week!

This dress was definitely a bit of a challenge and not because of the yards and yards of ruffles, but because the directions were very general and the pattern layout does not include seam allowance, thereby creating a lot of extra work for Wendy!  There was a great blog post to help with this pattern.  Once I got the hang of it I now want to make MORE and MORE so I'm settling for making her a Christmas dress.  If anyone has any ideas for fabric I'm all ears b/c I'm stumped.