Felt Sack Lunch

I started this project over the summer and just now got around to finishing it. I got the cute idea from Skip to My Lou. Isn't it amazing the difference a good camera can make? Unfortunately, I do not have one of those, so this is what my lunch pics look like. I chose to hand sew the pieces to give more character.

Bologna, Tomato, Lettuce, Cheese, Bread

Chips, Sandwich in the baggy, Sack, and HoHo.

A Bucket of Fun!

My friend received a similar cute gift for her son and I just had to copy the idea! I just used felt, velcro and some poly-fill and made a Mr.Potato Head Doll for the Kan-Man.

It even has a bum pocket!

The only thing I couldn't quite add were the shoes without it looking ridiculous. Maybe I will figure somthing out later.

Valentine's Day

Before pic...I took one sleeve off already and thought, oh wait, I should get documentation of these sleeves.

I was looking at the Grosgrain Blog, and saw a super cute refashion dress she made from a nasty thrift store find. She made her dress to look like this dress from modcloth (I love all of their dresses, they are so yummy and feminine and actually modest, some of them). Well, I also happened to be a thirft store this week, killing some time while I waited to pick Wade up from school and found the above awesome eighties dress that was about 4 sizes too big. I thought to myself, what the heck, I will give it a try. It cost $4.99. I have never custom tailored something before, so I was a little nervous. I have made things from patterns and simple skirts from scratch, but not a fitted dress. I decided I wanted to wear the dress out for our Valentine's dinner and I had one day to sew start to finish- I had to just dive in.

First, I ripped off the ugly sleeves. Then I put the dress on, put pins in necessary places to mark where I needed to take the seams in. I took in the sides, the shoulders, the bust of the bodice, and took out the hem to lengthen.

Then, from the huge sleeves I made little cap sleeves (this was the scariest part!) I wanted to add a bow with the extra material from the sleeves, but there wasn't quite enough to make a sash and I didn't have time to drive to the fabric store. So, I made a make-shift bow...which I will probably end up changing in the future, but it did the job for Valentine's Day.

I'm sure it's not perfect, but I am really excited how it turned out and that I conquered my fear! Wade took awful and unflattering pictures-bad angles. So, I know it doesn't look that great in these pics, but I did get two compliments at dinner, so it must have turned out half-way decent!