This Still Makes Me Laugh....

Oops!

Okay, I moved all of my photos and didn't realize how that would affect the blog. Not that anyone is reading it.

So now....do I bother remapping the photos? I feel too lazy to even start on that project. It seems overwhelming and makes me want to eat a pint of chocolate ice cream.

I'll think about it but until then. Here is a photo:

May day back in the day! This was 1977 on the common across the street from the shool. The lady on the right is our teacher Miss Chapowski. I believe she had us singing "blue bird, blue bird, go through my window...." or something like that. And we would take turns weaving in and out of each others streamers. Good times! ...for a second grader anyway.

This would be ol' Spirit of 76 pageant...thingy. That would be me on the left with the red white and blue outfit and white poofy hat. My mother's friend made that just for me! I then was able to wear on July 4th to one of my dad's concerts because I was way cool like that.

Oh...you didn't know that my dad is in a band? Well, more on that later then. Must get to my parents house to dig up some band photos!

More Smocks??

You got that right!
I'm a smock making maniac. These too have the iron on vinyl.

Perhaps I'll try posting more than once a month?

Love Triangle

One of my friends has been seen flirting with my husband!

She looks up at him with these lovey dovey eyes whenever she is SITTING ON HIS LAP.

I know, I can't believe it either!

She used to sit on my lap.

When he leaves the house she sits in his recliner and waits for him to come home.

You probably see where this is going.

She went over to the dark side and he could care less.

I on the other hand ...I am becoming very jealous.

Here she sits, in his chair, longing for him to return home.

Smocks Anyone?

A couple of Christmases ago I decided to make a couple of toddler smocks for my daycare provider. This way there would be less paint coming home on my daughter's shirts! hee.

Actually, I just thought it was a really cool gift idea and they looked super easy to make.

For some reason I decided to make this simple project ten times more difficult by using iron on vinyl.
Iron on vinyl is a great thing. I imagine you could use it to make some great placemats. Which are basically flat with NO ARM HOLES.

Well.....yeah, this made this more time consuming then I had planned. I ironed the vinyl on, cut out the pattern and proceeded to sew on the binding to the outside edges. So far so good. The vinyl was a little difficult to move around but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle.


Then I got to the part where you had to sew the binding around the arm holes. Holy crap. What a pain in ass! Obviously vinyl doesn't bend and fold as easily as regular fabric and much of the binding didn't end up actually being sewn to the vinyl. It would slip and I wouldn't notice until after I completed the circle. I had to rip the stiches out quite a few times and start over. I wanted to rip my hair out instead. Plus every place where the needle went through the fabric left holes behind. This was the project from hell!

Long story short, finally, I was able to finish. I packaged the stupid things up with some crafty items, along with a gift card to Michaels and then I went to bed.

The next day I grabbed the gift box and my daughter and headed over to drop both off. I was still thinking about how troublesome this "simple" gift idea was and I just hoped they looked okay.

What totally made up for all the frustration?? The look on my dear daycare providers face when she saw them! She didn't like them.....she LOVED them. And you know what? So did I! I went back and looked at the photos. They were actually very cute and didn't look as bad as I had thought.

ANYHOO!!!....She informed me a couple of weeks ago that one of the other mothers was interested in buying a couple of smocks from me. I was so excited!...until I remembered the stupid binding on the arm holes issue. Crap. I was going to try to talk this lady into cotton smocks but she was all about being able to wipe them clean and....blah. This is going to suck. Okaaaaay, I'll make the vinyl ones.

Perhaps it was making them on my new sewing machine? Or maybe after a year and half of extra sewing experience something in my brain said "A-ha!". It was in fact a super easy project and they came out great! Actually, much better than the other two. Practice does make perfect!

What is wrong with this picture?...and other stuff.

Grrr....! That's what I get for rushing. Let's all say it together: "Haste makes waste!"

Do you see it?

Trying to get more bibs out of the light colored cupcake fabric I totally forgot that the cupcakes should be horizontal. I was just excited that I was getting two bibs out of the small piece of fabric that I had left. Now I have two bibs with vertical cupcakes.

Vertical Cupcakes, that will be the name of my rock band.

This all came about because of a special order request. Someone saw my first cupcake bib at a friends house, went to the store to inquire, and the store owner contacted me to make more (thanks Heather!). I was so excited that I ordered two different colors of that fabric plus another "dessert" fabric. Instead of just bibs I decided to go with bib and burp cloth sets. They really came out great. I would show you....but of course....I forgot to take pictures!

Here are a couple of photos of the work in progress....or the fabric sitting on the table. The top fabric there is the previously mentioned dessert fabric. The one below that is Cherry Wallflower that I made into a bib and burp cloth set from that can be found in my Etsy shop

The pink floral below that I am saving for a gift I will be making for a friend of mine.

So, lots of stuff going on here. Works in progress. Things tend to slow down when I realize the cat has pulled all of the pins out of these items but I always manage to get back on track.

Remember Me???

No?... that's okay.

Not like I had a ton of readers waiting and wondering where I have been the past couple of months.

I would like to say that I suck at blogging because I'm too lazy to get my camera and take pictures of things. I only like blog entries with pictures. I guess I'm a seven year old. Large print and lots of pictures please!

So, let's see. On December 4th I participated in an entrepreneur night at work. I was able to showcase some of my baby gift items and was surprised at how well they were received.

I went in thinking this is a good way to get the word out and didn't really expect to sell much. I was pleasantly surprised. It did help that a popular employee of the company just had a baby. She was the recipient of many items. I'm excited but also worried. I hope they were okay and didn't like, disintegrate during the first wash!

Here are the two photos I took. I would have taken more but I felt kind of silly for some reason.

LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT MY STUFF! I MUST TAKE PHOTOS! Whatever. I don't know where that comes from considering I can be pretty obnoxious in general.

I should make an effort to get into some local craft shows. We'll see how that pans out. Remember, I am extremely lazy!