The Peplum Top

I have a very skinny child! I mean she is 5 and can still wear 3t shorts comfortably and I am pretty sure she can squeeze her butt into 24mth shorts as well. Like I said... SKINNY!

So with that being said I have been trying to get this specific dress pattern to fit her and I was on try three, I mean the dresses turned out cute and I hope one day she will be able to have wide enough shoulders to fill them but hey I want her to be able to wear the thing now. So I adapted it fabric bar here and there pull in seam here.. you know the drill. As I was staring at this pattern I created it hit me. I have adjusted this pattern so much I may as well take it to a different level.  So I decided to make a peplum top for Bug. At first she wasn't very excited because she doesn't like yellow.  but after I got it on her she was saying "mommy we need to keep this we can't sell it" OK child we will keep it. ;)

What happen to my craftiness.

I was going through deleting photos from when I was a photographer tonight. I think I may have deleted approx 100, 000 of them or so. to say the least it actually freed up my external hard drive quite a bit. While cleaning out said hard drive I came across a few photos I had taken last year or so of some shoes I made. Which actually made me sad because I was wondering where my motivation for my craftiness had gone. granted I could say the same thing about blogging but I know where that went. :)

Not sure if I ended making a blog post about these before and it would take WAY  to much effort to go and look . I thought they turned out pretty darn cute and I also love that I made a little sack to deliver them in. Wow I am full of myself tonight. EH oh well Someones gotta be proud of me right.

Cat Eyes and Strawberries

It has been since before Christmas that I attempted to draft any clothing patterns. Everything I want to make for Bug is in a nice little notebook. Ok that was a big fat lie, everything I want to make for Bug is actually on a gillion pieces of paper strewn about my entire house. Once I get an idea I pretty much just grab anything and jot it down. I have a mountain of fabric and absolutely NO motivation. I tried to make a deadline for myself a few months back and as I was in the Hospital recovering MLH looks at the calendar on his phone and asks "so did you get that jacket pattern drafted it's due today" Very funny, MLH... Very funny.

2 or 3 weeks ago I just decided that I needed to get it done. I love making Bug clothes and it's really fun to see how she reacts when I put them on her. MLH and I were shopping this past Saturday and Bug was wearing a dress I had made her last year. (it was too big for her but I was having issues cutting the fabric down to size. not technical ones, emotional ones. I get attached to fabric way to easy,) It only has one shoulder and MLH kept mentioning people Looking at Bug and commenting on her outfit. Ok totally ego booster for me, but it was nice to hear. For the next few days I bucketed down and just got the dang thing, luckily I drafted the pattern a few weeks back at work, then had to adjust it. Fun fun . Finally it was done, only had to seam rip once and if I would have gone with my first thought I would not have had to seam rip any of it... stupid me.

I think I need to take a photo of the entire thing, the bottom of the shirt is finished off with the strawberry fabric that is the same as the sleeves. I have one more of these shirts in a 4t if anyone is interested in it. nothing too special just jersey knit.  And if you are wondering about the CatEyes thats what the glasses are called. it was one of those moments at 4 in the morning when I thought, how cute would it be to get Bug a pair of retro glasses. went to the computer. 4 bucks and 2 days later I got these babies. love them!

Pretty Things

While going through this whole healing process I've been online shopping. I'm kinda in love with these.



along with these:



and if Ihad enough money these too..



Although I actually have over 40 pairs of shoes I would willingly give up some to have atleast one pair of these.  Famous Red Sole?.. anyone?

Dress for Bug

A few weeks back we took family photos. But unfortunately it was so cold she had to wear a sweater and also a jacket.

I made her this dress an hour before we had to head out the door, it was a total rush job. I fashioned the bottom part of the dress from one of mister lovely husbands discarded t-shirts. and the top was just some left over jersey knit fabric from my stash.

Personally, I think it turned out pretty good considering that she goes through dress so freaking fast. Oh yeah and that Balloon is the original one from our family photos. it just wont fall to the ground keeps on floating.

Good timing... and a sale!

Well I guess the me finding a sale was the good timing. I don't have a good story or anything  very cleaver to preceed this totall awesome deal that I got so I"m just gunna say I wanted to buy something to say "yippee you have a job" well my Yippee!!! purchase oh cost me $17 WOOHOOO!!!  and I got all this:

THANK YOU DOWNEAST

Sewing inspirations

I'm really considering doing a knock off this dress it's so pretty and I think Bug would totally be able to pull it off!

Source: everythingbuttheprincess.com via Emily on Pinterest

Vibram Five Finger Shoes

Yep those are MY feet! got them  in the mail today and the mailman was nice enough to even bring them to my front door. I would have totally given him a HUGE hug because I was so excited but he's around my age and kinda cute so that would have been a tad bit awkward =) can't wait to break them in tomorrow. I was going to break them in tonight but that run I did this morning with the hill of death almost done me in.

UPDATE: The first day I just walked around in these for a few hours and to be honest I pulled the strap a bit tight and it bruised the top of my foot. The next day I went on a run and I felt as if I wasn't running on anything my feet were so light I was a few minutes faster on my run then the day before and I was also running hills. After the run I noticed that my calves were on FIRE! I mean they were so freaking tight it took soaking in the tub and also a ton of Advil to get those suckers back to walking quality.

flutter sleeve dress.

So I have had this shirt (green, orange and dotted apple with pockets) in my pile of things to use for maybe two years, I never really found anything that struck me as "WOW, this would be great for that shirt" that is until last week!  I have done upcycled dresses in the past and Bug really loved them. She was able to wear a different one everyday without me worrying that she was going to destroy it.

What I loved about this short (other then it costing me an ENTIRE 50 Cents was the pockets in the front. a believe me if it were long enough I would have totally worn it.  

I really enjoy upcycling or repurposing clothing. I think Bug it quite unique and so sure her clothing be. 

My only regret would be that I cut it to be a size for a #t when Clearly I should have stuck with the 2t width and the 3t length. at least she will be able to wear it next year too! and if she gets extremely super tall then I saved some fabric from the sleeve to add length on the bottom =)

LOVES 2

HOLY freak this is fabulous!

photo via: hopee on etsy

Puffed Sleeves

I had a shirt in mind to make myself and when I realized I didn't have enough material so I opted for a smaller version for Avi (man she gets all the cute things!)

The PUFF SLEEVE! Surprisingly easy to make, Just think really long cuff... I really wanted to keep everything extremely simple that's why their aren't any ruffles, flowers, bows etc,  however I really think I should have made the puff a tad bit puffier   (spell check said that puffier wasn't a word but I could get by with puffy-er... odd) 

 We had to go to the library the last few days but Bug hasn't really been feeling that well and I needed to drop books off so we went and saw Auntie Fur and then to the library. At first she wasn't really into getting her picture taken, there was a little boy scream to high heaven and she kept wanting to go over there and ask if he was ok.

 I think this one if my favorite out of them all, she was showin' off her sweet dance moves.

 By the end she was having, even named a few of her poses.  I love how it looks like she is rocking the 80's one shoulder look! 

This was her "Casual" pose

Since I live in the "lovely" state of Utah our spring has been.. well lets just say a bit off. normally I wouldn't make a long sleeved shirt unless if was fall or getting close to winter but I just couldn't pass this one up. I have a pattern for a 2T/3T shirt for anyone who wants it. I just can't figure out how to upload it onto my blog..  that might have to be this weeks. "how to" project

good grief could I have used any more Quotations in my post.

Window Shopping

I miss being able to buy something just because it was cute. Now before I purchase something I have to think.. which bill will this affect or do you think I can get away with feeding the family rice 3 nights in a row. So to satisfy my shopping need I window shop like a pro. Here are a few things that I have seen while shopping.

I was checking out my closet of clothes yesterday and noticed that I have a lot of Purple, gray, green , brown and black... I need COLOR!  Preferably Orange and Yellow and Possibly pink but we'll see.

there's gold in them there hills..

That's kinda a fitting title.. california gold rush, ok mayeb it just a bit to late for my brain to function.

On with the rest:
I am currently in California. My loving husband let me come down/ over here to go to a friend's wedding and like I said in the other post I ended up staying to go to my Uncle's Funeral. IN the mean time I am trying to find things to keep my time occupied considering I am not at home and don't have a set routine. Anyway, late this after noon I decided to rummage through my mothers box of old fabric and what do I stumble upon?

The answer is this:

Obviously this is a photo from the internet. I took photos of the one she had and I had forgotten that she doesn't have photoshop so I wasn't able to convert the files.. silly me.

Whatever,  this book was still in it's original wrapper, priced at $9.95 and then a discount sticker on it saying it was only a dolllar ninety-eight!  $1.98 and still in plastic... MOTHER WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING ALL THESE YEARS!!! Of course I ask her if I can have it and she said yes, I mean she purchased the book in the mid 70's and hasn't touched it yet. I'm guessing she wasn't going to break it out anytime soon. (love you mom Ü)

I took pictures, only a few and  after the mini photo shoot which consisted of the sticker price and few pages I start flipping through it. Let me tell you it has the sweetest 70's clothes in there. Well I guess they would be more like late 60's clothes considering the thing was printed in 1968, 1969 and also 1971. This book lays out how to make Yoked Culottes how is that not AWESOME!!

I can't wait to get my hands on some left over fabric or even muslin to try a few of these skills out. It just might need to be sooner then later. did I mention my mother has a serger... oh yea I'm totally going to the fabric store tomorrow... Now if I could just find someone to watch Bug ... Dad? Ü

New Coat!!!!

OK so I am so excited I went down to Old Navy in the rain and found Bug a new coat!!! She has a few coats but they are either summer jackets, snow coats or just way to big for her that she might just fall over if she tried to run in them. blah blah blah... She now has the perfect "dressy" winter jacket.

and the best part was she picked it out herself and to top it off it was 50% off. now it would have been even better if I would have remembered my 10% off anything purchase in the car then it would have been that much cheaper.  I think I just might have to go back. =)

30% off Old Navy Online today only!

This includes sale items as well (but not outerwear)

here are a few things that I might look at getting...

If you want more details click HERE

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hello cutest clothing for kids EVER! I came across ta website clothing company a while back and was getting emails from them but never really gave the emails a second thought before I deleted them.

today was the day to check it out.. I wish I hadn't, way to many clothes for decent pricing and they all ship to you for $5

Click HERE with caution you might end up buying something.

When you get there you will need to click on the USA flag at the bottom of the screen. they ship all there items out of Europe.

15 Minute Dress

  Believe it or not this dress was only a half a yard of fabric and cost me about $2. Sometimes Buying pre-smocked fabric is the way to go.
I simply shortened the smocking by cutting out the middle strip of fabric (approx 6 inches plus 1 inch of the smocking) the piece that I cut out ended up being the sleeves. I think I might add a couple of straps just to finish it off. I can never tell what might work until she wears it. 

One of these days I will actually take pictures as I am sewing but since I do my sewing in the middle of the night it rarely happens.

maybe next time

I miss Spring...

I would even take Fall if it didn't lead to Winter. I am even considering turning my A/C on the lowest setting if it would give me a reason to wear yummy sweaters like these.

Why is it that they always come up with insanely cute designs for clothes when I can't afford them... Even though I can't afford them almost 99% of the time its always nice to see whats out there.

weekend wear

If I had an unlimited budget I would rack up quite a bill at Anthropologie, the first things I would buy would be these outfits

Summer Wish List

This is the first item on my list,  I would love to add this suit to my collections of bathing suits. I am normally one to get a black suit every year mainly because I am to lazy to figure out what color wouldn't make me look pastier then I already am.  But for now I will have to make do with a photo of it, instead of the real thing.