Pinterest Challenge - Reversible Apron Dress

REVERSIBLE APRON DRESS

Pinterest Challenge

Well, selling our house has been slow going so far so I need to keep myself busy so I don't stress out about it.  Last night I started thinking about painting the kitchen backsplash to give it a faux finish stone look...you know...trying to feel in control of getting the house to sell quickly (not desperate it's only been 2.5 weeks, but who wants it to drag on right?)  Anyways, to keep myself from a possible disaster I decided to take the Pinterest Challenge today instead and make the Reversible Apron Dress I pinned from Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom.  I bought the fabric a while ago and have been meaning to do it...so today was the day!  Once my little guy went down for his afternoon nap, I went to work on it, it came together rather easily and my piece of junk sewing machine actually didn't give me much to complain about.  My daughter had fun cutting fabric scraps and pretending she was making the same top for her doll.  Here is the final result (I would have taken pictures outside for better lighting but it's 100 out there and J had no interest .)  Anyways, I love how it turned out, as this is only my 3rd attempt at sewing clothing for children (2 Rapunzel dresses...one for J and one for my niece) and they were not perfect....this Apron Top was so easy, nothing went wrong and I am sooo happy about that (especially because did I mention I have the most annoying sewing machine ever???)

Anyways...Here it is

Wanna Try it?  

Check out the PIN HERE!

Here are a couple pics outside with better light with the green side.

Yes it's been so hot and dry for so long...everything is dying even though we water it.

Sneak Peak at my inventory in progress!

Since I keep mentioning I'm getting ready for my first arts and craft fair, I thought I'd give a sneak peak at my works in progress...some finished...most not so finished...I'm a big procrastinator....I work better under pressure! haha!  A self induced curse sorta, my younger bro is the same way...:P  (love ya Joey!)

Anyways, today I will be assembling a lot of the headbands, everything is ready to go! I'd like to make some more ties, I have other fabrics I haven't gotten to yet but we'll see!  I have a love hate relationship with sewing due to my $50 brother sewing machine from walmart!  If I don't want to totally kill my motivation to sew things I'm going to have to upgrade to a better sewing machine in the near future!  I have made a lot of stuff with that sewing machine but man, every other seam the tension seems to magically change by itself, or the thread jams, breaks, and I might break my seam ripper before I break my machine!!! Anyways...ok that's not what I'm blogging about so onto some pics..

I think there are around 30 finished ties....I hope to get a few more done and some bow ties too. These neck ties have been like, almost a year in the making...well since the beg of this year when I whipped one up for Bronson's birthday pictures and have been wanting to make more.  These are more of a fall winter collection of fabrics....

 Appliqued scotty dog

 green houndstooth

 classic plaid

 brown houndstooth tie

 love yellow and grey

 rusty orange houndstooth tie

 neutral applique deer tie

 applique terrier dog tie on a classic preppy navy blue fabric

 black and grey skinny ties for the hipster babies/kids

I wasn't planning on doing headbands originally, but needed a break from my sewing machine and the ties and after my sister loved the headbands I sent for her baby girl, I started getting into it.  I knew how to make the rolled fabric flowers but Crystal from wannabebalanced got me addicted to making these flowers where you singe the edges.

 

I got the crochet headbands in the ribbon section on spools so I had to cut and sew them to make the headbands, there were smaller sections left over so I made a couple bracelets with the leftovers..I also have some brown crochet bands to sew and some of the brown stretchy ribbon lacey kind like that white in the picture.  I'll have to post some of the finished headbands when they are all done

 Head bands sewn and ready to be decked out

Here are some of the flowers for the headbands and bracelets, i enjoyed embellishing some of the flower edges with glitter...adding a little bling!

 

I have more canvas art to make

yeah....i need to organize this room a bit (yes it's a disaster!)....That's why I keep the door closed.

Scrappy Saturdays!

I've been thinking about starting a weekly link-up for a while now and just had the idea the other day while making some flannel PJ bottoms for a doll that it would be fun to host a a link-up featuring projects made from scraps!  So if you have made anything using fabric scraps, paper scraps, old clothing, or any other re-purposing projects, link em up!  I'm not going to be too strict, if your creation was coming up with an amazing dinner using leftovers...that works too or if you think of something else!  So come back every Saturday and link up your projects and lets get inspired visiting each other!

I may form a new hobby of making doll clothes, it was like instant gratification!

Flannel Scrap Doll PJ Pants

So there is a thrift store not too far from our new home.  I have never taken the kids to a thrift store but thought we'd check it out one day this last week.  J didn't want to go in, she wanted to go home and I said "Well, there might be something special inside, let's go check it out!" so she reluctantly went in and then she found it....a snow white toddler doll in great condition for $1.50.  It was love at first sight as Snow White is her favorite princess.  As I buckled J into her carseat, she held her snow white doll tenderly and chatted away with her saying "You are going to be with me now! First I'm going to take you to the park and we can play for a while and then I'm going to take you home and you are going to stay with me..."  We went to the park and J sent her down the slides and pushed her on the swing and made her walk in the sand...then that night when I tucked them in bed together, J was a little disturbed that Snow White didn't have any pajamas to wear, she can't wear her princess dress to bed!  So the next day I let J go through my fabric scraps and pick out something to make PJ bottoms with.  She found some cute pink and green plaid flannel that was left over from the play purse I had made her 2 Christmas's ago.  So I kind of drew a pattern on some paper after tracing the dolls legs to get an idea of the size.  I made these pretty quick and the whole time had the feeling they were probably going to end up not working and thrown in the trash but they WORKED!  And now "the girls" aka J and snow white, look so cute tucked in bed with their PJs on together.  (We borrowed the shirt from the cabbage patch doll)

  

Here is the play purse tutorial I made with the same fabric 2 Christmas's ago

NOW Let's see what you did and post your project below!  I will feature one of your projects each week!  Don't forget to add Scrappy Saturdays to your weekly blog hop list! :)

No Rules for my link up, but I'd appreciate it if you decided to be a follower and even more if  you linked back to the link-up or posted my button somewhere on your blog!

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Mermaid Skirt

 

This Sunday I attempted to design and make a child mermaid costume for my 3 year old daughter.  A week ago, I took her to Hobby Lobby and we picked out some fabrics we thought would be good for making a mermaid costume because she loves The Little Mermaid and Loves to play dress-up!  So I used her as my model, and using chip bag clips, draped the fabric around her a few times trying to figure out how I wanted to make it, because I had a few ideas in mind.  Anyways, she loves it and last night told my husband that she is Ariel, he is Prince Eric and Mommy is Flounder...when he asked who her baby brother was and she said "The bad witch!"...hmmm....

Mermaid Tail Costume

I liked this fabric and design because I thought it was perfect  for acheiving the mermaid look!  I also was channeling the dress that Ariel is wearing when her father turns her back into a human and she walks out of the water in that fancy, sparkly blue evening gown.  My daughter caught on too, she was watching the movie in her new mermaid tail costume, enjoying being a mermaid, when it came to that part of the movie and she suddenly jumped up and said "I'm wearing dress like Ariel!"  I was happy she caught onto that and was able to pretend it was both the mermaid tail and Ariel's dress.  

-btw, that iridescent fabric on the fins was a PAIN in the BUTT! NEVER buying it again unless I have a serger or know more about sewing with those types of special occasion fabrics.  Right now, I'm just winging it on my Brother LS2000 I bought for $50 on Black Friday at Walmart. 

Flower Accessories

The other night I went to a moms night out event in which there were a variety of activities set up for moms to enjoy while visiting and enjoying some grown-up time with other moms.  My friend from Melonbelly took me to this event and here are some of the things we made while gabbing up a storm!  We made a bunch of rings even though there were other crafts...I think we both just love burning ourselves with hot glue guns.

Here is a fabric flower ring, hmmm...might need some trimming...

(we started the 2-tone trend at the event!)

Here I was just experimenting with the supplies and made another ring.  I glued scrap fabric around a button, and then glued another button on top.

Then we found some flowers from a scrapbooking table and decided to make real flower rings...

We also made big sunflower hair clips.  I always wondered where people found those cute flower headbands or flower hair clips for their babies and little girls...they MADE them and it's so EASY!

And Last but not least, we made handmade greeting cards.  I'm not a great scrapbooker, but for this they provided samples and all the supplies so it actually turned out!

Anyways, these were all super easy, very simple crafts that just kept our hands busy while doing some girl bonding! 

COMING SOON...

Fabric Flower Tutorial

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!!!

 

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Pillow Fabric Swatches

I'm trying to decide on a fabric to make cushions for the dining chairs. Here are some of the swatches I like for that project...and some others that I just think are fun! I still haven't totally figured out what I want/ know what my style is yet. The fabric I wish I could find is this blue bird fabric from the chairs in Jules' kitchen on Cougar Town, I love the home decor in that show!

This is the closest
Essence in Spa

Traditions Eaton Blue/Linen

Ozborne Gypsy

Traditions Breeze/Linen

Madison Chartreuse/White

Twizzler Crayola

Nicey Jane Fabric by Heather Bailey, Lindy Leaf in Blue

Little Bird



Twizzler Spa


Ardiana Capri Indoor Outdoor

Traditions Chocolate Linen

Madison Candy Pink/Chartreuse