Paper Bag Skirt

After finding this cute striped print on clearance for $3/meter I decided to loosely follow this tutorial.

This is the result.

And here's a 3 year old wanting to "pose" with mom.

Cleopatra Costumes

Following the above pattern, I killed myself for over 2 months making 3 Cleopatra outfits for Halloween. Do you know how hard it is to find gold lame fabric in Australia?! Anyways, they did turn out pretty amazing...but I sure hope they fit next Halloween.

The $10 dress

I came across this fabric on clearance for $10.00. Um, that may not sound like a great deal in America but it's a smashing, wicked awesome deal in Australia. And 1 hr later, this is what I came up with:

My daughter took this photo- which is why it's crooked...but I'm at least glad she managed to capture the entire dress!

Random Projects

Oh, my poor little neglected craft blog. But really, I only have like 2 readers so it's no big deal. I have been busy though with lots of projects over the past month since returning back from vacation.

My daughter received her first set of scriptures and thus, needed a scripture bag. I used some scraps leftover from a diaper bag I made my sister-in-law (which shame on me I never took a picture of it before mailing it off to her). It turned out pretty cute!

A friend I met through the American Women's Club is having a baby. She is choosing not to find out if it's a boy or girl. She picked out the fabric and I made her a crib bedding set- quilt, crib bumper, and crib skirt (shame on me again for only taking a picture of the quilt).

The girls had a story book day at school and had to dress up as a character from a book they like. Kaiya wanted to be Red Riding Hood. I totally bombed the first "hood"- it was way too big. But the 2nd one turned out ok. And Emi was determined to be Little Mermaid. I loosely followed this tutorial. And then used a strip of extra fabric to make a "nipple cover" (that's what my 5 year old called it- lovely).

New Dresses, Again

Using up some Sandi Henderson fabric, I made these easy-peasy dresses. I love the waistbands...got the waitband idea from HERE. Adding a waistband to a peasant dress is such a great idea- wish I would've thought of it earlier.

Had some leftover fabric and made some matching hair clips!

Baptism Quiet Book

My oldest is getting baptized in a few months (we're Mormon). Gleaning some inspiration from this website HERE (I love her quiet book designs!) I decided to make one for my oldest on baptism. I'm pretty proud of myself...it took me a good couple of days to put it together. I plan on printing these out in 4x6 size and stuffing them into a cheap mini-album with baptism pics of her extended family members following the last page showing Christ getting baptized. I think she'll love looking at it during church and seeing all of her cousins baptism pictures too.

If you want to download it for yourself here's the LINK. Of course, you'll want to edit out the picture of my hubby/daughter and put it your own...

Knit Dresses

My girls like dresses. My 2 yr old insists on wearing a dress every single day- she will NOT change out of her jammies unless she knows she gets to put on a dress. Needless to say, we are always in need of dresses around our house. In particular, comfy play dresses. So when I found a good deal on some knit fabric I thought, maybe I'll whip up a few dresses. So I did.

Peasant-style dress...you like the mismatched, too big shoes?!

I bought a cute dress at Target for the girls. I kept saying, I bet I could make this- it looks easy. So I gave it a go and miraculously it turned out. I love flutter sleeves.

My daughter is showing you her new "silver" teeth (though you can't really see it from this angle).