I’m cleaning out my office/craft room today. So this is a hodge podge post. I’m always in search a better notion to add to my collection. I was at the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur, Colorado this summer and picked up a handmade glass paperweight to use as a pattern weight. Pretty and practical! My husband […]
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This year has gone by so quickly. Although I have had good intentions, I have not gotten as many projects done as I would have liked. This Fall, I Have: Made fudge and failed so many times but I finally can make this Old Fashioned fudge recipe from scratch perfectly! The trick is to be […]
I have not used Burda because they never seem to be on sale at Jo-Ann Fabric & Craft stores like the big 4 patterns. I tried a downloaded pattern for a shift but the fit was terrible. Since it’s on sale this week, I’m going to give it one more try. Burda ($2.49/pattern) and Simplicity […]
Follow my blog with Bloglovin This has been a busy, busy summer. At work, my hospital system went to a new electronic health record program. It will eventually be more streamlined, but right now it just adds a little more stress to patient care. Lucky for me I don’t have to take my work home. […]
My mother gave me this piña fabric from the Philippines last summer. I saw the perfect vintage pattern for it (Simplicity 5514). I finally put it together just in time for Valentines’ Day. I picked the pattern because of it’s simple lines and that it only had french darts in the front. I was a […]
My son turned 4 years old on Saturday. He has a Pillow Pet that he sleeps with every night and I got tired of having to wash the thing. One of his favorite movies is Toy Story (the other is Cars). So I made a Toy Story Alien pillowcase with leftover minky fabric and fleece. […]
It’s our Christmas tradition every year. Here is our Christmas entry written by my husband. Why the silly Christmas photos from our family? Short answer: because we want to. And we can. And the fact is, the rest of our lives are pretty normal and in some ways, boring. So we do it to amuse […]
Joined the PatternReview.com Refashion Contest. So I already posted the corduroy dress that I purchased from the thrift store. I made a dress for my daughter using the bodice pattern from Simplicity 3978. I used silk fabric for the collar and a purchased sash. I took the sleeves from the dress and eased them in […]
I just wanted to post a couple pictures of the dress form and the rigid foam. The foam is very lightweight and is made tiny air pockets. It was easy to file down and shape. I was also able to saw easily a straight line when I leveled the bottom. It is very easy to […]
My Part 1 (Plaster mold tutorial, polyurethane foam details) is here. As in Penny Pincher, since I was too cheap to spend hundreds of dollars on a custom dress form. My polyurethane foam dress form is finally done. E, my husband, cut the IV stand to size and made a wood platform for the form […]
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