SOCK ANIMAL TO THE RESCUE

Rachel had to make a mole for Chemistry class. (I have no idea why. She also had to name it and do a spoof on "mole" in the name. Again, I have no idea how this relates to Chemistry.)

Meet Cherry Chocolate Chip Molt (malt - get it?). Poor thing was separated from her family when they were all eaten by coyotes up at Walter's Farm. We are a little worried that in her fragile (fraj-ee-lay - name the movie?) state she might be taken advantage of by some hemole. We will miss her, as Rachel just found out that her teachers keep these for-ever.

TOMATO SOUP AND GRILLED CHEESE

so this was the perfect dinner:

Except ours looked like this.

But it was still delicious!

GUMDROPS

As most of you may know by now, I have a little love affair going on with Amy Butler's stuff. Okay, so a lot of a love affair! (Oh, and don't even get me started on Joel Dewberry fabrics ...)I made these pillows up a few weeks ago and finally sewed the closing seam. They are sort of ottomanish, but could be made into beanbags or whatever you want! I LOVE them! Ten points to the first one who can find the GLARING mistake that I just don't want to unpick and fix.

SOCK AND GLOVE

Hello friends ...

I made these sock and glove animals this week while watching the debates. We have a zebra, a bear (or meerkat), piggie, and dog. I like the dog best, someday she will have a scarf and then I will update her.

Reusable shopping bag

The one with the orange trim is what they look like all folded up in their little case so you can toss it in your car, purse, diaper bag, man's man bag, or what have you. These bags hold three 2- liter bottes just fine. They were the prototype and I think that I have gotten better at making them - but these are what will be going out ... at some point! I love the khaki toile print and they are sewn in french seams so they should be nice and strong!

Thanks for participating! It was fun for me to read all the comments!

BAG LADY

Because I am so worried about leaving my family for EIGHT DAYS, I decided to sew a new bag to use for this week and my traipsing around. I should have sewn it sooner. Something about the sound of the machine humming along just relaxes me.

I still need to close the bottom of the bag, which I will do, once I add the magnetic closure. Also, the inside of the bag is dark brown, the flash bleached it out.

The inspiration for this bag came from Ric-Rac. I made it bigger and added more pockets. I also made the strap longer so that it hangs like a messenger bag.

CRAFTY IS AS CRAFTY DOES

I am desperately trying to finish up some promised crafties before we leave to Utard (or Yucktah - as I call it in the summer because it is sooo hot.)

Here is an apron for Rayleen. She has never had one! Poor girl. I loved the cheery red and white polka dots and I hope she does too. (Larry said it looks like Minnie Mouse. I hope that Rayleen doesn't think so.)

When Rachel models an apron, it looks a lot better! This is for Teilani.

I love this little fairy peeking out of her mushroom:

Here is her full body shot. The mushroom is also a purse. I am making a tree with a squirrel and then a tower with Rapunzel, too. The possibilities are endless. This was supposed to go to Jean but she is leaving on Monday and I haven't mailed it yet, so we will see...

I am so addicted to making these. I just LOVE these burpies and they are headed for a knocked up chick in Reno who could use a little cheering up and cooling off, I can only help in one of those areas. I love the owl fabric. It looks very Japanese to me!

Now if I can just get to the Post Office to mail all this (and more!) I will be in good shape!

SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY CELEBRATION

This year I wrapped miniature candy bars in these wrappers I got for free from Lettering Delights. It was super fast and easy. I am going to do it more often!

LUAU DRESSES REVEALED!

This is crunch week. The week before the Luau is always crazy and I thought I was out of trouble this year because Kuulei said everyone could recycle their costumes.

Except they couldn't. Turns out girls (and women) grow.

Yesterday I had to sew three dresses and two sashes, AND paint Rachel's skirt. I stayed up until 2:30 on Tuesday night, then got up at 07:00 on Wednesday (yesterday) and sewed all day.

This is how I painted the fabric for Rachel's skirt. These squares are eight inches and I painted THIRTY of them!!! That is SIX YARDS! Now I have to wait for it to cure and then sew it into a skirt that looks somthing like this: and I have to sew Rachel a sash too.

Three dresses that I had to make this week are like these orange and red ones (top for the orange, bottom for the red behind Rachel). They all have to be fitted to the person wearing them. They take just about 4 - 5 hours to sew. The other one was a blue mu'umu'u like shown in the top picture. (And I think I sewed nearly every costume (except the ugly or wrongly made ones) in these pictures, by the way.)

Contest winner gift - and some pictures of aprons

I mentioned in my weekly update that I made seven aprons. Here are a couple of pictures. They are both made from patterns I purchased. The first apron is called the Emmeline apron. I can hardly wait until her Lola apron pattern comes out! I will be all over that! The second pattern is just a McCall's.

This little honey is the gift UTAH won the drawing of the 100th post.


Yes, it IS reversible!!

I know, I know, I love it too!!

I can hardly wait to make some more! I think next time I will add pockets (too late now) so that it can be a crafter's apron, too. I also figured out how to make it for a woman who is larger than a size 8.

Larry says it will fit Heber, just right! Rachel didn't want her face in the picture. Silly girl.

Last but not least... the apron I made for Sari ...

Okay, so I made quite a few ... I love the rainbow of colors - and yes, these are all reversible, also. (Same color on the other side.)

Answer to Prom

Rachel answered Clay’s prom invitation. It turned out to be a huge pain. We were planning to make little jello cupcakes and put in little cut-out laminated words saying yes through some cute poem we made up. But it didn’t work. The jello wouldn't set up hard enough (I guess I don't know how to make jello.) It took ALL NIGHT on Monday! Finally sometime after 11:00 p.m. I went to Albertsons and bought the jello pre-made and we stuck the laminate words in. Oh, and I ran out of laminate, because we had to rewrite the poem because they don't make blue jello in the pre-packaged kind so I had to peel the excess off the roll and stick it together myself. Rachel and Ben drove over to Clayton's house before 6 a.m. and dropped it off on his front porch so he would see it on the way to his car. I hear that he liked it.

MY VERY CREATIVE SISTER

My sister, Teilani made this mask for her son Logan to ask a girl in his school to their masquerade Prom.

Logan scrambled the letters in his name. It took this cute girl two days to figure out the name.

AMIGURAMI

While watching Conference I made these critters for my friend, Julie's, kiddos:

I have to show you the tail shot, too:

And the monkey, I will just show you from the side. I made two of these, one for Sari, as well. Hers is similar, only I made her ears and tail pink.

I also made Joseph a snake, but it just a snake and pretty ugly, to be frank. He loves it. He and Matthew fought over it for the rest of the night. Go figure.

HELP! I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GIVE IT UP!

Ben asked for a black mouse.

GOOD THING I NEVER TRIED CRACK

So, I am having a small problem with making these - I can't stop.

I have just been using small scraps of yarn, but can see where I would want to actually invest in some green for the frog, instead of the camo stuff. The colors are off - the tongue is very dark red and the camp is more green than brown.