Mermaid Costumes

Some of you may remember This post on Rebecca's Blog about the day we made mermaid costumes for the Peter Pan play. Well, the girls took them home and decorated them. And we finally got pictures of the full costumes. I thought they turned out pretty well :) We are missing one of the mermaids, she also played Nana the nursemaid dog, and she did bows in her dog costume, but you can see her in the bottom picture, she is wearing gold. We voted for a more modest version, Rebecca came up with the drape idea for the top. I was able to find material is gorgeous sunset colors. It was such fun!

Recent projects

So,..
as most of you know, Rebecca, Stephanie, and I recently moved into an apartment of our own. So, most of my sewing projects have been domestic oriented. A.k.a. curtains and pillows :)
Here are the curtains I made :)





Bathrooms curtain. I LOVE these! The wall is actually a French blue color, I'm not sure why it looks white.....

This is our front door. Also a polka dot curtain :) We like polka dots :)










And this hangs in our kitchen. The idea turned out cute but the colors aren't exactly right. There is a dowel sewn in the bottom. That's how the curtain "opens"

And finally a still-in-progress project. We can't decide exactly how we want these to hang. They are in Steph and my room...
You can find pillow pictures on Rebecca's blog. Here

Latest Project

So, I've been very busy the last few weeks. Moving, working, school, and before all that I made this:

The homeschool group had a Civil War Day and I promised Joe a uniform. I didn't think that it would take me so long to finish it!! As it was his pants were safety pinned shut and his pants weren't hemmed, but oh well... I'd just have to let them out and re-hem in a few months.... I wasn't able to go to Civil War Day, I had to work. But it sounds like everyone had fun, here are a few more pictures, just for the fun of it.

Susie sewed yellow twill tape on the side of Luke's pants so he would have "army" pants.

I made this dress for Sarah earlier this year. It's from Mrs. Chancey's Girl's Regency Dress Pattern. I love the expression on her face in these pictures.

A little blogger help

After months and months of opening everyone's blog every day to check for updates. I have come up with a wonderful solution!

http://www.feedblitz.com/

Go to this website. Set up a free account. Once you get your account. Go to the subscriptions section and set up a subscription for the blog's you check on a daily basis. Then you can set it up to either set you an email every morning, or a couple times a day, whatever you prefer. The email includes who has updated since the last time Feed Blitz checked and the entirety of that update. From there you can go to the person's blog to comment, etc. It saves time. No, waiting for your goofy (slow!) internet to load. That reminds me, I need to go bug the tech guys and find out whats up with that......

Dress Pictures!!!

So, when we decided to go to NJ for Jenny's wedding, I didn't have anything to wear. So, yes... I made a dress, in less than a week. I finished hemming and put the ribbon on during the car trip. I totally forgot to take pictures of me in the dress. This is the closest we got.

So I pulled it out of the closet today to take pictures. Sorry it's wrinkled. I'm too lazy to iron it just to take the pictures. Besides it'd just get wrinkled when I put it away...

I used this pattern

I thought it turned out really well.