Apologies...

Egads! I haven't posted in forever, and with the invention of Pinterest, I really need update my blog. Presently, I've suspended a lot of my posts (like 50 of them!) so that I can add watermarks to the images and such. It's a work in progress, but eventually I'll be back to posting regularly. (The crafting certainly hasn't stopped!)

Here's an ever-growing list of stuff I've completed, but haven't posted:
Frost Dragon Costume
Owl Costume
Spider Pizza
Cinco de Mayo Bunting
Conquistador Costume
Knight Costume
Celtic Costume
Wonderland Party
Coral Reef Party
Girl on Fire Costume
Hammerhead Shark Costume
New troop shirts
Baby Bunny Basket
She-Ra Costume
Captain America (girl) Costume
another "bamBEANo"
School Spirit T-shirt
Girl Scout Quilt
She-Ra doll
Bath salts
Spray bottle art
Sit Upons
Cow costumes
Lemonade Day tutu
Dia de los Muertos veils
Monster Spaghetti
sock monkey twins for my cousin
family tree book
holiday candies
husband's quilt
a "cheater" pirate costume
photo shadow box for the girls
Halloween costumes 2010- Dia de los Muertos Catrina and Swiper the Fox
punched "tin" ornaments
girl scout banner
girl scout shirts
gingerbread house (troop effort)

costume: Rock-N-Roll Bunny Rabbit

(Halloween 2006)

Unfortunately, I think this is the only picture I have of this costume. My daughter said she wanted to be a "rock-n-roll bunny rabbit."

I selected some pale purple fuzzy fabric and made her some pants. Then I added a fluffy tail. For her upper-half, I bought a black hoody and sewed a big "AC/DC" patch to the back. I also decorated the hoody with safety pins, studs, and buttons featuring bands she likes.

I found the headband at the hobby store- but it was actually meant to be a tan puppy. I removed the original ears and created my own with cardboard. Then I covered the headband with the same purple fabric as the pants. I mounted a Mr. Potato Head nose to the muzzle, added whiskers and some over-sized teeth from a scrap of white pleather. Lastly, I made her a candy bag that looked like a guitar.

I forgot my camera that Halloween... I hope to one day dig this costume out of storage and see if I can get some shots.

costume: Superkid

my super family

Okay, so I only made one thing in this whole picture- but we were going for a theme! I got a job working as a costumed superhero in a theme restaurant, so we decided to have some fun with it.

The Hubbs is wearing the shirt I bought him. He hate Superman, so he was being an awful good sport to pose with us. This is his "tough guy" pose. (Hahahaha!)

 I'm wearing a store bought Secret Wishes brand Supergirl costume. I made my previous Supergirl top, and-oh my- it was so terrible I am thankful not to have pictures. The "S" logo is so iconic, even a slight deviance is obvious... and I made it out of slippery lycra/spandex dance fabric. It was very obvious that a person with relatively little costuming skill had made it- that person being me...

Chula is wearing  the top from a little boy's jammy set. I bought a pair of red sweat pants, just slightly bigger than she is (so the waist would still fit her) and cut the legs of at an angle at the crotch, creating a very quick and simple angled skirt. She wore her red high tops and that was it!

costume: Kim Possible

November 2009
I have photos of this costume somewhere, I need to find/post them.
I'm putting this post in November 2005 until I find the pictures- I'm not sure of the actual date...

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A woman eating in the restaurant asked Cinderella if she'd be interested in working her five year old daughter's birthday party as Kim Possible. Cinderella had a conflict and referred the woman to me. I had no idea who Kim Possible was, but turns out she's pretty cool. It's a Disney show, and I think there are also a couple of movies.

This poster from impawards.com pretty much sums it up.

The party was cheerleader themed, so I made Kim's uniform (shown on the left.) I made the whole outfit from t-shirt fabric, bought matching pom-poms, and found an orange and purple long sleeve athletic shirt to wear if it was cold out. I also made a big "M" with an adhesive back to put on the shirt so it would look like a letterman's sweater. Finally, I died my hair a gorgeous shade of red-orange.

I parked around the corner from the party and ran up to the door- told the kids my helicopter had dropped me off. Her mom shook my hand (slipping me a hefty check) and said she was so excited to meet me. The girls were suspicious and quizzed me about my family, school, and love interests. After I passed their test (with flying colors, I might add) I taught them a Middleton Mad Dog cheer (Kim's High School.)

M-A-D! (and then clap, clap, clap with your pom poms)
D-O-G! (clap, clap, clap)
That's how we (turn around)
Spell VIC-TOR-Y! (throw your hands up and leap into the air)

That's when my "communicator" was supposed to beep, but her mom forgot to go call my cell phone, so I just said "Gotta go! People to save!" and ran down the street.

Her mom called me the next day and told me the girls said it was awesome. Score! I saw them a few weeks later at the restaurant. Her girls came to get my autograph (I was, of course, Supergirl at that time and they didn't recognize me.) They told me about the fabulous birthday party they had had. Super cool.