This is a collection of pictures I've taken over the last few days that I thought were cute:
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Mission Accomplished
Sarah's school has a rule that they may not have snacks with more than 6 g of sugar in them so I decided that I would tat each student a pumpkin or a bat for their Halloween party. I started by making 2 bats, but didn't have a size thread that I really wanted to use. So I switched to pumpkins. The pattern that I had written (and will be in my new book) was made using split rings. It was taking quite awhile to get a pumpkin done, so I designed a new pattern! (So now there will be 2 pumpkin patterns in the new book!)
Split ring pumpkin (I did 2 of these)
Pumpkin using chains (I did 25 of these)
I decided to attach the pumpkins to a bookmark to make it easier to handle.
All finished!
Split ring pumpkin (I did 2 of these)
Pumpkin using chains (I did 25 of these)
I decided to attach the pumpkins to a bookmark to make it easier to handle.
I put the pumpkins in little zippy baggies and attached the bags to the bookmarks with double sided tape. (so they could take the pumpkins out if they wanted)
All finished!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Halloweens Past
With it being the time for the annual costume party my brother and sister and I have been having for 9 years, I decided to show pictures of our costumes for past Halloweens. The first year, I was Tigger, the next I was Snow White. The 3rd, I was a pirate. I have pictures of them somewhere, but we didn't have a digital camera, so I'm not sure where they are!
Halloween 2004
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Sarah is Pooh and I am Piglet (which I designed the pattern for)
Halloween 2005
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Raggedy Ann and Andy
Okay, I got a picture of me as a pirate!
Halloween 2003
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(Dan was working)
Halloween 2004
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Sarah is Pooh and I am Piglet (which I designed the pattern for)
Halloween 2005
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Raggedy Ann and Andy
Halloween 2006
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The girls are cows and Dan & I are the farmers.
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Dan is a farmer again. The girls are ducks and I am an egg (I was 8 months pregnant!)
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I designed the duck and egg costumes.
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Ghostbuster theme!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Buddies
Monday, October 26, 2009
Pastor Appreciation
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sickie Sarah
Saturday, October 24, 2009
It is Autumn!
Friday, October 23, 2009
Dragonfly
These are a couple pictures Dan took of a dragonfly that was flying around at our family reunion this summer that I never posted!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Puppets
Our church wanted to get some puppets for the Youth Group to use for skits. They would cost about $40 each, so we decided that I could sew them for cheaper. I had a pattern, but I changed it quite a bit to make it the way I wanted!
All finished, showing the inside of the mouth.
The kids watching the skit.
This is the puppet that I sewed as an example of what they would look like.
This puppet has felt eyes.
Side view without hair!
All finished, showing the inside of the mouth.
3/4 view
We named this one Bella.
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Close up.
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My mom and I (and the kids) went to buy the fabric for the puppets 2 days before Andrew was born. We couldn't find what we were looking for and it took quite a while to figure out something that would work. We ended up buying fabric to make 6 puppets. There will be a girl and a boy in 3 different skin tones- light, medium, and dark.
Here is the light-skinned boy. I have the girl mostly done, but needed to put it aside to work on costumes and etc for October!
"Bill" has plastic eyes.
In use.
"Bella" is a reporter and "Bill" is Moses. (The beard is just pinned on)
The kids watching the skit.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Olympian Shirts
For the last couple of months, my mom and I have been working on getting shirts ready for "Membership Night" for Olympians at church. Once the kids complete the requirements for being a member, they get a t-shirt with the name of our church and a patch with their group name on it. I did the names and Mom did the patches.
The leaders have blue shirts and the kids have red. My mom is the nursery leader, so we decided to give them a group name, also. The green shirt is hers and the yellow are the nursery aged kids.
We did 13 blue, 10 red, 1 green, and 3 yellow shirts (so far) It took about 20 minutes to do the name embroidery (if we didn't have problems, and we had LOTS!) and an hour for Mom to hand sew on each patch (the iron on stuff didn't stick for long!)
Close up of shirts. My girls have red shirts and the boys have yellow shirts.
Sarah getting her shirt.
Emily getting her shirt.
The leaders have blue shirts and the kids have red. My mom is the nursery leader, so we decided to give them a group name, also. The green shirt is hers and the yellow are the nursery aged kids.
We did 13 blue, 10 red, 1 green, and 3 yellow shirts (so far) It took about 20 minutes to do the name embroidery (if we didn't have problems, and we had LOTS!) and an hour for Mom to hand sew on each patch (the iron on stuff didn't stick for long!)
Close up of shirts. My girls have red shirts and the boys have yellow shirts.
Sarah getting her shirt.
Emily getting her shirt.