FALL SKIRTS

I went a bit crazy on making skirts for my daughter for the fall. There was just so many cute fabric combos. My daughter has finally decided that she likes to wear skirts and asks to wear "pretty drresses" just about every day. These are super quick to make. A great project to whip up during nap time. Simplicity pattern 2356.



Princess Castle Skirt. This print reminds me of Disney's Sleeping Beauty.



Little Golden Books Skirt. My daughter has a shelf of Golden books that belonged to me and me mom. One of which is the 1951 printing of Mary Blair's I Can Fly.



Flower Skirt. I love this fabric combo.



Gnomes Skirt. Who doesn't love gnomes?



Halloween Skirt. Great print. Cute and not juvenile looking.



Thanksgiving Skirt. I really wanted to find a fabric print with turkeys. I searched everywhere and found only one and it was ugly.



Skull Skirt. This is my favorite. Cute and punk all in one. Will be great for the Halloween season and beyond.



Christmas Skirt. Very cute and retro.



I then decided to make a quick poodle skirt as a costume for my daughter to wear to school. She's got black and white oxfords that'll look really cute with this.



My little model. I took about 15 pictures and only had one descent on to use. It's really hard to get a 2 year old to stand still or pose for you.

ART UNLEASHED 2010

Art Unleashed is coming up. The art auction that benefits the Humane Society for Kansas City is Friday August 27. This is my sixth year and I love doing it. This year I contributed two pieces.



Old school chairs were being offered to decorate any way you'd like. So I volunteered to take a chair. I decided I wanted it to be very simple and graphic. I spray painted the entire chair black and then just made a slip cover for the back and a cushion for the seat. I also added a tail that wraps around one of the legs.



I contemplated for awhile about adding a mouth. But in the end I decided maybe he looked best without one.



Here's the owl, I posted  a couple weeks ago, that will be auctioned off too.

If you're in the area I recommend checking this out. It's a fun evening with lots of food and fun art work.

OH NOW THERE'S A PATTERN

Wish this had been available a year ago! It would have been a lot better than trying to make up the Alice costume out of two patterns like I did.



2009 Alice costume.

I know it's only the first of August, but I'm already gearing up for Halloween. Crazy I know. But I like to be done with everything the first of October so that really only gives me two months. I've got materail and patterns already purchased and waiting to start. My husband will also be dressing up this year. Surprising! Stay tuned to see what our group costume will be!

UNDER THE SEA

She's all done! She stands about 14" tall. The shells are made out of Sculpey and then painted and glued in place. I'm very happy with her. Now off to Stuffed Mag.

TOO MANY SCALES >:-(

I finished up all the scales last week. I lost track of counting them at about 100. I like the look of it once they were all put on but I HATED cutting them all out. This was ten times worse than cutting out the scallop shapes for the owls.