Once Upon A Time In A Little Kingdom...

...Lived a beautiful little princess who had a pretty pink dress. Her aunt and cousins gave it to her to play dressups and the princess loved it very much.  

One day the zipper broke on the pretty pink dress and the princess cried and cried.  

The little princess's fairy Mother stepped in with her magic wand,

{wand was made using a tutorial from Little Birdie Secrets}

And made a pretty new skirt for the princess whose favorite princess is Cinderella.

She had wanted to make a skirt like this one ever since she had seen V & Co's ruffled scarf.

She used simple blue cotton for the skirt and strips of cotton and tulle for the ruffles.

Perfect for the girl who wears glass slippers wherever she goes.

And the little princess lived happily ever after.  

{You can see Ivy telling the story of Cinderella HERE}

 

A.. A.. A.. what begins with A?

I made Ivy and alphabet book over the weekend.  She LOVES animals and when I saw this idea who knows where a long time ago I knew she would love it.  BUT I couldn't find the cards anywhere.  I just happened to be lucky enough one day to find some at Craft Warehouse.   So I punched some holes and looped them all together with D-Rings.  I tied ribbon on the rings right over the slits so the pages couldn't come off.  

The jellyfish is my fave.  And the fun surprise is all of the interesting facts on the back of the cards.  Did you know that honeybees kill more people than all of the poisonous snakes combined?!  Yeah me either.

{The cards are K&Company A-Zelephant} 

Get to Voting!

 
The sweetest gal Chelsea from right here it Tri Cities has opened up voting for her Mothers Day Makeover on her rad blog Make You Over.  So go check it out and vote for one lucky Mom to get the royal treatment just in time for Mothers day!

Waiting for the Flood

Remember when I said that Ivy was growing like a weed?  These pants were the perfect length 3 weeks ago.  Everything else about them fits just fine, and they are some of my favorite pants she has.  So instead of putting them into a bin for someday I' decided to put them to good use.  

I took one leg and folded up at about the height I wanted.  Can you see how I folded it in by bring up the hem?  

 Here is what it looks like from the inside of the pant leg.  

Pin it in place really well.  Making sure to match up the side seams.  Do you like my new pretty red pins?  I hate pinning mostly because I hated my crappy pins.  So I got some new ones. Maybe if they are pretty I will enjoy them more

Sew right down the other stitching lines. A little side note is that if you think your machine will have a hard time going through those thick denim side seams, just turn you wheel by hand to prevent needles breaking and that annoying "your machine is going to blow up" buzzing sound.  

 Now she's got some new capris!  This works best with a trouser style or wide leg pants, that has a larger hem at the bottom.

She's still waiting for the flood, but in a much cuter way!  

What are you doing?

Today I am working at Greenies while Darin is teaching photography classes at a local high school.  I brought my sewing machine in with hopes of getting some stuff sewn but at this rate probably not.  I've got a customer coming in at 4 to talk about making clothes for her twin kids.  She is getting married in Mexico and wants some thing "beach formal".  Is that a style or did I make it up?  

Friday I'm going to be doing THIS.   Hopefully I will finally get to meet all the fabulous Tri Cities bloggers that everyone keeps telling me I need to meet.  Especially since in a round about way I'm kind of related to half of them.  

And next week?  I'm going to be doing 

that.  You can get all the details at Grosgrain.  The dress she has picked out is super cute. I'm excited to have a new dress for Mothers Day {my least favorite day of the year by the way}.  

I took this challenge {started April 1st} and so far so good.  Because lets face it.  I get much more excited about buying fabric then going and trying to find a new dress.  Plus I've never made a dress for me so it will be a new challenge. 

So thats what I'm going to be up to for the next couple of weeks.  How are you challenging yourself these days?