Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.  I hope this holiday finds you safe, healthy and surrounded by those you love, or at least like.

Want to make a turkey shirt for your toddler or yourself?  Yea, ok, file it away for next year.  Or maybe you have a late Thanksgiving event this weekend.


Partial cast of characters:

1.  Sketch out the body shape with a disappearing ink pen (fabric stores have them), pencil, dress makers chalk, etc.  Or, trace your toddler's foot (with a shoe on).
2.  Paint up both hands and stamp on the fabric (I used 100% cotton) overlapping the body lines a bit.  Fill in areas with a paintbrush.  Let dry.
3.  Repeat with other colors.  Set paint per manufacturer directions.
4.  Iron fusible web to the back of a brown piece of fabric.  Cut a turkey body shape and fuse on to the background fabric.  You could sew this on.
5.  Iron fusible web to an orange piece of fabric.  Cut into a triangle shape (this is the beak).
6.  Take a piece of red ribbon and make a loop.  Secure end with fabric glue.  Let dry.
7.  Lay the ribbon in place with the orange beak on top.  Fuse to the body fabric.
8.  Stitch legs and feet with embroidery thread.  Or, sew on a sewing machine, use ribbon, rickrack, whatever you've got on hand.

I made the turkey on a piece of Kona 100% cotton.  Since this is a 1-holiday wear, I wanted to be able to save it.  Attaching it to the shirt with a quick basting stitch allows me to take it off and put it in her scrapbook.

The hair flower clip is a la a tutorial from A Girl and a Glue Gun. Gobble gobble.


Linked here: 5 Days...5 Ways, The Train to Crazy, Between U and Me, Fireflies and Jellybeans and Somewhat Simple

Hello, helllooo, hellllllloooooo out there!

Pft, Pft.  Is this thing on? Is there anyone still out there.  My dear ol' dad said he stopped by my blog the other day and said nothing had changed.  Ah, yea.  Thanks, dad, for that kick in the butt.  No sense trying to recap the last 6 months - the gist of it is everyone is healthy, accounted for and doing well.

I can hardly believe that the holidays are, well, basically here.  Halloween was fun.  I punked out and bought lil bit a costume in lieu of making one (like I did last year).  So, thanks to mass production and local halloween shops, she was the cutest, smartest Smurfette anyone ever did see.

This time next week I will be knee deep in Holiday Shoppes.  It is the best way I know to kick off the holiday season and do a bit of shoppping all while helping a great organization (yes, I am biased) do some great things in our community.

Happy Due Date Day!!!

Yesterday, March 28th, was the estimated due date of this bundle of joy:

Picture taken on March 12th.

Here she is on her Due Date Day - all 6 lbs 4 oz of her:

Early Arrival

I guess she just could not wait another 6+ weeks. Virginia Dian decided she was going to make her grand entrance on Feb 7th at 11:21pm. Weighed in at 4lb 10 oz and 17 inches long. She's still in NICU but holding her own quite well. Cannot wait until she comes home.