Mission Accomplished!

My children have their school Christmas concert this Friday...yes, as in tomorrow. There are two rules: 1. Wear a dress or skirt (girls) and 2. Wear Christmas colors. That's no big deal...unless you have neither and it's the day before the big event!!!! I think I just enjoy working under pressure. To be completely honest, some of my best work is turned out when I'm under pressure. For example: I finally got around to making Maggie (my youngest) a Thanksgiving shirt THE MORNING OF THANKSGIVING!!! Check it out:

How cute is this?? I LOVE how it turned out.

So back to my mission: I had to come up with something and if I didn't have to buy anything that would be fabulous! So here's what I came up with...

I bought this little number at a consignment sale quite a while back. It's a green houndstooth jumper made by Kelly's Kids. Simple, but it doesn't exactly scream CHRISTMAS!! to me.

So, I took it and did this to it:

It had to be something simple cause all that green houndstooth is quite busy. I needed to incorporate more Christmas colors too...like the all important RED. I have to say I'm pretty excited with how it turned out. It was like a game, a challenge, and I can say mission accomplish for under $10 (the cost of the dress). Not bad for the day before...

Now, hopefully I can focus on Christmas themed attire for my little ones and get them posted BEFORE Christmas day :)

Gobble Gobble

I love the holidays, but I swear there are less hours in the day during the holiday season than any other time of year! It is all I can do to crank out what I want to make for my own kids. Here are a few things I've managed to put a big fat red DONE! stamp on:

I love this My 1st Turkey Day design! Maggie will look so cute in it eating her Thanksgiving dinner :) Go to Planet Applique right now cause this design is only 99 CENTS!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Turkey Talk

Kitchen Towel for fall/Thanksgiving

A Turkey is always a popular applique for Thanksgiving.
I made this indian for my boys this past year. I put it on the left chest of the T-shirt where a pocket would be. I liked that it was something different from the normal turkey.

I couldn't pass up this turkey. It was a little different from my other ones and by sewing a cute little bow on her head, you had a turkey perfect for a little girl.