Tote bag with zipper and a matching wristlet

A simple and easy mother's day gift ideas. For tutorial visit craftystaci.com for a ruffled tote bag. With this tote bag I added a zipper.
Happy MOther's to all moms out there!

Ruffled Tote Bag

A great gift ideas for teacher's appreciation week...a ruffled tote bag.

I made this for my son's teacher and I hope she like it!

I was very easy and cheap to make.

Thanks to CraftyStaci.com for a great tutorial. So, if you would like to make one for your child's teacher of for you mom for this coming mother's day head over to craftystaci.com for her tutorial. You will love it! Oh, it is reversible :) how cool is that 2-in-1 tote bag.

SPRING DRESS 2

Make sure you visit Alida's website and check all the cool stuff that she have today. I am joining her new series of Calling all Kids link party.

I made another dress for my youngest daughter. I used the same fabric from this post. I just want both of my girl have matching dresses but not the same designs. I just don't know what to call this dress. I made the pattern from my daughter's old dress that was given to her by her Aunt.

I took me forever to make this since I don't know what to do with a limited fabric. Plus I was praying that this dress size will be just her size. I made so many dresses for my girls and when I finished it never fit for them because I did not add an allowance when I cut it. So, It was either too short or too narrow and won't fit.

 Anyway, she loves it!

I add some pockets. I love the ruffles.

 I didn't realized that my daughter is taller than I thought. I thought I add more allowance at the bottom of her dress. Well, I still can add it later though.

 This is the dress that I made the pattern from. This dress now is too short on her.

Love the outcome!

Have a great one everyone and thanks for stopping by.

Halloween 2012

Halloween is a nice occasion that everybody can dress up whatever they like! Today my daughter's class had a costume and movie day. She wore my DYI dress for her.

 Dressed up my little girl too :-)

 She is so pretty  in her dress!

 snack time!

After trick or treating!

This was her last year costume. First costume I ever made. Thanks to Ashley from Make it and Love it for the wonderful tutorial. I love love her website there are tons of crafty stuff!

 2011 & 2012 DYI Costume for my little girl.

DIY: Old Bookshelf to a Cubby Organizer

Love this new cubby organizer for my little man!

My husband admitted that my idea of turning a perfectly good bookshelf into a cubby organizer was stupid. No wonder he was frowning when I was explaining to him of what to do with the old bookshelf. Even though he was against of my idea he still did what I told him to do so. He bought some wood remnants at the local home improvement store and it cost us $1.02 to make the cubby holes. I also have left over light blue paint that matches the paint of the old bookshelf.

The new cubby organizer is just perfect under the new loft bed of my little man. Oh, before I forget the loft bed is also made by my husband. I got the plan of the loft bed from ana-white.com. She has tons of great plans and love love her website!

                                          the old bookshelf                  to a new cubby organizer

Anyway, I love the outcome of the new cubby organizer.

Summer dress

I made this dress couple weeks ago. I made my own pattern,  and I just adjust some of the parts as I go along. The upper sleeves is not perfect at all, but I think if I do more I'll do better in the long run. I intended to let my daughter wear this summer but it was quite too big for her. I have problem taking measurements and following those measurements when I'm cutting the fabric. I normally add extra fabric for the hem , then later it screw me up when I sewing it. Anyway, here is the dress.

What do you think?

Little girl's dress

My first ever made child dress!

I finally did it! I've been wanting to make a dress for my daughter for a long time, and I just finally done it! But first I have to check some websites with tutorials on how to make child dresses. You wouldn't believe that there are more people who would spend their time to teach you how to sew. One of them, is the make it & love it. I just love her tutorials. She also made a blessing dress for her daughter ...love it love it! I hope I can make one similar to that someday!

Little girl skirt

Tonight, around nine o'clock I didn't hear any noises around the house. I locked-up my self in the study room and let my husband takes care my kids. Well, hubby had a good sense of taking care the kids :-) they put them in bed. Well, normally between 8 pm to 9pm my kids are saying " night night".

Anyway, since my are all in bed, I feel bored. So I decided to take all my scrap fabric and laces laid it on the floor and stared at it for 15 minutes think of what to do with it. Then I finally came up with making a new skirt for my little daughter. I read some blog that have tutorials for making skirts from this blog . It was very easy to follow. So, here is my finished product...

Skirt To little girl's dress

 

My skirt

 This was my skirt way back then. After couple pregnancy, I gained few pounds that more of my clothing weren't fit me anymore. Since I have a limited capacity in my closet, I had to do something useful to all my old clothes. One of them is this skirt. I turned this skirt into my little girl's dress. Here it is...

The skirt...

my little girl

She liked it!

Thrift Store Find & tutorials

I like going to the thrift store. Sometimes I just go there just to look around or if I see some good stuff I buy it. Sometimes you can find unused item for a very low price compare to buying a brand new which will cost me a ton of money.

Anyway, this week I went to the thrift store agai,n and I found some name brand girls dress for less than $3 each and an overall for my 5 year old boy for a dollar (no picture).

 blue adult hat for $1

KC's hat $1 and a light green summer dress size 3T for $1.99

I couldn't make a dress like this for $2, so I think it's worth it!

 

 Skirt for $1.00. I can't wear this right now since my belly is quite big :-).

 

 

FUN Part! Crafty :-)

My blue adult hat was kinda boring, so I bought a flower bush from Walmart for 94cents. I cut off the flower steam and glued the flower and the left together and glue it on the front part of the hat. So it look like this 

what do you think?

Also for my blue skirt, I modified it too :-)

 

From a skirt to a simple maternity dress tutorials

I love it! more room for my big belly. Plus the hat was matched to my dress.

I don't think I am the first one who make like this. I've been reading crafters blogs for months now and also follow them. They have so many great ideas how to make dresses and etc. Its just blow my mind that I want to make some for myself or for my family. Anyhow, here is how I did my skirt to maternity dress.

This skirt has a wide bottom, so it is just perfect for my big belly. It was quite long too from waist to my ankle. You don't have to do anything to the bottom part.

 Next, I took my sleeveless shirt and trace the arm circle as my pattern. Place it from the waist line of the skirt and trace the arm circle and chop it off. For the neckline, I just folded the sleeveless shirt and get the length of my shirt and apply it to the skirt and same thing you cut it off the way you like it. round neckline or V-shape what work bet for you.

 For this project I used 1" bias. I have to make the bias though from scratch. But I think 1/2"bias will look much better. Oh well, my first project for my self :-) more trial-and -error.

1" bias

 Then pin the 1'bias around the arm circle and the neckline. Then sew it! Sew the shoulder part together and YOU ARE DONE! That's easy!
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