Queen of Hearts and Alice in Wonderland Costume Set GIVEAWAY!!!!

Queen of Hearts and Alice in Wonderland Costume Set GIVEAWAY!!!!

Oh, I would adore this!! I can think of a million little girls that I would love to see this on!!! Want want want!

My bad

I promised an update for Friday and, obviously failed. Miserably. My bad. Friday was a long day, and I passed out at like 9 oclock, then woke up at 7 on Saturday to clean my house before I picked my mum up from the airport. I was not in the "mood". Right now, I'm waiting for my mom to get ready so we can head out to D.C. (late start this morning!) so I figure this is as good a time as any! HERE WE GO!!!

*Actually, now I'm looking through my photos, I realize... I haven't taken photos of anything. I fail. Again. Ok, by the end of next weekend, I promise a FULL DISCLOSURE of all the things I've been working on, or bought, or played with this week (this could potentially be awesome, cause we're pimping mom's Glinda costume and making her crown... yeee haw. And we've done some antiquing, I just haven't taken pics!)

In the meantime, here's a picture of a little bag thing I made with fused plastic. Fused plastic is a fancy way of saying "grocery bags, melted together with an iron." Much fun to be had by all!


Next week. I promise.

Unrelated to anything

I thought I would share this little tidbit of "OH MY GOD I LIVE IN THE BOONIES AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH MY TIME"-ism.

I've named all the new chickens, the Jersey Giants at least (not all 15 of the reds. They're all just named "Red".) So, I was inspired by the biggest one, who is almost pure white. She is now aptly named, Snow White. The white with lots of gray splashes is, WAIT FOR IT, Cinderella. One with the tail feathers like a turkey is, Pocahontas (I am SO clever. She also tends to be the one to go through the electric fence to wander off on her own... Free spirit ;-) ) The littlest one, and my favorite, of course, is Belle. Dur. We have two dark ones. One with curly tail feathers is Maleficent. The one with straight feathers is Cruella.

I thought myself quite brilliant.

FRIDAY! FRIDAY! FRIDAY!

So, I have a lot of good stuff to put on here, but it's late tonight, and tomorrow is an overnight, so I PROMISE I'll post it all Friday! It will give me a good excuse to stop the mad-frantic cleaning pre-mom visit that I'm SURE I'll be doing :-)

I'll leave you with this little teaser of things-to-come

Stages

Been workin, not sleeping! SO HERE WE GO! SLIDE SHOW TIME!

Imagine I, you know, ironed it, and pinned it in any semblance of sense....

Yes, it looks straight-up dumb with this shirt.

And I never turned under the edge in the back, it isn't pointy.


Thinking about trim.


TRIM TRIM TRIM!!!
Needs more I think... LOTS MORE!

Dancing!

Well WOOO FOR DANCING! So excited to get back into it! So, of course, I come home and start making stuff! I really need skirts, but I don't have enough of any one fabric. Tried cutting another leg for the pants that I started TWO YEARS AGO, but cut them like I'm completely dumb :-/ SO. I was browsing online (ok, thinking about cheating and buying things, until I saw prices! WHEW!) and I saw this. CAN YOU SAY HOT!!!??? Course, I don't have $200 worth of coin bra to wear with it (I just want to make the vest part, which is green in this case), but I still think it's pretty swanky. Dug through all my nice fabrics (I love tiny stuff cause you don't feel bad using nice stuff!) and found this fabric:


And these trims:


Gonna be awesome! And I slept in really late, and we're jsut picking grapes tomorrow for school, so I'mma totally make it... YESSSSSSSS!

I'm terrible!

It HAS been a while. Well really a week. But it's not like I posted much of worth before that... Sorry. Okey Dokey. I know I've made things, but it's hard to remember! I have seriously made a million scarflettes, or at least started a million. I sold my first (and fave!) one at the market last week. YAY $7!!! One step closer to that school Costa Rica trip ;-)

So, not a whole lot going on here on the wild frontier. Been doing a lot of school, and not a whole lot else! I did start my dance classes back again, YAY! I went to the drop-in class at the other campus on Tuesday, and the teacher told me that I wouldn't want to keep coming to that class (my reputation preceeded me *tee hee hee*) and talked to me about coming to their troupe practices on Mondays. YAY! I really got a kick out of the fact that she kept calling me a "dancer" and laughing about giving me instructions (She was like, "Do you want me to just ignore you?") It made me feel pretty good, but also made me feel bad enough that I couldn't tell her that I haven't danced in like... two years :-/ Still nice to feel appreciated. So it's off to class for me tonight! Yay!


Also have a lot of projects in the works: an apron from a men's shirt, Lindsay's apron, my *Cough* Halloween costume (odds of it being done by halloween: not very good.)

Also, one of my kitties, Gato (yes, that is his name), has had chronic kidney failure for a while now, and he's just recently decided to stop eating. I've been trying to keep an eye on him, and tempt him with anything I can think of (ie, the other cats' food, ham, warmed up cat food...) but nothing was working, so I just force-fed him a little. I always feel terrible doing that, but how terrible would it be to not eat for days if you were a sick kitty? So, a little liquid cat food will hopefully set him up, and I'm going to go to the store after class tonight and get some cat treats, tuna, and anything smelly and good for kitty that I can think of. Poor baby :-(