S helped me make her cake. She did the sprinkles on top all by herself!
We don’t really do birthday parties, but we do invite friends over for cake and ice cream. S was so excited, she set the table and decided where everyone should sit.
I’ve asked her a few times how old she is now .. and she keeps telling me she’s five. We’ll work on that. :-)
You know the Incredibles? And the short that came out with it about Jack-Jack? Well, since our little boy is just the right age to be Jack-Jack this year, and since I’d gone to the effort to make his sisters costumes, I had to make him one.
I started out with fabric and a pair of pajamas to make a pattern from. I mostly did pretty good. Except I should have googled “how to put a collar on a t-shirt” before I put the collar on, instead of after. I made such a mess of it, trying to figure it out myself, and I didn’t have enough red fabric to start over again, so I left it as it turned out. But I promise, next time I do a collar like this, it will be much better!
The final product:
And since I found red t-shirts for $2 at Jo-Anne’s, I put logos on two adult shirts for me and C. It just tickles me to think of C being Mr. Incredible, and me as Elasti-Girl. Ha Ha Ha! Pics to come sometime after Halloween. :-)
I have an awesome friend here who saved me the doom of visiting the portrait studio again. And she took some fantastic pictures of my kids. Here are some of my favorites:
It started with some more pretty fabric. Look at those primary colors and how they pop next to each other! It appealed more to me than the pink on pink of Aurora.
It started out well, considering it was only my second dress, and this one had piping in the front.
Then I got to the sleeves. Oh my goodness. Have you looked at Snow White’s sleeves?!!!
(As a side note, apparently it had been a while since I’d really looked at Snow White’s sleeves. Part of why I liked these costumes so much was that they were so “authentic”. But then I see that the cuff on the sleeve in all these pics is yellow! Mine is blue! And some of the pics don’t have that yellow line up the front … Oh well, too late now!)
The man who drew them ought to be shot. The dress patter designer at Simplicity ought to get a medal. It’s quite the process. First, you take two blue sleeves and sew the tear-drop shapes:
Then you cut away one of the blue layers, leaving little, tear-dropped edges you can fold under. Clip the seams. Iron. And you have the outside layer done.
Now for the red tear-drops:
Using red sleeve pieces, you have to sew around each tear drop a second time. Then cut away the excess red. And you finally have a sleeve piece that’s ready to sew. Note: READY to sew. I gathered the bottoms, gathered the lining, gathered the tops of the sleeves before sewing them to the bodice. It took forever, and I gave up on pictures (for which you are probably grateful!). And then I finished the dress:
It is a little big on her, but it’s about what I was shooting for, so she can use it to dress up in for a while before she outgrows it.
The accessories for this one were the cape, the bow, and a dickey (that white thing that sticks up behind Snow White’s neck, but given S’s dislike of things around her neck, I left that one out).
It’s maybe not as twirly as L’s dress, but she loves the cape, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.
One week left, on to J’s costume … Wish me luck!
We went to the store in search of birthday presents for the slew of parties this weekend, and I picked up a small monster truck. J immediately wanted it, reaching out his arms and babbling at me. I handed it to him. Then, upon further thought, I decided it cost more money than I wanted to spend. I tried to take it away. J was not happy. Then I realized he had birthday money …
And the truck came home with us.
He played with it all through the store, all the way home, and he had to fight with his sisters over it when he got home. This is one cool truck! It has a button for “forward” a button that plays music, and a button that revs the engine and flashes the lights. Even C called it awesome, in spite of the fact that it makes noise!
Thank you for birthday money to buy this truck!
