tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53984238241280936642024-03-05T00:04:22.933-06:00My Inner Need to Create...A blog by a driven, self-proclaimed craft-aholic!Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-48940817909636022482014-05-12T17:32:00.004-05:002014-05-12T18:32:22.296-05:00Maxi Dresses for Little Girls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maxi dresses are a big trend right now and about a year ago I started see little girl maxi dresses on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/177931814/girls-maxi-dresses-yellow-print-chevron?ref=sr_gallery_6&ga_search_query=girls+maxi+dress&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery" target="_blank">Etsy</a>. I thought I would make a couple of chevron ones for a friend's little girls on their birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They turned out fantastic so I thought I would make my daughters each one to wear for church. I used McCall's Pattern M5838. I took the bodice from version C but the length from F minus the ruffle from C. Confused? Let me explain.... </span><br />
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The girls love the dresses and like to wear them as dress up clothes to pretend they are the princesses from Frozen. I will certainly be using this pattern to make more dresses, most likely another set of these maxi dresses but I am curious on how version F will look on my 6 year old so that might be next. Hope you all had a great Mother's Day!</div>
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Chevron's are all the rage now-a-days so I thought this was a good choice for design on the afghan I made for my nephew Liam.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I used this pattern from <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/" target="_blank">Ravelry</a>: <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chevron-crochet-baby-blanket" target="_blank">Chevron Crochet Baby Blanket by Laura Kovacs</a>. If you are a knitter or crocheter you need to be a member of this site! It has tons of free patterns for just about anything imaginable.</span></div>
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Easy to follow pattern and the blanket actually came together really fast! I used white and turquoise Love This Yarn from Hobby Lobby, 2 skeins each. I washed it a couple times before giving it to Liam and it turned out quite soft and cozy.</div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-84736319484767977142014-03-08T22:35:00.000-06:002014-03-08T22:35:32.743-06:00Pokemon Birthday<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For my son's birthday this year he choose a Pokémon theme. The cake and cupcakes turned out so cute I just had to share.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The character is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu" target="_blank">Pikachu</a>, some kind of character from the Pokemon cartoon series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got inspiration for the cake from <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/223702306461130093/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used graham crackers for the ears. I "sawed" them into the point with a knife very slowly (they will break easily if you don't saw back and forth slowly). Then covered them in icing for the correct coloring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think they turned out cute and his class knew what they were instantly, so at least they were recognizable!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ~Jessica</span>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-39819738806590791562013-11-08T21:35:00.001-06:002013-11-08T21:35:23.537-06:00Quilted Girl Peacoats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These adorable girls are my friend's daughters and my daughter's best friends. I made them some coats this year and because of so much interest taken in them I decided to sell a couple on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/168547362/quilted-girl-black-jacket-peacoat-with?ref=sr_gallery_1&ga_search_query=peacoat&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all&ga_includes%5B0%5D=tags&ga_facet=girl+black+peacoat" target="_blank">Etsy</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The jackets and the girls!</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">~Jessica</span><br />
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-40918148053949340932013-11-08T21:20:00.002-06:002013-11-08T21:20:20.999-06:00Tween Sewing for BoysRe-Posting a guest post onto my site:<br />
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Hi, I'm Jessica from <a href="http://www.myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Inner Need to Create</a>, I have three kids, ages 4, 5 and 9. And to be perfectly honest when I got the email from Sally inviting be to contribute to this site I said (out loud) "WHAT, I'm to young to be a mother of a Tween!" Oh, where has the time gone!!<br />
Well, unlike the previous guest bloggers, I haven't had many fit issues with my Tween, he seems to be a pretty standard size, with him it is more of a style issue. Almost all of my last years' sewing projects for him have sat in the closet, untouched. <br />
So I approached this project differently. I knew what I wanted to make him, a military cargo jacket. So instead of starting this project on my own, I included my son. I showed him pinned jackets, let him choose a style, gave him a choice of the fabric, etc.<br />
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Then I got to work...<br />
There are A LOT of pieces to this pattern but I promise it isn't that complicated.<br />
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These aren't to scale but the measurements are on them if you want to try out making this jacket for your tween. This is size 10 and you will need to add seam allowances.</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sew back top and back bottom pieces together, of
both the fabric and the lining. Top stitch the seams flat. Sew the left and
right side of the back together to make one piece. (Do this for both the fabric
and the lining).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Assemble the hood, both fabric and lining. Then
attach the 2 with right sides together, flip and top stitch around.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stitch pleat into all 4 pockets. Fold under all
raw edges and baste. On top of the pockets roll completely to hide exposed raw
edge, stitch across.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For the pocket flaps I made the buttons invisible
by making 2 flaps each for each pocket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Roll under and stitch one of the long sides
of each of the pocket flaps (8 total). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sew two button holes into one of each of these
pocket flaps (4 total). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Then put two
flaps together (one with button holes and one without), wrong side, right side
and stitch around the other 2 sides of the flap. Flip and top stitch the two
short sides.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Attach the pockets to the front pieces of the
jacket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sew the front pieces to the back piece at the
side and shoulder seams. Do the same for the lining. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hold sleeves in half and stitch up the side.
Attach sleeve from fabric to the jacket from fabric and the sleeve from lining
to the jacket from the lining fabric.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fold collar in half. Sew the hood, collar and
lining to the jacket. You might need to baste first depending on your fabric choices.
Flip.</span></div>
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of the jacket, lining only. Then hold the front button panel in half and sew
that piece to the fabric of the jacket, from the top of the collar all the way
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sandwiching the zipper between the fabric and the lining sew the zipper into
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He seems to like the jacket so I am hoping he wears it.... I will have to wait and see though, since I live in Texas and it was 105 degrees today!</div>
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Thanks for inviting me to contribute to this blog! It is a great idea and with 2 more kids closing in on tween status I am sure it is to become a very important resource for me!</div>
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My adorable daughter turned 6 right before Halloween. We decided to have a monster party this year...</div>
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With a monster cake...</div>
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I used marshmallows for the eyes and pre-colored teal frosting so the cake came together quickly.</div>
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I made the girls each a monster bean bag (well they are filled with rice and not beans) I made them just with scraps of felt.</div>
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I also made each girl a monster shirt to match their monster bean bag. I got the shirts from the 99cent store and then using my Cricut and freezer paper I painted a monster onto each.</div>
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I sent the girls on a "Monster Hunt" (scavenger hunt where one clue leads to a monster and the next clue) until all the girls had matching monsters. Then they lined up for a bean bag toss...</div>
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I just made the bean bag toss target out of a cardboard box. I used acrylic paint for the body and white & black construction paper for the teeth and eyes.</div>
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Also for the birthday girl I made a Bubble Ruffle Tutu Skirt using this tutorial from <a href="http://www.u-createcrafts.com/2012/06/bubble-ruffle-tu-tu-by-creative-vault.html" target="_blank">the Creative Vault.</a> <br />
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The girls had a great time and were all pleased to be leaving with a monster shirt like the birthday girl and a little baby monster to play with.<br />
~JessicaJessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-5103146452577588662013-09-04T16:47:00.001-05:002013-09-04T16:48:03.662-05:00Sew Cool for the Tween Scene<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So the two amazing ladies from </span><a href="http://www.directionstohome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #dc0a25; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Without Directions</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and </span><a href="http://daisy-chaincreations.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #dc0a25; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Daisy Chain Creations</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> have some together to create a new blog: </span><a href="http://www.sewcoolforthetweenscene.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sew Cool for the Tween Scene</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A BlogSpot to spotlight a missing link in the pattern industry: Tweens. They are not physically ready or mature enough for adult clothes, and thus adult patterns; both in the big name patterns and Indie patterns that we love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even when there are sizes that fit our girls, they are not designed with a pre-teen in mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> So these ladies will act as curators for pre-teen patterns and pre-teen sewing ideas! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-spacerun: yes;">And as a kick off party they lined up some guest's to post.... And I am one of the chosen few so head on over there to check out the Military Cargo Jacket I made for my Tween.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">~Jessica</span>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-36882567811111564992013-09-01T22:25:00.000-05:002013-09-01T22:25:00.990-05:00Rainbow Butterfly SkirtSo I was looking around Pinterest yesterday and realized that all the pins for my Rainbow Butterfly Skirt were going back to Project Run and Play, where I did a guest posting and the tutorial. This made me realize that I never posted the tutorial to my own site, so I am fixing that mistake....<br />
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Flickr Friends: Jessica from My Inner Need to Create <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN">Hi y'all! I am Jessica and I blog over at </span><a href="http://www.myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span lang="EN">My Inner Need to Create</span></span></span></u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span lang="EN">. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span lang="EN">I am a stay-at-home mother to 3 kids (8, 4 and 3) but once a upon a time I was a web and graphic designer. Though I am not doing this as my career right now, I see this side of my style bleed through into all my crafting. In fact I like to think of all the clothes I make as a canvas waiting for me to make it into a piece of art. I like to do this in many ways but <b>love</b> the look of appliqueing...</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Here is a recent appliquéd project: Rainbow Butterfly Skirt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN">To start I took a skirt of my daughter's to use as a pattern. I chose a thick gray knit as the fabric for the skirt (it was left over from my </span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/04/superhero-circle-dress.html"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span lang="EN">Superhero Circle Dress</span></span></span></u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span lang="EN"> from </span></span><a href="http://projectrunandplay.blogspot.com/2012/04/project-run-and-play-week-2-results-and.html"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span lang="EN">Week 1 of the Sew Along</span></span></span></u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span lang="EN">). I just made a simple A-line skirt with no seem allowance for the top since I planned on using 1.5 inch elastic for the exposed waistband.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After the front and back of the skirt was cut out, I sewed one of the side seems together and laid out the skirt flat. Next I drew out the butterfly design, I used the skirt shape to dictate the cropping on the butterfly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For my butterfly I wanted a rainbow, but at this step you could use a cute print or a solid color. I choose my colors and sewed them together in 1.5 inch strips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">but with a gray bobbin thread so that I didn't have to line the skirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I sewed the skirt together at the other side then I attached the 1.5 inch black eleastic as the waistband.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN">The skirt turned out very eye-catching with the bold, big butterfly but it is a really simple jersey knit skirt with very limited sewing skill needed (the zigzagging around the pieces of the appliqué takes the most practice.) </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My daughter loves the skirt and wears it everytime she finds it in her drawer clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I took these photos with her wearing a black leotard as her top but a 3 year old wearing a leotard all day is really not ideal for going to the bathroom. So I <a href="http://www.myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/06/refashioned-tank-top-from-tube-top.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c9181f;">refashioned a slimming black tank top</span></a> from an old (very old!) tube top if you hop over to my blog you can check out the <a href="http://www.myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/06/refashioned-tank-top-from-tube-top.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c9181f;">tutorial</span></a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Thanks for inviting me to guest post during this month of Flicker Friends! I am so glad to be able to get in on the fun! I hope everyone is having a great summer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I LOVE to design and paint shirts using the freezer paper technique- I think I have made close to 50 shirts at this point but they turn out really cute, they are easy to do, I get the shirts at the dollar store so they are cheap, how can you beat that!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Up next are some practice shirts I made for my daughters' soccer team. I am the coach of the team and thought that we needed some practice shirts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I designed a retro feeling logo with Adobe Illustrator and cut it out of freezer paper with my cricut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Using the cricut makes this a really easy process, even with placing all the insides of the letters and the soccer ball pieces, these shirts come together pretty quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since I got these shirts at the dollar store the whole project cost me less than $10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I made myself and my best friend Janie (the assistant coach) both coach's shirts to match the team.</span></div>
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At least with my freezer paper stenciling addiction I am coming away with some really cute shirts =)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I ran in my first race last month, it was a 5k obstacle race hosted by Shape Magazine called the Diva Dash. My sister had signed up and created a team of friends to join her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So we made team shirts! I designed the team logo using illustrator and used my cricut to cut out 5 designs from freezer paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Iron the freezer paper on to the shirts and this becomes a stencil to you to brush fabric paint (using a sponge brush)on to. Let it dry and peal off the paper....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I also wanted our names on the back but since they were tank tops my placement was limited so I put our names across our bottoms =)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We looked great and had a great time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have really been on a freezer paper stencil kick lately, I just finished my 6 player soccer team's practice shirts also (next post!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">~Jessica</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My adorable little nephew just turned 1! I can't believe it has been a year already since I made these shirts for my family to <a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/08/welcome-baby-to-world-shirts.html" target="_blank">meet him in the hospital.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">He had a milk and cookie themed party. And I designed the invitations. I used Adobe Illustrator to draw out the design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I used 3 chocolate circular cakes with a thin layer of icing in between for the base. And for the cookies on the top I carved the cookie shape out of 2 white circular cakes. Since the shaping left all the edges crumbly I had to do 2 layers of icing to cover the cake crumbs that mixed into the icing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I think Liam thought my cake was awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> I used Adobe Illustrator but you could use any vector based design program. I downloaded my favorite chalk board fonts from </span><a href="http://www.dafont.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">www.dafont.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> or you could use the links from this site: </span><a href="http://www.lilblueboo.com/2013/01/favorite-free-chalkboard-fonts.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">http://www.lilblueboo.com/2013/01/favorite-free-chalkboard-fonts.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I took the file to staples and printed a engineer print, only cost $3.46. Then I used spray adhesive to attach the paper to a black foam board then cut off the white border and voila! Done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My sister had tons of unique, special touches to make this party awesome, these were just my contributions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I think that I will start off this post with a glowing recommendation for Oliver + S patterns. I don't own as many as I would like because they are so expensive but for my birthday a couple years ago I received<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584799102" target="_blank"> Little Things to Sew</a> and have found many favorites in the book. </span></div>
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The pattern that I have made the most is the Messenger Bag, they come together so quickly and professionally. I have made both the large and small bags:</div>
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A small <a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/06/pirate-messanger-bag-with-shark.html" target="_blank">Shark Messenger Bag</a></div>
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and <a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/02/messanger-bag-into-bike-bag.html" target="_blank">one that I attached to my bike</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My newest bags are small ones for my daughters to carry some toys with them for when we are running around town this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I used the same butterfly template I sketched out for the </span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/05/skirt-week-rainbow-butterfly-skirt.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rainbow Butterfly Skirt</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I made last year. But instead of putting the rainbow colors behind the black butterfly cut-out, I put just plain orange fabric. The white dots are just white fabric paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">~Jessica</span></div>
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So I made my annual road trip from Texas to South Dakota for our family reunion again this summer. For such an occasion I thought I needed a new dress for church on Sunday.</div>
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I choice the Cynthia Rowley Simplicity 1873 pattern and a black and red pinstripe fabric.<br />
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I used version A of the pattern- the longer skirt and the short sleeves but I liked the neckline on version C better so I swapped out the bodice.</div>
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The unique part of this pattern are the pleats. There are pleats EVERYWHERE! Even on the sleeves (my favorite part). The pleats on the skirt are confusing and I had to repin them a couple times to get them right.</div>
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Another unique attribute to this pattern is that the bodice and sleeves are completely lined. It made the dress warmer than a summer dress in Texas should be but mostly because the pinstriped fabric I chose was thick.</div>
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The dress came out exactly as the pattern cover and was true to the measurements on the back. I would suggest taking your measurements and checking the sizing because the size I made was 2 sizes bigger than what I am wearing in commercially bought clothes.</div>
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After I finished the dress I thought it needed a belt. I used New Look pattern 6144 just for the belt (I haven't made the dress from this pattern yet).</div>
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The belt looks good with the dress and it turned out to be a really comfortable, easy to wear dress that I should be able to wear to work also.</div>
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~Jessica</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I made my girls Easter Dresses this year using McCall's Pattern 5838.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I went with dress option B.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Instead of using a zipper I choose to do 3 buttons instead--- I made the dresses a little big so that the girls can wear the dresses all through the summer and buttons make it easy to "let the dresses out" as they get a little bigger the next couple months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The pattern was easy to understand and I finished both dresses in one night. I do have to say where I have found woman McCall's patterns to run small, this girl pattern was right on. The girls are wearing size 5 right now so I made them size 6 dresses and they are true to this size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In a weird coincidence I had both an orange and blue cardigan that matched the dresses perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love it when things work out like this! The girls have been able to wear these dresses several times to church because the cardigans made them weather appropriate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">~Jessica</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi all! I am so excited to be asked to participate in the "Knock It Off" series over at <a href="http://www.eleganceandelephants.com/" target="_blank">Elegance & Elephants</a>. I have been a super fan of Heidi's since her days of partcipating in <a href="http://www.projectrunplay.com/" target="_blank">Project Run and Play</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I often "Knock Off" cute outfits for my kids that I can't afford but for this post, the outfit I copied was chosen for me. My brother-in-law is getting married in July and since the flower girls are going to be my children I offered to make the dresses and save myself a little cash. The future bride emailed me the photo of the dresses she wanted and I got to work....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The dress is found here at </span><a href="http://www.girlsdressline.com/flower-girl-dresses/ivory-taffeta-flower-girl-pick-up-dress-with-sash.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">GirlsDressLine.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. The uniqueness of this dress lies in the bow-like pick-up pleats and the bubble hem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For the skirt I made a circle skirt using the measurements and portions from </span><a href="http://www.danamadeit.com/2008/07/tutorial-the-circle-skirt.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dana at MADE's tutorial</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. I increased the length by 5 inches- 1.5" for each pleat (2 per column) and 2" extra inches for the bubble hem. I also made a lining from this pattern but 5 inches shorter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For each of the pleats I pulled up about .25" of fabric 3 times, offsetting them by making each one slightly lower, resulting in a bow like pleat. I then hand stitched each one to the lining.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But of course I didn't just make one dress.... I had to make two!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The second one came together quickly since I had already found the solutions to all the problems I had with the first one (the first skirt I made was way too short and the petticoat hung out below the dress by about 2 inches!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks so much for having me, Heidi. I'm so glad I was able to join in on this series and I got two items checked off my to-do list!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am participating in </span><a href="http://www.eleganceandelephants.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elegance & Elephants'</span></a> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">series- "Knock it OFF!" It starts on May 1st and I am up on May 2nd! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Make sure to check in all month to see what creations that these fantastic bloggers have chosen to knock-off... a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">nd be sure to check back here on Thursday to see what I've made!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I have made the shirt pattern into a dress this winter for some versatile dresses that my girls got A LOT of use out of (you can check it out</span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/12/oliver-s-after-school-shirt.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So I thought that a couple spring dresses would be worn just as much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The dresses are perfect for play because they are lightweight and non constricting. And they are perfect for spring with a bold color on the yoke and sleeves and a fun stripe print with contrasting bright and subdued colors on the skirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was chilly the day of these photos but the dresses look cute with no leggings and sandals also.</span></div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-6669366848998476562013-04-24T13:00:00.000-05:002013-04-24T13:00:02.229-05:00Colorful Birthday Dress (Simplicity 1949)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I like to make my kids something special to wear in their birthday photos every year (it is getting more and more difficult to do with my son, who just turned 9). <br /><br />This March my youngest turned 4 and here is her birthday dress for this year....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I used Simplicity Pattern 1949 with the 3/4 length sleeves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This isn't the first time I did this pattern (</span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/04/handpainted-upcycled-earth-day-dress.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hand painted Earth Day Dress</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> )...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But it is the first time I did the 3/4 length sleeve. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The pattern is easy to follow and came together quickly. The unique way the pleats cris-cross across the front are my favorite part of the pattern (it is easier to see the pleats in the solid color earth day dress above).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I like the solid color top and sleeves with the print on the bottom, it keeps the dress from getting too busy. I also sewed a large ric-rac ribbon across the bottom of the top yoke because I thought it needed "something" to add visual interest to the top half of the dress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The back closure is 3 buttons, instead of a zipper, which I find easier to do. So the dress didn't take long at all and turned out to be a great dress for spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My youngest daughter's room I am slowly in the process of completing her transition into big girl room. I found myself really busy this year with a lot of volunteer opportunities and going to get my teaching certificate that I haven't had much time to spend blogging or completing the 50 tasks I have planned out for home improvement and decorating projects around the house. I finally finished the art work for her walls though.... Monkeys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They add a nice whimsical touch to the room and with some art on the walls the room already looks more complete.... now to refinish her chest of drawers.</span></div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-70057924697249475792013-04-22T22:31:00.000-05:002013-04-22T22:31:10.318-05:00Casual Princesses<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My two girls, 4 and 5, are in love with Disney Princesses, especially my youngest who has all the baby dolls and barbie dolls of each and every princess. Rapunzel and Merida are her favorite, where my eldest likes the older more traditional Snow White and Cinderella.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So my darling little princesses got a special night out with their dad to see Disney on Ice, Rockin' Ever After. They wanted to wear their Halloween costumes..... but I thought that a more casual outfit was more appropriate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I decided to go with Snow White and Rapunzel since their outfits were more recognizable by the color palette than say Merida or Cinderella.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I used Simplicity Pattern 3511, the tunic with sleeve variation F.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For the red and blue sleeves, I just sewed stripes of red fabric (used ironable interfacing) onto the blue sleeves before attaching to the shirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I did the same for the Rapunzel sleeves. For the front faux tie I used interfacing to iron on the pink fabric with the rolled over edge, then stitched around the edges. Then hand stitched on a bow.... done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The pattern is easy and came together quickly and I finished both shirts in a couple hours the night before the event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So if you have looked around my blog you already know that my son loves Adventure Time (</span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-time-is-it-birthday-time.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Birthday</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2011/12/adventure-time-shoes.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Shoes</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, </span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/01/adventure-time.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">crocheted figures</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and </span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/03/finn-and-jake-applique-shirt.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Shirt</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ). So it was an easy decision on what to put on a wallet I was making him, Finn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">oval piece of flesh colored felt, iron on interfacing ironed on the back </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Iron and sew the face on first- on to the felt, between 2.5 inches from the top and 3.5 inches up from the bottom. Then sew the felt to the long piece of cotton, right sides together, leave an opening so you can flip. Also sew the two smalled pieces of white cotton together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ok- now this is where I discovered my mistake. I was making this wallet for my son to store his "Monkey Money" from the orthodontist in. "Monkey Money" aren't small coins, the are large wooden coins and the coin section I was making was only going to be 3.5 inches high and couldn't store the already 10 coins he had, not to mention any more he was going to get.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So if you are making a small pocket and zippered pouch, continue on with the small piece of white cotton fabric. Sew one side of the zipper to the side with the face and sew the other side of the zipper to the small cotton piece. Next sew a piece of white Velcro onto the bottom of the felt piece with the face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And you are done! Mine has a pocket big enough for all those wooden coins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And has a cute little Finn face!</span></div>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://www.dosmallthingswithlove.com" title="Small Things"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-eCa-xJlKXTo/UPBxAQeKhsI/AAAAAAAAGkI/t9lV53VAJ0U/s250/purchased%2520link%2520party%2520logo%2520small.jpg" alt="Small Things" style="border:none;" /></a></div>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293798953689112642noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5398423824128093664.post-13014167784939076712013-01-13T13:16:00.001-06:002013-01-21T18:10:21.048-06:00Little Liam's Lion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is my nephew Liam. It seems like just yesterday we welcomed him into this world (</span><a href="http://myinnerneedtocreate.blogspot.com/2012/08/welcome-baby-to-world-shirts.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">shirts we wore to the hospital</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">). But in reality it's been almost 5 months and like 5 month olds- he chews on everything and loves bold contrasting toys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I kept this in mind while I picked an animal to crochet him for Christmas. Looking through a file I have on my ipad of images I saved from the Internet (back before Pinterest) and I found this photo of a crocheted stuffed lion...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">he is so cute! Since I saved the file I don't have the link to see who's photo or pattern this belongs to(I can't find it on a google images search either?) so if you know please leave me a comment and I will place the link to this original lion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was a pretty easy pattern to figure out, I just made the body a rectangle and the arms/legs tear drop shaped. Really it is the face and mane that make him so unique and lovable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, I wanted make my girls some rag dolls for a while and while designing them out I thought I would dress the dolls in soccer uniforms... then it occurred to me that all the Jaybirds would love a doll for Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Cut out 4 sleeve pieces and 2 shirt pieces out of what color you want to make the shirt. Hem the bottom of all 4 of the sleeve pieces and the neckline and bottom of the shirt, front and back pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Cut out 4 leg pieces of the shorts and 2 short pieces from the black. Hem the top of the shorts and the bottoms of the leg pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sew the hairstyle onto the head- stitching nicely around the bangs that frame the face and by the neck on the back of the head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Fold the bottom of the inward and pin the legs and the bottom closed. Stitch straight across with black thread- and you're done! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Browsing around Pinterest before Christmas I found a couple cute ideas that I made for teachers and girlfriends. And it all starts with peppermint essential oil...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Up first is the Peppermint Sugar Scrubs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can find a million recipes on the Internet, I just did mine really simple mixing 2 cups sugar with 1 cup oil and adding 1 tsp of peppermint essential oil. To make the red just add a little food color and stir well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I found the jars 1/2 off at Hobby Lobby, which was really good since I made 8 of these.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The left overs that didn't fit in the jars I gave to my girls and I have to say these feel really good on dry winter skin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Next I made some Peppermint Rice Heating Pads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I found this tutorial on <a href="http://www.u-createcrafts.com/2012/12/28-last-minute-handmade-gifts.html" target="_blank">UCreate's 28 Last Minute Handmade Gifts</a> from the <a href="http://www.thegreenwife.com/2010/04/02/heating-pad-tutorial/" target="_blank">Green Wife.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">All you need is flannel, rice and peppermint essential oil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sew along the outside of the rectangle with right sides together, leaving an opening to pour in the rice. Flip inside out, pour in desired amount of rice and then pin all the way across to keep the rice in place while you sew. Continue making the desired size pockets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hope you all had a great holiday season!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oops, before the Christmas gifts post I have Oliver + S winter dresses!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I used the "After School Shirt + Pants" pattern but made the shirt into a dress by increasing the length.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The pattern, like I have found with other Oliver + S patterns, was really easy to follow, came together perfectly and looks very professional.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Because the dresses were so close in size (size 4 and 5) I couldn't tell them apart, so I embroidered their names on the front of the dresses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I used a blue and brown fabric for the skirt portion that has little reindeer and snow flakes on it. It is winter themed without being too "in your face" about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The back of the dresses have the same 2 button yoke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They turned out really cute, so cute that they wore them in our family photo this year... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">to a Christmas church musical...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In school Christmas Choir performances....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And even family reunions!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love these dresses.... probably would love it as a shirt too. I will put that on to my to-do next list :)</span></div>
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