Happy Eve of Christmas Eve Lovelies! Can you believe it? Christmas rolled around just like that! We usually take our Christmas picture in home ourselves, but this year Abbie asked to meet Santa Claus, and so we obliged. I was contemplating, for days, on whether or not to sew up another Christmas dress for her for our visit to meet Santa […]
OOTD: DIY Christmas Dress
PDF PATTERN REVIEW: The Uptown/Downtown Dress
Good Morning Lovelies! We made our last Disneyland visit for this year last week and I decided it was much too cold to consider any cosplay dresses. The wind chill was something fierce! Brrrr!!! I had some more Disney knit in my stash and again, turned to the inter webs to search for a suitable pattern. I wanted something with a turtle neck […]
DIY TUTORIAL: How to Transfer Pictures to Wood to Create Ornaments
Good Morning Lovelies, With Christmas approaching I was feeling a little homesick and missing my family in Belize. I wanted a way to still sort of have them with us for Christmas, and so I thought what better way than to create some personalized Christmas picture ornaments of them! They are super simple to do and so I thought I’d […]
PDF Pattern Testing: The Gertie’s Soda Shop Dress
Happy Tuesday Lovelies! So a while ago I answered the call for a PRE-TEST (which is the step before the actual testing of a pattern) for Gertie’s Soda Shop Dress by MCM Studio Designs. I’ve never submitted for a pre-test before, but I was so drawn to the line image design of the dress that I just had to do […]
Holiday Debut Blog Tour 2015
Good Morning Lovelies! Today I get to share with you my featured sews for the Holiday Debut Blog Tour. The Holiday Debut Blog Tour celebrates the end of their debut year for three new designers: Holli Coats of Hello Holli, Saskia Smith of The Wolf and the Tree, Gabriela Longfish of Chalk and Notch. Patterns from each of the three designers are […]
OOTN: The Good Dinosaur Inspired Dress
Happy Tuesday Lovelies! So I took Thanksgiving week off from blogging so the kids and I could just be lazy and try to recover from all of our colds, but I did manage to squeeze in a little time to sew up this dress inspired by The Good Dinosaur Movie that we had plans to go see. A few weeks […]
PATTERN REVIEW: Made for Mermaids Pattern Mash Up
Hey guys! Our monthly Disneyland trip snuck up on me and two days before we were scheduled to go I realized I HAD NOTHING PLANNED, nor did I have time to put a cosplay together. I had some super cute Disney Knit (you can find it on Fabric.com HERE) in my stash so I went to google to search for patterns specifically for knit when […]
Abigail’s OOTD – DIY Dress from Long Sleeve Shirt Template
Happy Monday Lovelies! So remember these super cute shoes I had posted about in JANUARY!?!? January!! (as time stamped in my facebook post HERE) I JUST FOUND THEM while cleaning out the closet! All of 11 months later!! I remember being super stoked that I had fabric that matched the shoes perfectly and had all the plans to sew up something to match them. But […]
PDF Pattern Testing: The Fishtail Kimono by Chalk and Notch
Happy Hump Day Lovelies! Today, I get to share with you another cozy, perfect-for-FALL sew – the adorable THE FISHTAIL KIMONO by Chalk and Notch. I was excited to be chosen to test this pattern for several reasons: 1. I was immediately hooked at the word “fist tail” (you know I immediately think “mermaid” and 2. I always look forward to working with designers I […]
PDF Pattern Testing: The Rondje Top by The Eli Monster
Happy Sunday Lovelies!! So Fall has finally graced us in Southern California with cooler temperatures, and you know what that means?! It’s jackets, scarves and boots season!! WOHOO!!! I was selected to test The Rondje Top by The Eli Monster a few weeks ago, and I kid you not, it is hands down, the quickest sew I’ve ever done – 20 minutes from start to finish! NO LIE! It’s […]