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Monday, July 12, 2010
I Tutued!
I was very inspired by Samster Mommy's Tutu 2010 drive, that I tried my hand at making one last night and I think it turned out OK. No, it's not exactly going to be used by any Bolshoi ballerinas but that wasn't the point anyway :) I more or less followed the instructions that the Greenbean's Crafterole used, which she modified from Samster Mommy's tutu-orial. I used a roll of tulle cut in 24 inch lengths ( so when they're doubled over they're 12 inches in length) and tied them to a length of satin ribbon. It was super easy and for a first crack at making a tutu, I think it will work:
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Tutu Special Tutu Not Spread The Word
It's been unusually hot in my neck of the woods and I have not felt like doing much making of anything these past several days. I like to try to keep my blog current by posting something daily and I was at one of those "I got nuthin" places today. Then, I checked my reader and saw something on one of the blogs I recently began following, Greenbean's Crafterole ( I just love that name) that just needs to be blogged about and shared...even if I'm the last person in the blogiverse to have found out about this...I'm guessing I'm not.
Greenbean blogged here about "Tutu Drive 2010" which is an effort to collect dress up clothes to donate to seriously ill children. She learned about it from another blogger, Samster Mommy who is coordinating this blogland drive. It's part of the Princess Alexa Foundation which Samster Mommy tells us was started by a mom to a little girl named Alexa who liked to go everywhere dressed as a princess, but who sadly, lost her battle with her illness in 2008.
We came through the one scare we had with our son when he was 2 and he has been blessed with good health ever since. I cannot imagine anything more devastating than knowing that your child was seriously or terminally ill. I also can't imagine that gathering things like dress up clothes would or even could be high on the list of things you have to do. So this just sounds like the most awesome thing that creative and crafty people could do. Here's what Samster Mommy is doing (and I've linked directly to the post w/ all of the details):
#1 Make/Buy a tutu sometime between now & July 20th & mail it to Samster Mommy. It's needs to be sealed in a ziploc baggie & the baggie should be labeled with the size. She'll gather all the goods together & send them off to Crys in one big box of tutu goodness! And if you can, email her a pic of your creation so she can feature it on the blog.
#2 Please help spread the word! (100 tutus is a lot & if she doesn't get enough people involvedshe's going to be spending a lot of all-nighters with her tulle stash.) You'll see there are two buttons available on her sidebar for the Tutu Drive, if you have a blog all you have to do is copy the html code below the button & paste it as either a gadget (there's a gadget for html) in your sidebar or just paste it directly into your blog post in "edit html" mode.
I will attempt #1, but #2 was easy to do. So let's help Samster Mommy reach her goal OK?
She's even got a "10 Minute Tutu-torial" right here!
Greenbean blogged here about "Tutu Drive 2010" which is an effort to collect dress up clothes to donate to seriously ill children. She learned about it from another blogger, Samster Mommy who is coordinating this blogland drive. It's part of the Princess Alexa Foundation which Samster Mommy tells us was started by a mom to a little girl named Alexa who liked to go everywhere dressed as a princess, but who sadly, lost her battle with her illness in 2008.
We came through the one scare we had with our son when he was 2 and he has been blessed with good health ever since. I cannot imagine anything more devastating than knowing that your child was seriously or terminally ill. I also can't imagine that gathering things like dress up clothes would or even could be high on the list of things you have to do. So this just sounds like the most awesome thing that creative and crafty people could do. Here's what Samster Mommy is doing (and I've linked directly to the post w/ all of the details):
#1 Make/Buy a tutu sometime between now & July 20th & mail it to Samster Mommy. It's needs to be sealed in a ziploc baggie & the baggie should be labeled with the size. She'll gather all the goods together & send them off to Crys in one big box of tutu goodness! And if you can, email her a pic of your creation so she can feature it on the blog.
Please mail all donations to:
Samster Mommy
P.O. Box 84132
Gaithersburg, MD 20883
Samster Mommy
P.O. Box 84132
Gaithersburg, MD 20883
#2 Please help spread the word! (100 tutus is a lot & if she doesn't get enough people involvedshe's going to be spending a lot of all-nighters with her tulle stash.) You'll see there are two buttons available on her sidebar for the Tutu Drive, if you have a blog all you have to do is copy the html code below the button & paste it as either a gadget (there's a gadget for html) in your sidebar or just paste it directly into your blog post in "edit html" mode.
I will attempt #1, but #2 was easy to do. So let's help Samster Mommy reach her goal OK?
She's even got a "10 Minute Tutu-torial" right here!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Apparently, I'm Very Versatile
because Steph S, from "A Day In The Life Of A Grad Student's Wife" has presented me with another "Versatile Blogger" award! Thank you so much Steph!
UPDATE: Jessica, from Caterpillar Family passed this on to me the next day so I'm cheating a bit and combining it with Steph's.
Steph has a lovely blog and right now she's got a feature called 
and a picture of my favorite drink in the entire world, a Starbuck's Iced Mocha, so you know we get along fine! And she has an etsy store with some very cool signs.
So now on to the rules of the award and I have to say, I have a dilemma. I have been fortunate to receive a few of these lately and since you have to tell 7 things about yourself and I am just NOT that interesting, I'm going to modify this a bit. I have mentioned that I can relate almost anything to a movie so I'm going to list the 7 movies I've seen at least 7 times!
UPDATE: Jessica, from Caterpillar Family passed this on to me the next day so I'm cheating a bit and combining it with Steph's.
and a picture of my favorite drink in the entire world, a Starbuck's Iced Mocha, so you know we get along fine! And she has an etsy store with some very cool signs.So now on to the rules of the award and I have to say, I have a dilemma. I have been fortunate to receive a few of these lately and since you have to tell 7 things about yourself and I am just NOT that interesting, I'm going to modify this a bit. I have mentioned that I can relate almost anything to a movie so I'm going to list the 7 movies I've seen at least 7 times!
- "The Godfather"
- "The Godfather Part Two"
- "Steel Magnolias"
- "The Color Purple"
- "Terms of Endearment"
- "Rocky"
- "The Hunt For Red October"
- 504 Main (Holly loves mochas too!)
- Beyond The Picket Fence
- Blommi
- Cindy Adkins Whimsical Musings
- Decor Chick
- Diary of A Chocoholic ('nuff said!)
- Envirocraftiness
- Flamingo Toes
- Less Cake More Frosting
- Life By Chocolate
- Ma What's For Dinner?
- Mom. Undecided
- Roller Coaster Life
- Sweet European Dreams
- These Creative Juices
Friday, July 9, 2010
Woo Hoo! We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Blogging
to say that I reached 200 followers today!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU all of you lovely people who are following me! I will be celebrating this milestone with a giveaway which I'll announce when I have my first ever link party one week from today.
We now return you to your normal programming.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Reading Glass Cases
Welcome to those stopping in from
I'm always on the lookout for things I can do away from home, either in the car or to take with me when I travel. I saw this idea somewhere that of course for the life of me I can't remember , so if anyone has an aha moment, let me know .
I love working with felt because it's so forgiving. So I made these felt reading glass cases which were :
Fold the left side over to line up with the right and do a blanket stitch with embroidery floss. I started on the bottom left, worked my way around the top and then across the fold area. I used the section I cut away to make a double layer of the top which helps when you stitch across the fold. Sorry no pics...I was doing these in the car over the 4th of July weekend. When you're done with your stitching, freehand cut random shapes to embellish your case (great way to use scraps) and add whatever misc things you have on hand...I have a stash of misc. buttons. It was also a great way to use up extra flowers I had left over from another project:
I'm always on the lookout for things I can do away from home, either in the car or to take with me when I travel. I saw this idea somewhere that of course for the life of me I can't remember , so if anyone has an aha moment, let me know .
I love working with felt because it's so forgiving. So I made these felt reading glass cases which were :
- Easy
- Inexpensive
- Functional
Fold the left side over to line up with the right and do a blanket stitch with embroidery floss. I started on the bottom left, worked my way around the top and then across the fold area. I used the section I cut away to make a double layer of the top which helps when you stitch across the fold. Sorry no pics...I was doing these in the car over the 4th of July weekend. When you're done with your stitching, freehand cut random shapes to embellish your case (great way to use scraps) and add whatever misc things you have on hand...I have a stash of misc. buttons. It was also a great way to use up extra flowers I had left over from another project:
How Could I NOT Blog About This?
Giveaway: Chocolate Bliss Cookbook & Nielsen-Massey Vanilla.
Hello? You've seen my blog name? Happy Happy Joy Joy! Over at BLOMMI's site ( which is the combination of blogger and mommy ...genius!) she's hosting a giveaway for this incredible book which yours truly would have absolutely no use for (you didn't really fall for that part did you?) :
and a bottle of Nielsen&Massey Vanilla which is to bakers what 12 year old scotch is to those who appreciate that stuff. With Nielsen&Massey Vanilla you can make things like this:
Yes, I did that to you. If I suffer, you suffer! So head on over to BLOMMI's blog and check out the details how you can win this for me, er um, I mean win this for yourself ! G'head...I linked it for you and everything.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
What The Heck Wednesday....
I won! That's what the heck! What am I talking about? Jill over at Envirocraftiness has a feature called..."What The Heck Wednesday". In her own words:
It's going to be called "What the heck do I do with this?" Wednesdays.
It's going to be called "What the heck do I do with this?" Wednesdays.
Aka What the heck Wednesday!
This is where I pull something I want to use up from my stash and you all get to leave comments and let me know what you think I should do with it.
I love this idea because her blog is focused on crafting and recycling and WTHW requires using up existing supplies aka "stash busting" and generates creative ideas from followers about what the heck to do with some of the stuff in her stash. I commented on one of these about a tray she was trying to decide what to do with and I won the prize. I never win anything so can anyone tell what a treat it was for me to receive her email telling me I won? Lookie what I get:
which I can't wait to drool over. So thanks Jill! For a great recurring feature, for the prize ( I won..did I mention?) and reminding us to use what we have (says the person who needs to work on that!)
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