Easter Hunting

Hello Friends!

Yesterday was a beautiful Easter here!

We had a fun egg hunt and ate wonderful food and had naps.

I could not have asked for a better day!

Here are the pictures of the Easter hunt with AuBrynne in her finished dress

with the finished Glitter Eggs!

I had the dress finished and AuBrynne insisted it needed "sparklys", So out came the Hotfix!

When I was looking for little trinkets for the basket, I happened upon his PERFECT ring!
AuBrynne was tickled to have a Princess jewel!

Easter candies were put into these little cuties and also found in the hunt!

 And to answer the questions I know you all  will ask ☺

The dress was made from lavender polyester with a printed lavender nylon overlay, found at Joanns.

The hem was done with woolly nylon and the serger.

It has an invisible zippered closure, which made for a fun hemming job!

The rhinestone buckle came from the bridal area of Michael's.

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Making It With Allie - Easter Preparations

Welcome to another edition of

Making It With Allie

The last couple of days have been getting ready for Easter. 

It kind of crept up on me this year.

I have been blowing out eggs so that I can get the

Martha Stewart Superfine Glitter out.

That is my favorite way to do eggs.

I just don't like having to blow the eggs out -gives me kind of a headache...

But they sure are pretty!

Only 2 dozen more...

Then, it dawned on me yesterday that I should probably start AuBrynne's Easter dress...

 It goes pretty darn fast, but it's always good to get things done earlier than later, right?

All I have left is to tack in the lining.

I wish there was an alternative to hand sewing...

So, here is a sneak peek at the dress!

So, I still have to get a Easter hair bit or hat together, but that is in progress still...

Anyways, I can't wait to show you all the finished photos!

Soon...

 

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Like a Sister...

Today I want to introduce you to a BFF in my life.  She is one of those women that you audibly envy.  And privately try to emulate without being completely obvious about it.  Her name is Hollie Nielsen Williams.  Hollie is a Super-Woman!  She owns her own very successful business.  People wait on a waiting list for EVER.  She is going through school right ow to become a nurse. And it's a breeze to her.  Hollie has been through an eventful life and still has a positive outlook.  And she is a fabulous mother to 5 kids! Three of her own and 2 step-children. And they all love her.
Hollie came out to Chicago in March for a week to visit. She helped me prepare the 60th Surprise Birthday party for my mother and she did our hair color and cuts.  Hollie and I talked about making some Easter dresses for the girls.  We got her handy husband Brian to Skype with us and he measured all of the girls.  I designed the dresses and had her girls sign off on the designs.  I decided to make Hollie a dress also but it would be a surprise for her. Then constructed them then popped them into the mail to Lovely-Logan. 
Hollie had her EXTREMELY talented sister Ginger Nielsen Voth to take photographs of them all in their dresses.  I had seen some of Ginger's work, but I was stunned at how fabulous they came out!  I don't know how I'm gonna be able to get Ginger to photograph all my stuff now... Seriously!  She makes my stuff look REALLY good! Not that the models weren't stunning to begin with... Everything just came together very nicely with the whole set of dresses. 
Thank You Hollie, Sami, Sophi, Lainey, Brian, Ashlyn, Brock and Ginger! I love You! 
Here is a little video of the photos they sent me!

AuBrynne's Easter Dresses

AuBrynne's Easter Dresses have become a tradition for me. I have made them. Well, I didn't make the first one. Mostly because one of my favorite friends, Hollie was visiting and I didn't want to be at the sewing machine while she was here.  But since then, I have taken great pleasure in making really girly dresses for the "Little Princess" as she has been calling herself lately.

This was year one, AuBrynne was 4 and a half months old:

This was the next years dress and new walker Easter walking shoe...:

This was last years dress:

And this was this years dress and now jeweled crown...

I will post more on the details and techniques on these dresses at a later date.  If there are other things you would like to see, please let me know in the comments section.  I love comments!