Sakura Spring Dress

A while back, eons ago in blogger-time, my dear friend Holly over at 504Main held a little giveaway.

She was giving away Silhouette products.

She had shown projects she had done without the cutter but with the products.

They were WAY cool.

You should check out her blog, 504Main to see them!

Well, I have been sitting on the products for a while, contemplating just what to do with them.

Then, I was lucky enough to get a Silhouette and have been singing along with it...

(if you have one, you know it sings, right?)

Then I decided that I really need to try this Heat Transfer Material.

It was in yellow, which is a hard color for me to work with.

It's just not in my general color palette, you know?

Well, I had one of those "Duh!" moments when I was looking through some knits in my stash for another project.

So, I stopped what I was doing, Sorry Hollie, your jeans wont be mended till next week...

Well, I got to work with the Silhouette Studio.

I started with a simple Sakura flower.

Do you know what a Sakura flower is?

Cherry Blossom

I made lots and lots of them.  Rotated them. Made them different sizes.

Then arranged them in the shape of shirt bodice piece.

Then followed the easy-peasy instructions on the Heat Transfer Material.

Then I applied it to my fabric piece.

Can I tell you just how FABULOUS this Heat Transfer Material is??

It is AWESOME!

This is not your craft-store will do for 1 wash stuff.

This stuff is in it for the long kid-wearing/washing haul!

It is nearly effortless at being flawless!

I am a huge fan! And can't wait to get more colors!

So, I was nearly ready to take pictures when my sweet Angel told me it didn't sparkle enough.

So, I got the hotfix crystals out.

Have a look at how it turned out!

Then I got inspired and made a matching fascinator:

Thanks Holly for the fun products! I have the best fun with them!

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Making It With Allie - Turtles

So, my bestie Hollie and I were chatting before her finals last week.
Then she mentions that she is also supposed to make one of her daughters a turtle costume.
Now, I am not going to go into how I and Hollie and her spouse feel about the parent being required to make costumes... I don't want the wrath of all of you happy bloggin teachers...
Anyways, these 5th graders were having an opera and each student needed a costume.
Costumes have to be made and I love to do it.
People who have a business AND are going to college don't like to make costumes so much.
I also remembered I had the perfect fabric  for her costume so, I could make her a turtle shell and all she had to do was put on some green leggings and a green shirt.
Plus when she told me that the kids actually made the script and all the music,
I was SO impressed, I had to do it!
I have a special place in my heart for opera and opera for kids.

So, I whipped up this turtle shell.
It only took a piece of foam core board, fiber fill, batting, knit fabric, elastic and some embroidery floss

I cut out the turtle shape in the foam core board and then poked holes in a pattern in the middle.
Then I layed the fiber fill down and then a layer of batting, then the knit fabric.
This all got stapled with a regular stapler.
Then I took the embroidery floss and sewed with a very long needle threw my holes up and down through the pattern to create "tufting" for the turtle pattern.
Then on another piece of foam core board in the same shape only slightly smaller, I cut space for elastic to go through (for her arms)
Then covered the whole thing with the knit fabric.
Then the two pieces got sandwiched together with hot glue.
EASY PEASY.
Then I decided that since I had barely missed the closing of the post office for the day,
I could add some reinforcing/decorative stitch around the edge.
It turned out really cute and you know I forgot to take pictures before I dropped it into the mail.
But Hollie was smart enough to bring her camera to the show!
So here is Miss Sophie in her Turtle costume!

 

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IT Art

My Aunt Shelley asked me to make her some art for her new office.

The new place is very modern in tones of gray.

Sounds bright and cheery, eh? Right.

So, she asked me to come up with something within these parameters:

(I love these kind of exercises)

Grays - think Kleenex Box

4 pcs. Green

UP To 4 pcs. Black

1 pc. Yellow

1 pc. Red

And she gave me a canvas to put it on.

So you ask, where is the color scheme coming from?

Well, my Aunt Shelley is a Systems Analyst.

Yea, I am not sure (as I am not one) what she does, but she does it REALLY well.

Anyways, the programs she has to use is in 4 colors:

Black (background) Green (Most of the words)Red and Yellow (Sparingly)

And then the Grays of the office.

So, this is what I came up with:

So, she popped her art up in her office and her co-workers very much appreciated the IT-themed art!

Now she's working on a little floral arrangement to go with it.

I will show it to you all when it's finished!

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Making It With Allie - Waiting for The Doctor

Greeting friends!

The weather here has been delightful!

We are on day two of record-breaking warm weather and I LOVE it!

Hope you all have been able to enjoy some nice weather where you are.

Today I am SO excited to share with you this little number my little girl asked me to make for her!

Before I get to showing it, I must share with you a little back-story...

When I was growing up, my father watched this British show called Doctor Who.

This show has been on since 1963! 

 It is a science-fiction "drama-die" (for lack of a better word) where The Doctor takes an engenue companion on galactic adventures and usually, he ends up saving the world....

Well, over the years, I watched it too.

And when BBC America began airing the newest series of them, I of course watched them too!

Well, the newest series began a few weeks ago and I was speechless when

Lil'A was maybe more excited than I to watch the premier!

It turns out that she LOVES this show!

She LOVES The Doctor!  Especially this latest Doctor...

She asks to watch Doctor Who On-demand as often as she asks for Max & Ruby.

And I am thrilled!

Now, The Doctor travels in this Police Box turned TARDIS.

I can hear you asking: A wha? Just what is a Tar-dis?

Well, let me begin by saying, it sounds better if you put on your best British Accent and say it...

But TARDIS stands for:

Time And Relative Dimension In Space

This means, in a really simplistic way:

 It can travel through to any point in time and space.

It is larger on the inside than the outside.

And can blend in to its surroundings.

Basically, for The Doctor, it is his Deluxe-Motor-Home-In-The-Sky

The Tardis has a signature sound that has been featured in the series over the years, which in an episode of late,

River Song explains that the sound is made because The Doctor doesn't take off the brakes upon landing and take off.

So, AuBrynne says to me, "Can you make me a dress with The Doctor's machine on it?"

Being the ambitious sort, I said, "Absolutely!"

And I started out making a template with the Silhouette Studio.

Lots of tiny 4.5mm circles....

Enough for the little Tardis-Blue nail-heads to fall into...

More than 650!

This probably would have been easier with the Rhinestone Template Kit,

but I wasn't willing to wait for the post to do that...

And, nail-heads are not weighted as rhinestones are and it made the whole process pretty tedious.

But the results are FANTASTIC!!!

You want to see what I came up with?

I like this dress SO much, I want to make a "Mommie version"...

What do you think?

Now, before you go saying:

This girl has gone way too geek for me,

check out this  AMAZING Tardis, over at Mateo and Me!

You know there is a certain little 4 year old girl who is asking for one of these in her size...

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Thank You Disney

I have told you all about my little curly-haired terrorist Angel, right?

She has these stinking ADOR-I-ABLE "Spring-Curls".

I love her beautiful Springy Curls!

They make me giggle!

AuBrynne doesn't like them as much.

People touch them and comment about them all the time when we are out and about.

In fact, when we travel different places,

 like say -Hawaii -she gets A LOT of attention from other tourists.

By the end of our trip when anybody comes to start looking at her hair,

she will put her hands on her hair and say, "It's MY hair!"

Like they are going to take her hair from her or something.

Even with all of the admiration, she still wishes she didn't have curls.

Now, up until a few months ago,

AuBrynne was less than happy about sitting through a hair blow-out session.

She would not let a flat iron NEAR her head!

But then! Then Disney's Tangled came out.

And that was the beginning of a whole new world around here!

Along with wanting every Tangled toy and accessory available

AND having everything in lavender and pink,

It also gave way to a VERY patient little girl!

She will let me blow out her hair and even flat-iron it!

Now this is all fine every once in a while, right?

It IS pretty...

You can REALLY see the Reba-Red ribbons of hair when it's straight...

But now every morning, my little girl wants to have her hair blown out every day!

And even I can say: Once a week is enough.

But yesterday, I had promised Lil' A she could have her hair straight.

We Shampooed and deep conditioned (pre-cautionary to prevent breakage)

and then we took the hair-dryer to it and then the flat iron.

Good thing she has a 4 year old sized head...

And off to school she went!

Don't mind that she is wearing 24 month clothing...

Well, Lil' A came home and had that lovely superfine SAND in her hair!

Good heavens, me! I just barely finished blowing out that hair!

Darn it!

But even further, how the heck am I gonna get this sand out?!

Sand is just sharp bits of glass in really tiny form!

It's going to break off her hair if I don't get it out pretty quick!

I remember hearing somewhere that baby-powder is the trick.

So, I go the baby powder out and poured it onto her scalp.

And then shook my fingers through and my goodness!

-90% of the sand was gone like that!

A good brush through with a really dense brush, and another 5% was out!

In the end, I did have to give her another shampoo,

where she had her hair under the water and the heavier sand fell out to the bottom of the tub.

But hear I am with a girl who wants straight hair, AGAIN.

And do you know what her response was this morning when

I reminded her that she shouldn't put sand in her hair?

But the sand was the SAME color as Rapunzel's hair!

I wanted my hair JUST like Rapunzel!

Oh when you grow up little girl, you will love your ever reddening red hair...

So, You know I got out the hair dryer and re-did it. For the second day in a row.

I don't dare show her Little Mermaid -she might want me to make her a tail!

So, I have to say: Thank You, Disney.

Thanks for making this lovely Tangled movie.

Thank you for helping me bone up on my straight-hair-blow-out.

Making It With Allie

It's time for the

Making It With Allie Party!

Has anybody else noticed a spike in the number of banks and online hacks reported lately??
Well, guess what friends?
Somebody got to my stuff and its dizzying!
Hopefully I can get things cleared up quick!
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What have you got this week?

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