Category Archives: Being Creative

Fostering creativity through sewing and other hobbies

Our Big Girl turns 6!

Our BG turned 6 on Thursday. And that meant plenty of sewing!

For starters, her Daddy painted the room pink! The new quilt on her bed was a family project. I appliqued, my mom pieced, and my aunt machine quilted. The curtain took about 30 minutes to put together. The bed skirt is actually a panel hemmed on all 4 sides and velcroed to the day bed frame. The beanbag is also a new addition–and there’s the story…

I found really clear instructions for making a bean bag here. The instructions taught me how to draw off the pattern and to put the bean bag together. Easy, easy, easy. But—I went to our local Hancock’s to “pick up” 3 bags of bean bag filler. How much could that cost, right? Oh my goodness. That stuff was 23.99 a bag!!! I wasn’t spending almost $75 on a silly bean bag. After fretting for about an hour, I called the local vacuum cleaner hospital (who’s other claim to fame is bean bags) and found a bean bag for $19.95! Needless to say, the filler went back to Hancock’s. The hubby and I created a make-shift funnel and emptied the 19.95 beanbag into the new one!

Halloween sewing

Look! It’s only October 11th and I’ve already finished 1 Halloween costume!!!!! (Just ignore the fact that she actually needed it on October 10th at 6:30 and I finished it about 5:30 that same day.)

This is from Simplicity 3997. I made view D out of red and black buttersuede, based on the drawings my Big Girl made several weeks ago.

If I did it again, I would make it a little bigger than a 6, as my BG is tall! I added the fringe and pockets by hand, simply because I had a lot of car pool time this week. It probably would have been easier by machine–but you must be home to do that!

As for the Little Man’s–still underconstruction…

Let’s give this a shot…

So, here’s my first post on blogspot…don’t expect much.

I’m a stay-at-home mom with a soon-to-be kindergardener and a 2-year-old. When I’m not doing the usual (dishes, laundry, dusting, picking up toys, laundry, chauffering children, volunteering at schools, laundry–I think you get the picture…), I spend my time sewing.

I started my sewing business (if you can actually call it that) about this time last year. I make personalized children’s clothing. The basic idea is this: a mom can choose a style, like a jumper or jon-jon. Then she selects the fabric and the embroidery or applique design she likes. She can also choose from several cute trims. When she’s made all her choices, I stitch up the outfit just for her child. I offer holiday clothes, monograms, and everyday designs, but my hottest sellers are the baby tiger cub outfits. We LSU cans can’t have enough purple and gold. (I’ve also designed for Arkansas and Bama fans.) You can check out my website at: http://www.personalitychildrensclothes.com/.