Roxie's Special Dress

Roxie just turned 8 and, in keeping with tradition, I told her I would make her baptism dress. Part of the fun of this tradition is that said granddaughter and Grammie go shopping together to pick out fabric and a pattern. I showed Roxie my progress and she was still marveling at 3rd Sunday Grammie-dinner how she could choose just what she wanted.

I finished it up today. And it is so Roxie!

I love how her personality shows through in her choices.

I truly enjoy sewing something special for my littles. I even got to learn a new technique (thank you Pinterest!)

I will be back in a couple of weeks with photos of my darling girl in her special dress.

PS... If you'd like to see Ashton's dress go here.


LATER-

Roxie's baptism day- November 1, 2014

MY *Awkward Family Photo*

I have to make a disclaimer at the beginning of this post... of all the sewing I did for my kids (and it was tons) this is the only epic awkward fail!

I got the great idea to make matching outfits for the kids and I for Easter 1993. Now there is nothing wrong with that, but the fabric choice... yeah, within a few weeks I began to question it.

And after I saw this photo I think the whole kit and caboodle went to Goodwill!

This is the days before digital... so I have a series of shots taken that are similar to this. I would set the timer, run to get into the photo and then try to look all cool and collected. Fortunately one of the kids 'fessed up that they'd been goofing off in the photos so I did get ONE group shot where we all looked normal... even if our cloths were...erm... interesting!

But look at my darling children! They never complained.

Spencer, 9.

Camille, 7 1/2.

Stuart, 7 1/2.

These photos have produced a lot of laughter in the last 21 years. Now I think I am brave enough to show them to the world...

I just have one thing to say... be kind!

Olympic Cutting

I moved my small tv into my sewing room, something I frequently do with a large project (Annabelle's quilt took all 8 Harry Potter movies plus!) my goal this week was to get most of the dresses cut out... WHILE IMWATCHED THE OLYMPICS.

I still have two more to cut out but it's time to call it a day. 

Cut. It. Out!

Sometimes I amuse myself...

I started cutting out dresses for Stephanie's bridesmaids. Since there are NINE (but I'm only sewing 8 of them!) I have to cut out one, mark the pieces, transfer any markings and then keep all those pieces together because I need the pattern to cut out the next dress with that person's unique measurements. 

I thought, "Hey, I've got all of those 1-gallon ziplock bags in my sewing room. I can use them!" When I pulled them out of the grundle of various size bags I found a couple labeled with names on them FROM CAMILLE'S WEDDING! No wonder I thought it was such a good idea!

Two down and six more to go!