October 29th 2010

First day of Halloween and the best way to be creative is to successfully put together a rocken costume.

(Hermione Granger after a draft of Polyjuice potion)

October 28th 2010

Putting the finishing touches on my Halloween costume for the work party tomorrow.

October 27th 2010

I finished my necklace, it is my favorite one yet.




Edit: I also fixed my vest for Halloween but I'm not sure if it is going to work. Wish me luck

October 26th 2010

I doodled and started working on a necklace today but nothing actually got finished, other than the doodles of course.

October 24th 2010

Today I did two things...

1) I made the shorts for the munchkins fairy costume, I didn't have the elastic or the measurments for it so I just used ribbons.

2) my mom makes pillow blankets and she asked if I wanted to help. I made a whole one, and I messed up at every turn. It turned out okay in the end but it was super frustrating. I was so frustrated I forgot to take a picture.

October 23rd 2010

I was going to have a lazy night but instead the jewelry making bug bit me and I made a necklace.

October 22nd 2010

Wings are obnoxiously time consuming and potentially dangerous. I broke 3 needles on my sewing maching trying to sew pipe cleaners down, and one of them broke while I was hand cranking the machine so that the force of it actually running wouldn't force it to break, that one must have been faulty from the start. Anyway, the dress is done, the wings are made, the belt is finished, and the flowers are glued to the headband. The only thing not done is the shorts to wear under the dress, I'm not that worried about them. My little sister is going to try everything on tomorrow, here is me crossing my fingers and hoping it fits.

October 20th 2010

I got a whole lot done today on my little sister's fairy dress

1) I attatched the top and bottom half of the dress
- I only messed up in a couple of places but they were easy to fix, only difficulty was that I was still using invisible thread so it was hard to see

2) I made a belt for the dress out of sparkly purple material
- didn't realize that I needed graments until I got to this step, lucky for me I have a bunch of little silver ones left over from who knows what project. Good thing I have a bunch because I had to test two in order to remember just how they work
- downfall to the tiny graments, I have very thick ribbon to lace through them. Not a problem, I made it work.

3) only one fairy wing got made, but it was a doozy
- the pattern that says where to put the veins for the wings (aka sparkly white pipe cleaners) is on the pattern, and the material won't accept my white pencil so I did a crazy manovering trick and about a thousand pins to get the pipe cleaners on just right.

I think everything looks nice.

October 19th 2010

I worked on my munchkins Halloween costume some more today. I finished getting all the skirt pieces together and I was even able to use my dress maker dummy (aka Sally) to get it all lined up.







I had started working on this at my parents house but I picked it all up yesterday and decided to work on it at home now that time is running out. Then I realize that I had forgotten the silver tread at my parents. The crises was averted when I realized that I have invisible thread for the wings at my place As I was setting the fishing line like thread up on the maching I felt like I was making the emperor's new clothes.

October 11th 2010

So I just found an app on my phone that will make it much easier to update this blog, and it let's me add pictures, I love my phone a little more everyday.

Anyway enough about that. I worked on my little sister's dress some more today, I got all the petals sewn together, but I melted one of them a little but I should be able to hide that mishap. I forgot to take pictures while I was working though.

October 10th 2010

I'm still working on my little sister's fair costume. I now have the top and the under skirt finished. I have the petals, over skirt, belt, and wings to make

October 9th 2010

I know I haven't been doing much lately but now I am working on my little sister's halloween costume and probably will be for the next couple of weeks.

wish me luck!

October 7th 2010

I'm on vacation, nothing creative is going to happen for a few days, but my friend loved the necklace I made for her.

October 4th 2010

Last week I was sick and then lazy and I just needed some time to relax, so that means I wasn't very creative. Now I'm back, for the last two days I have been cutting out the pattern and material for my little sisters Halloween fairy costume. She is going to be so cute in it.