New Look 6027

I was trying to get my husband to stop taking pictures of the silly children and take a picture of my new shirt before he left on a week-long business trip (to Vegas, to work for Showtime, filming Manny Pacquiao. cause he’s cool like that). Awesome. he caught me scolding him. I’m sorta smiling, even […]

How to fake it with a too-short zipper

Ok, so MY SEWING TIME is after the kidlets go to bed. tonight, it started at 8pm. I can dream all day, and plan out a million things, and maybe even cut stuff out, but I can’t turn on the machines unless everyone is asleep. That means that I need to GET STUFF DONE, quickly, […]

The Perfect Summer Dress

I cut into the DS fabric from Joanns (I only bought a 1/2 yard of this one, and of 2 others), and combined it with some red Swiss Dot scraps to make this: She wasn’t super psyched about being a model, so these are all “action” shots, but hopefully you’ll be able to see how […]

Moth Wing Mug Rug

So…. Back in March, D and I found this awesome moth “resting” on our porch….  I took a bunch of pics of the wings, because they were soooo interesting… love all the “modern” lines pretty moth! I bought some solids to match, with the idea of testing out a mug rug, so here it is:  […]