Day of the Dead rehash

So i bought this awesome fabric from superbuzzy.com  and I had some left, also some extra brown velvet from my cape adventure.  I made two things that actually cameout somewhat respectable.

Day of the Dead Bag

and


Day of the Dead Tea Cozy

The tea cozy was extremely easy to make and I am so pleased with the results.  I am sending it to my cousin Mary to be a beta tester.  I don't have a porcelian tea pot, and when I drink tea its usually from our Keurig, so I thought the beta testing should be done by an avid tea drinker.

I was thinking, prompted by a quite a few people telling me to open an Etsy store, that maybe I should.  Maybe one day it will bring in so much income I wouldn't have to work full time haha.  Since I don't think my skills are up to par just yet, like I still think my purse came out sloppy---Billy tells me I'm just overly critical---I thought tea cozy's would be a great way to make really easy, very neat looking projects that can fetch a few bucks....if there is actually a market.  Stay tuned.



 Oh and since the wedding is over is a photo of what I made the girls to go with their dresses.  I hope they liked them I had lots of fun making them :)

On another note...I am so excited my christmas present this year is to go take a clothes making private sewing lessing at The Sewing Studio in NYC.  I am just as giddy as a school girl to get to go do this!

Anyway that's all the sewing I have done these past few days.  ACTUALLY that's a lie!  I made pine filled sachets as the favor for my sister's cookie party I can't attend.  They were a lot more work than I anticipated but they came out so friggin cute.  I hope all the guests enjoy them---they smell so good I didn't want to give them to her!  I will ask her to take some photos for the blog.  They were really easy to make.  Perhaps I will make a tutorial on them, its a 4-5 step process and you can make each for less than 2 bucks how awesome is that?

Happy Tuesday!

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All Saint's Day

Hello world,

Well today was my dad's bday...Happy B-day to him...unfortunately we aren't able to make it back up to NJ till this weekend.

Anyway...didn't get a chance to sew today, but I bought the fabric for my sister's project yesterday at Joann....I think I'm in love with that store. It was cheap too with my coupons!

Well I thought I'd upload a few photos of the few projects I completed that I never blogged about.

This first one is of the bags I made the bridesmaids....I never took a completed picture!  I'm so mad because they came out super cute...I had a different fancy button for each girl.

There is my dear husband posing in the vest and shirt ... with a hood (that I had to figure out how to add and adjust to a pattern....when I never had sew from a pattern before)! I think it came out spiffy for my first go around with a pattern....I already realized things I can do better and faster and all sorts of things, I also got dear hubby to get me an eyelet maker because the pattern called for it...a win for me...it was at least a good learning experience. I will have to find out what pattern # I used and put it on here....it actually wasn't that hard and there were a lot of cool looking variations.

Here's me in the cape I made that had a hood and I lined it with fabric that matched my costume, and apple juice ;) ....I plan to sew myself a costume like I am wearing for next year's renn fest.....lets see if I can make that happen.....

There is us...yes that's me I chopped off and dyed my hair...this is at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party in Magic Kingdom....for our honeymoon :)

Alright I'm exhausted....Goodnight!

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I'm Hitched ;)

The long absence has been do to the fact that I got married :). Oct. 8! It was fantastic, I had boatloads of fun....and then even more fun on the honeymoon. But alas we are back to reality and well, with a whole lot less planning to do for a wedding I hope to go back to doing a whole lot of sewing.

I actually sewed the girls in the bridal party little black clutches to go with their dresses, I will post a pic soon, I thought they came out quite cute!

On my cutting board list:
Project for my sister for her annual cookie party (since I can not attend :) boo)
New winter purse

I Almost forgot!! I sewed from my very first real pattern a Halloween/Renn. Fair costume for the hubby, who of course wanted costume alterations. I must say though, for me being under a very tight time crunch (like 8 hours) it being my very first every garment from a store bought pattern, and being totally exhausted, the outfit came out really nice! I now at least how a feel for using clothing patterns. I also sewed myself up a cape to go over my dress for the fare. And well it came out AWESOME!!! I mean I'm so super proud of it! We wore our costumes on our honeymoon, to disney at mickey's not so scary Halloween party, and I was so pleased at all the compliments we both got. I have to say I beamed a bit when people were complimenting Billy's costume--I made it! What a great feeling...as if I didn't have the sewing bug bad enough!!

Stay tuned for photos! Blog real soon.

Oh and:
I just discovered that a blind stitch is really easy--thanks you tube!! I always thought it was so hard to do, but it's not!!

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