tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11551727206401409212024-02-21T22:22:20.924-06:00Spilt MilkRachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.comBlogger450125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-38742174238501225522019-04-20T06:00:00.000-05:002019-04-20T06:00:13.675-05:0012 Days BoxI found a handmade cedar box at the Goodwill for $1.99. <br />
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I consulted my neighbor, The Woodworker, and he says I could shine this puppy right up with some sanding and polyurethane. Now that the snow has finally melted, I can start looking into that. The latch is busted, as you can see, but it shouldn't be that hard to find a new one.</div>
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Hopefully the scratches come out of the top after some TLC.</div>
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I think I'll leave the hinges alone. </div>
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Maybe it will be a little too big for all of the ornaments? Also here's my French Hen:</div>
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Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-90148330697040255422019-04-19T19:01:00.003-05:002019-04-19T19:01:56.421-05:00Out of SeasonI finally got around to putting away all my Christmas baggage and remembered to take a picture of them beforehand. Sometimes I line them, sometimes I just serge them. Some get grommets, some don't.<br />
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I gave a number of them away when I sent the boxes off in December. My family was also invited to a gingerbread house decorating party and I brought five or six as a thank you gift for the hostess. And I still have this many left:</div>
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I did not increase my Christmas stash by much at the Textile Center Garage Sale this year - I actually still have quite a bit from last year that still needs to be made into bags. I've also been going through my regular stash and trying to cut out fabric for birthday bags. I just have to switch out thread in my serger to accommodate non-Christmas colors. </div>
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I am a procrastinator and I'm sort of cheap. I knew my kid's birthday was coming up and that she wanted it at an art place where they'd glue gems to a cardboard box and call it a day, but I procrastinated and didn't make the reservation in a timely manner. Admittedly, I also dragged my feet on that because it cost a buttload to rent the place. I mean, I know it's a non-profit and they could use the money, but I had procrastinated so I was left scrambling for a last minute home-based birthday party theme.<br />
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Anyway, she'd been pestering me to make homemade slime after she received a small little container of slime on Valentine's Day. As we had our hands in containers of slime, I asked if she'd like to do this for her birthday party and she got so excited for that. Perhaps I was high on Elmer's fumes when I made the suggestion. I mean, seriously, what was I thinking??<br />
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I changed to a different recipe at the last minute (because I'm foolish and addicted to Pinterest) and nothing took. I was so grateful for the help of another mom who stayed at the party. She was all hands on with me and a real champ about it. In the end, thankfully, all of the kids took away containers of glittery slime. Yay for them. My apologies went out to the parents because that stuff stains - we used food coloring and I did not police the amounts. Yikes. Sorry!</div>
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So here are some photos from the event. Mostly of my decorations, which made me happy and which I have not yet taken down. </div>
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The slime decorations were made with poster board. I just cut some freehand slime shapes and came away with two pieces of slime that was strung up. For the gift baggages, I just did the same on a smaller scale. These two things were my favorite.<br />
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(Question, though: Since when did birthday gift baggage for guests become a thing? Maybe I wasn't invited to many parties as a kid, but I don't remember getting gift bags for attending parties. Usually I stuff these baggages full of junk from the Dollar Store, but this time I exercised some restraint and only did a sheet of stickers and a ring pop. The take-home slime was the real gift, don't ya think?)</div>
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An example of slime that did not take:</div>
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I thought if I had one hand in each bowl it would make the slime work faster. Again, I could not have been more wrong.</div>
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Oh, and then there was the slime cake. What a nasty mess that did not at all resemble its tidy <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/55802482868898899/" target="_blank">inspiration on Pinterest</a>.</div>
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The inspiration cake base was black with neon green slime. I couldn't bring myself to use that much black food coloring. I was afraid of sending children home with oddly colored mouths (from cake) AND hands (from slime). I also feared that my child would cry if she didn't have pink somewhere on the cake and I'd already committed to the green pudding slime. </div>
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But a Mad Scientist party would be really cool. I mean, I could reuse the bowls...and get some beakers...and eye goggles. </div>
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Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-18486399089694011932019-02-27T05:50:00.000-06:002019-03-07T17:36:04.315-06:00Playing with Fire<div style="text-align: justify;">
Belated Christmas craft post! The girls and I set some ornaments on fire! I saw this on Pinterest from <a href="https://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/make-pretty-marbled-christmas-ornaments-with-ink-and-fire.html" target="_blank">It's Always Autumn</a>. I followed her directions and supplies list, so if you have questions about how it was done, go there. If you want to come over and make some more with us, just let me know and we'll set some more things on fire together. It will be fun. We will singe our eyebrows.</div>
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The ornaments have to be glazed porcelain. I inadvertently bought unglazed ones and the alcohol ink just got absorbed right into them (if I ever do marbling again, I think I'll try to marble those unglazed ornaments. Until then they've joined the Craft Room Abyss.). We made stars, rounds, and baubles. I can't think of another description for the third shape. Bauble. You know what I mean?</div>
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Here they are putting the drip drops of color onto the ornaments.</div>
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It was really fun. We made an initial batch of 12, I think, but some broke so I had to order some more. Then we tried it again and invited the neighbors over to set things on fire with us. I would not recommend using the tin foil directly on the table as I did above. Use a lipped baking tray. That's smarter. I didn't ruin the table or anything, but the alcohol should be more contained.</div>
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Each one was so unique. Can you believe that there were no tears shed while actually doing this craft? It was amazing. One of us always ends up crying when crafting together. The tears came later when I asked them to sign their names on the back.</div>
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For the signing, we used a Sharpie, but not a regular one. This Sharpie is maybe oil based. I can't remember and I can never keep track of where I hide this pen so I can't find it to tell you. Anyway, in the end all of the ornaments were signed by the children themselves. I added the year.</div>
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And how do they look like on the tree? They look glorious on the tree:</div>
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I have been eyeballing <a href="https://mmmcrafts.blogspot.com/p/twelve-days.html" target="_blank">mmmcrafts' Twelve Days of Christmas ornament series</a> for many years and a few after-Thanksgiving-sales ago I purchased 1-9 (Partridge-Pear through Drummers). I figured I would wait to put them together until the patterns for 10-12 were created, which, as it happens, was last year sometime. Yay! </div>
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Well, as you, gentle reader, are aware, my book club has an offshoot sewing group. In the past we have made <a href="http://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/07/bunting-sweatshop.html" target="_blank">bunting</a>, <a href="http://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/07/bunting-sweatshop.html" target="_blank">napkins</a>, <a href="https://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/12/gift-baggage.html" target="_blank">gift bags</a>, bibs...and we make the annual excursion to the Textile Center Garage Sale. Anyway, I whispered to one of my reader-sewer-friends about the ornaments and asked if she'd be interested in doing a stitch-a-long. She whispered it to another and another and then solicited the group as a whole....and in the end, four of us now have a Twelve Days Stitch-a-Long. </div>
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We have decided to make one per month. For the Partridge and Pear, we got together to plan, share supplies, and stitch. Since then, we have incorporated a little show-and-tell at our monthly book club. The plan is to document the ornaments on a monthly basis. So, without further ado, here is what we've done so far:</div>
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Some of us are using additional embellishments like sequins, beads, and buttons. I'm a fan of sparklies at Christmastime, especially when the lights from the tree hit them. Oh, speaking of the tree, for full disclosure, I am not making them into ornaments. I'm thinking that I will somehow string them, sort of like a garland...perhaps with little felt balls between each ornament set? I don't know. I need to use the felt balls up somehow. I've had them for seven years (they were purchased as a potential nursery mobile craft) and have not done one thing with them. So we'll see.</div>
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Oh, and I suppose you are wondering about the mechanics of the pattern. Everything comes together so easily. I haven't had a terribly hard time with removing the Sulky stabilizer. It really does not like to dissolve from underneath the stitches, so I feel like my embroidery is kind of stiff. I have reduced the number of strands from four to three in a lot of places. I feel like the needle gets gummed up from the Sulky and, with four strands, I felt it got tough to pull it through the felt and one of my needles even snapped in two. Nuts.</div>
Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-23113890737717982652018-10-31T20:22:00.003-05:002018-10-31T20:22:47.007-05:00Double Elsa<div style="text-align: justify;">
My littlest wanted to be Elsa. The oldest wanted to just be Laura Ingalls at first, but when she saw the fabric for Elsa, she immediately changed her mind. So that left me with Double Elsas. I had a coupon at Joanns, so I was able to snag some decent fabric for the dresses. I also picked up glitter tulle and grabbed a pattern on the same trip.</div>
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<a href="https://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m7212" target="_blank">M7212</a> from McCall's was the winner for this particular Elsa costume. I didn't want to use the Disney style pattern. I rejected it in part because Elsa's dress from the movie is so mature and I prefer a poofy dress. M2712 had an overdress that was great for the glitter tulle. I did View C (because of the long sleeves) that looked more like View B (because of the tulle).</div>
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It didn't take a lot of time to make the dresses, but because I'm a procrastinator there was about a month between the fabric purchase and the day I started cutting them out. Now...forgive the photos. The little one was a big stinker on Halloween from about 7:50am until about 7:30pm and did not want to cooperate with any part of dress up and photoshoot, so we got out a little later than I had anticipated. Once she got some candy in her she was an absolute doll, though. Go figure.</div>
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So here they are, my Queen Elsas:</div>
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They have white long johns on under their dresses. I had a batch of satin from the Textile Center Garage Sale that I predicted would end up in an Elsa dress. There was enough of the darker turquoise for the larger dress and since Trix wanted to be Elsa first, she got the lighter turquoise, which was more like the movie Elsa. </div>
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The wig is obviously meant for Rapunzel, but that's the one they wanted. I had a third wig that seemed more Elsa, but everyone wanted the Rapunzel wig. Trix would not wear the hair cap and Zelda's was all black, so it looked like poop. The crowns were pretty cheap and one of them broke early on and no amount of hot glue could repair it so we left those hanging on a gravestone in the yard. Trix's wig stayed on for the block and Z's stayed for about 80% of the trip around the block. Not bad.</div>
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I bought those snowflakes on Amazon. They are perfect for this costume! I wanted to do them all along the skirt, but my mother insisted they only be used along the hem and the overdress neckline. Since she was my handsewer for this project, I let her win.</div>
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Here they are from the back (waiting for tricks or treats). The glitter tulle was the devil and left a trail of glitter all through my house. And gathering tulle?!?! Yeah, I hated that. I already dislike gathering and then to do it with tulle. Blaaaaaah. But it was so pretty at night and sparkled so much!</div>
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I didn't dress up. I wanted to, but just ran out of time. I did wear a vintage teal cape-coat and didn't think about it until it was too late, but if I had worn braids I totally could have passed as Anna.</div>
Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-805684864793295172018-09-19T08:42:00.001-05:002018-09-19T08:42:26.683-05:00Things I BoughtA thrift store adventure led to a bag filled with sewing and other treasures, as follows:<br />
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First, a metal basket. I don't know what it is, but I love these shiny baskets. This is my third one. I will note that I passed one up a few weeks ago, so it's not like I have that Catcher-in-the-Rye compulsion of assassins.</div>
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Basket filled with goodies:<br />
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Goodies:<br />
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I love old sequins. They sparkle so much more than the modern ones.<br />
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Old spools. I found an old, old mason jar and am storing my old wooden spools in there until I figure out what else to do with them.<br />
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Old hooks and eyes. Stuff like this is good for repairing my vintage clothing.<br />
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I like the old mending kit. I'm going to give that to a girl I know who has a whole room filled with vintage clothes. I adore old packaging -- look at that sweet lady on the button packaging.</div>
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And these fancy buttons:</div>
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That black one is super nice.</div>
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Well, that's it for sewing stuff, but I also found stuff for the girls' play kitchen.</div>
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These silverware are fabulous. They came in a tiny basket.</div>
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And then a little tea set:</div>
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I don't know how long they'll keep the play kitchen. Z already towers over it and they don't play with it that much, but when they do they have tons of fun with it.</div>
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Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-62750169454652824562018-09-09T21:46:00.003-05:002018-09-09T21:46:57.713-05:00Laura Days<div style="text-align: justify;">
Earlier this summer, I thought about going to Pepin, WI to see Laura Ingalls Wilder's birthplace and museum, but when I looked up their website, I saw that they had a two-day event in September called Laura Days to celebrate her. I turned to my eldest and asked if she'd want to dress up as Laura with a bonnet and an apron. She looked at me and said, "Do I get a basket? A basket with berries?" Yes!! </div>
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Calico fabrics! This was about the extent of them in my stash and I had enough of the light blue and the brown to make dresses for the girls. <br />
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I used a nightgown pattern from Butterick (<a href="https://butterick.mccall.com/b4910" target="_blank">B4910</a>) because of the elastic neckline. I couldn't find any good apron patterns for the style I was looking for, so I drafted my own patterns for those. There was no actual pattern, I just cut some fabric and hoped it would work. I felt like I could have been on PR.<br />
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Here's the blue:<br />
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And the brown:<br />
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Forgive the crappy background. This was as soon as they were dressed out of the car and the last time they would be in full costume (Z quickly shed bits of hers - stinker).<br />
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Instead of a ruffle - because I did not have enough fabric - I used lace for the bottoms of both dresses. I like the back of the apron with the brown dress:<br />
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The bonnets were just smaller ones from an adult McCall's pattern that I used for my dress. <br />
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Yes, you heard right, I dressed up, too. I used <a href="https://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m7220" target="_blank">McCalls 7220</a>. I did not have enough calico, so I went with some gray fabric that I bought at the thrift store for $3.99. Here I am in all of my voluminous glory:<br />
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It gets better with this angle:<br />
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Husband said they wore clothes back then to prevent pregnancy (because I am obviously so enticing in these layers and layers of fabric).<br />
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Here's my hulking back:<br />
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And another very flattering shot:<br />
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The bonnet was a white with blue polka dots. A dress in that would have been pretty, but I didn't have enough. </div>
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I think my prairie dress could be used in many other costume variations, as follows:</div>
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Austere Pilgrim</div>
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Dowdy Scullery Maid</div>
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Hester Prynne (need to embellish the chest, of course) and this is currently the leader for Halloween 2019.</div>
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I bought another dollhouse.</div>
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Yes, I know, I have a Problem. But I also have another dollhouse. Yay!</div>
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I was out with my girls on Saturday morning and on our way home we saw a sign for a yard sale, so we stopped in. The sellers immediately saw the girls and said that we'd stopped by the right place because they had a dollhouse for us. The girls ran to it and said that they could get a neighbor for their other dollhouse. I circled the thing, sent photos of it to my mom, and then walked away with this monstrosity for $25.00.</div>
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It has a third floor attic space!</div>
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As you can see, the girls promptly had a moving day from one house to the other. They did not hand carry anything across the room. Instead, they filled up their toy vehicles with furniture and drove the toy vehicles from one house to the next.</div>
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Look an attic flap/lid:</div>
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There's definitely some work that needs to be done.</div>
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Floors. Bare wood throughout the house. That's different than the last house, which had floors that were just stained and had a clear coat on them.</div>
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Painting, both inside and out. Bare walls on the inside, which is refreshing. I'm glad I don't have to take off tons of wallpaper again. That was an evil task.<br />
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Major dusting:<br />
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Minor structural repairs. I'll probably leave this chipped bit as is, but one of those slats on another side of the house is completely off. I have it, so I'll just glue it back on, I guess.</div>
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And this little gingerbreading-type detail is missing from the other side.<br />
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What else can I say about this house? The doors open!</div>
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The hinges seem to be the wrong scale, so I'm not sure if I want to tweak that or leave them as they are.<br />
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I love the little oblong windows. They are on both sides of the house.</div>
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Unlike my other dollhouse purchase, this one did not come with any furnishings. This just came with some curtains in the attic and a little wall decoration.</div>
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In other news, I also found a piano for the house at the Goodwill:</div>
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It's a music box and I need to fix it up, but it's a good size for this dollhouse. I think it will overwhelm the other house.</div>
<br />Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-54052815391016039742018-07-07T09:40:00.000-05:002018-07-07T09:40:08.176-05:00Dollhouse: Finished FloorsI had to travel for work in January and again in March and somewhere before or between those trips I finished the floors on the dollhouse. I didn't want my girls to have half-finished floors if, for some reason, I croaked on those trips. So, now I can fully croak in peace and my mini 1:12 sized ghost will not haunt the dollhouse and its unfinished floors. <br />
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So they were previously <a href="https://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/08/floors.html" target="_blank">painted white</a> and that looked like junk and so I went with tiny pieces of <a href="https://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/08/floors-update.html" target="_blank">basswood strips</a>. I think the finished result looks pretty smashing. They look like the floors in my 100 year old house, actually - with the different hues. Does it look like a teeny tiny real house yet?</div>
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The stairs were a challenge. I decided to leave the rise white and the run got the basswood. (Do I have that right? Rise and run? Or did I reverse them? I refuse to google that and will continue to live in ignorance.) </div>
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Some of the heights of the strips were a little uneven when they were all laid out, so I sanded before I put the poly on.</div>
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It's looking pretty good, I think. I've been working on hand sewing some curtains and I just hate them. I really think I should go to the store and find wide pieces of lace. That worked well for the living room. We'll see. </div>
Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-52438633491101889552018-07-06T05:00:00.000-05:002018-07-06T05:00:03.987-05:00Unicorn HeadbandsFor my daughter's birthday I made unicorn headband favors. They were so pretty and it only took a little bit of work to make them all. I think I finished in just three hours. <br />
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I used headbands from the dollar store, flowers from the dollar store, hot glue, felt for horns and ears, and silver cording to make the unicorn horn. This is the best picture from the party of them in action:<br />
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But then here they are in their display basket:<br />
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I don't know what it is about these baskets, but I like them a lot. They are made in the Philippines and they are always at the thrift store. I have three and I suppose I should stop buying them. One came with a glass dish, by the way.<br />
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<br />Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-12882650281907022512018-07-03T05:00:00.000-05:002018-07-03T05:00:04.218-05:00So back in April...So like three months ago I went to the annual Textile Center Garage Sale with my book club buddies and overindulged in fabric (and waffles). Here's what I got:<br />
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One novelty print. Given my history with novelty prints, limiting myself to one was quite a feat. But look how cute this cityscape is. <br />
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But do Christmas fabrics count as novelty prints? No. I don't think so. But look at all the fun and different holiday designs I found for my gift baggage goal. I want to go paperless someday in the wrapping department. I can't wait to combine them with fun linings...perhaps at another book club sewing sweatshop.</div>
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Damnit. Birds - that's sort of novelty-esque, but it's so small...like not even a fat quarter. Just pretty. I like that pink polka dot one. So bright!</div>
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I don't know what it was with pinks and blues, but I brought home a whole pile of them. I love that little blue daisy one. It's rather sheer, but I still love it.<br />
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And then there's the costume fabric. This sliver of sparklies wanted to come home with me:<br />
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The red and white stripe could easily be made into bags, but it's really nice.<br />
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And velvets! The gray and the teal are super nice. <br />
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There's way too much of this stretch gold, though.<br />
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And for some reason I can't help but see an Elsa dress in my sewing future when these blues are paired next to the above silvers. </div>
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Speaking of, my kids haven't quite figured out how to tell Knock Knock jokes, so this is a series of them told by my 4yo to my 6yo the other morning:<br />
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4yo: Knock Knock!<br />
6yo: Who's there?<br />
4yo: Anna and Elsa!<br />
6yo: Anna and Elsa who?<br />
4yo: Anna and Elsa Diapers!<br />
6yo: Hahah! You got me!<br />
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4yo: Knock Knock!<br />
6yo: Who's there?<br />
4yo: Anna and Elsa!<br />
6yo: Anna and Elsa who?<br />
4yo: Banana Anna and Elsa!<br />
6yo: Hahaha! You got me!<br />
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4yo: Knock Knock!<br />
6yo: Who's there?<br />
4yo: Anna and Elsa!<br />
6yo: Anna and Elsa who?<br />
4yo: Truck Banana Diaper!<br />
6yo: Hahaha! You got me!<br />
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It went on in this manner for the entire six minute car ride. <br />
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Oh, where was I? More fabric?? Yes! Or NO!! This monstrosity:<br />
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I don't know what I was thinking. It's rather stiff and sort of canvas-like. I don't know. I was seriously deranged.</div>
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And then this lovely bit of ribbon and a piece of lace. I've already used the lace and will show that off sometime soon.</div>
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This framed butterfly said $1.00 so it came home with me, too:</div>
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And this vintage tablecloth. There's a stain, but I'm going to try and soak it out. It really is pretty when it's all open and on the table.</div>
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And this last purchase was found in the vintage linens section. Applique planes. They are so fun and in my dreams I think I should make them into pillows and sell them on etsy for big bucks and become famous and then sew pillows for a living and get featured in design magazines. All because I spent $1.00 on a bag of applique planes:</div>
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So that's it.Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-22591475715223631202018-07-01T21:33:00.000-05:002018-07-02T11:49:32.214-05:00Four Cloaks<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ugh. Whatever. I don't want to hear about how long it's been since I've written. I'm here now and that's all that matters. In the last seven months I have done very little crafting, but will now proceed to share with you the odds and ends that I have been able to squeeze out.</div>
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Cloaks. Four of them. I used the pattern from <a href="http://thelittleredhen.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/play-capes.html" target="_blank">here</a>. The first cloak was blue velvet with no lining for the hood and embellished with giant gold ric rac around the hem. </div>
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It was a birthday gift for a six year old girl. We were rather housebound because of a snowstorm, so I whipped this up the morning of the party. After I finished this one, I started on two cloaks for my girls and decided to line the hoods with cottons.</div>
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I made a rose velvet cloak for my littlest and have taken very few pictures of it. My mom was in town and put on the line of sequins with her nimble hand-sewing skills.</div>
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I've used buttons from my stash and hair bands for the closures on all of them. Here's the lining of this hood:<br />
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My eldest asked for an American Cape. I think of it as a Wonder Woman Cloak. My mom, once again, helped out with the red sequin embellishments and I sewed the stars on with my machine. There are nine stars, total, in case you were wondering.</div>
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The velvet is not in the best of shape, but that's why it's perfect for dress up clothes. She wore this out to the Farmer's Market and received many compliments. I'm sure she'll wear it to this week's Fourth of July Parade.</div>
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The hood lining is more of a nautical theme, but whatever. It's got stars and the right colors. It works for me.</div>
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Stars! I found them on Amazon.<br />
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And the final cloak was created yesterday for a birthday party today. It didn't take long at all. I used some stretchy velvety costume fabric. The fabric was not my favorite to sew, but it worked out.</div>
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(Don't ask. I'm sure she was aggravated that I was making her model the cape. Or maybe she was aggravated that I wouldn't let her watch television at the crack of dawn.) I used a big button for the closure -- you can see it in the above photo -- and some floral cotton for the lining of the hood.</div>
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I found two very similar embellished tea towel ideas on Pinterest (it really is my new Google for crafting and cooking). One used 2.5" squares (<a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2015/10/simple-patchwork-dish-towel-tutorial.html?m=1" target="_blank">from Crazy Mom Quilts</a>) and the other was more loosey-goosey with the sizing of the patchwork (<a href="http://filminthefridge.com/2008/11/14/another-quick-patchwork-project/amp/" target="_blank">from Film in the Fridge)</a>. I found some cotton tea towels at Ace Hardware and got to work on an afternoon when I had to stay at home with a sick kid.</div>
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Forgive my wrinkles...Everything got rolled up in the end and it seemed silly to iron it just for pictures. </div>
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These two were used using the 2.5" square method. I sewed strips that were 10" x 2.5" and then cut them down to size. That was pretty easy.<br />
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I had some pre-made strips from <a href="http://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2013/06/done.html" target="_blank">a quilt that I made</a> a number of years ago, so I also used that for a few of the towels. <br />
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I made a total of nine tea towels and gave some of them away as teacher gifts. I never know what to do for that sort of thing.<br />
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Rolled up they aren't so wrinkly:<br />
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This year Book Club got together for a <a href="http://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/03/napkin-sweatshop.html" target="_blank">napkin-making sweatshop</a> and a <a href="http://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/07/bunting-sweatshop.html" target="_blank">wedding bunting-making sweatshop</a>. We rounded out the year with a gift baggage-making sweatshop earlier this month. I neglected to take photos of the day as it progressed, but we ended up making about ten lined drawstring bags.</div>
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We used this fun candy cane fabric and some poinsettia fabric, both of which were picked up for cheap at the Textile Center Garage Sale (I really do love that sale). </div>
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They were lined with random greens and some fabric that felt like an old sheet.</div>
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After the sweatshop, I made a ton of bags with the remainder of the fabric. I actually focused on bags more than anything else. I don't know why I always get more excited about making gift bags than I do about making actual gifts.</div>
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If you'll notice, I also hand-crafted some gift tags. I set up a little station at our dining room table and asked the girls to make colored thumbprints on blank tags. Yeah, well, no one wanted to cooperate with that. Trix ended up howling because Z did her thumb first and then would not stop crying. I forget what made Zelda cry, but she did. I think I cried, as well. </div>
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I'd brought my serger to the sweatshop, but had forgotten to re-install some stitch arm that I had removed for the rolled hem of the napkins. Once I was home, I put that back in and was able to use my serger on some of these bags.</div>
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This was inspired by a <a href="http://www.designsponge.com/2013/12/diy-project-fabric-gift-envelopes.html" target="_blank">Design-Sponge post on envelope gift bags</a>. I didn't make them as boxy as theirs. I like to use the serger on smaller bags that I don't have to line or when I don't want to make a casing. I just folded over the edge and tied it with a ribbon.</div>
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The Design-Sponge post used decorative serger thread. I don't have any of that. Maybe next year.</div>
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When I was visiting family over Thanksgiving, my sister-in-law said that she has really liked reusing the fabric gift bags that I have sent over the years. When I was preparing their package, I grabbed a few extra bags, rolled them up, and shoved them in the box for her. </div>
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Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-4780929284956345172017-12-29T08:38:00.000-06:002017-12-29T08:38:10.230-06:00Shaggy Baggy<div style="text-align: justify;">
In addition to Christmas gifts, I also owed one of my nieces a birthday gift...from early December. I did not plan very well and just ended up sending it with the Christmas box. Oh well. I had picked up an assortment of things for her, so I thought I'd make her a sparkly purse in her favorite color...purple.</div>
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I found a pattern on Pinterest (of course), which was aptly named <a href="http://loreleijayne.com/2014/12/little-girl-bag-relaunched.html/" target="_blank">"Little Girl Bag."</a> It was a super fast project. I used some of those shaggy purple remnants that I bought at the Textile Center Garage Sale (where else?!?!) and an Asian-themed fabric I already had in my stash.</div>
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Ugh. That wall color. It's not very pretty is it? It's what came with the house. Maybe this spring I'll get in there and paint it a pretty gray. </div>
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Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-604643198751001892017-12-28T07:00:00.000-06:002017-12-28T07:01:05.820-06:00Cars and Aprons<div style="text-align: justify;">
One of my nephews also outgrew his old kid apron, so his mom suggested a new apron for Christmas. His little brother had never received an apron and could have worn the old one, but he should have his own, right? So two more aprons were in the works this Christmas. What's that? Five total? So many. </div>
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His mom had suggested maybe some onion fabric for the older nephew. None of that was in my stash, so I went to Treadle Yard Goods and didn't see much in the way of food-themed fabric. I suppose I could have driven to the next town over or ordered some online, but I decided to just pick something at Treadle. </div>
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That kiddo loves cars. Like crazy loves cars and I think I've given him a car-related gift every single birthday and Christmas. Why break with tradition?</div>
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Cars and stop signs and whatnots. I thought it was cute. The gray was in my stash and I almost didn't put a pocket in, but those I surveyed said it should have a pocket.</div>
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The other nephew is nicknamed "Dozer," short for bulldozer and, as luck would have it, Treadle had some appropriately themed fabric for his apron.</div>
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The orange fabric was given to me by my mother-in-law. It doesn't exactly match the construction cones on the fabric (they are red), but I thought this worked.</div>
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The pattern was from McCalls (<a href="https://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m5551" target="_blank">#M5551</a>) and I already had it in my collection. It's pretty simple and both came together fairly quickly. </div>
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Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-45709874447137176052017-12-27T07:37:00.000-06:002017-12-27T07:37:03.255-06:00Frills and Flounces<div style="text-align: justify;">
My niece has outgrown her old apron and her mom said she likes things that are very girly, which to me means ruffles. I detest making things with gathering stitches, because I am not very good at it and the thread always rips mid-gather, yet I keep subjecting myself to this task. So, of course, I chose a <a href="https://hmhdesigns.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/mini-frilly-apron-for-little-girls/" target="_blank">pattern that had five rows of ruffles</a>. I like to torture myself, I think.</div>
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In the end, it was not as bad as I thought it would be and none of the stitches broke. </div>
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After I made this, I thought that this was the prettiest apron I've ever made. I love how it all came together. I was savvy enough to plan a centered floral motif on the bib. I was very proud of myself for that bit of foresight. The bib fabric, the green, the white, and the pink ruffles were all from the Textile Center Garage Sale. Everything was on hand, which was great. </div>
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And I got to use my serger...</div>
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Since this was relatively easy, I decided to torture myself with two more of these aprons for my own girls. I've actually never made them any aprons. I feel like my focus is always on things for other people at Christmas, so I was glad to squeeze these two in. I made them both on Christmas Eve - when I was feeling pretty nauseous. I really don't know how I managed to do it.</div>
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So pretty! This pattern really is perfect. One of the tricks to making this go quicker was to use the same color thread throughout. It takes too much time to change threads and bobbin colors all the time. I also used the selvedges as much as possible and didn't have to hem some of the fabrics.</div>
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I can't decide if the gray is a bunch of falling leaves or falling feathers. I think leaves? It's vintage and it also came from the Textile Center Garage Sale.<br />
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For Z, I chose a remnant that was also picked up at the Textile Center Garage Sale for the bib, a flounce, and the neck ties. It was oddly shaped and really wasn't going to be good for much, but it worked out for this.</div>
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This apron is so pretty, as well. The white polka dots also came from that Garage Sale. The black polka dots I've had forever and actually made a dress out of (that I have since donated to the Goodwill). None of the oranges match -- from the strawberries to the dots on the white to the orange flounce. Oh well. </div>
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Final ruffles! See what I mean about the oranges? </div>
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So there you go. Three aprons. Do you have a favorite?</div>
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The hardest part for these I Spy quilts has been finding 48 unique squares for each blanket. I think I've mentioned that before. These last two blankets make eight total I Spy quilts that I have made over the last five years....that's a lot of squares. I picked up one "Eden" set of I Spy charm squares from <a href="http://crafterhours.bigcartel.com/product/spoonflower-i-spy-assortment-eden-set" target="_blank">Crafterhours</a> and split it between the two blankets, but still had to make up the remainder out of my own stash and/or donated squares from friends. I probably could have made these last Christmas, actually, but didn't...general sewing fatigue, I think. I started them just around Thanksgiving this year.</div>
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Here's the first one for my nephew:</div>
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Donated squares are side by side on this blanket (lady bugs and citrus...thanks, Rin!). And don't look at my corners. Very sloppy, I know.</div>
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You can totally see how crooked these squares are...look at the knots. They are totally off. This has happened on every blanket I've made. I can't figure it out. I suck.</div>
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As for the backing and binding, I caved and went to Treadle Yard Goods instead of using fabric from my stash, which is always my goal. I found the backing on the 40% off rack at least.</div>
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Then we have my daughter's blanket. I finished it on Christmas Day. I wanted to finish it the day before, but I felt nauseous all day and passed out at 8pm. </div>
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Flamingoes from <a href="http://spiltmilkcrafts.blogspot.com/2017/08/mingo-madness.html" target="_blank">her dress</a>!<br />
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The backing on this one has been in my stash for eight years or so now. I made an apron out of it and really only needed half a yard at the time, but bought over two yards. I don't know why. I was so new to sewing and had no idea what I was doing. Of course, I can still make that mistake -- I am currently in possession of an extra yard of car fabric. Ugh.</div>
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I mentioned that I got the squares from Crafterhours. They got them from Spoonflower and I've noticed that the Spoonflower fabrics fade a lot faster than other cottons. I compared this quilt to the one for her older sister. The older one has faded a lot. Did it also shrink? Their bottom edges are lined up:</div>
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Here they are together:<br />
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That's nuts. Did I do something wrong on that first one? Measure incorrectly? Larger seam allowances? Or has it just shrunk with each washing?</div>
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Anyway, Miss Trix is very pleased with her blanket. She snuggled under it to watch Moana yesterday, played I Spy With My Little Eye a bunch of times, and snuggled with it again at bedtime. She asked if she could keep it forever and ever. Cockles warmed. </div>
Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-32376423712048454412017-10-31T21:42:00.000-05:002017-10-31T21:44:54.406-05:00Unicorns and Sadness<div style="text-align: justify;">
The one kid wanted to be Elsa-Anna (from Frozen) and the other wanted to be Tinkerbelle. I suppose had I been a good mother, I would have agreed to those two selections and made them into Disney characters for Halloween. Instead, I added some pictures to Pinterest of costumes I wanted to make instead and manipulated them into choosing something to my liking. I am a bad mother.</div>
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(In my defense - they could be Elsa-Anna any old day of the week and Tinkerbelle's costume is too skimpy for Minnesota Halloweens.)</div>
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Also, before we go any further, please note that they would not cooperate for photos, so don't expect some charming photos of the two of them. One was a rainbow unicorn and the other was a pink unicorn. They chose their own colors at the craft store. I used gray sweatshirts and leggings as the base and built the unicorns upon that.</div>
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The horns are made of felt with some gold-silver braiding. I found some elastic headbands at the dollar store and sewed the horns to the headbands. The manes were pretty simple to make. I braided some yarn and then tied bunches of yarn to the braid. Then I hand sewed the braids to the hoods.</div>
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The manes were heavy and made the hoods fall down quite a bit. It was frustrating (see below) but I took some hair clips and clipped them to the headbands. It worked. </div>
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Pink unicorn!</div>
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And tears:</div>
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This is as close as I could get to cooperation:</div>
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You noticed the snow, did you? Yeah, that was last Friday's gift. It melted by Halloween night, but it was pretty nipply outside. What was it? 30 degrees? Brrrrr. I made them wear their fleeces under the sweatshirts and that worked perfectly.</div>
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Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-61466052595957745212017-08-20T07:00:00.000-05:002017-08-20T07:00:00.253-05:00Are you tired of dollhouse things yet?<div style="text-align: justify;">
I've been consumed by this dollhouse. It's so much fun. My husband keeps asking me if it's my new hobby or if I'll be flipping dollhouses from this point forward...I'm not sure if he's frustrated with my new interest or what. I told him that this house is probably the only one I'll do - I mean, where would I put any others? </div>
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Anyway, eventually the dollhouse will need some art for its walls. I have some pieces that came with it, so they'll go up. I'd like to change them a bit, but Z likes them the way they are. We'll see. </div>
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I also bought some tiny canvasses from Michael's and had a painting session with the girls on the back deck. I'm not sure if we'll use anything, but it kept them occupied for an hour or so:</div>
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Here's my effort:</div>
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This then morphed into a let's paint the dollhouse furniture session. Luckily, I had these two clunky chairs that I picked up for like 50 cents each at the thrift store. I hope this gets their desire to paint the furniture out of the way...painting is my job in these here parts.</div>
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And then there was this sticker that I found. It refers to the Hamilton musical and I thought it would look great in the house, but it's a bit too big. Do you suppose I could scan it in and print it out in a smaller size for some dollhouse wall art? I'm thinking about it.</div>
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I love that dresser. And those chairs are each hand carved and one piece. And look at this bed! So perfect.<br />
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The kitchen pieces are pretty great, too:</div>
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I never would have thought to use hooks for the sink and the knobs on the cabinets and stove are just nail heads. So smart!<br />
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And then there are the dishes and food things! I can't tell you how smitten I am with them! My new buddy's daughter was a ceramics major (at least I'm pretty sure that's what she said) and made little dishes and cups and other things for the dollhouse:<br />
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Bacon and eggs! Loaves of bread! A pizza! A pie! I love them all.<br />
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I don't remember if she said whether or not these pieces were made by her daughter, but I have a feeling that they were:<br />
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Oh and look at all the dishes stacked in the china cabinet:<br />
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PS that cabinet was from the dollhouse lot and it may have been made by the seller from a kit. When I acquired it, it was brown, but I thought this blue was more fitting for my color scheme:<br />
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At the beginning of June we went to a local festival and my littlest one was having a bit of a temper tantrum about something. I was able to divert her attention and stop the tears by pointing out a giant inflatable flamingo on top of a building. She leaned in and said in her squeaky little voice: I want a 'mingo snuggle friend.</div>
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About two weeks later I was down in Florida and figured that would be the best place to find a flamingo stuffed animal, but I never saw one at all. Instead, I found some flamingo fabric at a quilt shop. I bought a yard and figured that would be enough for a dress.</div>
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A dress. One dress. I have two kids. When the older one learned of the new dress, she threw her usual fit about how unfair life is and how she never gets anything. Obviously she forgets that she usually gets all the things first because she is much less compliant and easy going than the little one. So I managed to squeeze out a bodice for the second dress out of the flamingo fabric.</div>
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They declined to stand together for the photo shoot and it was really overcast, but they were both in the dresses at the same time so I took advantage of that. </div>
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I used the free <a href="https://weallsew.com/vintage-dress-by-simple-simon-company-for-weallsew/" target="_blank">Simple Simon Vintage Dress Pattern</a>. It was quick and easy...until I reached the button-holing. I hate button holes. My machine always clogs up and starts to sputter whenever I try them out. I was in Florida two months ago (*sigh*), so they should have had these dresses before now. Stupid button holes.</div>
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I made the first one and it went just fine. When I got to the second one, it went to shit. I just gave up at that point and decided to go to a professional tailor for the button holes. I needed 15 (!) button holes for these cute little buttons:</div>
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Anyway, there was just no way I was going to finish 15 buttons before the end of the summer, so I forked over way too much money for someone else to make me button holes. Seriously. I mean, I like to think that I'm saving myself some money by making clothes for my kids, but these dresses have cost much more than I have ever spent on like 20 kids' dresses.</div>
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Second dress:</div>
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The white fabric has the advantage of coming with a hem and the disadvantage of being sort of see-through. I found an iron on patch at Target:</div>
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I suppose the white also has the disadvantage of being white. The first thing my husband said about the dress: "It's going to get so dirty." Ugh, well what else is new? My eldest is covered in pee, paint, markers, maple syrup, dried milk, spaghetti sauce, and dirt 80% of the time, so...yeah, I know that it will get dirty, but it was free fabric that I didn't have to hem. </div>
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And what about that 'mingo snuggle friend? I found one and she loves it.</div>
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The other one did not get a snuggle friend (she has like a gazillion of them), but I gave her two tiny flamingo figurines. Here she is pouting about the lack of snuggle friend. Eventually I was able to show her that she had three special flamingoes (the two in her hands and the one on her dress).<br />
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She eventually came around:</div>
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I decided to use basswood strips for the floors. I thought about scrapbook paper modpodged onto it and I thought about laminate floor samples and I also thought of actual dollhouse flooring. I scrapped all those ideas. The basswood strips are pretty cheap at the model train store, except I bought them out...with 22 strips. I don't know when they'll order more. </div>
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I stained them and when they are all down, I'll put a layer of polyurethane over them all to make them a bit more durable. I then cut them into 2" strips and glued them down with Aleene's Tacky Glue. I've also run out of strips. I think I'll need 60 more to finish the house. This is what I've got so far:</div>
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With the above picture you can see how different it makes it look - comparing the white floors to the wood floors. It makes it look like a real house, right?</div>
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It's hard to keep them all straight. I see a gap that I have to fill. It's also hard to keep them all lined up right at the edge. I've been using an exacto knife to fix them, but I think I'm going to lose my thumb if I keep at it.</div>
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I'm thinking long red satin curtains in there. I wonder if grommets will fit on the curtain rod. I kept the ones that came with the house, but I also bought one mini dowel if I needed extra. I don't remember if all the rooms came with rods. I also kept the little eye hooks that act as curtain rod brackets.</div>
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For the record (I'm not sure if I've mentioned this): I didn't want to do curtains in any of the rooms. When I took the curtains out of the house at the start of the renovation, they were so dusty and gross, so I was a bit turned off them. I even spackled over the holes when I thought the rooms would be painted instead of wallpapered. However...my kid wants curtains, so curtains she shall have.</div>
Rachel Eloisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00206111166372883994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1155172720640140921.post-62611881862277020442017-08-13T20:06:00.001-05:002017-08-13T20:06:17.482-05:00Walls Update<div style="text-align: justify;">
The wallpaper is up on the dollhouse. It was a pretty easy undertaking once I got started. When I took all of it off, I am pretty sure the previous maker had wallpapered before he put the walls together, but I ended up making construction paper templates that worked really well to get around the windows and whatnots.</div>
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I realized after I downloaded all my photos that I don't actually have individual photos of the rooms - just some snippets of the wallpaper on the walls...so we'll just go with what I have.</div>
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The living room:</div>
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This room had that fun little chair rail to break up the wallpaper. The red has a bit of sparkle to it:</div>
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My mom says it reminds her of old-timey flocked wallpaper, but I feel it's pretty modern. And check out those curtains! That was lace that I used on a fancy apron a gazillion years ago...so impractical for an apron, actually. I only had enough to make these curtains and I can't decide if I should put a little tie on them or drape them to the side. </div>
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As for the bottom half of the room, I used some siding I found at the model train store. I painted it gray and tried to glue it on with modpodge, but that just made it curl. Then I tried hot glue and that left it lumpy. For my final option, I went with scrapbooking sticky dots. I ran out right at the end, but I'd also run out of the siding. It's really not the best -- it shows the seams and I don't think it will stand the test of time. We'll see.</div>
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<br />Seams:</div>
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Hidden by the curtain:</div>
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So I went with a green for the bigger bedroom, but I didn't have enough of it, so I had to supplement with some yellow. There's a funny seam on the yellow, too, but I think it will be hidden with a curtain and some furniture.</div>
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The green has some shimmer to it, as well.<br />
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The hallway also has some shimmer:</div>
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I was going to use a small floral in the kitchen, but went with the larger print instead.</div>
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It also has sparklies:<br />
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As for the dining room, I went with this small print:</div>
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That's the door that leads to the outside that is half painted. I can't decide if I should paint it white or blue. I don't know. </div>
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<br />Speaking of paint...I have to figure out what to do with the stairs:</div>
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It's sort of half-assed with the white. I don't know. I'll have to think about it. </div>
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So that's it for pictures of the rooms. I guess I forgot the bathroom and the smaller bedroom. Next time.</div>
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