We had a lot of fun yesterday. We:
The job search is over. I found a great job thanks to a friend from church. I will get to work part-time to start and be able to get the kids off to school and home from school. God does work in wonderful ways and in His timing. Just have to remember that it is all about His timing and what He has in store for us.
So things will be a little different around here for a while until I get used to being out in the "working away from home world" but change is good. It's how you act or react to at that is what is important. So on this last day home during the week how am I going to celebrate? Laundry...lots and lots of laundry. So hope you all have a wonderful day and weekend with your loved ones.
Here is the doll bed we made today. Believe it or not it is made from all recycled materials.
We started out with a cereal box, an old telephone book and some packing tape.
Start out by taping one end of the box. We left the flaps open and taped it so that the tape was our end of the box to hold the crumpled up paper in.
We stacked the boxes so that the the bed would have some extra support. This bottom box will work as a drawer for storing the doll clothes in.
We used some old plastic tent poles from a toy tent that broke. (You never know when broken pieces might come in handy for a project.) We used a lot of packing tape to hold things in place.
We used glue sticks to help hold down the scrap paper to cover the images on the cereal box. Then we covered it with white school glue to add our tissue paper on the surface. This will give the bed a fun look when it doesn't have the handmade sheet on it. This will also help it to wear better with all of the use it is going to get.
Here we are using a glue stick to cover the bottom support drawer with tissue paper. Helps to save this from those pretty presents you get. The crumples don't matter now do they?
We used hot glue to hold the poles together and then tied them off with ribbon for extra support.
We used a piece of scrap fabric to make a special sheet for the bed.
We sewed the hems and used fray check on the edges that will be by the poles.
It's coming along nicely. Here are the beads we used to jazz it up. We used hot glue to attach the beads to another bead around the pole so that they can slide along the pole.
Here are the cut pieces of material for the canopy. These used to be a curtain.
Since I am trying to show that this can be made out of things we already have. I improvised and made do with the scrap batting I had to make it work for the doll quilt. I zigzag stitched the pieces together so it would be large enough. (Normally, I would not do this but since it is a small size, this will work.)
Here is the quilt sandwich with right sides pinned together. We are ready to sew up the the quilt leaving one short end open. Oh, I did pin the batting on to the wrong side of the quilt (from the right side) so that when the quilt is turned, it will be laying inside nicely.
Clipping the corner so that the corners will turn nicely. Yes, I mark my scissors so they don't get picked up by hands that don't know these are not to be used on paper!
The quilt has been turned and pinned and now the open end is being stitched shut with a topstitch. I topstitched the rest of the quilt.
Here is the finished doll quilt. I did a free form stitch between the decorative embroidery to add hold the batting in place. I added some embellishments on the bottom to help hold the batting. I had some cute little flower buttons and a little button that says princess.
Here is the finish product with a happy little girl. I think it turned out pretty nice. Hard to believe it is made out of a cereal box.
I am trying my hand at drawing faces again for the first time in about 12 years. Overall I am fairly pleased with how they turned out considering I only spent about half on hour on each of them. Curious to see how they look when I work on them some more. (Oh, yeah...finally found the camera and forgot to update the date on it again. )
Ok, so I am having some technical difficulties today. Can't quite figure out why everything is being underlined. Pictures are not wanting to upload and I am going through caffeine withdrawl. All good things to have happen on a Monday! Well, even with these problems, I hope you enjoy our pics from our trip to Kaleidoscope. We had a lot of fun.
Nephew 2...(now the underlining comes off, better late than never) coloring with melted crayons in the blacklight room. They get to make eyeglasses.
Too bad my camera didn't cooperate and let you get the full effect of the blacklight.
Nephew 1 making a puzzle of Spongebob. Great artist don't you think?
Little man trying his hand a designing a puzzle.
Sissy says that we went to France in her puzzle.
Making some stationery.
I just had to repost this. It is still one of my favorite moments. If you haven't seen the kids singing their version of the Dukes of Hazzard theme song, it's pretty cute.
3 Tabors: Mickey Mouse sings the Dukes
I was going to add some new pictures today but unfortunately I can't find my camera. Why is it that when one tries to get organized and catch up on projects, it usually turns out that you end up with a bigger mess? I like the fact that I have had some long over due quiet time with school being back in session. It's actually been about 6 years since I have had more than one day at a time to run errands at leisure. I went on a Mom's retreat about 4 years ago with some really great friends and was only responsible for getting myself ready for 2 whole days. Don't get me wrong, I love my family but, a mom does need to have some time to unwind, too. I have been busy filling out applications for jobs so that I can contribute in some monetary way to the household. We will have to see how that all pans out but, for right now, I think that I will go and do a little more creating in the craft room until the kiddos get home from school. Now, where did I put that camera.
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