New skirts

OK These pictures defy physics, they suck AND blow. But its the best I can do for now while my camera batteries are charging. Here is the Artsy Collage skirt



I am looking at the bad clouds in the sky, I still have to go out and I dont like going out when its raining! And besides I just cleaned out new van!

Of course Tyler takes pictures when I have the dumbest looks on my face or when I am talking to him so I look stupid.



Or he takes pictures when I am messing with my hair so I look extra stupid (sigh)

This skirt is my new Tinkerbell skirt! I have very few pictures of it cause my camera batteries died and are recharging right now. I really wanted to show this one off so I am posting these pictures even though they suck big time.


The front is one of those baby blanket quilt panel things. I cut it into an A-Line and I had the most incredible purple batik with blue spots in it. I could not have matched these up any better, and believe it or not each fabric was bought on a sererate shopping trip! Even the green at the bottom with the blue in it was bought at a different time and they all just came together in my kitchen today! I wish I had a good picture of the fabrics...I will get one tomorrow. Noor is off and as soon as it hits noon he is taking pictures!



The back of this I appliqued one of the fairies from the leftover part of the panel. You can see Maylee following me with a bag of cinnamon cereal LOL. God I wish these pictures was at least CLEAR!

There is a pocket which you cant see in the pictures real good, but I made it of a piece of the quilt panel that had stars on it...its cool!I sewed a piece of silver metallic ric rac on the top of it.




Tomorrow I will have good pictures of BOTH skirts but for now this is the best I got for tonight.

Blanket post covering my vacation from Halloween till now

Ahhh vacation. Somehow right now I envision myself in a bikini laying on a beach...thats how I feel anyways. I have got SO many projects done that have been sitting here for a month or more. I will start with Halloween and what we did or rather DIDNT do:

Halloween. Thanks to Justin we had to cut it short and come home early cause he faked (BIG time fake!) a horrible stomach problem. The way he was moaning I was thinking possible appendicitis srsly. So Maylee was a fairy, Justin was Darth Vader, Tyler made his own outfit and was a haunted washing machine. It was a pretty cool outfit too. i wasnt able to get a picture of him though. I wish I would have.Justin in the end just wanted to come home to play the Wii. I had to take the remote out of his hand to get him to pay attention to me once I got him home when I was asking him if his stomach hurt here...and here..and Justin pay attention..does THIS hurt...I was a little upset over it. I was honestly scared. He has cerebral palsy and its almost impossible for him to communicate, and all I was seeing was distress, he cant talk well enough to tell me if he needs to use the bathroom, if it feels like gas...nothing. i have to go by what I can assess from him, I got to use my nursing skillz with him big time, and he got me good.It was Maylees first real Halloween, and she only got barely a handful of candy.Look how sad she is here:She is STILL packing around her halloween bag I got from GinnyMacks Crafts on Etsy She is so cute with it.

I made her outfit. I made the tutu, and her wings were a last minute throw together thing cause I felt so bad last week I could hardly get my customs done, much less concentrate on Halloween! They turned out cute anyways










Here is Maylee with her dad. He dressed up like a dirty Asian guy this year...hehehehe. Just kidding, he looks like that all the time. I think one of the things that attracted me to him was the fact he dresses like a homeless person...I do too sometimes LOL

Oh and the soft drink is NOT Maylees, its Noor's and he knows at his age he shouldnt drink that crap (he is gonna be the big 40 in December!)







This is what a happy woman looks like -->

Remember my art skirt?? Well its finally done!

I got the blue fabric to finish it up from JanMarie on Etsy
Its an Alexander Henry print called "Bubbles"?? I think?? It is WAY more gorgeous than the pictures let on. There are small silver metallic dots in this fabric along with the blue and white bubble looking dots. It turned out to be perfect for the skirt. I used an emerald green cotton with gold metallic streaks thru it like marble for the ruffle. This skirt ties in the back so a skinnier person could have a bustle...no bustle here on this big booty! LOL




I am not posting it for sale just yet. I want some good pictures, I mean REALLY good pictures of this. So I will wait till Noor is off in the morning and see what we can do. I am even gonna fix my hair for this one LOL I may put on makeup too so watch out!

I am so proud of this skirt. All total I have about 12 hours logged on it counting all the collage work on the front panel and the putting together the skirt fabric in the back. i cut the panels for that real small cause I like the way it makes the skirt look to have small panels. I topstitched all the french seams too cause I like the way that looks in a skirt. It is very well made. I would recommend hand washing only because some of the trims I used on the front panel may be dry clean only. There are a lot of sequin trims and bead trims on there, plus I used yarn on it too and I dont know if it would get ratty looking going thru the washer or not.


There is a lil bit of everything in this skirt...glittery sequins, iridescnet threads, silver metallic threads, Hand sewn on buttons of every kind. Some new some vintage. Scraps of fabric, ric rac,
patchwork....too much to remember. I just used whatever would "work" and was close to my hand at the time LOL I love the way it turned out. So be looking for it on Etsy sometime this week with GOOD pictures.












<-- My next project I was excited to complete was this one. I have had these pants cut out since the week after we got back from Chicago. I got this awesome corduroy at JoAnns Fabric shop up there, and it was the first thing I tore into when I got home. Of course I never had time to work on them so they sat on the table next to me waiting patiently for me to applique these cute flowers on them and make them into awesome pants.
I am undecided if I wanna sell these or keep em. I love the applique, and I dont have many pants for this winter....I am real tempted to keep em. I have more corduroy and will be definitly making a pair for sale...these just make me feel warm and fuzzy, but I may go on and sell them anyways...I am still debating!






arent the flowers sweet. I love how they turned out! I used blue felt for the centers of them and used a big zig zag stitch in black thread to stitch them on. I like the look.




So thats it so far, from my disaster of a halloween where I really thought I would end up in an ER all night with Justin who just really wanted to get home to play the Wii, to my truimphant creation...my precious art skirt.

I have three pair of pants cut out for Maylee to make tomorrow, a pair of pants for each of the boys, and I have promised my cousin and my mom some bloomers, so I got to get those cut out tomorrow and hopefully sewed up.

I ordered some new fragrance oils online this morning for my soap, and I got some more shea butter too. If anyone out there makes soap and needs a damn good unrefined shea butter at a damn good price go here to 3funkygirls on Etsy. She ships quick, and packages VERY well. I highly recommend her cause her shea butter kicks some serious butt. I LOVE it, and I swear I will only buy from her forever! SO be looking for new body butters and new soaps this week too. I am having a ball getting projects done that have been sitting, and making things I been dying to make. I love this vacation. i think its the best thing I have done in a while.

Oh and to top it off, on Saturday if all works out (crossing fingers here) I am gonna get to meet one of my favorite bloggers, and I will get to see Mari again from my street team. Mari takes the worlds best pictures of her awesome jewelry, and Rachel has awesome pictures of her farm, and just a very good blog. I really honestly enjoy reading it. I dont read too many blogs cause I dont have much time, but when I get time I check her first.She also has this great soap shop on Etsy, and She is thinking I am gonna teach her some tricks of the trade (wink) She will be making weird looking Nag Champa soap in no time! LOL Its nice to get out and talk to people my own age that dont scream while pointing to a cookie box, and dont try to bite me, and dont poopie in their diapers...I look forward to meeting my friends, Its always great to meet someone for real that I have met online. There are SOOO many of you guys I wanna meet! I wish we all lived in the same neighborhood!

Hopefully i will get to post again soon with more pictures of my handiwork I am getting done on my vacation (puts sunglasses back on and smiles very big)

Another update on my new "Art Skirt"

Isn't this exciting! I love blogging about this skirt, making pictures , and just watching this whole thing come together. It has a mind of its own, and I am thinking it wants to be Victorian. Check out how its coming along: I put in another hour yesterday and another hour today on it and here it is so far after 7 total hours:









You can click any of these pictures to view it in its true size which is pretty darn big.













I was looking around here for some fabric pieces to use in this and I found these HAND SEWN 2 by 2 patches that my wonderful friend Andrea sent me in a box of love a while back. I decided to use them and this element is what made the whole skirt turn around into what you see now. It really gave it an old fashioned "Victorian" look to it. Its like a big textile art collage, I got everything in here!




Here is another close up shot of just a piece of it so you can see in more detail what I am doing here. I broke out the beading foot! LOL I love my beading feet and use them every time I have any reason to. I have so many stands of those fake pearl beads its unreal...anyhoo, I used a lot of iridescent pearls and also some white ones on this. They really played up the Victorian look as well. Once I get done sewing and get started on the handwork, like the buttons and stuff, its really gonna be amazing.

I am starting to get concerned I may not be able to find fabric to go with this panel. I had even considered making patchwork panels for the rest of it...I am thinking that may be the only thing to do it all justice. i really want to take my time with this and pour my heart and soul into it. I know with the price tag I am gonna put on it, it will never sell. But I can sit back and look at this and say "I DID THAT ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!!!" It has been so therapeutic making this skirt. I just feel so creatively alive, and I haven't felt that way in a while. I like it, and I wish I could spend my days making skirts just like this one all the time....what fun!

Update on Art skirt

its coming along wonderfully. I worked another 2 hours on it last night and got this much more done This is after 5 hours of work all total:
Oh and you can click on this picture to make it full size if you want to really get a good look at it all






Here are some random shots of different places up close on it so you can see closer what I am doing here














I am thinking I would like to go to the quilt shop and get some fancy fabric for the rest of this skirt...I am thinking about going all out for this one....I dunno. I may end up doing three more panels like this and make a whole skirt...I am still undecided right now. i just want to finish up this panel for now and go from there, maybe something will hit me LOL

My new project: Art Skirt

I am so excited about this new project I have to show it off before its finished.

"What the heck is that!", you ask. Well it is an a-line skirt panel cut from bleached white muslin with all kinds of stuff sewed onto it. I have yarn, ric-rac,fabric of all types, tulle (for a 3 d effect) ribbons of all kinds and I have some bridal trims I am gonna hand sew on here too. I am planning on using some of everything I have in this house meant for sewing. Bias tape,buttons, ect....


I got this idea when I made that one cuff...you know, this one:


I thought this kind of thing looked so cool on a cuff, what if I did it on a bigger scale?? like a skirt panel! Or better yet a whole skirt!!!!!!!!!

OK I am 3 hours into that panel pictured up top and you see what I have got done on it so far...I have many hours to go on that one, so a whole skirt may be a long term project.

I am hoping I can find my cowery shells I have here someplace...I am sticking with greens and blues on this panel and I am trying to get an ocean type theme going so having some shells on there would be cool. I am using so many different fabrics on this. I have some velour I will be using. There are already some glittery decorator fabrics in it, and some batiks. I am just having a ball going thru my scrap box!

When I get this finished it will be posted here! I am hoping I can get it done soon. i plan on spending a few hours every day on it till its done. This project may very well be the highlight of my career till now! YAY!