Beautiful Girls.....

 I felt the need to "craft" last night.  I happened to have come across

this tutorial

And so with some fabric that I got from my Aunt Ila I made Big Sister, Lil' Sister skirts and some matching fabric roses for their hair.  I'm pretty sure the fabric is from the 80's and that Aunt Ila was planning on using it in a quilt as I have a whole lot of these 2 fabrics....possibly enough to make a matching skirt for me.

These took me about an hour.  The tutorial said it should only take about 15 minutes.  However, I added a sash all the way around the waist rather than just a tie in front or back and so I played around with it quite a bit before I decided I liked it.  The actual sewing part didn't take too long.  Maija's skirt is fuller than KatieJo's because I used the same width (44 inches) for K's as I did for M's, I just made K's longer.  

KatieJo was thrilled that she and Maija matched.  They both even wore jean jackets with their outfits.  The only difference is that Maija had on a white shirt and KatieJo wore a blue one (well and their tights were different colors if you want to get technical). 

bragging

Here are some of the projects I made for Christmas....or just because.  There are more than I have pictured here.  However, I'm still trying to remember everything I made.

I thought it might be funny to start my post out with the picture above.  It wasn't a Christmas project, just something for the kids to hang artwork etc. on.  Now I just have to make the magnets to go with it.  Although that might wait until we move since I've made it 6 months without hanging anything up on the walls in the apartment (that was done on purpose) as we aren't planning on being here that long.

 I made these two quilts for the girls for Christmas.  It was a lot of work, but they look awesome and keep them warm!  We still have bits and pieces of the fabric everywhere since they are rag quilts.  But, that's the price you pay for cute things...right?  The pink and brown is Maija's and the lilac and greens is KatieJo's.

 With some money my Aunt Ila sent me for Christmas I bought the fabric to make the pillow below.  I LOVE the fabric, still not sure if I like the pillow though.  

 I didn't technically make this.  Maija drew Samuel's name for Christmas, and so she "made" this.  He is REALLY into chess right now and so I made "Wizards Chess"...well in Griffindor and Slytherin colors anyway.

 This is obviously not for Christmas.  I had an extra piece of wood lying around and I recently bought some mod podge....LOVE mod podge!  So I cut the letters out with my cricut and picked out some cute scrapbook paper, painted the sides and background a pale green and this is what I came up with.  I think it's cute. 

I may (or may not ) post pictures of my other projects from Christmas.  I made pj's, a Sunday bag for Maija, felt tool boxes & tools for Maija & Phillip's Sunday bags, crayon rolls for the Sunday bags, the pillow sham on KatieJo's bed to match her quilt (that was from Phillip to KatieJo), advent calender for my sister, nativity sets and well I can't remember the rest of the projects....there's a list somewhere....if I didn't throw it away.