Lace and Friendship

I mentioned sometime last week that I recently got a huge amount of lace, so I thought I should show it off a bit.

A really nice lady I know from church apparently sews costumes and such.  People are always dumping stuff on her, including random bits of lace.  She decided to lighten her stash by filling a bag for me.  I was ecstatic.  Especially since I was expecting a grocery bag sized bag.  This was bigger than that.

This was the entire contents of the bag.  Tons of different types lace as well as ribbons, bric brac, and a couple of angel wings.  I think those are intended for doll making, score!  There’s a funny story about about the two balls of gold metallic trim at the bottom of the photo.  During Sunday school I pulled it out and started tugging at it, it was still a tangled mess then.  Anyway, I was thinking how I couldn’t find the ends of the trim and I accidently said this out loud.  Next thing you know about five people were all simultaneously trying to help me untangle it.  The exact words from one of them was “what are friends for”.  Aww, it’s now the “Trim of Friendship”.

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Just a Little Contest

So remember in my last post I mentioned something about doing something interesting with some of the lace bracelets?  How about….

…a little contest?

That’s right, I am having a little contest and the winner will receive this lovely pair of stretchy lace bracelets.  So presenting:

The “Do You Know a Good Joke” Contest

Why jokes?  Why not?  They are always fun and everyone has heard of at least one good one.

The details:

• The contest is only open to the US and Canada, sorry.
• Entries must be received by 11:59 pm August 9th.
• No more than 3 entries per person.
• To enter, post a comment with a joke.
• If it isn’t one you made up, please include the original source.
• All types of jokes will work as long as they are family-friendly
• The winning joke will be chosen by a panel of myself and my niece and nephew, hence the need for family-friendly jokes.
• The results will be posted on August 10th.

Good luck and have fun!

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A Pile of…

I had intended to put this up about two days ago, but things didn’t quite go as planned.

So one day when I was supposed to be focusing on something else, I thought of a nifty way of making lace cuff bracelets.  One I hadn’t done before that would allow me to use this one lace I have that needs to be used up.  It looks pretty cute right?  Although is kind of look like a garter, it is sort of made the same way too.  Anyway, you may be wondering why I could possibly be two days late making this little bitty thing.

Here’s why, I made a lot of them.  The idea I came up with was a way to easily make a bunch of these bracelets at once.  There were some tricky spots, but I managed to make about 40 bracelets in a few days.  Mind you this was while doing other things as well, life doesn’t hold still for bracelet making.  Anyway, I now have a pile of cute lace bracelets and possibly more to come since they are fun to make.  I just need to find ways to get rid of them.  There’s the usual ways; giving away, sticking them in my shoppe, etc.  I think I have another idea for one or two of them, but it needs some planning. 
Here’s the updated list:

• Sunflower skirt
• Present
• Video
• Little t-shirt redo
• Pincushions
• Pants redo
• Bear pants
• Hair accessories
• Red skirt
• Wristbands

Ten down and out.  Now to plan what’s up next.

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Pants To…

So remember the two pairs of pants I got at that yard sale a few weeks ago (see Good Day for a (Yard) Sale)?  I found that although I liked the fabric I certainly did not like the fit.  They were a bit snug in some places while too loose in the worst places.  Of course there are things that can be done about all of that.

So here they are before all sad and unflattering…

…And after.  I first cut off the legs where I wanted and removed the waistbands.  I let out the seams on the side a little to give a little more wiggle room.  For the flowered pair I reattached the waistband and hemmed the legs.  For the black pair though I made a new waistband with wide lace.  Sadly you can’t really tell in the photo, why is black so hard to take pictures?  Now for the rest.  I had to do something with the cutoff legs.  Especially for the black ones, they had that great eyelet embroidered edge.  So I made a pretty little bag that highlights the embroidery as well as a cute doll skirt as modeled by my Monster High doll.  With the floral pant legs I made a small tote bag because one can never have too many, and scrunchies.  One can never have too many of those either.  So I paid about $1 and ended up with two new pairs of shorts, two bags, hair scrunchies and a doll skirt.  I say it was well worth it.

Moving on, I still had some red fabric leftover from that one dress (see Think Red).  Enough for another simple casual skirt.  What I really like is the lace at the hem.  I recently acquired a large amount of lace including this particular lace.  The flowers on it are the same shape as the ones on the fabric, so I absolutely had to use them together.  Now I have this pretty and comfy skirt to wear and I just need to find a top for it.
Here’s the updated list:

• Sunflower skirt
• Present
• Video
• Little t-shirt redo
• Pincushions
• Pants redo
• Bear pants
• Hair accessories
• Red skirt
• Wristbands

Nine down, just one more to go which will of course be up by the end of this week.

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More Combing and Clipping

Due to some technical problems, this is up about 2 days late.
Anyway, it has been a while since I last made any hair accessories, at least it seems like a while. 

Just in case, I decided to whip up a good batch of them.  That includes two large barrettes, two pairs of hair combs, and a ribbon headband.  The combs and barrettes involve several lace rosettes, just like the ones for my broach tutorial but smaller and with faux pearls in the center instead of buttons.  The headband in just like most of the other headbands I have made except for the bow.  I have seen similar bows before and wanted to give it a try.  The chocolate brown combs and barrettes will go in my shoppe and the white combs I am keeping for myself.  I couldn’t resist them and they’d go perfectly with some of my dresses.  The headband is still a mystery to me.  I would love to put for sell too, but I also think it would look cute on my niece.  Hard decision. 
Here’s the updated list:

• Sunflower skirt
• Present
• Video
• Little t-shirt redo
• Pincushions
• Pants redo
• Bear pants
• Hair accessories
• Red skirt
• Wristbands

Seven down, just three more to go.  The next one will be up by Wednesday.

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Teddies in Jammies

This is my nephew’s teddy bear, “Teddy”.  He loves this little guy.  One evening I thought it would be cute to put a pair of pajama pants on Teddy.  My nephew loved this idea.  The problem was that the pair I put on him were too long.  It was one of those doll ones I made (see Tiny Jim-Jams).  We just rolled up the legs and they worked okay temporarily. 
Fast forward, I whipped up this nice pair using the same pattern except cut about an inch shorter.  I used some blue fleece I had because my nephew loves blue.  He seems to think it is a perfect color for boys for some reason.  Anyway, he thought the pants were perfect for Teddy.  I’d say they are very roomy, but maybe that’s Teddy’s thing.  Whatever.
Here’s the updated list:

• Sunflower skirt
• Present
• Video
• Little t-shirt redo
• Pincushions
• Pants redo
• Bear pants
• Hair accessories
• Red skirt
• Wristbands

Six down, four more to go  The next one will be up either Friday or Saturday...

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