Grim Reaper and His Pal Skeleton

Its a few days late, but here are my boys in the costumes they wanted me to make them.

 Sir Grim is my son Daniel and Mr. Skeleton is Christopher

 Oddly enough this robe was really easy to make it only took me one hour to make (drafting all the way to last stitch)

 The skeleton I spent several hours hand stitching bones onto a store bought sweat suit.

 It is possible to sneak up on death!

 Christopher hates face paint so I made him a mask.

I did purchase sickle, mask and gloves for this costume the lantern we already owned.

I tied extra fabric to a camping lantern for Grim to carry to light his and Skeletons way. Yes, it was killing them to have to pose together.

Sierra's Birthday Tissue Puffs

Sierra thinks that tissue puffs are real pretty so I surprised her with some for her birthday.

  This was the first time for me to make them, not too bad.

Not pictured are others that I hung up in her room.

I'm not a garbage digger but,

I'm not a garbage digger but, while throwing trash a stack of eight old patterns did catch my eye, so I dug!

 I did not rip bags to get them, they were sitting on top just waiting to be found. I did have to climb in the bin though, not a problem because this was a paper bin.

After sorting and refolding 5 out of 8 were complete patterns. The remaining three were top half's to dresses that could have any type of skirt drafted for them.

 Win Win situation if you ask me.

Asthma Inhaler Covers

Christopher the day of his track meet, O2's were 82% after this jump!

I have a child (Christopher) with sever asthma, its not fun for him or me, but we try to make it better by making or re-purposing holders for his inhalers. So, if it can cheer up my wheezy kid it might do the same for one you know with asthma too. It is very important to carry something even if you are having a good or in the green day.

You can use/re-purpose:

old Mace case,

small knife pouch (these have handy belt clips),

flash light holders (most of these have carabiners),

old cell phone case

 Make one!

Nick jr. has how to's to make kid friendly ones:

Yo Gabba Gabba! No-Sew Asthma Inhaler Case

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Kai-lan No-Sew Asthma Inhaler Case

If all else fails order, we found this.

I went to EIBactive to fill out a survey and he got this pouch in about 6 days FREE. Its the one he currently carries with him because it is soft and bright so every one knows he's packin. He attached to a lanyard so he can wear it around his neck.

Usually if he is going somewhere without me, I add a medical info card to his pouch so if anyone has to help him they will see his asthma plan. This site that has a Complete FREE Medical Record ID Wallet Card, its what we use to print Christopher's. I do this every other month so it stays up to date.

Tried It - Tie Dye with Sharpies

A week ago I posted about the discovery of Tie Dying with Sharpies. The project impressed me so much I had my sons to try it, and they absolutely LOVED it.

Here's some more pictures from them doing their shirts.

This is Daniel's Saturn you can see it at the very bottom left of the very top picture.

Christopher adding rubbing alcohol to his.

Christopher's shirt, this is at center bottom of his shirt.

Christopher adding more alcohol with a syringe to his crosses, crosses are at top right of his shirt.

Daniel's cross, it is at bottom left of his shirt

 The only thing we changed was we used coffee cans instead of dinky solo cups. Also the boys used the alcohol sparingly to get just the right amount of bleed for their artwork.

Cost of this project:

Shirts we had on hand: No cost

Sharpies 8 pack primary colors: 8.49

 Rubbing Alcohol 65%: .99 cents

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Total 9.48

Two For - Lace Trimed Shorts

I covered already "Boys" cut offs, but what about Mamma?

Today is a "Two For" day where I give you two links to two different projects in just one post.

First off: By Wilma, DIY – Lace shorts

These are in my opinion Very country girl.

image from: by wilma

Next we have: Craft and Creativity, Turning torn jeans into shorts

It's technically a little girls jeans how to but it would work for older girls to by using different trim. This tutorial is in another language but it is translated below pictures.

image from craft and creativity

Dating Vintage Patterns

I have been  putting my vintage patterns in order by year and maker. I have found some that stumped me for awhile until I knew just what to look for or came up with some solution for them.

Here are two of the sites that I used in dating my patterns.

This one was the most help in dating unmarked envelopes and Mail order patterns.  

-Cemetarian-

About Dating Vintage Sewing Pattern

For anything the first site didn't cover this one helped some by being able to look at patterns that had already been dated.

-Vintage Fashion Library-

Sewing Pattern History / How to Date a Vintage Sewing Pattern

Tie Dye with Sharpies

This was a first for me, Tie Dyeing with Sharpies, never had I heard of it until seeing this post. It looks like a whole lot easier than having buckets of dye to dip rubber banded t-shirts into. Also far less messy and more control than the other way.

image from The Art Girl Jackie