Here is Wayne and I.
Here is my now 2 year old Coral
This is Coral and I talking about the new baby to come soon, Chloe! Coral thinks she has a Chloe in her belly to, we have tried to explain but she doesn't get it yet! Won't she be surprised when the baby comes!
She just loves to be able to move freely in her cloths and these Jammers allow that. Which is a must with a almost 2 year old.
What can i say she is sooooo cute! Even if there were no P.J's.
So here are a couple of sets of pot holders and kitchen towels that I have been working with my girls to make for Christmas gifts. This is so easy and fun to do, I am even teaching my sewing class how to make them. I have Randi over at I Have To say for this crafty set, she has tutorial on her site on how to make these. You should check it out.( Hey Randi the same towels are almost $4.00 for the two here in Hawaii, can you believe it?)
I also found these great aprons on Randi's site. So easy and great to go with the pot holders and towels!
This is a baby blanket that I finished today for a friend whose baby shower is tomorrow! I hope she likes it!
And last but not least I made these rolls today as a test run for Thanksgiving dinner. They turned out great! About half of them were already gone before I could get this picture!
So here it is we finished painting and hanging the boarder in the baby/guest room this last weekend. Wayne put the crib in the room and the guest bed He also painted an older dresser we had and now it is a cute nursery!
The picture is a little off center but you get the idea! This is the first room in our home that I have decorated so far and I am excited about it. I think it is very cute and very Girly!
Well today I will be teaching 4 girls how to sew! I don't really think of myself as a great teacher, but i like to sew and I can show them how to do the basic stuff. I think it will be fun. It is important to show our young ladies the things that might be helpful when they are married and have families themselves. Plus it is a great skill to have. Not to mention the time spent with friends doing something productive.
What have you tought someone else lately? Do you have a skill you like to share with others?
ALOHA!
I did it! I made pumpkin butter, My Inspired Heart made a comment on my blog when I made apple butter about doing this so I gave it a try. I was so easy and the butter tastes sooooo good!
I got this pattern from Randi over at i have to say. It is a Grand Revival pattern that I bought from Randis Esty store. I didn't have any bias tape so I made it without since I can't just run to the store because that would require a 1 1/2 hour drive. but despite that little hold up I think it turned out quite nice! I hope to be making more of these Hawaiian ones and put them in my etsy store, sarahsinHawaii
If you remember I told you about my friend Jennifer and her baby a while back. Well the baby has gone home to be with the Lord. Please keep her and her family in your prayers. Thanks.
Well, I did it I made another rag quilt. It took me one whole day to sew this quilt together and then clip it. It is a lap quilt so it didn't take as long as the first one I made that fit my moms queen bed! I think it turned out really nice!
And as for me I have been making more skirts for my girls after making coral another skirt the older ones decided that I should make them one as well. So I did and they wore them to!!! Their skirt is a little different in that they have a double layer of fabric to make it a bit puffy. It is one of the new style and I a surprised I figured out how to do it without a pattern! They chose all their own fabric from what I had at home, Caitlin is in the pink shirt and Candice is inside the church!
Here is the second on I made for Coral. In this skirt I used more fabric so it gathered more. It turned out very nice, and she liked the fact that her sisters had homemade skirts to. They all wore them to church on Wednesday night.
Today is the last day for a chance to win this bag! so don't forget to leave me a comment!
I sewed everything at a ¼ inch unless I tell you otherwise in the pattern.
Then you will need to cut The bottom parts of the skirt into 8 strips of 13 inches long by 5 inches wide. You will need 2 strips of each color you want to equal 8 strips, ( you may cut more strips for a fuller skirt if you would like).
Then sew the strips together alternating colors right sides together until all are sewn together like shown here.
Then taking the waist band pieces sew the two sides together at short ends like shown here.
Then back to the bottom of skirt sew a line at the top for your gather. After you have sewn that line go ahead and gather your fabric so that it will fit with your waist.
After you have done this go ahead and sew the end of you skirt together. Like shown here.
Then line up the skirt with your waist band and sew right sides together, ( this means putting your waist band on the inside of your skirt bottom) then sew together like shown here.
When this part is done you should have something that looks like this.
Then fold your top waist in about ½ inch at the top and sew, after you have done this fold the waist band down to just go over the raw edge of your skirt bottom and carefully sew, ( make sure your thread matches your fabric so that it really does not show up on the other side.) Leaving an opening for you elastic to be put through.
Measure your child to see what length you need for elastic and the thread it through the waist band like shown here, and then sew elastic together and wiggle into waist. Then making sure your elastic is at the top of your waist band sew just under the elastic that is inside your waist band to make your casing, again making sure your thread matches and that you do not catch the elastic. you want it to move freely!
Now finish the bottom of your skirt by folding twice to fit the length you want for your child, For Coral I folded it at 1 inch two times, and that will give you a finished look at the bottom.
And hopefully yours will look like this when you are done
Coral loved it and it fit her great!
Let me know If you like the pattern and if you are able to make one yourself!
Here is Candice's beautiful face!
What do you like to do for fun?
It is made out of a red silky Asian looking fabric on the outside and canvas for the inside and the straps are webbing and finished off with a drawstring! It is a small backpack, but very cute if I do say so myself! And I am giving it away FREE!!
All you have to do is post a comment here on my blog by: OCTOBER 24th and on October 27th I will Draw and post the winner! Its that easy!
Hope you win!
Yep, I got older this past weekend! I am now 31! I had a nice weekend at home doing nothing! And that is exactly what I wanted to do, I am on the go all the time so to stay at home and watch a movie and rest was just what i needed. My wonderful husband made me breakfast and then also made me dinner! Then He made me this totally from scratch homemade cake! He is the best!
So happy birthday to me!
ALOHA
My friend Shelly, who runs our homeschooling group and has had us over every week to sew made me this shirt! It is so comfortable and fits me perfectly! It is hard to find thing to wear now days! She made another one for me that I love and will have to post as soon as I get a picture!
So here are two pics of me that my hubby took so you can see me and the shirt!
Here is a Holly Berrie tree we found full of Holly!
this is just some of the area we were in.
Here are the apples and pears we picked, we will be doing alot of cutting and canning!
Here is wayne, my girls and some of our friends picking apples!
This is Coral enjoying the apples just as they were picked, she also though it o.k to pick up the apples off the floor and eat them, so we had to watch her closely!
Courtney and two of her friends picking apples!
My Beautiful oldest daughter with a handful of apples!!
The only thing that may have made it better would have been if the rancher would have been riding horses instead of ATVs! I guess that's the times we live in!
Here is another scenic picture that we got to enjoy!
Here is one of the old rancher houses we came across.
Horses roaming free and wild!
