From Blah To Bling

This year my daughter danced in a Patriotic Program our town has every year with her dance group.  I was supposed to get her a red and white outfit.  I was really struggling trying to find something I liked.  So I bought a plain red tank top for $3 at Walmart.

After a few rhinestones and some ribbons on the sleeves...this is what we ended up with.  Much better!

Miscellaneous Projects

Here's a few other things I've worked on lately:

My sister needed a banner for her daughters school science fair...I guess she was in charge of helping decorate the gym.

My nephew finished his student teaching and wanted to give his mentor teacher a mug with a Superman Logo on it--supposedly he is a huge fan...

And my daughter had a birthday party to go to, so we made a cute little headband out of fabric to add to her gift.  Of course I can't just make one, I had to make 3 more for my girls too.  This picture doesn't do them justice...they turned out so cute and are reversible so it's really like have 2 different headbands!  It was a fun, easy and quick project!

I told my kids this year that they had to be creative and come up with Halloween costumes using things we already had at home.  One of my kids decided they wanted to be a bank robber.  We had black sweats, a beanie cap, an eye mask and then she wanted a money bag.  I sat down and stitched this bag up the other day, put an iron-on vinyl dollar sign and now she is ready to go.  And she will just use the bag as her treat bag on Halloween night.

Reclaim My Garage

Wow, we sure do have a lot of stuff.  We are a very active family and have a wide variety of sporting and camping equipment.  It was overflowing the garage.  I finally decided to reclaim my garage.  I ordered some stadium lockers (one for each us) to store all our sporting equipment in (I'm still waiting for those to arrive).  All the camping gear got relocated to the shed.  But my favorite part so far has been the painting and vinylizing. 

Since I'm putting lockers in and storing sporting equipment I naturally thought of a locker room, so I decided to use some of my Alma Mater vinyl to decorate the garage. 

We painted the garage white, gray and on the beams a navy blue.  Then I cut out some Utah State vinyl and attached it to the wall.  It really does make a difference to have the garage painted.  It looks much bigger, lighter and way more finished! 

I am excited to get the lockers here so I can have a finished project (and I'm sure my husband would love to be able to park his truck in the garage again too!)

Update:  The lockers are amazing!  We each have our own locker.  We fill it will all our own sporting equipment/life jackets/helmets, etc.  On the top of each one is a laundry basket full of winter coats/snow pants/ski boots, etc.  It was one of the best purchases ever!!

Halloween Stitching Project

I saw this mini quilt holder one time at a nursing home and I just loved the idea of making a little quilt block display, so my amazing Mom ordered me one!  Since it was October I decided to make a Halloween block.

I found a coloring page online that I liked.  I imported into my Silhouette program, traced around it and then used a disappearing pen to trace it onto my fabric.

 

 

I then colored and stitched around my lines, and then sprayed water on it to make the blue lines disappear.  And then for the best part--I gave it to my sister to finish it.  She put the cute Halloween fabric around the edges and then quilted it with her machine...She is AMAZING at quilting! 

I just loved how it turned out!

Super Hero Capes

Last for Christmas we gave my 4 year old nephew a Super Hero Kit.  It was a huge hit.  I had a Tupperware that I vinylized on the outside.  I was able to pick up some Super Hero things for dirt cheap one time that I included, like a Captain America shield.  I also included a flashlight that I covered with a vinyl bat cutout for a Batman light.  But my favorite things I included are these adorable Reversible Super Hero Capes!

I just cut out 2 pieces of fabric.  Stitched them together and used Velcro to attach around the neck.  I then designed the logos and used iron-on vinyl for those. (I included 4 capes.  Batman is on one side, Robin on the other.)   I love how they turned out!  I wish I would have taken some action shots of Korver at the Christmas party.  He loved it and kept going back to his box to try on a new cape!  Such a fun present to give!

(Even my 4 year old daughter loved modeling them--maybe I should've made a Wonder Woman Cape too!)

Temporary Tatoos

I thought I'd give a shot at making temporary tatoos for my sons Orange Crush Baseball team.  It was so fun.  I took the orange crush logo and photoshopped out the orange slices and put in a baseball.  They turned out super cute and so fun...the boys loved them.

Getting Ready For DisneyLand!

We were able to go on an extended family vacation to Disneyland this fall.  To get ready I thought it would be fun to have matching shirts for my kiddos.  I had so much fun making them, and I have to admit with 21 little kids 11 years old and younger in a group, it was nice to have all my kids in the same color...I could easily pick them out and do head count checks.  My kids loved their new shirts and that made it so we didn't even have to buy an expensive Disney shirt while we were there...bonus!

 For the girls.

 For my boy.

The Thing shirts were a big hit.  Not only are they bright and easy to head count check with, but I was shocked to see how many other vacationers would start to count and see if they could count all the things.  So funny how many comments we received on these ones.

The boy shirts and the thing shirts were made with iron-on printable vinyl.  I just found the graphics, printed them on my ink-jet printer and used my machine to cut around the design, and then iron-on.

The girls shirts, I cut the Mickey Mouse silhouette out of fabric with my machine and used wonder under to apply it to the shirts and then I stiched around the edges.  The stripes and bow are just ribbon sewed onto the shirt.  The black shirts are made with iron on rhinestones...they turned out amazing and what girl doesn't like a little sparkle?