Wednesday Whimsy: Does your Toilet Have Eyes?

 

A few weeks ago, Dave was out of town for a few days for a business trip.  While he was gone the kids thought it would be fun to play a trick on him.  I had this fun pack of giant googly eyes, so they kids thought it would be fun to put them on the houseplants. After we finished that they wanted to add Googly Eyes to more things so they started looking around the house.  We ended up with eyes on the shower door, on shoes in Dave's closet and, my personal favorite, the Toilet.  This one just cracked me up, so we have left it up.  I know it is a bit bizarre, but everyday when I see it, it makes me laugh.

2 little dresses

A few weeks ago Ady and I were thrift store hoping and came across a really cute women's skirt, but not in my size.  It had a nice wide waistband and I thought it might make a cute dress for Ady.  We also found a similar skirt in my size, so we bought them.  Now I am not much of a seamstress.  I can only do basics, but I am learning.  When I got home and took a better look at the skirt I bought to make into a dress, I realized that it wasn't going to be as easy as I had originally thought.  The pleating on it isn't uniform so it will be more complex to take in.  I will work on that one next. The skirt I bought for me was cute, but not extremely flattering, so I decided to use it for the project instead, since it was constructed the way I needed it to be for the dress.  

I forgot to take a picture of it before I started, but this is basically what it looked like, except I have already cut off the excess fabric.  First I had Ady try it on and we held it up to were she would wear it.  The skirt had a side zipper that I wanedt to utilize for the dress, so I kept that side intact.  I pinned it on the opposite side to were it would be in order to fit around Ady's chest.  I was worried that I might not leave enough for the seam allowance, so I ended up being a little too cautious and left a bit too much room.  She will be able to grow into it this way.  With the excess fabric I made straps and then the remainder was used to make a matching dress for Evy.

It needed a little something, so I pulled out some hot pink ribbon and sewed in onto the waistband.

There are definitely flaws, but overall I am so pleased with how it turned out.  There is no way I could have made a dress as complicated as this if I had started from scratch.  I will definitely be on the lookout for similar styled skirts at the thrift store to do this again.

I was hoping that there would be enough of the whole skirt left to make an identical dress for Evy, but it was a bit too narrow.  Fortunately the skirt was full enough that there was still lots of fabric available to use though.  I ended up going with a pillowcase style dress, loosely following this tutorial at Naptime Crafts.

Its a little big right now, so it should fit her for a while.  She wasn't very cooperative with trying it on over and over as I made it, so I had to do a lot of guessing.  Also, I was mostly working on it while she was asleep!

Isn't she cute?!

Here they are together :)

The total cost of the Project:

$4 for the skirt, I had the ribbon on hand, but It was probably about $2 worth.  

I did have to buy pink thread, so that was another $2.

So about $6 for 2 sweet little dresses!  Not bad!

 

I have always had a dream of making cute matching dresses for my two sweet little girls.  ♥ 

8 Months Old

Evy is now 8 months old!  I can hardly believe it!  

She is not quite crawling yet, but she will rock on hands and knees and then scream to be picked up.  She would much rather pull up on furniture and play upright.  She is still learning the importance of hanging on to the furniture once she is up though.  She has had a few bad falls but she is getting good at sticking out her bottom so she lands a little more slowly.  

 

She will actually tolerate bathes now and enjoys splashing.

She is very vocal and loves to squeal and laugh.  She gives high 5's, waves, claps, dances and does "What's up?!" by putting her little hand way up high and waiting for you to say What's Up Evy?

She likes to play games with us.  She plays "Where's Evy?", "How Big is Evy?", Giddy Up Horsey and she loves to hang upside down and flip over.  She is a daring little thrill seeker!  

She loves attention and making people smile and she is very chatty. 

She mostly says "A Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba", but she also says "Mmm-ma", or "Wa".

She  loves to sit in the little rocking chairs on the front porch.  She loves to anything that involves being outside, really.  She wants to swing and ride in the stroller all the time!

We sure love this cute girl and we are so thrilled to have her in our family.  She is so sweet!

Our Family Photo Shoot

In July we had our first family photo shoot as a family of 6.  A friend of mine, Brooke,  has recently started her own photography business, so I hired her to take them.  It was so fun to catch up with an old friend and to have our pictures taken.  She did a fantastic job!  She spent so much time with us and tried to meet all my crazy demands.  She was so flexible and easy to work with too.  Thank you so much Brooke!  

I was really hoping for an orchard setting, so Brooke suggested Apple Works which is close to where I grew up.  It was a bit of a drive for us, but it was fun to be back in my hometown and see how things have changed.  

 

 

It ended up being a super hot day unfortunately, so Evy was pretty grumpy.  

In the past, our family has usually done pictures in the fall, so I wanted to change things up a bit.  I didn't really think about how incredibly hot it would be though!   We were pretty sweaty by the end of the day.

I felt bad that I dragged everyone out on such a sticky hot day so we ended up abandoning the orchard backdrop for some shade.  

Apple Works has some lovely gardens and sitting areas that are shady and worked out nicely for our pictures.

Kyler

Tayden

 

Ady 

Evy

All in all I am really pleased with how the day turned out.  We had a lot of fun and have some wonderful pictures to put up.  Thank you so much, Brooke, for humoring me :)