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Indiya in her dress with purse!!!! Her barbie dress is packed away for the trip to the new house.
Back at Christmas I drew my 60-ish year old MALE boss's name for Secret Santa. It is hard to buy a gift for a man you know well...let alone one you have only worked for for 2 months... Since our office is dog friendly, his canine children are often at at work with him....so I snuck pictures of them, re-worked them on one of my favorite picture editing sites www.picnik.com, framed them and...he LOVED them. Since then, another co-worker asked me to do one of her dogs for her sister's birthday. I wish I would have taken a picture of the first one I did...this time I added the dogs names - and VIOLA! I am going to be doing one of Olive soon I think.
And they did!!
I made the princess cake and the cupcakes for Indiya's party....cute cute cute
Tomorrow is my neice Indiya's 5th birthday party! I am making her cake (which I will post pics of later) and making her present this year. As I have said in earlier posts - we are financially challenged- so from now on homemade gifts with materials I already have is my goal. According to my sis-in-law - the last thing Indiya needs is another Barbie (although that's what she wants - she is a 5 year old girl, y'know) So I waded through my fabric stash and found some perfect little girl fabric (confession: I had to buy the ribbon at Joann's - but I had a coupon - it cost me $1.29) and made her a sundress with a mtaching dress for one of her 17 Barbies. It actually fits Tessah as a shirt - so I'm sure I will be making this again.
I stole the idea for this dress from here....http://daisyjanie.typepad.com/daisyjanie/2007/12/how-to-bandana.htmlAND herehttp://dollarstorecrafts.com/2009/03/bandanna-dress/I had no bandannas so I Googled the "standard bandanna size" and cut my fabric appropriately. What do you think? 
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there....and to my mom!
Kenai Fjords Cruise - 2007
My T.O.P.S. (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter is having a "food" table at the flea market run by another chapter today. We decided to rent a table as a chapter and have a food & drink booth...so we all need to donate goodies - the proceeds go to our chapter. So I got to thinking - everyone will be making cookies and brownies, etc.... I'm going to be different (shocker, right?) I decided handmade chocolate drizzled pretzels were the way to go. And they look really good - taste good too - according to Brent and Jake (and me- LOL).
Since I am supposed to be taking off pounds...I'm glad I'll be at my table - not manning the chapter table! Wish us luck!
OK - so even though many quilting projects are unfinished....I needed a break from the machine - and i had some cards I needed to make - and a new thing I am trying - gift tags.... they are tiny and adorable!
A friend of the family just graduated from college - and we've been invited to the graduation party... since we are financially challenged right now and buying a gift for a guy is daunting - I thought I would make him a set of thank you cards in his school colors. Manly cards are a challenge for me...but I think they turned out pretty good - 2 down - 18-22 to go!!!!
