Is it REALLY my birthday tomorrow?  Geez.  I seriously suck at blogging...almost a whole month has gone by with only 1 post!  Ok, ok.  Birthday resolution....organization!!!  Pinterest should be my friend, right?  Tons of organization on there I can gawk at. 

So, I have been making stuff lately..ofcourse...but more specifically lastnight I FRANKENPATTERNED!  For those of you who do not know what that means, it is taking different parts of different patterns and sewing it all up.  Sometimes I find that I can't get ALL of the elements I'm looking for in 1 single pattern.  This happened to me recently when I tried to find a pattern for a Native American Ribbon Dress.  Although, I should have made The Ribbon Dress more true to form than I did...I ran out of time to practice.  AND there is a paper pattern out there...but alas...paper patterns and I don't mix well.  I will have to post those mis- haps one day.  Outtakes if you will.

So enters FRANKENPATTERNS! 
A-line...check!
sleeves....check!
no elastic....check!
This little dress is for a special little one who is going to the Thanksgiving celebration at the Governor's Mansion.  I hope to post some more pictures soon!!  More importantly.....I hope it fits!  That's the thing about frankenpatterns...they haven't been "fit-tested".  I sure hope this one fits well!!  Guess we will have to wait to find out the verdict.

Until next time!
JaNette

oh yeah, this post was supposed to be about Birthdays!  I'm must be getting 'old'....for my forgetfulness...here is a 35%off coupon to celebrate!
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Thanks friends!!!

Ahem...why yes Amelie and Henri may I have another?  Here is the Esmee dress which is surely going to be a show stopper for you as well. Jenna has worn this a few times now and everyone loves it.  I even put her in this for her school pictures.  I used actual lining on the inside and I think that is what she likes the most.  "It's so silky, Mama!" is what I have heard a dozen times now.  I guess I will start lining her future dress bodices with actual lining from here on out..LOL
I can see so many possibilities with this dress...lace overlay, lace ruffle, sweet little Easter prints and so many more. The cute little pockets were very easy to install. I thought that would have been harder!  Aside from faux pockets, I have never made something with useable pockets before. Shocked,  aren't ya.  The skirt is just full enough for them to blend right in too!!

Moving right along to Halloween........  Let me just say, it was a blur. Jenna and I did get a couple of pumpkins the week before Halloween on her class trip.  Normally we try to go as a family but with everything going on lately, there wasn't any time.  So the girls carved the 2 from the fieldtrip a few days before. 

I made a rag doll a while ago to coordinate with the Esmee dress using Dolls and Daydreams pattern.  Jenna LOVES it!  Who knew?  So for Halloween her dolly needed a costume as well.  I made her a mermaid costume from an idea I have had rolling around in my head. I didn't even have to use the seam ripper.  I was more excited of how it turned out than Jenna.  Let me say, sewing Barbie clothes is not my thing.  It's very, very, very small.  There is virtually nothing to grab on to help keep the stitches straight.  I had to just hope the machine didn't eat it as those tiny straps were sewn up.  I got lucky but unless I can figure out a better way, I'm not doing that again. Those straps were Barbie small.  It was too stressful.    

We have been going to my brother's house for the last few years on Halloween night for trick-or-treating.  I didn't even get a pict of all of the kids this year.  I will have to steal one from my sil as I'm pretty sure she took one.  Jenna was Tangled, ofcourse! Patrick was Baby Mario-LOL,  Ashton was a Baseball Fan,  and Hailey was an Egyptian (an old dance costume).  I'm not sure at what age is too old to go trick-or-treating but as long as they actually dress up, I'm going to let them go.   

I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things really soon!!!  Christmas is just around the corner and I have a ton of things in mind to make.  Guess I better get crackin'!!
Until next time.....

JaNette

P.S. How cute is this?  I love getting tagged in customer picts on Facebook!! So please tag me!!!! Only thing better is I'm related to this little cutie!!  Sweet little Addy wearing nothing but a pumpkin and a MerriPoppins bow...melts my hear!