Barbie Dress.

I’m going to squeak this entry in so that the month of August has something to show for itself! I’ve been busy with different projects, but really have been negligent with the picture taking, so tonight I finally put batteries in the camera, and took a photo of the Barbie dress that I made. When I was young, my Grandmother sent me a bunch of hand made clothes for my dolls, which made playing with them so much more fun, and I thought that maybe my girls would enjoy that. So first, I went on Ebay to find some clothes, but they were selling for $25 to $80 per lot, and the clothes looked tired. And some were just not cute. Then a light bulb went on, and I figured I’d give it a go making them myself. At the 99 cent Simplicity sale at Joann’s, I found some patterns for 11.5 inch dolls, and started with a dress from “Sewing Patterns for Dummies” (Simplicity 7073). It was straightforward, but still took me about 5 hours (yikes!) from start to finish. Hopefully I’ll get faster with practice!

Homemade Princess Castle.

Thought I’d post this even though it was made awhile ago... This was so easy to make and worked out just as well as something you’d buy. I cut a box and painted it white and the girls decorated the walls with flower stickers and markers. The castle turrets are mailing tubes (I cannot for the life of me think of the real word for those things!) They played with this castle a lot for a few months but have since slowed down. I’m still hoping they will use it more, because they still play with the dolls (seen in the doorway) and now I am sentimentally attached to it.

In the meantime I’m continuing to knit my nephew’s gift, and I also made a mediocre tote bag that will probably never see the light of day. It was meant to hold current knitting projects but it turned out too small.

We’re also getting ready for this...

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