FLDSMDFR Pinata

My son's second birthday was on the 12th and we'll be throwing his party this weekend!  His favorite movie right now is Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (coincidentally, it's also MY favorite movie right now) so that'll be the theme!  I had so much fun coming up with different decoration, game, and food ideas.  Sadly, due to our budget, certain ideas will not come to fruition :(  (i.e. homemade nacho cheese fountain, mokey thought translators for the babies to wear, etc.)

I was, however, able to make Flint Lockwood's Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator into a pinata for the event!  I looked everywhere for those little gummy krabby patties so that when it gets busted open little hamburgers would come out.  But, I couldn't find them anywhere!

Anyway, the cunstruction went surprisingly quickly.  I drew up some plans:

Cut out my various pieces:

Taped them together with packing tape:

Cut some tissue paper into strips and glued them on:

                                         

                                         

Then, I put on all of the embellishments!

                                          

                                          

Tada!

I also made a banner with his name on it and today I'm making a "Pin the Chicken on Brent" game.  Instead of a regular style cake, I'm going to make little cheeseburger shaped cakes for everyone.  That should be a blogworthy occasion as I've never attempted any fancy cake shaping before....  Stay tuned!

Sew Easy!

I recently took up sewing.  There are so many things I want to make that would only be possible once that skill were accquired!  So far, I've only completed two (literally) small projects and they were really just for practice.  My first project ended up being a lot more difficult than I had anticipated but, this second project was just as easy as it looked in my head!

A friend of mine just had a baby girl at the beginning of last month so I made her (the baby) a dress!

I found the fabric at Wal*Mart a little while ago for $1.00 a yard!!  The fabric was way too busy to use for any big projects, but it was PERFECT for this!

All I did was:

-cut a big rectangle

-hemmed the two longer edges

-sewed a thin elastic strip across the top to create a shirring effect (you could do 3 or 4 rows if you wanted it to look smocked)

-sewed up the side to make a tube

-cut two thick strips of fabric for the shoulder straps and tapered them in at the edges

-hemmed them

-sewed an elastic strip under what would be the inside edge of each strap to make them ruffle

-sewed the straps on

...and that was it!  Still...I thought it needed a little something extra.  So I whipped up a few crocheted flowers and attatched them with a needle and thread, and voila!

(My sweet baby boy was quite the generous little model.)  (And that's my mom-say hi mom!)

Sorry I never remember to take pictures during the sewing process, partially because it's always a spur of the moment activity and partially because I make things up as I go along.  But that's what I like about sewing!  You can just do what feels good and have fun playing around!

And that's what I encourage y'all to do! Do some freestyle creating!  And if you come up with something you want to share, go ahead and link me to it!

Have fun makin' stuff :)

P.S.  this project probably cost me less than $0.50 to make.  Say what?!