Father's Day

The Saturday before Father's day our modem went out.  What proceeded was the WORST dealing with a company EVER.  Two weeks of getting the run-around by AT&T then finally getting a modem from somewhere else.  So, we went almost three weeks without a modem.  When we FINALLY got our new one I found that I was uninspired to blog.  Sort of like doing without it for so long made me not want to do it anymore.  Does this make sense??  Probably not but, the important thing is, that I am back, ready to blog again, with A LOT of posts on the way. 

So, back to Father's day.  My last post of something I had made was some Green Bay Packer shorts for My Love for a Father's day gift.  I also wanted to make something for him that had to do with our children and when I saw THIS post by Sugar Bee Crafts I knew it was PERFECT for him.  Mainly because he is an AWESOME DaDa and works SUPER hard for us but also because I LOVED the play on words!! 
I asked him to pick out his preferred color of a shirt and traced the kids hands on wax paper and we were ready to make it.
On the post from Sugar Bee Crafts, she said you could use iron on letters or embroidery but I just decided to use fabric paint.  The kids picked out the colors they wanted their hands to be and I used those for the words also.  I traced the hands on the back and added each child's name  for their hand then I painted the words on the front.  It was SUPER easy to make and My Love absolutely adored it!!  Pleasing him was/is what matters so I was happy that he was happy!!!  Here are a couple of pics of the finished product:

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DaDa's Day and The Pack

DaDa's day is Sunday.  This means once again, I (or the children, whichever) get to give things to My Love.  I LOVE days with this meaning because I LOVE coming up with things to give him that will make him smile, things he will LOVE!!
I also have the inability to keep things a secret from him.  If I have something to give him, unless it's Christmas, he usually gets it early.  The other day, I got one of his presents in the mail.  It was a key chain that says, "Our DaDa Rocks!!"  I gave it to him the day it came.  He LOVED it!!! 
He also LOVES the Packers.  He has liked them since about 1996, so no, he is not a bandwagon jumper.  When they won the Superbowl, I ordered some Green Bay material for him with the intention of making him some sleep pants.  he doesn't wear his sleep pants he has very often so I really didn't want to do this.  He usually wears shorts to bed though.  In comes DaDa's day.
I dug out the material and an OLD pattern that my Mammaw had given me (also came in the box of "junk") for making men's shorts.  I started them yesterday and finished them this morning.  All together it took about 2 hours and cutting the pattern pieces was the hardest part.  He put them on this morning and wore them to be (he was working nights).  He LOVED them so MUCH!!!  YAY!!  There is no GREATER reward then making someone happy.  Especially someone you LOVE deeply!!!  Here is a pic of him wearing his shorts: 

Re-Fasioning a Dress

A couple of weeks ago, cousin K was spring cleaning and since L is 2 yrs older than Our G, she gave me some of the clothes L had outgrown.  Among them was a CUTE brown dress with different colored butterflies.  It was long sleeved and a 2T.  I actually fit G okay around the waist though so I decided to refashion it. 
I cut the long sleeves off and hemmed the arm holes.  When I put the dress on G though, the arm holes hung down way too far because they were too big.  So there I was, sitting and thinking about what I could do to fix it.  Hmmmmmmmmmmm...........
Then it hit me!!  I could use the cut off sleeves to make the hole smaller.  So I did.  I hemmed them and sewed them on.  IT WORKED!!  YAY!!  She even wore it to church Sunday!!  Here are some pics of the dress before and after and of course, one with G wearing it:

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