Adventures in Sewing

I have a confession to make, I am obsessed with the children’s clothes on etsy.com but live on a walmart.com budget, so obviously I cannot afford to buy everything I see and love on etsy.com.  I am a kreative person, who owns a sewing machine, so I should be able to make some of my children’s clothes, right? Sure, I have never sewn anything besides a straight line, and even that was not so straight. But I am sure I can make some Halloween outfits (not costumes) for my triplets to wear to their Halloween party. Plus my husband had 2 days off last week and could help me with the kids, which meant I had a few minutes to myself, between teaching classes at Kreative Kids and working- sounded like plenty of time to me.


So I went out to the fabric store intending to buy a pattern for a simple skirt with an elastic waistband for my girls and fabric to sew a tie on a onesie for my son. Should be easy enough- except they do not have patterns for simple skirts for skinny minny one year olds. So I came home with a pattern and all I needed to make each of my daughters a Halloween dress. I lay out the pattern and the fabric and I am already sweating, who knew it would take so long to cut out! Much more sweating, a few tears, a couple of YouTube videos, and a lot of seam ripping to fix mistakes, I persevered, and produced a wearable dress for my girls.

Now of course I think I am an expert and am already looking for patterns to make them Christmas dresses! Luckily we still have quite a bit of time before then so I think I might try it.

Halloween Happenings

We absolutely love Halloween, the costumes, face painting, decorations and crafts that can be created are limitless. This Halloween we will be hosting a party at Kreative Kids, so come and decorate pumpkins, create milk jug ghosts, and play Halloween games with us.

At Kreative Kids this week our SCULPTURE CLASSES will be creating paper mache jack-o-lanterns out of plastic shopping bags. I found this idea on a great art blog, Art Projects for Kids, and thought not only is this an easy way to make a paper mache pumpkin but it is aso a good way to recycle those plastic grocery bags we all save for who knows what. Follow the link below for more on how to create a plastic bag pumpkin:

http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/2010/08/plastic-bag-mache-pumpkin.html