Projects Completed!

Back in June I listed a bunch of projects that I wanted to complete.

The dress started out looking that this.   It looks like something my Grandmother would wear, wait, that is where I got it.

When I finished it looked like this:

The quilt on the list was for my college roomie's 3rd baby. Which I didn't take a picture of it.   Meg, send me a picture!   I really wanted to mail to it her and skipped the picture
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I also made a quilt for my  sister-in-law's best friend Jen.    She wanted me to use fabric from her bassinet when she was a little girl.   The red check is her bassinet fabric.   The other fabrics came from Hobby Lobby.  I made two identical quilts for her.  Jen gave one to her sister for Christmas.   Here it is:

Custom pillowcases.

A local crafting store sponsored a monthly crafty contest.   I made this hairband with a handmade flower.   While I didn't win for the month, my daughter loves it and wears it all the time.   She tells me she gets a lot of compliments on it.

Halloween costumes.   We were characters from Peter Pan.  Here are the kids costumes.

Peter Pan

Wendy

A tote bag for my daughter's teacher.    We gave it to her for Christmas with a book inside.

During the week between Christmas and the New Year I made a purse.   It was not the purse on my original list.   I'm experimenting with different designs and styles before I make that one.  I found this fabric on the remanant rack at JoAnns.   I got it for $3.50.   I used leftover interfacing and lining fabric from the teacher's tote.   I had the perfect button in my button stash.   I downloaded the pattern for free from Homespun-Threads.  This is the Josie bag which I took to church yesterday. It is smaller than I normally carry, as a result it was full with my Bible, wallet, keys and sunglasses.    

The Non Sewing
I did several non sewing projects such has helping my husband rebuilt our boat's outdrive

Success!   I got to drive the boat!

I have wanted to see Wicked since I lived in Chicago.   It came to Houston and I was so excited!  It was as good as I hoped!

I danced with a flash mob at our NBA team's home opener.   Our video of this came out terrible.  Here is a picture before it started.

A link to someone else's video on Youtube.

Lastly, I was a part of our church's Christmas production.   No, I was not a flying angel.   That is everyone's next question.   Our church had angels that dropped down from the ceiling during the final scene, quite spectacular.   We also had an elephant walk through the sanctuary.   I wasn't the elephant either.   

In November, my husband took a job with a different company.   He loves it.   Most importantly, we will not have to move to NYC anytime in the near future.   It looks as if he wanted to keep his old job we were going to have to make that move in the next two years.   Praise God for a new job and no more cross country moves in the near future.    While I am the expert at moving cross country; I will not need that knowledge for now.  Insert happy dance!

Now that I have caught up on the last six months I can go forward chronicling God's work in our lives.