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pinterest labels alteration baby dress childrens clothing diy family kids crafts links toddler thursday august 23 2012 my mug once upon a time i went with my family to a quaint old mining village turned lutheran family camp up in the mountains above lake chelan i only mention it because at holden village they have a pottery studio and on that trip with my family i made a mug in that pottery studio however our trip came to an end before my mug had been fired luckily i had made a few friends while we were there and i left some money with one of them and asked her to mail my mug to me when it was finished well i never saw that mug again and i have always wondered how it turned out i m sure it was the mug to end all mugs fast forward 15 years this time it s me bringing my little family to holden village hence the car trip that inspired me to make these little guys and there were lots of wonderful things that we did while we were there but you can bet that when that pottery sign up sheet was posted my name was on that list i had a mug that had been 15 years in the making that i would be bringing home with me this time no pottery wheels were involved this time just handbuilding which was plenty challenging for me i was pretty proud of the final result that chevron pattern was made by rolling a piece of rebar on the clay i used a leaf stamp to fancy up the handle i even stamped the inside and the bottom has the date on it until i got it home and had my first cup of coffee in it and it dribbled coffee on my shirt if there is coffee dribbling on my shirt it should be because children are bumping into me not because i am drinking from a defective mug you can even see in the last picture that my glazing was not as complete as it should have been in the bottom edges of the mug um obviously since it leaks hey it was hard to get inside those corners both for joining the clay and painting the glaze apparently at least this time the mug made it home with me that s a step in the right direction maybe 15 years from now i can go back and make a mug that doesn t leak my potter friend told me to buy this stuff and only apply it on the outside of the mug the all caps caution has me worried i have the glue but i m nervous that it will poison me does anybody know if there are any other ways to fix a leaky glazed pottery mug or if this glue is perfectly safe and i should just fix it and start drinking my coffee out of my glorious mug already posted by bethanycavanaugh gmail com at 7 52 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels diy family home decor tuesday august 21 2012 travel coloring wallet tutorial i m not going to go on and on about how behind i am on blogging i m not so anyway here s something i made to bring on our vacation this summer i also made one as a birthday gift i was inspired by the one i saw in this blog post via pinterest i will be making more of them because they were a huge hit with the kids and they are also awesome just for tucking in my purse when we are going out to dinner or whatever here it is i used some of my old jeans with holes in the knees for the exterior to make them sort of sturdy that makes them probably the most expensive fabric scraps in my collection i started by cutting out my fabrics one exterior one interior you need to have your materials that you will be putting inside in order to figure out how big to cut your fabric namely the notepad and the coloring implements i chose crayons because i didn t want to deal with dropped marker caps in the car or things that would dry out or need to be sharpened but you could definitely use markers or colored pencils in here i got a little notepad from dollar tree that was bound at the top not spiral and had lots of pages i think 100 i will probably get a few extra so i know i have backup that will fit in here now that i know how successful it is i also got a bunch of stickers also dollar tree and at the last minute i found sheets of stencils at dollar tree too that i could cut up so that they fit in the pocket with the stickers the stencils have gotten more use than i expected even with my two year old who can t really use them properly so i laid out my materials in order to figure out how big to cut my fabric as you can see in the first picture at the top of the page the pocket for the crayons goes the other direction from the pocket for the notebook and stickers so my fabric needed to be cut in this weird shape you ll also probably notice that it s not exactly right angles that s because i was following the seams in the denim which is not cut in straight lines so i was fudging it a little you can make it nice and square if you re not using old jeans for the exterior so here s the basic idea to figure out your measurements you can cut it a little differently depending on how tall you want your pockets to be how much of your crayon you want sticking out of the pocket etc but this was pretty much how i figured it with the right sides together sew around the outside leave a section open for turning inside out i would leave the hole about 1 3 of the way down on the left side pictured below so that you have a nice place to hide your velcro tab raw edges later which brings us to the velcro tab i cut a little strip of the lining fabric about 1 5 inches by 3 inches and sewed a little piece of velcro to one end then i folded it in half right sides together and sewed around three sides leaving the bottom open i guess you could just sew the two sides together since the end is a fold up to you turn it inside out and poke the corners out unlike in my picture below now turn the main body of the wallet right side out and press flat fold up the section that will create the pockets for the notebook and the stickers tuck your velcro tab inside the hole you used to turn the body right side out then pin the pocket and tab in place and sew the outer edges of the pocket down place your notebook all the way to the right in the pocket you ve created then pin it snugly in place on the other edge you want it to be in there tight even a tiny bit too small is good because you can wiggle wedge it in and it won t slip out while it s in use i sewed just a tidbit to the right of where i had pinned to make sure it was snug now somehow i managed to miss taking pictures of the crayon portion of this program it s very simple you just fold that long piece that s sticking out on the left over as far as you want a little more than half the length of the crayon worked well for me sew the edges down then make little channels for the crayons but that is a little tricky make sure your openings are big enough for your crayons they had to be bigger than i expected for the kids to be able to get them in and out easily i sewed lines 3 4 inch apart to fit regular crayons and 1 and 1 8 inches for the thick toddler crayons when i made another one of these for my daughter i actually didn t measure these until after the fact just now as a matter of fact i just eyeballed it but the first time i made them too narrow and had to rip them out and do it again so i hope the measurements are helpful finally figure out the exterior velcro placement i put all of the stuff in mine first the notepad crayons etc to see how big it would be when it was full then i pinned my velcro on it should fall inbetween the notepad pocket and the crayon pockets and sewed it down taking all of the stuff out first of course ta da the boy wasted no time getting started with his crayon wallet he pulled it out within the first 5 minutes of our 5 hour car ride for this summer s family vacation and here is little sister s coloring wallet still in action on the last leg of our journey the 45 minute ride straight uphill on a school bus well not straight uphill there were a bunch of switchbacks her favorite part was definitely the stickers but as you can see the crayons got some action as well this is so compact which makes it great for stuffing in your purse but also it doesn t take up much room when it s in use so it works at a restaurant table on an airplane in a car you get the idea i was really happy with the way they turned out and definitely excited to see that the kids liked them as much as i did and that they are totally functional go me also i was kind of winging it here as usual so if you have any questions please let me know in the comments your measurements will mostly depend on what kind of notebook you buy posted by bethanycavanaugh gmail com at 8 20 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boys childrens diy gifts ideas inspiration kids crafts quick project toddler toys upcycled use those scraps friday august 10 2012 mom skirts i have been on such a skirt kick lately and every time i wear a skirt without pockets it drives me crazy all day can t stand to put my phone down where is my chapstick what did i do with my keys this is my internal monologue any time my outfit is devoid of pockets soooo i have finally started making some of the great skirts that have been in my pinterest grown up projects folder for ages and i love them i think of these as my mom skirts because they are comfortable forgiving of the tummy and most importantly they have pockets the first skirt pictured the olive green one is the milkmaid skirt from crafterhours i decided to make it out of this lightweight olive green stretch denim when i realized that the 24 long remnant that i bought was too short to make a pair of pants for the boy which was the plan when i bought it no i could not have made him a pair of shorts instead lalalalala i can t hear you luckily the fabric was 58 inches wide so i just barely had enough to make the skirt i had to fudge on the waistband seam allowance a little and i had to use a contrast fabric for the pocket lining that doesn t show and instead of a hem i had to use bias tape so it didn t end up as a mini skirt i just gotta put my hand in there i had a package of pre made coordinating bias tape that i had picked up on clearance ages ago luckily i didn t do the bias trim on my pockets the way she describes in the tutorial as a matter of fact i did mine according to her milkmaid skirt for little girls instead using the same pre made bias tape as i used on the hem by the way one 3 yard pack of bias tape was plenty for the pockets and hem with a little left over maybe 1 2 yard my skirt ended up being kind of a hybrid of the two but i think the subtle fabrics made it look grown up enough for me i pulled out the pocket so you could see the contrast lining also a close up view of the bias trim on the pocket oh i almost forgot in the tutorial she says she made her pockets about 5 x7 that looked too small to me so i made mine 5x9 now that i m wearing it that s right i am wearing it at this moment i think i could have even gone a little deeper maybe 5x10 the skirt in the middle is my favorite this one was an upcycle of this plus size sundress i picked up at the goodwill outlet where you buy clothes by the pound another item originally purchased with a kid project in mind i must be getting selfish it s also the milkmaid skirt how appropriate for this white eyelet fabric don t you think i made this one the day after i made the olive green one while it was fresh in my mind the green one came out a little bigger than i wanted it still fits fine thanks to the elastic waist so i adjusted accordingly for the white one and i m very happy with it the directions for this skirt are so simple that i didn t even have to refer back to the tutorial when i made it the second time around it s really very intuitive also this one has a lining i wish i could describe to you how i did the lining but i just totally made it up as i went and it came out ok but while we re on the subject hey does anyone know how to make a skirt with pockets and a lining lmk this was another one where i was just scraping by to have enough fabric but luckily i was using the existing hem so the length worked out the hidden pocket linings are made from scraps of some white fabric i had laying around though close up of the pocket one of my favorite elements on this one is the visible pocket lining i used the extra eyelet trim from the yoke of the dress so that it would peek out from the pocket i thought it would also be nice to have an extra place for crumbs and lint to gather so there s that too speaking of crumbs and such we will have to see how wearing this skirt around the wee ones will work out today i have already cleaned yogurt barbecue sauce and nutella off of my olive green skirt should have taken my pictures first thing this morning i guess so i will be taking a real risk to wear something white we shall see i suppose finally the patterned skirt is actually the first of the three that i made i originally found this design from naptime crafters when i was trying to figure out how to add pockets to this skirt and was really excited to make the whole thing someday i the tutorial is easy to follow and fairly simple to execute i recommend it if you look closely there is a pineapple in the print so it is only fitting that i debuted it at a night out for karaoke at a tiki bar at which i was the only person in our group of six to actually sing at the microphone that is they were all more than willing to belt it out at the table i like this one because it doesn t have an elastic waist so that s something different it has button closures so i have still put off learning how to put in a zipper this fabric was another remnant that i picked up it s a rayon which is not a fabric i m used to working with it s great for a skirt because it s soft washable and has a really nice drape and is lightweight without being sheer this print is a little crazy for me but it caught my eye and it is nice to have something lively to pair with my black or white tops the rayon did stretch after wearing it for a while so i had to move the buttons over luckily that s pretty easy to do with this skirt look at me tucking in my shirts like a proper grown up however when i make another skirt like this i will make bigger pockets she mentions in the tutorial that the pockets are great for carrying around a chapstick but she doesn t say that a chapstick is literally all that you can fit in there see the way my hand is sticking almost all the way out of my pocket that s as far as i can put it in there for real so bigger pockets and this skirt would be a real winner so i officially have a new mom uniform posted by bethanycavanaugh gmail com at 11 46 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels clothing links thrifted upcycled womens wednesday august 8 2012 catching up kiddo flip flops and another baby dress hi we ve been on vacation to a place with no internet or phone and it s taking me a while to get reacclamated to blogging well actually that s an excuse i m just still on vacati...