Jubilee Flowers

Are you tired of Jubilee, yet?? I'm not...It was such an exciting weekend and I wish it was even longer than four days...of course. It was so cool to see everyone get in the spirit and wave their flags. We didn't make it into London on Sunday (would have just been me & the kids) but did our own special celebrations while we watched the pageant online ;-)

This last Jubilee post is not about the cake. It's all about the flowers.

I used a tutorial I had stumbled across and pinned. It's from Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom and was super clear and easy to follow. I used her tutorial to make one smaller flower and one larger flower. Then I glued those together to create one giant flower. I used felt to secure one flower to the headband and the other flower to a clip.

My supplies:

The buttons...a random assortment from my small button stash. The fabric...leftover scraps from a tooth pillow and CW's trousers. Headband...out of EV's dress-up box. Clip...my own. Overall cost...FREE! (ish) because I'm pretty sure I bought some of those things at some point in the past.

I originally made them to put on EV's dress. But, then I thought they would be just a bit too much and I didn't want to over-do it. So, I was left with two large flowers.

                             Headband...

     Hair clip...

     Eye patch...

                Outfit complete...

Complete Jubilee

 It was really tough to get good pictures of the complete Jubilee outfits, but here's what I got....

I decided not to add anything to the top of the dress and went with Truly Myrtle's suggestion of a ribbon around the waist. It is actually what I had originally pictured after reading the circle skirt tutorial. I thought I'd dye the elastic blue, but then realised I might be getting myself into something more than I could handle at the time. So, the ribbon was perfect! ...and my little girl loved it!

I matched CW's trousers with a shirt from Next. I knew he'd love the guitar. Can't go wrong with cars and guitars!

Back at home after the rain started.

...and one more. :-)

Jubilee Trousers

I just finished these trousers for my little boy to wear to the Queen's Jubilee celebration in our village on Monday! They are the Treasure Pocket Pants from Sewing for Boys. My mom (jerry&kay) gave me the book for Mother's Day and this is the first chance I've had to make something from it. There's a sew-a-long for the book going on at boy, oh, boy, oh, boy but I just can't keep up!

 Here they are with just the hem.

 Here they are with the hem rolled up.

This is probably how my little guy will wear them. He tends to be thicker but shorter than most. :-)

I'm excited for him to try them on tomorrow and hope they fit!

 One thing I learned from making these trousers is what "bar tack" means. I like it.

 My favorite part are the pockets. I hope Canaan stores lots of his treasures in them!

I also loved how the waistline was done with two narrower pieces of elastic instead of just one wide one.

I'll post pictures soon of them on my little guy as well as my little girl's Jubilee dress with its finishing touches! 

Happy Jubilee! :-)

Crocheted Birthday Card

I received this in the mail today...

It's a birthday card! Yes, I turned 35 this week. Yikes!

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Isn't it a clever way to make a card?? A crochet flower, felt stem and leaves with a birthday coupon inside.

I'm pretty sure my mom made it and that she wrote the special poem inside. You can see more of her beautiful work on her own blog - Jerry & Kay.

Thanks, Mom and Dad!