Needing a little bit of Disney

As always I counldn't finish one project without starting another.  I had an idea for my wedding that I can re-purpose later to ornaments.

I couldn't have my wedding, and Sean's too I guess, without a little Disney in it.  I thought it would be cute at each table to have a little ornament hanging off a mason jar.  And if I decide that I don't want to do Disney at the wedding, not all my time is lost.

 I started with the Kingdom flag from Tangled.  I had the colors of felt already.  There were two shapes seven time and arrange them around a circle.  I glued the pieces down onto the felt and stitched them from behind, as to not see the stitches too much.

I stuffed it with some leftover quilt batting and did a blanket stitch around the edges.  For good measure I added my crafting signature and the year.  All that is left is a ornament hanger.

The first ornament turned out great.  Only 12-15 more to go!  The plan is about half Disney and Disneyland and half Sean's interests.  Plus a lot of crossover of things we both like.  I suppose we have to like some of the same things!

-Bryn

Pinterest By Bryn

I have found my new favorite social networking tool.  Pinterest!

Anyone can look at your feed of items that you "pin." You can even follow the things that I like here.

 

 

I can even post the things I made and have new people find me online.

I am looking forward to sharing my stuff with the bigger online world.

Hopefully it turns into something!

-Bryn

Halloweentime in Disneyland

The whole rush to finish the costume before actual Halloween was for the Halloween Party at Disneyland.  It is the only time when adults can come into the park dressed in costumes!  I finished my costume the morning of the event with only about 2 hours to spare!
My mom and I headed into the park at 3 when the party guests were allowed in and I made a B-line for Rapunzel.  She asked me if I made my costume and I said that I did.  She said she made her dress too!

The Rapunzels together

 It wouldn't be Halloween in Disneyland without a couple of Villains.

Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog

Cruella

 Off to another part of the park.  We had to see pooh dressed up as a honey bee!

Tigger

Pooh - his antenna were honey pots!

 And more Princesses!

 We met Rapunzel again.  She was so sweet.  She said I was the only full size Rapunzel she saw.  There was tons of little Rapunzels running around the park that night.  They watched me and a tried to figure out if I was the real Rapunzel 

And the candy!  By the end of the evening the candy lines were non existent.  We ended up with literally pounds of candy.

It was a wonderful evening.  We had so much fun.  I received a lot of compliments on my costume and the fact that I made it my self.  I am going to try and wear it two more times in the next couple of weeks for some other events at Disney.  

Now that it's done it is time to go back to quilting and cross stitching.  It's been fun challenging myself to do something completely different!

Finishing Rapunzel

I'm heading to the Disneyland Trick or Treat party tomorrow with my mom and I absolutely need to finish my costume for the party.  Only a few steps left now.  But I did start completely over on the skirt last night at 11pm.

It felt too dark and the opening for the under layer of the skirt was too big.  So back to JoAnns I went looking for some more purple fabric

New underskirt fabric

New fabric, new skirt.  I did much better cutting and shaping the skirt than last time.  Much less frustration involved.

Looks good with the lace trim

The whole day was not spent on this costume.  I always have a lot of things to do.  Not only did I have to work today but I also was in Disneyland with a good friend of mine.  So why not visit Rapunzel while we were there!

Rapunzel with Rachel and I

I wanted to look at what Rapunzel wore in the park and glance that the costume dresses for little girls for the pattern that goes around the skirt.

Mine ended up not to bad.  I got paint is some other places along the skirt.  Hopefully nobody else will notice but me!

The top is practically done, just the sleeves are left.  Finally all the hems are done and the lace has been added. I'm so close!

Almost there

One o'clock in the morning it's time to go to bed!

Creating Rapunzel

I have wanted to make my own Halloween costume for the last couple of years.  This year my craftiness gene has kicked in at the right time.  This year is the year for Rapunzel.
I have been buying fabric for a couple of months.  I still wish I had other choices of purple with pattern in them but beggars can't be choosers.

I have not made clothes in a very long time.  I first made the bodice from muslin to see if the shape was right.  The muslin bodice looked pretty good so I made the real one.  I reenforced it with some interfacing but it was a little too stiff.  I ended up keeping the interfacing on the back but took it out of the front.

The basic look

Quite a few steps later - putting in the zipper, finishing the top seam with lace, measuring eyelet holes and placing them, and weaving the pink string.  Lots of stuff!

 I moved onto the skirt.  I decided to try and make it without a pattern.  I used a skirt that I already had that fit me really well and had the shape that I wanted for Rapunzel.  I had to use two different purples to create the top and bottom layers of the skirt.

I call it - The Art of Cutting

All the pieces together.  The skirt on the left, bodice in the middle and my last little project on the right.

The almost finished product!  Looks pretty good for not making clothes in a really, really, really long time!

I do have quite a few things lift to actually finish it.  

• The bottom seam on the bodice
• The top and bottom seam on the skirt
• A redo on the opening on the skirt - it's too big for my taste
• Adding sleeves to the bodice
• Painting flowers on the skirt
• And my final project - Flynn's satchel for my Trick or Treat bag!

Working on Rapunzel

I have been working on my Halloween costume a lot lately.  I don't always have a ton of time because of work and work events but today was the day!  I will be Rapunzel for Halloween!

So many purples!

Adding the lace

Creating the sleeve

The practically finished sleeve

This project has been difficult but I have learned a lot about sewing again.  I am very proud of myself that I finally tackled a new and different project.  Tomorrow is the day to finish most of the major construction.  Details to follow

Thumbtack Pumpkins and other things

I posted on my blog a week or so ago about these amazing looking thumbtack pumpkins.  I found them exploring craft blogs.  I found them here on Madigan Made.

My journey began at the 99 cent store where they had no thumbtacks.  JoAnns, no thumbtacks.  Micheal's, fancy scrapbook thumbtacks, but no brass thumbtacks.  The Dollar Tree, no thumbtacks.  Home Depot, no thumbtacks.  Staples, nickel but no brass thumbtacks.  Another Dollar Tree - SCORE - 30 boxes of thumbtacks.  I bought 8 packs that had 300 each.

While I was at Michaels I bought 3 pumpkins.  One large and two smaller ones.

Before the madness

I left the underside of the pumpkin as it was.  I like the peaking through of the orange.

Three quarters of the way done!

900 Thumbtacks down, only 300 to go!

A finished amazing pumpkin

Now I have two more little pumpkins to do but I need to give my fingers a rest!  Totally worth killing my thumb, it looks amazing!  But there is still time in the night.  Onto another project!

Halloween is coming up fast and it is already in Disneyland.

My mom is coming next month and we are going to attend Mickey's Halloween Party.

I love Rapunzel so I have decided to tackle making my own costume.  The last time I made clothes, that was about 15 years ago.  I was in elementary school!

I started with a problem.  I bought the wrong size of pattern!  I trimmed it down to about the size that I am.  I actually did a really good job, amazing.

To make sure that I didn't mess up I made it in muslin first.  Looks pretty good actually

 I cut out the actual fabric and ironed on some interfacing to stiffen up the fabric.  Might be a bit too stiff but I can work on the that.  Now to add a zipper, cording, grommets, lace, trim and details.  I've got a way to go!  Not to mention a skirt too!  To another crafting day.