New Niece/Nephew AND AND LOTS of sewing projects

Mike's baby niece and nephew have been birthed. LOL I don't have any pics of Lily but I have a couple of baby Owen.





Everyone says he looks like Mike when he was a baby. I think he does too. SO hopefully we'll have good looking kids. LOL I started sewing some dresses just cuz. I made one from my friend's granddaughter who was also recently born! Lets see, Owen was born on Friday, Jaidin on Weds?, and Lily on Friday! Jaidin was only 5 lbs!! I made her the Itty Bitty baby dress. It only took 1/2 yard of fabric that I got to make bows with. Then Mike said Lily needed one so I used some Michael Miller Skull fabric I had to make her one. Then I made Alicia a apron top. I've also made a couple of headbands. AND I made Lena a bustle skirt. WOW I've been really behind on blogging. Please excuse my pics because I gave mike my droid since he broke his and took my uncle's old iphone 3gs. Where's a blogger app for iphone?? I had one of my mytouch and I loved it. Guess I'm going back to andorid soon!!!


Alicia's headband for Baptismal

Ivy's dres with "no handles" which means strapless

Alicia's apron top

Itty Bitty Dress for Jaidin http://www.made-by-rae.com/2008/04/free-itty-bitty-baby-dress-pattern/



I tried to make a ruffle bustle dress for ivy and had to enlarge it but it came out way to big. I dunno wth so I tried to fit the top and jacked it up so I'm going to wait until I have the patience to frog and make into a skirt. Thank goodness the fabric was on sale for a $1. http://www.wildflowersandwhimsy.com/2011/03/bustle-back-dress-pattern.html

headband for ivys dress that I jacked up

Ruffle bustle skirt for Lena! I did this off my head. I saw a pattern online and took the same concept. http://www.etsy.com/listing/62757712/ooh-la-la-ruffled-skirt-how-to-easy-pdf?ref=pr_shop

Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Ok so I saw this site a while back https://rocalabs.com/order/orderform.aspx while looking thru youtube videos at lunch. I've been really frustrated about ending my food cravings. I was thinking about forking up all the cash to go back to http://www.internetmedicalclinics.com/ IMC. They keep getting more and more expensive and I HATE all the shots. Needles + Cissy = :( So this shit is pretty expensive also but cheaper than IMC. BUT you have to buy 4 months total! I needed a sample so I found 1 month on ebay for $100. SCORE! I got it in, printed out all the instructions from the Roca Labs website and started on Monday. VERY EAGER. I got my mixing cups and spoons ready and got some flavored packets. I didn't feel like getting crystal light so I got Hawaiian Punch, strawberry Lemonaid! YAY! The power is very, how to you sayyyyyy, light? I filled up my cup with the correct amount of water, added my power and shook. AND WTF I came out with HUGE clumps, lumps, clops of formula. BUT muthafka I dished out $100 on this shiz so best believe I downed it (chewed) it and drank gulps of water in between chews. It took me an hour or so to get it all down because I kept gagging in between. I took a reinforcement dose right before I went home from work. That was HERRIBLE also.

DAY 2: Just as bad. I sent customer support an email and surprisingly they were terribly fast responders. They sent me a whole list of ways to mix up the formula and different ideas. THANKS! http://www.rocalabs.com/ServiceResponse.aspx?id=88&id1=&id2=&id3=&sid=8591 Here is the response they sent. I saw that you can mix in yogurt! HELLO THERE! I wanted to try that. I mean no harm in trying it. I could just do another day of gagging, or try something new. I was still feeling STARVED and my great aunt was not doing good. Went to the hospital right after work, and stayed until about 7 pm. Then said fuck it and hit up subway on my way home because I didn't want to cook. I got the buffalo chicken sub with light ranch, olives and pickles. It was good.

DAY  3: I went to HEB before I headed to work and grabbed some yogurt. Regular and whipped style. Well, I started with the whipped. BAD IDEA. When you mix the whipped Yogurt it goes flat and I had a huge blob. Was I going to waste this blob, I think not! I got another thing of yogurt and would eat a spoon of glob mixed with a spoon of regular. For my evening mixture, I used a thing of regular yogurt. I was still getting blobs. Maybe I'll transfer the yogurt to my mixing cup next time?? I was still starving when I got home. I drank water and the book said your thirst might be getting mixed with hunger but sista was hungry. Nan made cornbread, beans, and sliced ham. Of course nothing ever matches with her. So I ate 2 slices of corn bread. 1 serving of beans and 2 slices of ham. I went to bed hungry because Mike's sleeping pattern is jacked so he is always eating supper right as I'm laying down for bed and I can smell food as I'm trying to fall asleep.

TODAY = DAY 4! This morning there was no way I wanted to gag for an hour while trying to get this crap down. SO I would mix in a little powder and stir and this took me FOREVER!! I added more water just so it wasn't as jellish. I only took a small dose, because in the evenings I've been in the bathroom all night. Which is crazy because I'm fine all day. Maybe the 2nd dose is too much. SO I'm going to take 2 small doses = 1 large dose. I mixed with some fruit punch drink nan had in the fridge this morning. I chugged the mixture along with water. I was still feeling hungry like the wolf at 11 am. I had a progresso soup in my desk so I figured that would help because its mostly broth but the favor and veggies would help last me. So I drank my soup. Around 2 PM, hungry again. I ate a couple flat bread crisps and was STILL houngry! Figured I'd take the rest of my dose to help out. This time I mixed in a slim fast. I kept reading all these posts and thinking maybe I'm just not shaking hard enough?? So I threw in my other half of power and shook the shit out of my mixture! I still had some small clumps but definitely not as bad as the past couple of days. Taste, not that bad but no freakin flavor at all. I want to try to mix with juice tomorrow to kind of fill out what I like best. I'm still working on drinking. It usually takes me an hour or so to finish a mixture because I'm chugging 2 to 3 glasses of water along with and running to the rr in between to pee. My stomach has also been feeling weird. Kind of sore and queasy? Hopefully I can get down a routine and perfect dosing. I saw that some people are freezing their mixture to make a slushie type drink. I was also thinking of throwing everything in the blender as a last resort tot he clumps.

ABC - Another Bad Creation

Owen's Marvel themed diaper cake. Mostly Thor but has hulk, spiderman, captain america. Most of the toys are for chris lmfao

Material scraps...Ideas

I had a ton of scrap material left over and I looked online at a ton of things that don't require much. I decided to do a paci holder and a bungee sippy cup cord. I used these tutorials:

http://loveaffairwithmybrother.blogspot.com/2011/02/tutorial-tuesday-bounce-back-strap.html
http://sew4home.com/projects/fabric-art-a-accents/614-baby-gifts-pretty-bird-binky-leash-a-carry-bag








I think this is it for now. Waiting for my skull material to get started on my shopping cart covers. I've been trying to figure out how to take pics of my covers when I'm done...Since I live by an HEB, the apartment complex across the street always has HEB shopping carts by the trash bin. I will consider them trash, and use my uncle's pick up truck to bring one home for a photo shoot and then take it back. LMFAO is that wrong?? Ah oh well.

weight loss update

Down about 8 lbs in one month. Pretty good because i cheat alot! Ran out of size 0 and my vendor was out so i got some new pills to try out called mangodrin. Today is my first day on these so we'll see how they work out.

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I went fabric crazy...

So here are the fabrics I bought yesterday. I hope to get some shopping cart covers made and posted on etsy. I will probably make coordinating paci holders and/or sippie cup bungee cords. Not sure yet. I am also wanting to make a faux chenille blanket. I've seen a couple on etsy but not that many at all and they are crazy expensive. So I was thinking maybe a faux chenille lovey? We'll see what I can come up with when I get my fabrics in. My niche is going to be skulls/punk. Fabrics are Michael Miller who has awesome shiz. Alexander Henry is also AWESOME, and his design that I got is the killer/kawaii cupcakes.

There are a ton of other fabrics I would like. Just going to try out a couple first to see how things go. Hopefully good...?

Sewing is my new obsession!

Right before I moved out of my apartment I got back into sewing. My aunt gave me a brother xl2600 which is alot better than my rinky dink kenmore machine. It has like 20 something stitches...The madness!! I upcycled this onesie/romper for one of my first projects. Wasn't too great. LOL Now if I can only find someone to wear it! I mean it wasn't like my fat ass was going to fit into a size medium shirt again anyway.





Not the best picture taker either. FML! So then we found out that BOTH of Mike's brothers have babies on the way. Lilynn and Owen. 2 weeks apart. 1 baby shower down, where I was asked when I was next, since I was the only girlfriend out of the brothers not preggo. I made Lily this diaper cake. The invitations were hello kitty, so I went off of that. I don't really know Cody's girlfriend well so I wasn't sure how she would receive the cake but thank God she loved it!



I also did some heat transfers to some onesies I had and never used. I did hello skully and a hello kitty storm trooper. I didn't get a pic of the 2nd one...


I now have to do a cake for Chris and Mandi's baby boy Owen. I'm keeping my design a secret. She is having 3 + baby showers so I wasn't really sure what to get her. My friend wanted to make a shopping cart cover and I was helping her pick out fabric and find a pattern. I thought, hey I'll make one for Mandi! So I grabbed the mccalls patter at Hancock fabrics memorial day sale. Mandi likes owls so I found some really cute boyish owl fabric. I've made ALOT with it and plan to do some more with the scraps. I've been a sewing fool for the past week! I've been killing the internet looking for badass free patterns and I've found alot that I would like to try. I will try to link some on here but this is a really good site that will search several other sites. http://craftgossip.com/ Here are the projects for Owen that I've made, these are a surprise so...

First we have the swaddler. Which was a BITCH! Here's where I got the pattern...http://cdn.makezine.com/make/craft/2010/04/lotta_snuggler_pattern.pdf





Ok so the worst part of the pattern for me was that we live in TX and this baby is due in July. SO there was no way in HELL that I was going to use a fleece lining. I found some discount $1 stretch cotton that was super soft. Well, when I had to sew the lining it, the corners rolled over a tad, but no biggie. I did stitch a ontop of the main fabric but only because I wanted to try out these fancy stitches. SO SUE ME! Now the worst of the worst was sewing on the velcro! UGH never again!

Top knot hat http://www.prudentbaby.com/2011/02/top-knot-baby-hat-tutorial.html



I used some of the left over cotton from the swaddler for this.

Then I made a baby sling. It seemed simple but the seam is a bitch. Mine came out a little twekos but oh well. I used the cotton as a lining for the inside of the sling. It said to use outside decor fabric which seemed super rough to me. I went ahead a used brown duck cotton. Julian, my little cousin, is modeling the sling with his monster. LOL I love how my hammock is on the desk behind him. HA!

http://www.sleepingbaby.net/jan/Baby/tubesling.html
http://www.handmade-adelaide-baby.com/baby-sling.html
http://www.mykarmababy.com/pages/BabySlingPattern.php
http://www.ida.net/users/stace/sling.html



OH OH and I almost forgot the most important thing!! DUH the thing that started all the things. TUN TUN TUN...The shopping cart cover! McCalls M55721 which I got for .99 cents on sale! YES! I used batting, which some people do not. The only thing I used out of the pattern was the part for the cover. It had little pockets and a bag and bias tape. I bought the bias tape. I made the strap, which was a dumb idea because this weekend I saw that the sell the straps at walmart for like $2 ALREADY made!! IDIOT! The button holes were the hardest part. Apparently my machine had a button foot and I was determined to try it out. It took me 2 evenings of messing with it to finally figure it out. Other than that it was really easy. I added on 2 loops to hook toys on.

FRONT


Loops


Strap


Back is plain brown cotton, don't mind the gator paw in the back! It's Julian's but I use it as a body pillow!




I plan on making a couple for my etsy and add who knows what else. My niche is going to be punk. Of course there are tons of people selling shopping cart covers but not many with skulls or anything hardcore. I found some bad ass skull material that no one else on etsy was using and I also couldn't resist on some cupcake material! Needless to say I spent a little over $40 on www.fabric.com which wasn't bad because I got 6 YERDS of designer fabric plus free shipping, plus $10 off. My real total was over $50. Round of applause. I will need to pick up batting, bias tape, straps, and a back color. I'll post up pics when I'm done.