Yaba Daba Do! (Flinstone Costumes)

Now that Halloween has come and gone I thought I would share with you how it all worked out in putting the lovely costumes together. For starters, here is how our wigs turned out. . . and remember this is my first time trying to make a wig, so please keep kind thoughts, cuz I know they didn't turn out super great :)

First I made these lovely hats, if I were to do a wig again, I would make them a little bigger, and I would have made them into a color that matched the wig's hair better, then. . . .

I wrapped yarn around a pillow several times, tied them off on one end and then cut, to give a nice chunk of "hair". . .then. . .

I tied them on the hat, repeating several times over, the first top layers I made much longer. . .

Then when the top and back area was done, I made smaller layers by wrapping around my hand, like below, and put it in the front bangs area and then on layers underneath

Wrapping away!

Here are some layers underneath. . .see why it would have been a much better idea if I had made the original hat in black? It would have been much less to hide!

The finished product! I did have to trim a little after he had it on, but I still can't get over how he looks more like a Jamaican Fred with the "Dread" like hair.. . .oh well. . .at least. . .

He is super cute! I am so glad I got him, even if he can be a little nerd :)

Then my wig was a little more, well ALOT more tricky because Wilma has her hair in a pony tail. So I tied all my hair chunks on the bottom so I could then pull them back into a pony tail and then made sort ones for bangs as well . . .

Like so, and I cannot even count on both my hands how complicated this was to pull the pony tail back. I know it is deceiving, like it would be just as simple to pull back your own attached hair, but it turned to be much more complicated, I am not sure how to explain, but just take my word for it, if you try this at home, just be prepared for a little more of a challenge (unless I just have issues! :)

Our finished products! I made my outfit of some random white material I had around the house, made a top part and then made the bottom by making panels and sewed them all together. I also made myself some tan colored sleeves so it will still be modest and also so I wouldn't freeze! Again, best part, BY FAR, in making these costumes was I didn't have to hem the bottoms, have I mentioned how I really don't like to hem?

She wasn't so happy at first, but at least she's so cute, right?! This was right before going to my husband's work where we went trick or treating, it was right after her nap but before her snack time, can you tell?  :)

This was after it all, she was much happier and was so excited to see Daddy at work for a few minutes!

Remember these cute little matching slippers I made!? Well silly me made them a little TOO early in the month cuz they wouldn't fit on her feet right before going. I guess the elastic I put in the ankle area was just a little too tight, oh well, at least we just went to his work, indoors, instead of outside all night!

So there you have it! We hope you had a Happy Halloween! We sure had a great time! :)

Until next week!

Red, White and Blue!

Yep that's right! The fourth of July, the celebration of our country's independence- the big bang fire work day is just around the corner! So for this "We-flecting" Wednesday I thought I would share in a little fun with some white and some blue, and then a little more recent venture that I am actually currently working on for the up coming big day!

I made this skirt and tie for our wedding. We wore our little matching polka dot attire for while we were at our luncheon so we wouldn't spill food or anything of the likes on our lovely wedding dress and tux. But It has the fun patriotic colors in it that could be great fun to wear for the big day (although we wont this year).

 This skirt is pretty simple to make, I simply cut out 6 panels, they start out smaller at top and get larger on the bottom and I basically just cut out enough to fit around my hips. I honestly can't remember how much material it took me to make this, and if you can't tell I had to tweak it a little anyway cuz I didn't have enough of one so I used two variations of polka dots and staggered it. I would recommend doing a zipper on the side, but I was lazy and didn't on this one, so it is a little snug and tricky to slide into over my big rump. If you want more details on how to make a skirt like this let me know and I would be glad to help and sorry for not showing it off more stylishly- if you haven't noticed I have been a lazy photographer lately- sorry! :)

 Here is my husband's lovely tie (and my toes, but don't mind them), I made him to match me. I made it the same sort of way as I made the tie for my lovely husband for his father's day present which you could read about HERE. I love to be matchy matchy, especially for special occasions- it makes me feel all giddy and happy inside.

So there is this lovely polka dot funness- and because of their blue and white nature I suppose they could always be back up matchy matchy for future patriotic holidays and then all we would have to do is throw in some red to our attire and we are set!

But since I am trying to get a little ahead on my game for our matchy matchy this year, this is what I got going up my sleeve and you are more than welcome to copy if you want to as well.

I got my little girl a regular white onesie, I am using one of my husband's old regular white t-shirts, and then I am making a little white tank top shirt to wear over another shirt, and on all of them I am gonna to paint matchy matchy "I love USA" on it. So far I have finished my little girl's and this is how it turned out.

I use this picture (I got it HERE from a google search):

as my basic format. I opened it in a word document and sized it to the dimensions I wanted them to be on our shirts. I sized it to a good 5x4.5inches and it turned out quit nicely. Then I printed it. Then I tapped the lovely freezer paper over the top of it and etched out the design as kinda seen below.

 From the brilliant idea of a good friend Lindsey, I etched out the design with the waxier side down, so that when I was ready to paint, all I had to do was iron it on to ensure a nice bleed free paint job

 I wanted to spice it up a little, so I made the heart a flag instead of just a regular red heart, now to wait for it to dry...

 And wall-ah! Here is my little girl's shirt. I am still debating how ambitious I feel, but I might make her a cute jean and red and white polka dot skirt to go with it, or I just might be lazy and use her regular jean skirt that she already has, either way I will put up pictures of our all fun matchy matchy next week after the festivities (probably on Tues though, cuz Monday I am gonna play with my family and friends ALL day!)

On other patriotic festive thoughts, I am also debating on a fun red, white, and blue sort of treat I want to make, here is what I am down to in my decission process:

 Doesn't this just look so yummy? And I love the fruit idea on top, maybe we'll make this, but still not sure.

 We made this cake about a year ago, it is a Jello Cake (idea also from the same Lindsey), it is so yummy (that is if you are the kind of person that really likes super moist kind of cakes), all you do is bake the cakes like normal, when it is done, preferably more cooled off, stab it with a bunch of holes with a tooth pick, then on the side make up your jello and pour it into the holes soaking up the entire cake. Then put it in the fridge and let is set up inside the cake. It is simply a most marvelous flavor- also another delema if we should make this cake again (but decorate it more festive like though).

Or these jello cups look fun and festive too (although I probably wont go to all the extra work to make them look this fancy).

Or we might cancel these all together and make some peach cobbler (even though its not red, white and blue) with homemade ice cream (we are getting 25 lbs of peaches this Saturday, so it would be a great way to use some of them up!)

Either way I hope it gives you some ideas for this lovely holiday coming up if you are in need of ideas, and I will be wracking my brain (or more like my cravings) and see what we come up with. And I will most likely share some pictures of all the happenings.

Anyway, that's all for today on this We-flecting Wednesday. I hope you have fun preparing for the fun holiday coming up, and I would love to hear about all your plans or even fun traditions you do- this is such a great fun time of the year!

Thanks for stopping by and until next time!. . . . .

Yeah Free Stuff!

Being the cheap kind of person I am, I love those free stuff opportunities. So on this fun find Friday, I thought I would share a little delight in my "free" find. I also will finally put up the lovely Father Day presents my sister, April Hoyt, did, to show off her great ideas, and if you'd like, could even be good ideas for next year. Just to mix things up, I will show her loveliness first, then my fun find!

 Here is the lovely tie she made- cute huh? She put her children's names in on the squares in a crossword puzzle fashion- such a great idea (although I think I will have to wait on doing something like this, I think it would look cuter with more than one child's name on it)

Then from the inspiration of the tie and puzzle I made, she made this darling shirt for her hubby. I love it! The stick figures are so cute, such a brilliant way of making such a fun shirt!

Oh and one more thing before sharing my fun find, the puzzle I ordered for my husband finally came in (two days after Father's day, yeah Walmart), want to see how it turned out? Well this is your lucky day, cuz here it is:

 I love that it came in a nice fun tin box, that will last a long time! Now we just need to sit down and put it all together, I am excited to see it all finally together!

Okay, now the moment you've been waiting for....drum roll......(bum, bum, bum, bum, - this is my drum rolling, can't you hear it?)

I went on campus to meet my husband for lunch and grabbed the school newspaper, and there was this blazing beautiful coupon attached on top- could it be any more of my lucky day? What are the odds I would find this lovely thing in the same week, in just a few days prior to my birthday!? (if it was any farther down the road I would probably forget to use it) I have never eaten at this ice cream/frozen yogurt place- so it will be a fun treat to have my first experience be free! Well anyway, I hope your Friday will be as fun as mine! Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time!....

Father's Day Present

You will have to excuse my recent absence, long story short- it has just been a crazy last week with extra errands, hubby's jumbled work schedule, and my little girl getting sick and to top it all off, quit frankly, I just wasn't in the mood to  blog amongst all of that. But here I am, back and ready to roll!

Now I know that because today is Wednesday, I should be sharing a reflecting of past ventures, but with Father's Day right around the corner I thought I would share a fun Father's Day present idea that my little girl and I did in case you need any ideas, and just to share our fun! (now lets just hope my hubby doesn't look at this before Sunday! :)

Since Father's Day is on a Sunday I thought it would be fun to do something he can show off at church. So I made him a tie...

 I got one of his regular ties and laid it on top of the material that I wanted the tie to be made out of and then cut, giving myself plenty of extra, so that I could fold it over. Then I cut and sewed around, but left a little hole about the middle of the tie so that I can turn it right side out as seen below

After turning it right side out, I sewed off this hole

Then I ironed the whole thing nice and flat to get ready to fold it over

Now to fold over the sides, I ironed it nice and flat, and then hand sewed it to stay together so that you can't see the seams from the front (like a tie normally is)

Now with the lovely assistance of my 6 month old girl, we put her hand print on the tie....ya she didn't really want to help, can you tell?

I tried doing some of my own touch up so you could kinda still tell it was her hand, and then I made it look like a flower

Now for the lovely words to go on the tie, I printed off these words on a piece of paper, then I taped freezer paper over the top, just on the top and bottom to hold it in place, and then using an exacto knife I cut out these words- you could paint the words free hand if you want, and after doing all this I prob should have, I think it would have been easier, but I was nervous I wouldn't have very good free hand skills, you could also probably do iron on paper sort of stuff- but that was one more thing I didn't want to buy

Now for painting on the words...

See how it turned out!? I don't know if it was because my words were smaller or I wasn't slow and patient enough, but it still kinda bled through funny even with the stencil, thus my wondering if I should have just done free hand in the first place, oh well- you win some, you loose some! :)

The finished product! Well almost....before officially putting it away in a special box, I realized I made a little typo- see the "Daddy's", well it should actually say "Daddies"...ya something I should have looked at a little closer before painting...but when all else fails...

Paint pretty butterflies to help hide your mistakes, right?- what do you think?

Then for a fun extra $20, at Walmart online, you can upload a picture and have them transform it into a puzzle- cool huh? So this is the picture I sent in, hopefully we will get it in before this Sunday! We love doing puzzles together, so I thought it would be very fitting and fun, and matchy matchy to the tie :)

So there you have it! A fun, cheap easy present for the man! And if you feel crunched on time you wouldn't have to do all the extra tedious things like making a tie, making a stencil, and painting- I am sure there are lots of easier simpler ways of doing this, I guess this was more of a trial present- hope you can learn from it and enjoyed it! But even more so I hope my hubby enjoys it!

Anyway, sorry again for being a slacker, but thanks for stopping by! Until next time!....