tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63112483832083883022024-03-24T03:09:57.575-04:00Stacy Sews and SchoolsSewing, Homeschooling and Crazinessstacy sews and schoolshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15198826873257277836noreply@blogger.comBlogger606125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311248383208388302.post-10385172878868509162019-04-12T10:00:00.000-04:002019-04-12T10:00:06.680-04:00Use Your Words - April 2019 <div>
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Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.<br /><br /><br />At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them. <br /><br />I’m using:</span><div class="yiv9714575945MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><b>horse ~ Magnolia ~ yarn ~ friend ~ gilt ~ beige<br /><br />It was submitted by: <a href="https://www.southernbellecharm.com/">https://www.southernbellecharm.com</a> </b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Soooo.... I actually started and erased this about 3 or 4 different times. Once was a story about a horse named Magnolia.... Then next was a fairy queen named Magnolia.... But I just couldn't get them to flesh out like I wanted them to. They felt too forced. So I thought and I thought and I though. Then it hit me! I've have always done so much better with free association!!! </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Horse</b> - I have been on horseback exactly 2 times in my life. Neither time turned out well for for me.... Once I was bucked off and the other the horse took off in a gallop. I have since decided that horseback riding is NOT for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Magnolia</b> - I can remember being a little girl and climbing the magnolia tree in my grandmother's front yard. It was such a great climbing tree. My cousins and I would climb out on the big, low branch and hang upside down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Also - Steel Magnolias - One of my all time favorite movies ever! Guaranteed to always make me laugh and cry. Great, big, ugly, cry!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Yarn</b> - I love crafting and sewing but two things I cannot do are knitting or crocheting. I once tried to crochet a scarf.... I ended up with a coaster. Seriously... a coaster..... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Friend</b> - The best word in all of the English language. I been blessed with so many wonderful friends. So many kind, caring, wonderful women, have been there for me over the last 3 1/2 years. I will never ever be able to repay them all for the love and support they have given me. I feel so unworthy of it. I love you all! So very deeply! THANK YOU!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Gilt</b> - Shiny. Pretty. OOOOHH!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Beige</b> - Now I am a lover of all colors....... EXCEPT...... Brown.... Beige.... I just can't..... I don't know why. I can even do orange!!! But not beige.. There was a blouse I saw the other day that would have been SOOOOO CUTE had it not been beige gingham!!! BEIGE GINGHAM!!! GOOD GRIEF!! What is the world coming to when there's beige gingham??? I give up. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to have to do better than free association soon! I'm going back to school in 6 weeks!! I'll be a college freshman at 45! Oh my...... And English Comp 101 is one of my courses. Ha ha!!!!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /><br />Baking In A Tornado <a href="https://www.bakinginatornado.com/">https://www.bakinginatornado.com</a><br /><br />Wandering Web Designer <a href="https://wanderingwebdesigner.com/blog">https://wanderingwebdesigner.com/blog</a><br /><br />Cognitive Script <a href="https://cognitivescript.blogspot.com/">https://cognitivescript.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />The Bergham Chronicles <a href="https://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">https://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />On the Border <a href="https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/">https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/</a> <br /><br />Follow Me Home <a href="https://followmehome.shellybean.com/">https://followmehome.shellybean.com</a><br /><br />The Crazy Mama Llama <a href="https://www.thecrazymamallama.com/">https://www.thecrazymamallama.com/</a><br /><br />Climaxed <a href="https://climaxedtheblog.blogspot.com/">https://climaxedtheblog.blogspot.com</a> <br /><br />Southern Belle Charm <a href="https://www.southernbellecharm.com/">https://www.southernbellecharm.com</a><br /><br />Bookworm in the Kitchen <a href="https://www.bookwormkitchen.com/">https://www.bookwormkitchen.com/</a></b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey!!!! I'm back with a tutorial!!!! WOOOO HOOOO!!! It has a been a while!! About 3 1/2 years!! My goodness!!! I am so sorry. But life.... OH, BOY!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway, this one is quick, easy, and so much fun!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/2 each of 3 different flannel fabric designs (or 1 1/2 yards if you want to keep it all the same)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This will make 15 reusable kitchen towels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As always iron out your wrinkles... I'm pretty sure I waited and did that around step 3 or 4 this time.... Shhhh....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I cut them about 11.5 by 7.5.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cut the velcro strips into 1 1/4" pieces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I put sides together before I cut so they'd be exactly the same cut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sew the scratchy side of the velcro to the right side of the flannel, top and bottom corners, 5/8" from the edge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Ohhhhh, boy..... Do we have time for this???? Seriously, so many things seem to annoy me lately. Ha ha. Let me try to narrow it down.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Ok. So the most annoying.... Trying to get my son to wear something other than his Deadpool onesie. He wears it to the store. He wears it to the movies. He wears it to the library. He even tried to wear it to church! I kid you not! I keep telling him that one day it's just going to fall right off him. I give him other options... Like his red Deadpool shirt. Or how about his yellow Deadpool shirt. Maybe the white Deadpool shirt??? See a theme here??? YILES!!! The boy is making me crazy. <br /><br /> And don't even get me started on how inappropriate Deadpool can be for a 12 year old boy.... He's not actually seen the movies. Well, OK... He watched Once Upon a Deadpool. It was PG-13 and I'm still trying to figure out how they got that to happen..... <br /><br /> I guess I should be happy that he's at least wearing clothes. Right?? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /> I'm so happy to be back to blogging. It has been way too long. There's so much that's happened in my life since I last wrote. One day soon I hope to start sharing some it. Some it is rough and heartbreaking and some of it I hope will be inspirational. In either case, I hope it will help someone else.... <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> See you all again soon!!!!!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Baking In A Tornado <a href="https://www.bakinginatornado.com/">https://www.BakingInATornado.com</a><br /><br />Never Ever Give Up Hope <a href="https://batteredhope.blogspot.com/">https://batteredhope.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />Wandering Web Designer <a href="https://wanderingwebdesigner.com/blog">https://wanderingwebdesigner.com/blog</a><br /><br />Cognitive Script <a href="https://cognitivescript.blogspot.com/">https://cognitivescript.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />The Bergham Chronicles <a href="https://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">https://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />The Crazy Mama Llama <a href="https://www.thecrazymamallama.com/">https://www.thecrazymamallama.com/</a><br /><br />Climaxed <a href="https://climaxedtheblog.blogspot.com/">https://climaxedtheblog.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Southern Belle Charm <a href="https://www.southernbellecharm.com/">https://www.southernbellecharm.com</a><br /><br />Bookworm in the Kitchen <a href="https://www.bookwormkitchen.com/">https://www.bookwormkitchen.com/</a><br /><br />Stacy Sews and Schools <a href="https://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">https://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/</a> </span></b><br />
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stacy sews and schoolshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15198826873257277836noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311248383208388302.post-56620497523357215512016-09-26T06:00:00.000-04:002016-09-26T06:00:10.081-04:00The Voice of a Welfare Child<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because yes, I've lived it. I was a welfare child. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let’s start with getting on welfare to start with. You have to meet all kinds of requirements. If you don't have a job, you have to be actively seeking one unless you are disabled or in school full time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most people on welfare are single parent families. They have children and/or the elderly. They are the disabled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">They are NOT single, able bodied people. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">They can NOT buy anything with food stamps other than food. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">They can NOT use food stamps to buy toiletries, diapers, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">See, that's the thing about welfare. Most people on it have NO OTHER CHOICE. They are not sitting around in the lap of luxury. They are just barely scraping by. BARELY.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">People wonder why there are so many homeless. Well, because it is NOT easy to actually get welfare. And after a certain amount of time with no job you get booted off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Got robbed? Sorry, can't help you further. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lost your stamps/money? Sorry, can't help you further.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is not a secret, there are all kinds of statistics that show these things, but people really don't want to listen for some reason. I don't get it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">When people talk about getting rid of welfare all I can think about is what would have happened to me as a kid? To my family? What would happen to ALL those kids, the disabled, the elderly that rely on it so much? Those who, at a specific time of their life honestly and truly just need help? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, here's what it's like for a child on welfare:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">You don’t eat lunch after a certain grade because everyone knows who has free lunch and who doesn’t. It’s hard enough being in middle and high school without adding any extra stigmas to yourself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">You don’t get to participate in extracurricular activities. They cost too much and odds are your family may not have a car. Or they have a car but not enough money for gas. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Going to the library to do research for school was difficult. Mom didn't have a car and there was no public transportation in my small town. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Birthdays and Christmas can be very lean. I was lucky in that I had wonderful grandparents. But even then I can remember one particular birthday where the only thing I received was a pair of flip flops from Family Dollar. I’m not complaining. I know that I had it easier than most kids on welfare. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was born in 1974 so when I was on welfare they still had the booklet of stamps. EVERYONE in the store knew what they were and what they were for. It was very embarrassing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t have a VCR. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I sometimes had very basic cable and sometimes a phone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can remember one year, I was given a voucher for school clothes. I was so proud of those clothes! I was so very careful with them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Too bad there wasn’t also a voucher for school supplies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was how I lived my life, this was my reality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can remember right before I turned 18 my mom had been robbed and then went right into the hospital. Mom had a mental illness. In fact, she didn’t even realize she was robbed until sometime after the fact.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">There was no money, no food stamps and I was getting disconnect notices on the bills. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I remember my friend’s wonderful mom bringing me over a box of food. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had to make decisions. Tough ones. Could I go to my grandmother and ask for money? I just couldn’t. My grandmother’s health wasn’t great, I was always afraid of upsetting her. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I knew I’d have to suffer the humiliation of going to her: my extended family would look even further down on me than they already did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I started calling the utility companies. Thankfully they all gave extensions and I let my mom deal with it all when she got out of the hospital. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was so stressed and so scared.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">What were you doing when you were about to turn 18? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are there people who abuse the system? Yes, there are. But the vast majority do not. The actual amount of welfare fraud is extremely low because of all the documentation you are forced to present and hoops that you have to jump through. Not just to get on, but on a regular basis in order to stay on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">But you know what? Even if the statistics on fraud were higher, I would still be all for it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I would MUCH rather my tax dollars go to feeding people than a bridge to nowhere, another war, another vacation for the fat cats who are trying to get rid of welfare. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I saw this fabric in Joann's and knew it would be perfect for Jacob. Nightmare Before Christmas is his favorite movie and purple is his favorite color. His birthday was September 21st and I knew I wanted to make SOMETHING for him. But what??? (BTW, I actually made this over a month ago!) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decided that a pillowcase would be the best thing for a 22 year old boy. ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just less than 1 yard of main</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just less than 1/4 yard of black</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Guess what! You're done! That took, what?? 10 minutes????</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I then took the pillowcase and embroidered Jacob's name on the black with shiny purple thread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Y'know.... Karen from Baking in a Tornado just reminded me how kids can trick or treat with pillowcases!!!! Wouldn't that be perfect?? You could make one to match their costumes and when Halloween is over they can use it on their beds!!! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now check out all the other SCARY posts!!!!! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Karen of Baking In A Tornado shares a recipe for <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/2015/10/blog-with-friends-scary-stuff.html">Billy the Puppet Cake</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robin of Someone Else's Genius wrote a Halloween story, <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/2015/09/in-the-end-re-imagined.html">In the End: Re-Imagined</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She had a large, <b>robust</b> family and she took great pride in it. Her children were her everything. Her reason to keep going in a difficult life. Being a <b>mother</b> was the most important thing in the world to her, her reason for being. Her reason for breathing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Her family was torn apart by a monster. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The pain in her heart from the one child deciding not to go with her nearly tore her heart in two. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Her <b>blue</b> eyes were constantly swimming in tears. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's Blog with Friends time again!! WOO HOO!! I am so happy to be back with a new tutorial for you!! It feels like it has been AGES since I had a new tutorial!! I think the last one was a Blog with Friends! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, this time around I have an easy peasy nap mat cover for you. Super fast, super easy!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My cousin's little boy is starting preschool and they requested that the parents have covers for the kids' nap mats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Viola!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Less than 2 yards of fabric</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the fabric folded in half, like it comes off the bolt, I put the nap mat on it and cut the fabric.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You want to leave several inches at the top and bottom as well as the sides for seam allowance, room for it to be folded, and room for it to spread out when the child lies down on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the zipper in the top.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I guess I'm a little rusty at this tutorial thing because this is the only picture I took of the zipper process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are going to fold the fabric over at the top by 1/4" and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold over 1/2" and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Place the zipper on the wrong side of the fabric and pin in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did a double row of stitches for reinforcement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With wrong sides together and your zipper open, sew the 2 open sides together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slide your mat inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You're done!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Welcome to a Secret Subject Swap. This week 16 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts. <br /><br /> </span><img height="249" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V-jZQM6Mh6U/UcyeFQtoptI/AAAAAAAADwM/3hnJQ7ovfDs/s320/Secret+Subject+Swap.png" width="320" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts. Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/">Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">The Bergham’s Life Chronicles</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://dinoheromommy.com/">Dinosaur Superhero Mommy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The thing is, that is very subjective. Good for them by whose standards? Mine, yours, theirs? What I think is good for someone maybe the complete opposite of what they think is good for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, people try every single day to make people do what THEY think is good for them. But if you're like me, that gets your back up. When someone tries to force me to do what THEY think is good for me, without any thought to who I actually am, and what I actually stand for, or where I have actually been in my life, they are more likely to meet with resistance or out right rebellion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Surreal (S number 1) was always in the clouds. He was a dreamer. The other Ss had a hard time getting him to deal with reality. It was a very difficult thing to put up with. Some of his ideas were definitely out there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shoddy (S number 2) was a lazy bum. He was always getting in trouble at work for not giving his best. The other Ss were getting sick and tired of him! Why won't someone fire him????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Succumb (S number 3) was always sick!! She seemed to catch every single bug that went around. The other Ss were forever buying her hand sanitizer and orange juice. She swore she took her vitamins but the other weren't too sure about that. </span></div>
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stacy sews and schoolshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15198826873257277836noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311248383208388302.post-91643764513237762552015-08-07T10:00:00.000-04:002015-08-07T10:00:02.314-04:00Secret Subject Swap - August 2015<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Welcome to a Secret Subject Swap. This week 16 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts. <br /><br />Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts. Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:<br /><br /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/"> Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">The Bergham’s Life Chronicles</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://dinoheromommy.com/">Dinosaur Superhero Mommy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.southernbellecharm.com/">Southern Belle Charm</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://batteredhope.blogspot.com/">Never Ever Give Up Hope</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/">Sparkly Poetic Weirdo</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.silenceofthemom.blogspot.com/">Silence of the Mom</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else’s Genius</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/">Confessions of a part-time working mom</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.angrivatedmom.wordpress.com/">The Angrivated Mom</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://morethancheeseandbeer.blogspot.com/">More Than Cheese and Beer</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com/">Searching for Sanity </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ohhhh boy.... Are you SURE you want me to address this subject??????? Ok... Well, you asked for it. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's talk Harry Potter.... The books first and then I'll get to the movies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did we HAVE to kill off everyone??? Well, nearly everyone?? WHY Dobby? Hedwig? Mad-Eye? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I understand Sirius and Dumbledore, really I do... But STILL!!! Fred???? Lupin and Tonks???? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why leave out sooooo many great parts?? I understand that not all of the stuff can fit but can we at least TRY??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, if I were to rewrite all the endings, nearly everyone would live!!! LOL We can kill off the bad guys, actually I would kill MORE of them off. LOL </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And if the movies were left up to me, they would follow the books!!!!! So, there! ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Welcome to a Fly on the Wall group post. Today 18 bloggers are inviting you to catch a glimpse of what you’d see if you were a fly on the wall in our homes. Come on in and buzz around my house.<br /><br />Buzz around, see what you think, then click on these links for a peek into some other homes:<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/">Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://followmehome.shellybean.com/">Follow me home</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.menopausalmom.com/">Menopausal Mother</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://batteredhope.blogspot.com/">Battered Hope</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.justalittlenutty.com/">Just A Little Nutty</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else’s Genius</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://gndisney.wordpress.com/">Disneyland in Kentucky</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.juiceboxconfession.com/">Juicebox Confession</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://dinoheromommy.com/">Dinosaur Superhero Mommy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.angelaweight.com/">Sanity Waiting to Happen</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.southernbellecharm.com/">Southern Belle Charm</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://thesadderbutwisergirl.com/">The Sadder But Wiser Girl</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com/">Searching for Sanity</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.gomamao.com/">Go Mama O</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://eileensperpetuallybusy.blogspot.com/">Eileen’s Perpetually Busy</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, I'm pretty sure a fly would have been bored to tears at my house this month. :/ We haven't really been doing much of anything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We're done with school. We just finished testing this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were having a nice cool spring then out of nowhere the gates of hell open up and spew out this heat!!! BLECK!!!!!!!!! Make it go away!!!!!!! How long until fall????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All I can say is, thank goodness for good vision insurance because my girls have expensive taste! Cailey picked some cute Kate Spade frames and Deanna picked Dolce and Gabbana!! YEESH!!! glasses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have some friends that just moved down here. They are staying in the same hotel we stayed in last year. Love that pool! ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We gave it to some friends that have done that sort of thing before. There's just no way that I would have to time. That little booger was eating non-stop! LOL </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found a CHEAP rock painting kit at Barnes & Noble. The kids had a lot of fun with it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, that's about it. Pretty boring around here. ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, there's one more thing... Deanna has now gone on her first date (and 2nd and 3rd). SO MUCH hilarity ensued but I don't think she would appreciate me repeating much of it. Although Jacob talking about a machete was pretty funny... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I WILL tell you one thing that Colin said. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"What? Deanna's dating? No way. Nuh, uh... We have enough family members! We have way too many people in this house as it is!" </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I said, "Buddy, she's just going on a date. She's not getting married. He's not moving in." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used one of Cailey's shirts as a guide to draw out my pattern. I wanted it to be rather long. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I actually could have cut it a bit wider. You sew and you learn. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This will be the pattern for both the front and back bodice pieces. You'll just cut the neckline for the front a little lower. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You're going to cut 2 on the fold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I free handed the pattern for the collar. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Actually, I went back and made one a bit bigger. I should have stayed with this one. The one I ended up with was a little big as I'm sure you can tell from the picture. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cut 2 on the fold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next I used a pair of Cailey's capri pants as a guide for the bottoms. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make sure you leave a couple of extra inches at the top!! I didn't leave enough room and had to put a waistband on in the end.<br />Also, I used capris because I wanted a wide bottom cuff thingy on the ends of the legs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cut 2 legs on the fold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now you cut the cuff thingies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mine are 10" when unfolded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now we start with the tricky bits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can cut this part anywhere you like and at any angle you like. Just make sure to start in the middle of the bodice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">*You can also make this fasten straight down the middle OR over on the side. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now you need to cut one facing and one placket. The only difference between the 2 is that 1 will show and 1 won't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold both pieces with right sides together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin the bottom to the bottom of the top piece. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Press with the placket lying flat not tucked behind the bodice piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the bottom piece, follow the same instructions except that you will press it under the bodice piece before top stitching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With right sides together, pin the shoulders in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take your frog closures and pin them in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used my button foot and dropped my feed dogs when I sewed them on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew them in several places. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I forgot to actually take the pictures of HOW to cut the sleeves so hopefully you can just follow along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To cut:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold the fabric.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Place the shoulder of the bodice in alignment with the fold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use the armhole as a guide to cut the sleeve, making sure to leave a seam allowance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you need a visual click <b><a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2012/11/gingerbread-dress-and-christmas-candy.html">HERE</a></b> and scroll down. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, on to the piping!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin the piping to the raw edges at the bottom of the sleeve. Right sides should be together and the actually piping portion should be toward the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used my zipper foot to sew this on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew close to the actual piping part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold over at the piping and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Top stitch right at the edge of the sleeve above the piping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be. LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time to attach the sleeves!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lay the bodice flat with the front in one direction and the back in the other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With right sides together, pin the raw edges of the sleeve to the armhole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the sleeve in, pressing when you're done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's what you should have so far and a close up of the front where the tricky bit meets the sleeve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On to the collar!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take one piece of the collar and line it up with the lightweight interfacing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cut the interfacing to match and iron it in place on the wrong side of the collar piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take both collar pieces and pin them with right sides together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew around the sides and the top. Leave the bottom open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Turn right side out and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Top stitch across the top of the collar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time to attach the collar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin the raw edges of the collar to the raw edges of the neckline with right sides together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the seam and press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time to finish up the sides. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I put a slit on both sides of the top. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To do this fold 1/4" and press. Fold another 1/4" and press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, top stitch that in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When that's done, turn it all inside out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin along the sides of the top and the raw edges of the sleeves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the seam and press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Final part for the top!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold the hem in 1/4" and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold 1/2" and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Top stitch the hem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THE TOP IS DONE!!! WOOO HOOO!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now on to the bottom!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take the piping and sew it to the bottom of the legs exactly as you did with the bottom of the sleeves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take the bottom cuff thingies and pin them to the bottom of the leg, right sides together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew just above where you stitched the piping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Top stitch just above the piping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin from the bottom of the cuff to the curve of the crotch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take one leg and turn it right side out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slide it down into the other leg and pin the raw edges together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is where you do the elastic casing. I had to do mine differently this time because I didn't leave enough room at the top when I cut my pant legs. LOL So, I'll have to walk you through it without pictures to help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the pants wrong side out, fold over the top by 1/4" and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold again by 1" and press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the along the bottom making sure to leave an opening of about 1" in which to insert the elastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take 2 large safety pins and pin each end of the elastic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Push the elastic through the casing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pull on both ends and sew them together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the opening in the elastic casing closed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ALLLLL DONE!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just in case you were like me and didn't leave enough room at the top....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cut either 2 pieces or one long piece 3" wide and long enough to fit around the top of the pants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the band right side out, fold in half and press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin the raw edges of the band to the raw edges of the top of the pants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the seam but leave the ends open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trim the band if needed but leave a seam allowance of at least 1/4".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Insert the elastic as above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the elastic and the band closed at the same time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lydia from Cluttered Genius has some great advice about how to <b><a href="http://www.clutteredgenius.com/2015/06/16/traveling-with-a-newborn/">Travel with a Newborn</a></b>!! I know a lot of people that could use this post!!!! </span><br />
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<br />stacy sews and schoolshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15198826873257277836noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311248383208388302.post-2400876763622348182015-06-12T10:00:00.000-04:002015-06-12T10:00:06.393-04:00Use Your Words - June 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.<br /><br /><br />At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them. <br /><br />I’m using: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Response ~ against the wall ~ Greek ~ charge ~ turtle ~ blood flow</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />They were submitted by: <a href="http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/">Confessions of a part time working mom</a><br /><br /> <br />Tom was an average guy living an average life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He had a good but boring job. He lived in a nice but boring house. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tom lived by routine. He got up at 6 am every single day. He would get dressed in the same button downs and navy slacks. He would have the same oatmeal for breakfast. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Same, same, same, boring, boring, boring. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One morning shortly before his 38th birthday Tom managed to get a really good look in the mirror. The <b>response</b> was immediate. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Was that him?? When did his hair start graying and thinning?? And are those wrinkles forming around his eyes???</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He felt as if he was <b>against a wall</b>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What happened? It seemed as if he was awaking from a dream! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He decided then and there that he was making a change!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He called into work. He had never missed a single day! Well, now he was cashing in that vacation time!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was heading out on an adventure!!! <b>CHARGE</b>!!!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was going to California to fulfill a childhood dream. He was going to learn to surf!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sure, surfing was all <b>Greek</b> to him but he was certain he could pick it up in no time.<br />He's all set! He has everything he needs! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He sits back and watches the surfers. He thinks he has the gist of it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He decides to head out into the water. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He's paddling out like nobody's business. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wait! What is that?? Is it a sea <b>turtle</b>?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It IS a sea turtle! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tom stops and tries to pet it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BLOOD FLOW</b>!!!!! Blood spurting!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OMG!! SO MUCH BLOOD!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While he was focusing on the turtle SOMETHING bit him!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's it! He's done! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Out of the water! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Off to the ER. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A few stitches later he is on his way back home. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Routine is good he thinks. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boring works well for him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /> <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/">Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">The Bergham’s Life Chronicles</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/">Sparkly Poetic Weirdo</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://eileensperpetuallybusy.blogspot.com/">Eileen’s Perpetually Busy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://batteredhope.blogspot.com/">Battered Hope</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.southernbellecharm.com/">Southern Belle Charm</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else’s Genius</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/">Confessions of a part-time working mom</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com/">Searching for Sanity</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://climaxedtheblog.blogspot.com/">Climaxed</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://dinoheromommy.com/">Dinosaur Superhero Mommy</a> </span><br />
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stacy sews and schoolshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15198826873257277836noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311248383208388302.post-59975429497601780752015-06-09T08:00:00.000-04:002015-06-09T08:00:15.182-04:00Fabric Extravaganza <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is usually where I have a tutorial of some kind for you. Well, not today. I have been SUPER busy and have been trying to get my next Blog with Friends project done. Sooooo, today I am going to show you my last few fabric purchases. Because I know you want to see them, right??? You're all fabricholics, too, right??? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is how bad it is, I went into Joann's the other day just to get some elastic, I SWEAR!!! And I walked out with the elastic + 8 yards of fabric. I couldn't help myself!! And Cailey found 2 things that she just HAD to have. ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2 different TARDIS prints!! Who could pass those up???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starry Night. One of my favorite paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For some reason this one reminds me of melting popcicles. It's just a tad brighter in person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last but not least, this gorgeous water color Disney Princess print. I am actually working it with right now. Well, as I am writing this. By the time this posts I had BETTER be done with it!!! LOL </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Welcome to a Secret Subject Swap. This week 16 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts. <br /><br />Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts. Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/">Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">The Bergham’s Life Chronicles</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://dinoheromommy.com/">Dinosaur Superhero Mommy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/">Sparkly Poetic Weirdo</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://thelieberfamily.com/">The Lieber Family</a> <br /><br /> <a href="http://batteredhope.blogspot.com/">Battered Hope</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.southernbellecharm.com/">Southern Belle Charm</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else’s Genius</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.silenceofthemom.blogspot.com/">Silence of the Mom</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/">Confessions of a part-time working mom</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.smalltalkmama.com/">Small Talk Mama</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com/">Searching for Sanity</a> </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, my.... Let me start by saying this, any friend of mine that gets an in-ground pool had just better be prepared. I will be over ALL the time. I will even show up if you're not home. Shoot, I might even pitch a tent in your yard!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi, all!!! How's the weather where you are?? Here it has been HOT!!! BLECK! I am NOT ready for summer. SIGH... We won't be spending any time around a pool this year and let's face it, that's the only good thing about summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, Cailey was complaining to me the other day that she didn't have enough summer PJs. Well, I knew exactly what to do about that! Time to make some!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got that cute print from The Fabric Fairy and it was on SALE!!!!! Can't beat that!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's such a light weight knit that I knew it would perfect for some summer PJs. I just needed to decide what KIND of PJs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since the print is sorta busy, I decided to go with something simple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am SO GLAD I did. I LOVE IT!!! I can see myself making more like that and for Colin, too!!! This is absolutely unisex! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let me start out by saying this: I had started out using matching thread. I thought I found this great deal on Etsy.... Yeah, you've heard if it sounds too good to be true it probably is???? Yeah... That's what happened... This thread was a NIGHTMARE. It kept breaking after every few stitches. GRRRR!!! So I had to go with a coordinating thread. Oh, well. The print is busy enough that you can't really tell anyway. LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">*NOTE* The only "special" thing you need to sew knits is a ball point needle. ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cut 3 strips that are 2" in width and at least as long as your arms holes and neckline.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, with right sides together, pin and sew the shoulder seams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With right sides still together, pin and sew the side seams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, fold the hem of the top about 1/2" and press.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I then turned my right side out and pinned. Then I top stitched the hem. In my opinion it just looks nicer that way. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold your fabric strips in half and press. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, starting at the center back of your neckline, pin the strips with right sides together and raw edges touching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you sew them together, pull gently. It will give the neckline a nicer look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do the same thing with both arm holes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Start your pinning at the side seam. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is what it looks like when they are done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">YOUR TOP IS DONE!!! YAY!!! Time to move on to the shorts! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With right sides together, pin the inseam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are just sewing from the bottom of the leg to the beginning of the curve of the crotch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the seam. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Repeat on the other leg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take one of the legs and turn it right side out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slide it down into the other leg. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(Right sides will be touching.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make sure to match up the seams. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin in the place and sew the curve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time to make the elastic casing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Turn your fabric down 1" and press. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew close to the bottom edge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make sure to leave an opening to insert your elastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take 2 large safety pin and pin one to each end of the elastic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Push the elastic through, holding on to the opposite end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pull both ends out of the opening and sew them together. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Push it back inside the casing and sew the opening closed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Almost done! We just need to sew our hems!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the shorts right side out, fold the bottoms in 1/2" and press.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin in place and sew the hem!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You CAN do this wrong side out, I just think the hems look neater when they are top stitched. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ALLLLLLLL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now you have some cool and comfy summertime pajamas!! YAY!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The great thing about this is that you can make them for anyone of any age. I think I might make myself some! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. After the surfing "accident" Tom no longer cared about the other shoe.<br /><br />2. I've heard of people running out of their shoes but usually they go back for them.<br /><br />3. I've heard that flip flops are the glass slipper of the south... Maybe Cinderella is real!!!!<br /><br />4. She tried to tell him not to wear socks with the flip flops but he just wouldn't listen. Now one of the flip flops has gone on strike.<br /><br />5. Ahh, the flip flop blow out. Just like the remnants of tires on the interstate.<br /><br /><br />Click on the links below and let some other bloggers make you smile:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else’s Genius</a><br /><br /><a href="http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/">Confessions of a part-time working mom</a><br /><br /><a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.angelaweight.com/">Sanity Waiting to Happen</a><br /><br /><a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.juiceboxconfession.com/">Juicebox Confession</a><br /><br /><a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /><a href="http://peopledonteatenoughfudge.blogspot.co.uk/">People Don’t Eat Enough Fudge</a><br /><br /><a href="http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">The Bergham’s Life Chronicles</a><br /><br /><a href="http://followmehome.shellybean.com/">Follow me home</a><br /><br /><a href="http://measurementsofmerriment.blogspot.com/">Measurements of Merriment</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/">Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.southernbellecharm.com/">Southern Belle Charm</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, I had this dress idea in my head for a while. So glad I finally got it out of there and into the real world!! ;) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was so much fun to make!!! And like a friend of mine said, it's perfect for ALL ages! Little kids, big kids, tweens, teens and adults!! I think I need to make one for myself!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are a lot of steps to making this BUT don't let that scare you. It's still very easy to construct. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can make it longer and lose the leggings or make it shorter. It's all up to you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 1/2 yards of grey knit</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I took Cailey's measurements and drew out the patterns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You want to cut 2 front bodice pieces on the fold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You'll need to cut 4 back bodice pieces NOT on the fold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold the fabric for the bottom over, then over again. Fold until you have a nice point at the top. Basically it will be folded into fourths. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, here comes the math. However wide you need the top of the circle to be, divide by 4. Use your measuring tape to measure that distance across the top, near the point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From there, measure how long you want it to be down one side. Mark it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Measure again down the middle and mark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Measure one more time down the other side and mark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, connect those marks. That's your cutting line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew just the arm holes and the neckline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time for the back bodice pieces!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take 2 and pin them with right sides together, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew just where the pins are (the arm hole and the straight edge NOT the side, bottom or shoulder). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do the same to the other 2 back pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Turn the pieces right side out and press.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, top stitch along the straightish line and the arm hole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With right sides together, sew the shoulder seams and side seams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Place the bodice piece over the skirt, with right sides together. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pin the bottom of the bodice to the top of the skirt. Make sure to overlap the back bodice pieces a bit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the seam with a stretch stitch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Press it out and here is what you have!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sewing a traditional hem in a circle skirt can be a pain in the butt. There's just SO MUCH fabric at the bottom!! So, with a knit you don't have to hem at all!! OR you can do what I did and sew a zigzag stitch all across the bottom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I pulled the fabric slightly as I stitched to give it a lettuce hem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ALL DONE (well, with that part)!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, on to the leggings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is pretty much how I make any simple pant, short, legging, without any extras at all. LOL </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grab a pair of leggings to use as a guide. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cut 2 legs, on the fold. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make sure to add at least 1 1/2" to the top and at least 1/2" at the bottom. (The first is for the elastic casing, the second is for the hem.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now you're going to sew the inseam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew a stretch stitch right between where the 2 arrows are. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do both legs. Press your seams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, turn one leg right side out and slide it down into the other leg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew that U shaped seam! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the pants still inside out, fold over the top by 1 1/2".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the elastic casing, making sure to leave an opening to insert the elastic through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Put a large safety pin on both ends of the elastic. This makes it easier to insert and you won't lose the other end. ;)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Insert the elastic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the ends of the elastic together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sew the opening in the casing closed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now for the hem. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Again, this is knitwear, no hem needed BUT it does give it a more professional look. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the pants right side out, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">turn the bottom of each leg in by 1/2" and press. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then top stitch the hem with a stretch stitch. :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ALL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Put it on and twirl away!!! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hope this was easy to follow. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">HAVE FUN SEWING!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Welcome to a Fly on the Wall group post. Today 17 bloggers are inviting you to catch a glimpse of what you’d see if you were a fly on the wall in our homes. Come on in and buzz around my house.<br /><br />Buzz around, see what you think, then click on these links for a peek into some other homes:<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/">Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://followmehome.shellybean.com/">Follow me home</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.menopausalmom.com/">Menopausal Mother</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://batteredhope.blogspot.com/">Battered Hope</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.justalittlenutty.com/">Just A Little Nutty</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else’s Genius</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://gndisney.wordpress.com/">Disneyland in Kentucky</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://dinoheromommy.com/">Dinosaur Superhero Mommy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.juiceboxconfession.com/">Juicebox Confession</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://eileensperpetuallybusy.blogspot.com/">Eileen’s Perpetually Busy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com/">Searching for Sanity</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.southernbellecharm.com/">Southern Belle Charm</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.angelaweight.com/">Sanity Waiting to Happen</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://peopledonteatenoughfudge.blogspot.co.uk/">People Don’t Eat Enough Fudge</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has been quite a month around here! Well, maybe not as crazy busy as we usually are... We've still been keeping things more low key while watching to see how Colin will do. (He's doing GREAT!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But here are a few of the things that we HAVE done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got a piano!!! Now we just need lessons! LOL I used to be able to play simple melodies and read music. I am trying to remember all of that! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Hubby loves auctions! We picked this up at an estate auction for $20!! AND it's in tune!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At another auction I got 2 vintage Singers and a vintage sewing box. I need to take pics of them and show you all!! :D </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We went to our very first baseball game!! YIPPEE!! Someone in one of our homeschool groups had 50 FREE tickets!!! We jumped right on that! Good thing, too because those tickets went very quickly!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And some other treats! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cailey and another girl from our group got to go out on the diamond and race for prizes for the season ticket holders. They were so nervous but had a good time with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had a really good Mother's Day. The Hubby and Deanna made breakfast. Food is SO MUCH better when you don't have to make it yourself. ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Deanna got me a gorgeous bunch of flowers. Nice and colorful just the way I like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joshua got me a GIANT card and 5 pairs of the coolest owl socks you can imagine!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cailey and Colin (The Hubby) got me a $100 Visa gift card which I then used on the fabric below! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was my first online fabric buying. I am sold! <a href="http://thefabricfairy.com/">The Fabric Fairy</a> has the cutest printed knits!! It's sooooo hard to find those at Joann's and Hancock's, especially for boys!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So that's what we've been up to!! Oh, and this stuff <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2015/05/ecology-study-ideas-projects-and.html"><b>HERE</b></a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's that time of year again!!! Time to sew some shorts!!! Now, I have done tons of shorts tutorials but these are a little different. These have a side panel from a different print. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGpwJCsJdxEjVF3aFVZKmf04_25nNeN8pCerzADjQ3fuQZwfRVjZhF5lSVZbo176JHzUMdubetV7KBdL_pyFNMmZ9jGXCzEiP48zhxdLIVTD9TYadYNAbbdtDBfZ1L5XtfhddNyEmUJI/s1600/BH6+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGpwJCsJdxEjVF3aFVZKmf04_25nNeN8pCerzADjQ3fuQZwfRVjZhF5lSVZbo176JHzUMdubetV7KBdL_pyFNMmZ9jGXCzEiP48zhxdLIVTD9TYadYNAbbdtDBfZ1L5XtfhddNyEmUJI/s400/BH6+2.jpg" width="300" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went to Joann's and found the Big Hero 6 print in the remnants bin but nowhere else. YILES!!! It was barely over 1/2 a yard. Almost enough for the shorts but we needed some room to grow!! So I found the other print with coordinating colors in the remnant bin. Perfect!!! :D </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Less than 1/2 yard of main </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I cut long strips from the coordinating fabric for the side panels. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We didn't need tooooo much extra for the sides so I just cut the print so the whole row would row. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fold the fabric into fourths. You want 4 pieces, 2 pieces per leg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take a pair of shorts that fits your child well and use them as a guide. You'll want to add a couple of extra inches at the top and at least an extra inch at the bottom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here you have the 4 pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, take one of the long strips and pin it to one of the leg pieces with right sides together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With right sides together, pin the strip to the other leg piece. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Take a leg and put it right sides together, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, take one leg and turn it right side out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slide it down in to the other leg so that the right sides are together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now he has shorts to match his Big Hero 6 shirt! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We actually started this the week of Earth Day buuuuut we kinda dragged it out a bit.... ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We started out with the recycling kit from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Young-Scientist-Recycling-Scientific-Measurements/dp/B00066ISRK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1431888723&sr=8-3&keywords=young+scientists+kit">Young Scientists</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cover a leaf in one cup of peat and cover plastic in another cup of peat. Which one decomposes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we planted strawberries, sunflowers, daisies and poppies. Due to the cats knocking the pots off the windowsill repeatedly, we only have the sunflowers left, but they are doing wonderfully!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got some toadpoles from a friend and are watching them grow. Yes, toadpoles! I looked them up to try to see what kind of frog they would be. Turns out they aren't frogs of any kind but toads! LOL </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we started making papier mache globes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Deanna and I did this our first year of homeschooling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we painted the water on after the 2nd layer of papier mache dried. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once the water dried it was time to paint on the land. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you leave the balloon intact, you can use the end of it to tie on string and hang your globe from the ceiling! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also watched quite a few Magic School Bus episodes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Magic School Bus </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Hops Home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Meets the Rot Squad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Wet All Over</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After all that, we watched Planet Earth all over again! Can't get enough of it!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other topics that fit in with this theme:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Earth Day-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2013/04/earth-day-study-unit.html">Earth Day Resources</a> (because Earth Day should be everyday)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Plants-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2014/05/our-week-in-review-plants.html">Plant Activities</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2013/03/plants-unit-study.html">Plant Resources</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Worms-</span><br />
<a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2014/04/our-week-in-review-worms-and-pirates.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Worm Activities</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2013/07/worm-unit-study-with-free-printables.html">Worm Resources</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More </span><a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2014/10/earth-science-week-resources.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Earth Science Recources</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">HAVE FUN LEARNING!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.<br /><br />At the end of this post you’ll find links to the other blogs featuring this challenge. Check them all out, see what words they got and how they used them. <br /><br />I’m using: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">looked back ~ heartbeats ~ incensed ~ secret ~ you are going to die</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />They were submitted by: <b><a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else's Genius</a></b><br /><br /> <br /> It was a dark and stormy night. (Ok. Really it was a bright, starlit night but how scary are they?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Tommy and Betty were out driving, trying to get lost. (You know what I mean.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They drive out a long, lonely, country road and find a place to "park". (Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They are just getting friendly when off in the distance they hear screaming. (SIGH. Just when things were getting good.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> They debate. Someone playing a joke? Someone in trouble? Do they go see? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Well, you know how it goes. They have to go see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Tommy starts up the car. They start down the road, headlights on high beam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <strike>Just ahead they saw a shimmering light. Their heads grew heavy and their sights grew dim. They had to stop for the night</strike>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Oops. Sorry. Got carried away again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Betty <b>looked back</b> the way they came and saw a shadow on the side of the road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She yells at Tommy to stop the car! (You just know that's a bad idea!!!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Betty and Tommy's <b>heartbeats</b> sped up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> What was that hulking, looming thing??? (Just stay in the car!!!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Betty begs him not to. (Sigh... You know he will any way.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It's over for Tommy. He is nothing but a bloody mess on the side of the road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Betty starts to get nervous just sitting in the car. (Well, she should be, shouldn't she?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She rolls down the window. She sticks out her head. (Really bad idea!!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> He is <b>incensed</b>!! She has seen his <b>secret</b>!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> He says to Betty, "<b>You are going to die</b>!!!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can find the first part of this story here - <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/2015/02/use-your-words-february-2015-friday-13th.html">Use Your Words - February 2015 - Friday the 13th</a><br /><br />Sometimes I get my words and I think to myself, "I know exactly what I'm going to do with those!" Other times I haven't got a clue. This time was a mix. I knew what I wanted to do but I didn't know if I had the writing chops to pull it off. You'll be the judge. LOL </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br />Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/">Baking In A Tornado</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/">Spatulas on Parade</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://berghamchronicles.blogspot.com/">The Bergham’s Life Chronicles</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://themomisodes.com/">The Momisodes</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://stacysewsandschools.blogspot.com/">Stacy Sews and Schools</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/">Sparkly Poetic Weirdo</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://eileensperpetuallybusy.blogspot.com/">Eileen’s Perpetually Busy</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://batteredhope.blogspot.com/">Battered Hope</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.southernbellecharm.com/">Southern Belle Charm</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/">Someone Else’s Genius</a> <br /><br /> <a href="http://thethreegerbers.blogspot.ch/">Confessions of a part-time working mom</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://climaxedtheblog.blogspot.com/">Climaxed</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://singlemumplusone.blogspot.com/">Searching for Sanity</a> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.eviljoyspeaks.wordpress.com/">Evil Joy Speaks</a> <br /><br /> <a href="http://gndisney.wordpress.com/">Disneyland in Kentucky</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For my project I put together this little flowered table runner. It's a super fast and easy project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 1/2 yards of green dots</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, I folded the fabric in half, selvage to selvage. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I trimmed it along both sides with the pinking shears. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also took a few inches off the ends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I sewed a straight stitch along all the edges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next, I placed the flowers until I had them the way I wanted them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I sewed the felt flower buttons down just like I would a regular button.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ALL DONE!!! Told you it was easy! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also put together the flower centerpiece. I made a trip to The Dollar Tree and used only stuff that I found there. SUPER cheap, SUPER easy!!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I bought several flowers (they had the butterflies with them), the metal tub, and a green foam rectangle. Then I separated the flowers and stuck them in individually. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Check out ALL the posts for this month's Blog with Friends!!!! So much awesomeness!!!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Karen from Baking in a Tornado has the <a href="http://www.bakinginatornado.com/2015/05/blog-with-friends-flour-flowers.html"><b>CUTEST flower cookies</b></a>!!! LOVE THEM!! She's a baking genius!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robin at Someone Else's Genius is going to show you how to make these gorgeous <a href="http://www.someoneelsesgenius.com/2015/05/beaded-barefoot-sandals.html"><b>beaded barefoot sandals</b></a>. SO beautiful!! </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's it for this month!!! I hope you enjoyed it! :) </span><br />
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