Potter Puppet Pals Cake May 17, 2009

I’ll just go ahead and upload all the pictures from Morgan’s cake. Sadly, one picture turned out from Ian’s mandrake fondant sculptures. They turned out pretty neat looking, but more like pissed old men than whining babies LOL. However, they sunk into the ice cream, rather than hanging around on top. So the visual wasn’t quite the same, but the kids really loved them heh

I’ll go ahead and point you at Niel Cicierega if you are wondering WHY in the heck we did a cake like this. We are big fans at this house *grins*

Then on to Morgan’s cake:

Morgan's drawing used for the pattern

Morgan wanted a white cake with rainbow sprinkles

After dying the fondant with decent dye, I put them in bags, or on wax paper to roll out

After rolling them out. I put the pattern pieces on them and cut them out with a very sharp, small knife

Then I started putting them all together

Morgan, dressed as Harry Potter looks on in glee (that’s my daughter’s expression for glee) She’d probably kill me if she knew I included that picture

After putting most of it together, I cut the edge off the purple

Then added the ‘wrist’ for the puppet master

The whole thing together

Then my VERY FIRST time ever writing on a cake. So please don’t make fun of me LOL, it says ‘Voldemorts Nipple’

Then, they destroyed all my hard work!

Knotty Handles Market Bag January 31, 2008

I finally got a real size market bag made (life has been conspiring against me I tell ya!)

I found a couple of old flat sheets that you wouldn’t catch me dead sleeping on, in fact, I’ll admit that I’m going to be embarrassed to be seen with these at the grocery store LOL. Yes, I need to head over to goodwill and fix this problem by buying more acceptable to my weirdo esthetics flat sheets.

I feel like it’s important that I don’t buy new material at the store for these projects. I’ve made a promise to myself that I won’t buy an more new fabric unless I need it for a project I’m doing RIGHT NOW. No more, oooooh loooook SHINY!! So I *do* like the fact that these bags are using re-purposed fabric. All the scraps are going in my bag ‘o’ scraps to be played with later and sewn together for more bags..

I’ve got the pattern drawn out. I wish I knew how to put it on the ‘net. I’d hand it out free-like.

Market Bag Design and Sewing Room Reorganization January 27, 2008

Here’s pictures of the bag I designed. I took elements from a couple of different places, then added tie handles. I don’t know about you, but I *hate* it when handles cut into my palm and having a bumpy tie to hold onto will probably help with that a lot. Plus it looks cute!
This is all from scrap fabric, and it’s not to scale or anything. If anything, it’s probably about 4″ short width wise and about 6″ short depth wise. But it was pretty fast and easy to sew. I’ll have to make up a paper pattern with a paper bag or something, so I can cut out a lot at once.

I also got my sewing room WAY more organized. I still don’t have things all separated, but at least now, even if the elastic, trims, wood dresser knobs etc are all intermingled, at least they are in various see-through boxes, and up on shelves. I’ve got ideas for sewing hanging bags to go on the wall, and I want to go find my drill today (I have 2, a cordless that needs to be charged and a corded. Both hiding in the garage somewhere, and who knows where the bits are)

So the floor is vacuumed, things are more easily found. I also put the desk up on bed risers LOL, now I don’t have to hunch over to reach it, or bang my knee on the drawer. It’s heavy steel, so I didn’t want to get a new one, since this one doesn’t shake now matter HOW fast I sew. Even if it *is* midget sized!

I’m not happy AT ALL, with my cutting area. It’s too low to the ground, I have to hunch over to reach it. It’s on sawhorses as you can see from the picture, with plywood as it’s base. (I covered it with an old curtain) I’ve got the wood outside to make myself a GOOD cutting/layout table. One with the right height for me to not have to hunch over. I’m thinking rib high on me. and Long enough and wide enough to do more than just a *little* better good than the iron board as a cutting table.

Morgan, my 13 yo, wants to change rooms again. She wanted to be in my roomates old room, which is right off the living room and is really more of an office. However, it makes more sense to have Morgan in an actual bedroom with a closet rather than an ‘office’ type room. So that’s going to need to be switched over here soon before I get to involved in making the room all mine. I’m going to miss the closet though!

Planning on making more things today. We’ll see what is on my list that calls out to me!