A girl's gotta have choices

A few weeks ago I added a few pannels to my friend Meg's beautiful dress she scored at a thrift store. After doing it and loving her dress it inspired me to make a dress for my birthday with pannels.

This is a photo of the back pannel I added on Meg's dress. 

Here you can see where I added the pannels on the sleeves. I really liked the contrast these pannels added.

So I decided to cut and make myself a birthday dress with solid pannels to contrast with the print of my dress.

I actually cut my dress a little small and had to add an additional orange pannel to the center back, which inspired me to make the skirt have a pannel at center back too.

Here is the skirt in mid process.

I was pretty happy with how this dress turned out, but I had a little trouble centering the front pannel and had to re sew it a few times.

Here I am on my birthday in my dress!!

Then I realized I have a party with my twin brother on Friday and needed something to wear. A few weeks back I made this skirt and realized it had a few fabric flaws, so I decided to make a matching crop top to wear with it as my second birthday outfit!

Cutting and sewing the crop top!

Here's the outfit together! I think it will be perfect for the party!!

All in all I was pretty pleased with how my birthday dresses came out. Now I have two options, after all a girl's gotta have choices. 

Xoxo

Becky Jane

Judy's Birthday Bash

Hosting a five year olds birthday party can get to be very expensive. Me and my family decided to make some of the decorations and party necessities. The theme was mermaid/under the sea! Here are a few pictures of what we did. Enjoy!!

I made a piñata by blowing up a balloon, 3 layers of paper mâché and then a paint layer and crepe streamers for decoration 

There's the birthday girl taking a swing!

We made jelly fish to hang for decorations with paper bowls, steamers and googly eyes! 

They looked really cute hanging from trees.

I made the gift bags with lunch bags and images I printed off.

This is a birthday dress I made for little Judy.

There's Judy in her Ariel "human" dress I made! This was a pool party so she didn't keep it on for long! What a cutie!!

We made a mermaid cake and cupcakes with chocolate shell molds on top!!

Here's a better look at the cake! I was pretty proud of this! And it was really easy to make!

Though time consuming I think these projects turned out great and added a personal touch to the party! I mean, you only turn five once!!!!!!

Xoxo

Becky Jane 

Baby Steps in Etsy

I am slowly trying to get back on the Etsy routine. I am trying to add five things to my shop a week. So far I am starting with baby garments. Here are a few I've put up this week. 

This tiny 0-3 month baby outfit is the cutest! Hand made with vintage fabric and yo-yo details. You know how I feel about yo-yo's !!!

4t floral gathered dress, also made with vintage fabric 

This 2t bloomer and dress set is so darling. The fabric used on the dress is from the forties!!!

I added a few onsie dresses to my shop! 

I also added this 12 month set!

Right now I have 10 children's items in the shop! You should check them out, and let me know what you think! My shop name is beckyjanesews

Xoxo

Becky jane 

Shelves in my studio!

The time has come for me to start organizing my studio. I have a lot of projects I want to do, build a drafting table, bolt all of my fabric and make tables for stations for students. But first I need to organize all my supplies and get them off the floor. So last night, with a lot of help from my bosses, I put shelves up!

I'm on a budget, so we decided to make them from scratch. Here are photos of the process!

First we went to Home Depot and bought plywood, brackets and screws.

I decided to make four shelves 5 feet wide and ten inches deep. So we measured and marked the wood with chalk.

Then we cut the wood.

Deciding where to place the shleves was the hardest part. Because my studio is in a very old farm house it was hard to find studs to place the brackets on. 

We decided to space the shelves 16" apart giving me plenty of space for books and tools without feeling crammed. 

Here we are stabilizing the brackets into the wood.

All done! Now I just have to organize all of my supplies! Wish me luck!

Xoxo

Becky Jane 

More camp photos!!!

Here are a few more photos from Createfest on the farm!!!

We had the kids paint chickens on a canvas. 

We went exploring on the farm and found   some chickens! This is what inspired the above photo :)

Yoga train!!!

Here we are going through things we found on our scavenger hunt!!

This is a simple bird made out of toilet paper rolls! 

Duct tape and cardboard swords and shields were a huge hit!

We did an intense obstacle course for the kids! Hoola hoops, skateboards, slingshots and much more. Here is Mariska blowing a windmill before moving on to the next station!

We made little flying fairies out of fake flowers, beads, straws and q-tips!

The kids loved the garden.

Mr. Doug taught them how to plant a plant!!! 

Paper mâché !!!!the piñata's  were our week long craft.

These are the sample puppets I made for the kids to mimic. A lot of them made up their own!

This camp really was such a great experience for me. The kids taught me just as much as I taught them :)

I'm looking forward to doing Fall Fest!!!

Xoxo

Becky Jane 

Kids camp!!! Create Fest July 2014

My cousin Lanie and I hosted a kids camp out on the farm! Lanie did story time and yoga and I headed the crafts! It was such a fun time!

We did a lot of yoga! This kids loved drawing faces on balloons!

My friends Doug and Sara came one day to teach the kids about gardening!

My dad took them on a wagon ride!

Farmer Bob also let them feed baby cows :)

We made lots of puppets!

We made a piñata they got to break on the last day!!!

Camp was so much fun, and I took lots of photos! I will blog more soon, I didn't want to overwhelm you too much with cuteness!!!

Xoxo

Becky Jane