So, I've been Sewing

In my spare time (Ha! Did you get that joke?!?) I've been sewing. I ran into this tutorial on making Letter T-Shirts. Little Brother has taken a real interest in learning his letters recently. His favorite is "N" (for his name!). So, I made him this shirt. It's his most requested shirt.

Then, it was my nephews birthdays, so I made them these: (they got C's for their names!)

The Tie Shirts were from here. Little brother is still waiting for his.

I liked how these letter shirts turned out better on the stripes. Too late for Little Bro!

And just because she's so cute, I made these for my littlest niece! 

I can't wait to see her little toosh in these cute ruffles!

And finally, I made these for a friend who had her sweet boy last November! I guess it's better late than never!!!

So, if I forgot your birthday or haven't called you back, now you know why. Just be glad you aren't getting a package of ruffly underwear in the mail to make up for it!

Pilgrim Hats and New Floors!

I'm so behind on my posts! We're finally finished with the mess of the floors. Everyone is paid and legal documents are signed and they are out of my life forever, but that's a different post!

Here is a fun project (and yummy) that Big Brother and I made for Thanksgiving...

Melt chocolate chips and cover marshmallows.

Place on top of Keebler Striped Fudge cookies

Let harden and pipe yellow "buckles". Enjoy!!!

Too cute!

Now, onto the floors!

The kitchen (since then, they put new molding to hide the awful areas next to the cabinets. They look a lot better.

2 views of the Living room...

We are waiting until we can put down rugs. I think it'll warm up the place and also give my sore feet a break!

Traditions

I love the photo above of Big Brother. He had Camo from head to toe! In the upper right photo- he was testing out his camo behind a tree. See if you can find him!

The "family" photo above was taken by Big Brother with my dSLR camera! I'd say he has a photography future!

Happy 6th Star Wars Birthday!

It took a couple of days to recover, but here are the photos from the big day on Saturday.

It turned out to be a great day and I think the kids all had a lot of fun! Until next year! 

This was the invite I made. I blurred out my personal info since this isn't a password-protected site!

It was nice for his birthday to fall on a weekend. He opened family gifts first thing in the morning and played until party time! The 2nd photo is showing off some karate moves after the party.

He started a tae-kwan-do class with Kevin, too. He was the only student this week and got a lot of attention. So far, he likes it. We thought it might be a good intro to see if he wants to try it out.

The party clan!

Daddy was a good sport and let the boys fight off Darth Vader. It got out of hand quickly. Good thing these were inflatable swords!

This pretty much sums up the party. Lots of little boys dualing with their light sabers. 

More party fun. The pinata was a bummer. It cracked after one small hit from the birthday boy. Nobody else even had a chance.

Little brother was intimidated by the big boys, but found some fun of his own. A few Star Wars gummy snacks always cheer him up!

The death star cake Kevin and I "created". Not amazing, but did the trick! A story to go along with this later in the week!

Lots of fun gifts and generous friends. 

If you're interested in more details- see below. If not, thanks for all you did to make his day so special! Once I get the house back in order from a couple of weeks of neglect, we'll be getting our official thank-you notes out!

Inflatable Lightsabers from Ebay

The party spread

Star Wars gummies and the goodies the kids left with (a personalized Star Wars notebook, chocolate covered pretzel "lightsabers", and candy from the lame pinata!

An example of the notebooks. Each one was a little different, but same idea!

Had the idea for edible lightsabers. We bought blue and red chocolate (Wilton) and melted them. Dipped in our long pretzel sticks. Wrapped the end in foil and there they were! Tasty too!

This was a first ever in the 15 years I've known this man! Decorating cookies. Had to prove it with a picture. He did all the stormtroopers and darth vaders. Pretty good! I told him he could be the baker over at King Soopers.  :-)

A close up of the cookies. (Star Wars cookie cutters are from Williams Sonoma)

A banner I made to string along the awning of the shelter. Just a bunch of star wars papers strung up on some rope- but turned out cute!

It was fun to see the boys having so much fun. Until next year. I wonder what the theme will be for number 7?

Star Wars Room Surprise

After working all day and keeping him banned from his room, Big Brother finally got to unveil his surprise. His very own STAR WARS ROOM! Many photos below show some of the details. It was a lot of fun designing and creating his new room. I think it was a hit! (The photos were taken at night, I'll try to update them in better light soon!)

A vinyl above the bed, star wars pillow case and a handmade bulletin board with photos of friends and family.

close up of bulletin board

My favorite view of the room

Love these vinyl letters (from Ebay) that say "May the force be with you"

His name made on wooden letters with Star Wars paper modge podged on!

I love the planet mobile from Pottery Barn Kids. The shelf is full of Lego sets he's created and photos of having fun with family are above the shelf.

A banner I made that didn't look good anywhere else- so ended on the bed!

More Lego Star Wars space ships to come here!

We spent the night looking up into the glow in the dark stars and planets. He loves his new room - can you tell?

May the force be with me!

Why does my house look like it's been invaded by stormtroopers and aliens from galaxies beyond? Because by Saturday night, I'll have made a 6 year old boy's dreams come true with a

STAR WARS BEDROOM

&

STAR WARS BIRTHDAY PARTY (for 15 boys!)

Stay tuned for more updates!

And to prove that this whole Star Wars craze has gone to my head too, check out my new car decals!

I got them HERE. 

So far, I've gotten a few compliments from the roller skating boys at Sonic! 

I think they're super cute!

(The stickers are cute- not the roller skating boys, in case you were wondering ;-)