New shoes?

I have been looking and looking for some white heels to wear with my new dress to Steve's sister's wedding in a few weeks. Something feminine and summery, with flowers on them. However, I have not been able to find a pair that I like and I can afford! So, Sunday I thought I'd try my hand at refashioning an old pair that I never wear anymore. I used some white duck cloth scraps I found in my stash, some bits of ribbon and lace, and the hot glue gun!
I am a little on the fence with the results. What does everyone think?

Before

As usual, I jumped right in without really thinking, and forgot to take any real "before" photos! These are the best I got...

During

Finished!

with white ribbons

or blue

What do you think? Cute or really not so much?

Tuesday Tuesday, so good to me

Tuesday morning is one of my favorite times of the week! A little girl from church comes over to help with the kids and I get 3 whole hours to myself! (Or at least, much fewer interruptions.) It's a wonderful time: sometimes I garden, or catch up on STUFF, but usually I craft!
This week while my "mother's helper" was here I started getting things together for the diaper shower I'm hosting for a good friend this weekend.
Here's a peek at some of it:











More pictures after Saturday! We'll see what I can come up with without spending any money! I'm expecting over a dozen ladies, which is a lot for our tiny house! I'm praying for beautiful weather so we can be outside...

Finishing touches

I spent my weekend working on a few finishing touches for everyone's outfits for my sister-in-law's wedding. I had to take the ring bearer's white suit in by quite a bit, unfortunately it's still much too big! The vest and pants look pretty good, and the shirt is fine, but there was nothing I could do with that jacket! Oh well, maybe the bride won't mind if he leaves it off. The little white vest and tie look kinda cute.
The girl's outfits were much more fun! I could do anything I wanted with them, since they're not in the wedding party. I made the cutest little dress for A while we were in Alaska (3 actually, I got a little carried away. I just kept thinking of so many cute ideas!) and finally put the finishing touches on them. I'm still not sure which she'll wear for the wedding... Maybe one for the rehearsal?

Sewing on the buttons:Aren't these the cutest little buttons? I designed the whole dress around the buttons!

A pretty belt is a must!

A few little pins:


And can't forget hair accessories!





J's dress was easy -- she's wearing the one her sister wore to her Daddy's ordination as a deacon. It's still rather big on her (even though it's a 6m size!) so I had to take in the sides quite a bit, but that was uncomplicated. I used a basting stitch so it will be easy to take out as she grows in to it. Then I had so much fun with her little hair band!

I love the way it looks on her little fuzzy head!

Then there were the little details on my dress: I made it a few months ago, and I'm happy to say I'm really pleased with the way it turned out! It deserves it's own post though; I'll just show you the little things I worked on this weekend.

Finishing the embellishments:


A few matching hair ornaments:



In case you can't tell, I'm a little carried away with flowers right now! I thought it would look sweet -- not really all matchy-matchy, but the same sort of theme for the three of us? Or maybe it's just overkill? Or maybe I'm just disappointed that I'm too far away to do the flowers for the wedding and I'm taking out my "frustrated floral-designer" urges like this?

Anyway, that was my weekend! It's a good thing Steve's tux is a rental and I don't have to do anything with that!

Can't wait to post pictures of everyone in their outfits!