Easter and Cinderella

We spent Easter weekend at the our Civic Center performing Cinderella. It has been such a fun weekend. Here are some pics (I am sure more will follow). We have one more weekend to go.

 My Cinderella and her on stage Prince

 My two daughters dressed in the peasant costumes. Savannah is the body double for Sonia when the Fairy Godmother casts her magic spell sending Cinderella to the ball in her beautiful ballgown.

A fairy tale come true.

Lots of little princesses wanting to get Cinderella's autograph and a picture.

Cinderella

Cinderella is going well. I am having so much fun with the costumes we are making. Fantasy Playhouse had a wonderful little tea party for little girls. It was so much fun. The older girls got to be the Princesses and host the little girls. I can't tell you how tired we were, but oh we had so much fun. I wish I could post more pics but I do not have permission from all the children so here are a few of my princess and some of her friends.

No this is not Cinderella's Ball Gown this is her Tea Party dress. We will wait till after the ball to show that dress. ^_^

The Wedding!

My oldest son was married yesterday. It was lovely. Such a special day.

 Mr and Mrs. Jason Anders

 The wedding party

Our new family

It was lots of fun. I make my dress and a matching bow tie for my husband. I also made the stoles and muffs for the brides mades. We add lots of bling to the bride's dress and veil. They have left on their honeymoon, a cruise to Mexico. I now move on to making costumes for Cinderella.

Wedding party gifts

I made these little bags for all the women in the family as little clutches for the wedding. I will be adding wrist straps, but wanted to share these with you. No they are not as wonky shaped as they look in the picture.

Cinderella!

We are thrilled that our oldest daughter has been cast as Cinderella in our local community theaters production of Cinderella in April!

I cannot tell you how excited we are. She has waited a long time for a lead role. She has had many fun ensemble parts but this is her first lead! The rest of the family is evolved as always, my husband will be the King and my youngest daughter will be helping me with the costumes.

Right now I am working on my oldest son's wedding and then it will be on to work on Cinderella, so not sure how much blogging will happen but I will share pictures of both events. ^_^

When Snowed in Sew!

Well this snow storm has really shutdown our southern city we just do not have the resources to deal with the snow and ice. So with no school and many businesses closed, we were rather home bound.  So when stuck at home why not sew! ^_^

I have been a rather creative slump. Yes, I made all those cute zipper bags but that was a follow this pattern type thing. I have had a block when coming up with something of my own.I have been wanting something new and modern for a purse. I love quilted bags but I wanted something different. ( I have made so many of those quilted bags) Finally I am happy with this one! Being snowed in I could not go shopping for this one. I had to use what was in my stash. So I dug out the leftovers from the Mod Quilt Sampler I made some time ago. Anyway this is the result. One purse, a wallet and a Snap Happy Bag.

 This shows the set- wallet closed.

 Here you can see the open wallet and the Snap Happy Bag, You can find the pattern HERE

I opened the wallet here to the outside so you could see the full pattern. This is a wallet pattern that I have come up with myself by combining several other quilted wallets with the options and techniques that I like. I do not sell the pattern, sorry.

Since most of the county has gotten snow of some sort what did you do during your snow storm?

More Snow in Alabama!!!!

Believe it on not we had more snow in Alabama, and lots of it! We had 9-10 inches at our house, north of Huntsville. Yes the city is shut down, we do not have the equipment to handle this kind of snow event. Also we have a lot of elevated road ways that freeze very quickly. I think our annual snow fall is 1.5 inches. So we were thrilled with this snow. For many children in Alabama and some adults this is the first snow they have seen. There have been lots of fun reports of people using all kinds of inventive things for sleds. Canoes, lots of pool items, boxes, cookie sheets, plastic bins etc. We just played.