Tomorrow we will be beginning our vacation! We'll drive down to the cities and pick up Sarah before spending the night at a hotel and then catching a plane early tomorrow morning for SeaTac. The last few times we've flown back to visit family on the west coast we flew into Portland, but this time the tickets to SeaTac were significantly cheaper than flying to Portland.
And we're excited as we get to spend some time in Seattle showing it off to Sarah and meeting up with friends (namely godparents for Stephen and Rachel) before heading north to Sedro-Woolley to visit Diane's family for a few days then head down to McMinnville to visit Jeffs's parents for a few days before flying back home.
This will be a fairly quick trip, but we are going to take all three children which probably won't happen again or not very soon. So getting 10 days in which all of us could get off work and clear schedules was something of a miracle.
Looking forward to seeing the west coast soon!
Diane
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Completed!
Six months ago I gave Sarah and Rachel a Christmas gift that culminated Friday evening in them participating in a fashion show at Convergence.
Below is the video that Jeff took of the girls modeling in the fashion show. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150220097871160
This was a huge project that was hard work, delightful and very rewarding. I have done a fair amount of sewing and was in 4-H sewing for about 6 years growing up. But I hadn't done much original sewing. The girls and I brainstormed, they drew/sketched what they wanted. We bought fabric (lots and lots of it) and then I set to work to create what they imagined. I worked with five different patterns as well as creating many of my own pieces. Both dresses were made in muslin for fit and to make sure I was heading in the right direction with what they imagined.
Cutting the real fabric was scary. Was this going to work? But as the dresses came together I began to get very excited. It was so much fun to see their imaginings become real.
Here are a few more pictures of their dresses.
You can also check out both Rachel and Sarah's Facebook pages for additional pictures. Once the dresses were basically complete it was time to steampunk them. Sarah is a talented artist and this was her specialty. We visited a number of stores, the best being a watch repair place who let the girls have about 10 broken watches for free that they dismantled and used to create very beautiful jewelry.
This was such a wonderful time to connect with both girls and create works of art that they will (I hope) remember for a lifetime.
And if you are on our visit list in July when we fly back to the west coast then you might get to see these dresses as we are mailing them to my parents house and then will ship them back at the end of the trip.
Diane
Below is the video that Jeff took of the girls modeling in the fashion show. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150220097871160
This was a huge project that was hard work, delightful and very rewarding. I have done a fair amount of sewing and was in 4-H sewing for about 6 years growing up. But I hadn't done much original sewing. The girls and I brainstormed, they drew/sketched what they wanted. We bought fabric (lots and lots of it) and then I set to work to create what they imagined. I worked with five different patterns as well as creating many of my own pieces. Both dresses were made in muslin for fit and to make sure I was heading in the right direction with what they imagined.
Cutting the real fabric was scary. Was this going to work? But as the dresses came together I began to get very excited. It was so much fun to see their imaginings become real.
Here are a few more pictures of their dresses.
You can also check out both Rachel and Sarah's Facebook pages for additional pictures. Once the dresses were basically complete it was time to steampunk them. Sarah is a talented artist and this was her specialty. We visited a number of stores, the best being a watch repair place who let the girls have about 10 broken watches for free that they dismantled and used to create very beautiful jewelry.
This was such a wonderful time to connect with both girls and create works of art that they will (I hope) remember for a lifetime.
And if you are on our visit list in July when we fly back to the west coast then you might get to see these dresses as we are mailing them to my parents house and then will ship them back at the end of the trip.
Diane
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