Tulle Tutu too cute

I have been trying to find a tutu online for a decent price, well that’s not working! My little girl’s first birthday is next week, and for her birthday I wanted her to have a really cute tutu to wear.  All the ones that are really fluffy and multi-colored are $40 bucks! Well, I decided to do it by myself. 

This was super easy! I hit up Wally World and bought some elastic and tulle.  I was amazed at how cheap the tulle was.  I was thinking $4 plus a yard, but it was 1.93 and the turquoise was on sale for .98 a yard!

Anyway, all I did was measure my daughter’s waist with the elastic and cut.  I then quickly sewed the elastic together.  When I sewed I overlapped the ends about 1” to account for stretching. (so the waist length I measured minus an inch.)

I then just started attaching the tulle to the elastic. I cut the tulle down to 6” by 16”.  I wasn’t too worried about being exact.

Here are some pics of what I did.  I did not take a pic of the elastic part, but let me know if you can’t figure it out and I will help y0u.

 

Here is the tutu in progress.

When I attached the tulle pieces, I attached them by this method. (I have know idea what it is called, maybe latch hook! haha) I bet if you just tied a knot it would be fine.

All done! After the prep work this only took about 30 minutes for me to tie.

So pretty!

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Just checking it out

Twinkle Toes

Well, I saw this on this on samstermommy and loved it!  Her's is called Glitter Toes, I'm kinda partial to Twinkle Toes! On her blog it says that it  is the new craze! I looked at her posting date and its from a little over a year ago. I guess I'm a day late, but not a dollar short!  I live out in the back country too, so Twinkle Toes is definitely new to me!  I had all the goodies at home to twinkle my own toes.  I wonder, if  I could get my Itty Bitty to stay still enough for me to do this to her little piggies! Maybe, if I do it while she is sleeping. 

 I followed samstermommy for the most part, but I used a clear coat first and then sprinkled the glitter on.  It seems to be working fine!  I might try the color polish next time, if I did a color such as red.  I apologize for my feet!  They have been through alot!  The bunions (what a funny word) are from my dad's side of the family! We all have them. (side note: thinking about getting them taken off) Anyway, they look way better in the real!

The flash makes my feet look really white!

Here is a pic with no flash 

I included this one, because it looked cool, and shows they really are Twinkle Toes!

I put two coats of clear on top of the glitter.  I waited about a half an hour between clear coats.

You will fall in love with Twinkle Toes, I promise!

Playdough fun

I was checking out my pictures from break and forgot all about when we made playdough.  My son wanted purple, but I didn't mix the food coloring good enough! Oh well we still got a shade of purple. 

If you want to make this version the ingredients are:

Ingredients:
1 cup of plain flour
1 cup of water
1 Tbsp. of cooking oil
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1/2  cup of salt
food coloring

To Make:
Pour all of the ingredients into a sauce pan.  Cook slowly on medium-high and stir it until the playdough thickens. (this happens quick!)
This recipe takes less than 10 minutes


Here are all my ingredients in the sauce pan. Next time I would color the water first because I didn't get the purple I wanted, and it cooks very fast.

Stirring....

Stirring....

All stirred together

I put the play doug in a glass cake dish with flour.  The playdough was very sticky, I wasn't sure if I made it right!

I just kept adding flour until it "felt" like playdough.

My son checking the taste.

Playdough a HIT!