Oh Sweaters, How I Love Thee... Sweatshirts Too, You Know
You can go and read more about who I am later, for now all you need to know is that I am a stay at home wife and mom, I love to craft and I have a passion for decorating and reusing old things (or things I find buy for SUPER cheap).
I figured I would start with something I made a while ago for our family photo shoot that happens to be tomorrow. My initial problem was that I had absolutely no idea what everyone was going to wear. The last photo shoot we did was before Emma was born, and I even though everyone is always saying I'm super creative, I am so UNcreative when it comes to clothes sometimes. I'm workin' on that. :)
One of my two sisters, Amy, is the fashionista, and I enlisted her help in picking out a color... We figured gray, jeans and a teal blue would be the best with everyone's skin tones (Derek being dark, Emma being in the middle, and me being the color of paper).
The next issue I ran into was since we are stationed in Germany, have one car, and the photo shoot was less than 2 weeks away, I couldn't order anything online since it wouldn't arrive in time and I couldn't go driving around Germany looking for clothes since Derek almost always has the car. SO I went to the PX to see what they had. It took me 3 walk-throughs of the women's department and about 45 minutes of trying on clothes to find something for me, Derek's LITERALLY took 3 minutes because I walked up to the sale rack and they had an AWEsome zip up gray sweater and then there was a dark teal t-shirt for underneath sitting on the edge of the men's section. Derek done. But what to do about Emma? I walked her section several times but came up with absolutely NOTHING even close to the color scheme...I was walking past the discount rack again on my way to the register when something with the dark teal color caught my eye. It was a 2XL Hanes sweatshirt like this:
OK, so not the most beautiful thing in the world, and DEFINITELY not something I would have anyone wear in photos that are going to be displayed, but the color was perfect... So what do I do? I buy one. I know, I know, how would I EVER make that into something picture worthy? Even the gal at the register was shocked when I told her I was going to cut it up.
I took one of Emma's shirts to use as a rough pattern, cut up that sweatshirt, which by the way cost me all of $3.94, and turned it into this:
I seriously was so excited when it was finished I **almost** woke Emma up from her nap just to have her try it on!! I love it!
So now I just need to finish a hair bow for her and iron my sweater. Can't wait for tomorrow!!
I figured I would start with something I made a while ago for our family photo shoot that happens to be tomorrow. My initial problem was that I had absolutely no idea what everyone was going to wear. The last photo shoot we did was before Emma was born, and I even though everyone is always saying I'm super creative, I am so UNcreative when it comes to clothes sometimes. I'm workin' on that. :)
One of my two sisters, Amy, is the fashionista, and I enlisted her help in picking out a color... We figured gray, jeans and a teal blue would be the best with everyone's skin tones (Derek being dark, Emma being in the middle, and me being the color of paper).
The next issue I ran into was since we are stationed in Germany, have one car, and the photo shoot was less than 2 weeks away, I couldn't order anything online since it wouldn't arrive in time and I couldn't go driving around Germany looking for clothes since Derek almost always has the car. SO I went to the PX to see what they had. It took me 3 walk-throughs of the women's department and about 45 minutes of trying on clothes to find something for me, Derek's LITERALLY took 3 minutes because I walked up to the sale rack and they had an AWEsome zip up gray sweater and then there was a dark teal t-shirt for underneath sitting on the edge of the men's section. Derek done. But what to do about Emma? I walked her section several times but came up with absolutely NOTHING even close to the color scheme...I was walking past the discount rack again on my way to the register when something with the dark teal color caught my eye. It was a 2XL Hanes sweatshirt like this:
I took one of Emma's shirts to use as a rough pattern, cut up that sweatshirt, which by the way cost me all of $3.94, and turned it into this:
So now I just need to finish a hair bow for her and iron my sweater. Can't wait for tomorrow!!
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