It seems like for the past few weeks my crafting mojo had been stolen. Thankfully, just as Austin found that he had his mojo all along, I found that mine had just needed a brief respite. This weekend it returned in full force. I have managed to do more crafting in 2 days than I had done in the entire month before. I would love to get this consistency thing that all these other bloggers seem to have. Someday....
The weekend started off with some thrifting. I have decided to be a little more fiscally conservative and give rice krispee treats to my cousins and their families for Christmas this year. I wanted to pick up some pretty tins to pack them into. It was a score! I found 9 for $5. SCORE! I only needed 4, so another 3 of them went to housing these:
Aunt Burr's fabulous chocolate chip cookies. I have dreams about these things. They rock my socks off. I like to make them as
bribes thank you gifts for people. We are leaving for Texas nest weekend to visit Mr. Amazing's family, and I thought it would be nice to bring an offering of some kind.
In addition to baking some cookies, I decided to work on the pajamas I have been meaning to make. You know when you see a piece of fabric, and you just know right away what you want to make with it? That's how I felt when I saw this lightweight, semi-sheer fabric. I wanted a nightgown. I only had about 1.5 yards, so I used the sundress pattern from one yard wonders.
It came together pretty quickly, and I just love the way the fabric and the style look together. I'm not going to try it on for you, because I really don't think you want to see that much of me. It's a little too tight over the hips, but is otherwise fits nicely. The first time I made this pattern the bust was far too big, so I scaled it down to a small, then flared the skirt from a small to a large. Next time, I would try to widen the skirt overall and just gather it more at the bodice junction.
Last, I decided it was high time to try making some rick-rack rosettes. I like the effect, and they seemed really easy to make. I decided I wanted to make them into some barrettes:
I really need to do some research on a more effective glue for affixing the rosettes to the barrettes. I used hot glue, and they seem pretty fragile. Maybe superglue?
Do you ever have times when your crafting mojo disappears? How do you overcome it?
