Coronation Dresses from Frozen

After making the first and more popular set of dresses from the movie Frozen I figured why not make the other two dresses?

Anna's dress is actually more green but this yellow was all JoAnn's had. It's actually my daughters favorite color too, so it was OK that it wasn't  a "perfect" color match. I used a crushed velvet for the top & ribbons for the sleeves.

Elsa's I thought would be harder, but turned out to be easy once the yellow trim decided to cooperate and stay on. The cape is satin & thankfully didn't shred while I sewed it together The mittens are made from left over fleece I had from a blanket I made for my sister.. everything from here was leftover scraps.













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My other American Girl items:
school supplies
feel better kit  (Just like McKenna's!)
Gymnastics accessories
head band
Minnie Mouse ears
sleeping bags
sleeping mask
pillow dress
accessories
pet accessories
generic witch costume,
Tutu Style Witch Costume 
Scooby Doo Costume
Square Dog bed

Frozen Costumes for AG Dolls

After seeing the Disney movie "Frozen" my daughters were captivated by the characters-and who could blame them!! It was such an amazing movie so much that they decided they aren't "too old" for princesses :)  If you haven't seen it and enjoyed the Lion King, then this one is for you.

Since Christmas is right around the corner I decided I'd look through my scrap fabric and found some stuff that actually worked for both characters! Lucky me. Unlucky for me, I didn't make a pattern. I just sort of cut and went along- which proved to not be a smart idea for Anna, but it worked! I can't wait to see their faces on Christmas :)

For Elsa, I used some light blue shimmering fabric & some sheer with gems fabric. I attached the cape with Velcro, because when I tried to make it permanently attached, I couldn't get it on the doll .

Anna was harder, I already had all the fabric (except for the cape) I found  a pattern for that on pintrest and had to scale it waaaaaaay down. (it was meant for a baby)


Now, I know Anna's dress has the beautifully designed flowers all around the bottom. I am getting to that. I am waiting to see what my silhouette Cameo can do for me. Either that or it will be added by hand as the time goes. I just don't think I can finish 11 of them before Christmas between all of my other obligations.


My Other American girl Stuff:

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My other American Girl items:
school supplies
feel better kit  (Just like McKenna's!)
Gymnastics accessories
head band
Minnie Mouse ears
sleeping bags
sleeping mask
pillow dress
accessories
pet accessories
generic witch costume,
Tutu Style Witch Costume 
Scooby Doo Costume
Square Dog bed

Elf on the Shelf 2013

It's that time of the year again and our Elf, Peppermint has brought a new elf into our home. His name is Jingle Bells, or just Jingles. If I thought one Elf was mischief, two elves is chaos! Because I wasn't sure we'd be able to tell them apart, one has added peppermint stripes to his hat, while the other has sewn a Jingle Bell onto the tip (get it? it goes with their names)

The first day they arrived after we decorated for Christmas on our tree (not pictured)


Followed by brining our Lego Friend advent calendar (alternative-chocolate count down) and a note saying to let the count down begin!

They borrowed my phone, changed its ringtone to "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and added all of the free Elf on the Shelf games. They were caught playing.

Then they set up an elf help desk One candy got the girls a question answered, 2 got them a wish! (although nothing was ever answered, we've decided the elves wanted to just get candy from us!)

 

The following day they decorated the tree with what else? the girls socks and underwear (and toilet paper, of course!)

 

 

Then they went fishing in our sink

 

The original elf taped the new elf to the glass window (mouth taped, of course)

 and is shooting nerf darts at him (he is of course, blindfolded!)

 

 

 

We went to Grandmas and the girls were worried that our Elves wouldn't know where we were. Amazingly enough they showed up on the ceiling fan as super heros

 

 

 

We went to bed late that night and forgot to leave our shoes out for Saint Nick. Luckily Jingles and Peppermint were there to help the girls out!

 

 

The Elves then decided to individually wrap the girls lunches in left over Christmas wrapping, complete with joke and bow. I took this picture before it all went into the bags. The elves left a note saying " Don't worry about your lunches, we've wrapped it up for you!" They were so surprised when they opened their bags!

 

 

 

 Jingles got Peppermint back by playing operation on him!

 

The were trapeze artists

 

 

 

We finally got around to making the sleeping bags out of the fabric grandma got our elves. We found them the next morning camped out under our tree.

 

They decided to be famous cereal icons.

 

 

 

 Then they captured the Grinch (which is funny because that is my nickname). The "cage" is from Costco- the girls chocolate Easter bunnies came in them. I tied it to my doorknob.

I went online, found a Grinch coloring page, shrank it down to size in paint, added holes and yarn and I was done :)



They decorated our bathroom- the only room in the house not decorated. We have battery operated Christmas lights that are usually on the girls backpacks around the elves and toilet.

I used puff paint to write on the mirror and toilet-I couldn't find my window markers and I am fighting off a cold so I'm just lucky I did this..

 

They were confused on the Holiday and hid Easter eggs around the house
 

They made a Christmas list

The girls have decided these are the things Santa is bringing- I think they will be a little sad when they find out that we didn't get the Frozen Castle- too flimsy :(


After watching the movie "Elf" with Will Farrell, Peppermint and Jingles thought his spaghetti sounded good and wanted to try some for themselves

The note says "Buddy was right, this stuff is good" (yes, I purposely misspell every now and then and then)

 

(ingredients: pasta, a little sauce, marshmallows, jelly beans, m&ms, pop tarts if you have them-we used oreos, chocolate syrup and of course syrup!)

 

 

 They decorated our fridge like a snowman- they are on top of the fridge, but because our fridge is against the wall in an apartment, it was hard to get it all in.


Our friends made our elves some mittens, scarves and vests. So naturally our elves had to strut their stuff down the run way with the Barbies and Monster High dolls and other toys watching.


This is where I almost lost the game. Since my oldest doesn't always fall asleep before me (sad, but true) I don't move them until I get up (about 4-5am) and so they were still in her room when she went looking. I kinda convinced her that maybe they were playing a trick on us.

Here they are in the fridge building a snowman out of two cuties. I printed off an Olaf from "Frozen" because we love love loved that movie. The girls go around singing their songs all day :) Anyway I made a note saying "Do you want to build a snowman?"

The girls painted their noses with food coloring



They began drawing pictures of each other




And they are saying goodbye. Reminding us to leave cookies for Santa




 

Thanksgiving nails

My daughter decided she is getting "too old" to make the turkey by tracing your hand and foot, so we came up with this silly way to do it this year. We painted her thumb brown, the other fingers fall colors.  After the thumb was dry we added the eye the beak and the little red thing that hangs down.

Her toes were similar, except we made a whole turkey on them

To get the details we used toothpicks :)

Here is some of my older stuff:
 Turkey Hair
Simple 5 minute crafts

Lego Friend Costume

We are putting down our Mouse ears this year and going to Legoland instead. Through the Home Depot Kid Workshops we were able to get free tickets for the girls provided we bought our own tickets. Perfect!!  It was meant to be. After Doing some research I found out you can MEET the Lego Friend girls. (And after going to Legoland we were disappointed to find out they are only there Wed-Saturday...we went on a Monday) I'm a sucker for a kid in costume. Since we weren't going to be dawning on a princess dress I thought  the girls would look absolutely adorable going through the park dressed as the characters. I mean we were born to stand out.

WHAT YOU NEED:

Puff paint & brush (can be bought at Michaels, Jo Ann's-  Don't forget a coupon through the stores site-  and I think Wal*Mart) We bought ours with a 50% off coupon and it ended up being $3.49
Tank tops  We used some that we already owned. Which made this super cheap.
I also used skirts that we already owned in the correct colors (not really the right "style" but we like them. Again we're going for inexpensive).
I made the headband with the closest color to the shirt I could find.
Printed off shapes (Hearts, Stars, Music notes), in various sizes.
Pencil
Cardboard (from a cereal box)

Directions:

OLIVIA:

I started by  sliding the already washed shirt into the empty cereal box. I printed off the shapes i needed, cut them out and laid them onto the shirt based on where it was on the Lego herself.

 With my pencil I traced the images onto the shirt. Slowly I added puff paint around the outline of the hearts and began filling in the middle with the paint.

 

******* Now, I'd like to note that in order for it to be exact you'd have to buy more than one pack of paints. I didn't I just bought the one that had pink and purple and thought I'd be able to darken and lighten as I went- I was wrong.*****

 

STEPHANIE:

Stephanies was a little harder, because I had to free hand sketch the pink blob in the background of her stars,

Also, again I'd like to note I didn't have all the colors and so I made certain shapes just pink (they are supposed to be a darker pink)

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Superman Mug

For Fathers Day we decided to make my husband a mug. We went to Michaels with a 50% off coupon and bought a creatology mug. It came with paints and everything! It was only $1.07.

One side has the drawing her was actually looking for on it (in sharpie), but homemade because it was more meaningful. The other side we just couldn't leave blank. It was asking for us to draw on it. Since the girls are really into superheros right now we printed off the superman emblem. With a box cutter I cut the details out. Then taped it to the mug and traced over it all with pencil.

When I finished I went over it in Sharpie so that when the girls went to paint it they wouldn't erase the markings. I followed the directions for baking (place in oven and put in right away while heating up for 30 minutes. then let it cool down in the oven)

When it came out of the oven part of the cheap sharpie version had come off on the other side. and after baking the black sharpie wasn't as clear as we would have liked, so we went over it again. That's when we decided to add "Our Hero" under the Superman logo and it will be re-baked on

OTHER IDEAS:
Gift Bag
Fathers Day Cards

Wonder Woman nails

We are going through a super hero phase now. I like it. It's a bitter sweet end to the baby stage,but nice. We decided she needed to have wonder Woman nails to go along with her new  Wonder Woman Cuffs we quickly put together.

To make the nails we painted a white base, then a second yellow coat or yellow. We found that this makes the yellow stand out better than 2 yellow coats. With a toothpick dipped in red nail polish we drew stars onto the centers of each nail. 

 

For the thumb we painted it red and added a white "W" onto it. It's the best I could get with a wiggly 6 year old! 

the toes are blue with white stars (and polkadots) all over.