Twinkle Toes and Company

It's been hot here in the Pacific Northwest.  Because we're still in Phase 1 of house arrest  ahem I mean quarantine, we can't head to the pool and shouldn't head to the river. We're trying our hardest to follow the Governor's orders, so the most our kids have gotten is sprinklers in the back yard.  Oh what we wouldn't give to head to the pool! This girl wears a lot of pants, regardless of the heat. And as you can see in the pictures below, she wears long sleeves to go with the pants. She needed something lighter weight to wear and although she has a love for maxi skirts but was feeling skeptical about the Sally from 5 out of 4.  I'm not sure if it was the fabric, she's more of a solids, flowers or animal print kind of a girl.  But, Tie Dye is Back!  Really, did it ever leave? (I did spent my teen years in the 90's friends.) I convinced her to try out the Sally in this Rainbow Pointelle Tie Dye  from Mily Mae Fabric. The Pointelle has such a gre...

{Please note that some of these links are affiliate links.  If you purchase something I have recommended, sewn etc. through those links I will receive a small percentage of compensation.  It costs you nothing, but helps support my sewing "therapy" and the ability to review and test more patterns.} I'm all about the storage in my sewing room/office/basement. In all honesty my sewing/craft room is the basement. I took it over the vast majority of our family room when I started testing patterns in earnest a few years ago. Which meant when I began working for Rebecca Page Patterns last year I completed the take over. I have an amazing desk and all the Ikea Kallax storage I could ask for. And yet sometimes I just need smaller CUTE storage for clips or scissors etc.  I enjoy pinterest...A LOT.  I see all kinds of cute ideas for crafting and sewing spaces and dream of when my spaces will be cute. Lately I've been seeing smallish cloth storage type bins that I lik...

Snowballs in April?! That's right SNOWBALLS! What better fun is there than a snowball fight, especially when everyone is forced to be inside, or far away from friends during quarantine. So, it's time to make Snowballs! Thankfully, this version of Snowballs aren't cold and can be played with when is super HOT, on a really rainy day, or when it's freezing outside. Even the dogs may want in on the play. Our dogs keep trying to steal our Snowballs from the kids and have made it their personal mission in finding them wherever the kids have hidden them.  A small note of WARNING: Snowballs are only good for the ages of those who can find a ball and put it in their mouth (note I didn't say throw it), to the ripe ol' age of 140...really they are absolutely fantastic for ANYONE!  These have to be the quickest and easiest project with satisfying results. If you are hand sewing your Snowball, follow below. To machine sew your snowball, follow along ...