Princess Dress - literally!

My daughter loves her new princess dress!

We were in Fabric Mart in Kaneohe a few weeks ago and I picked up a yard of purple glittery fabric with the Disney Princesses on it. I thought I'd make something for her to wear.

I finally got around to it a few days ago. I started with an old onesie (her top hasn't grown too much) and cut it off just below the waist. Originally in my mommy state of mind (mommy-brain = non-functioning) I sewed the fabric on upside-down. I told my husband about it and he laughed and said when she looks down at herself, they're not upside-down. Yeah, yeah. So I had to rip the seam and start over. She didn't want to take it off at first. We won't discuss how I finally got it off her. Anyway, here's my first try with the upside-down princesses:










After getting that right, I trimmed the bottom with ribbon I had hoarded away from one of her birthday gifts back in January. I think I was a magpie in my former life - always collecting "pretties" and "shinies" and stashing them in my nest. Here she is outside in the final product, which she refused to take off:

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She finally fell asleep on my back. Don't believe me? Here you go:

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Spring Gift Boxes for Etsy

Yay! New gift boxes! These babies are repurposed round cardboard boxes that I stripped, primed with gesso and the lid with scrapbook paper. I finally found a use for the paper! Thank goodness for round paper cutters. The first pic is a closeup, sealed with gold wrapping ribbon. The second pic is an order that I sent out last week. You can see my business card, the free polishing pad, the earrings and the tissue paper that I wrap them in before closing the lid.

This is my 2nd generation gift box. These were stripped, primed with gesso and decoupaged with pretty patterned tissue paper.
If I can make enough, I'm thinking of putting these up for sale too. They're cute and you can reuse them as a trinket box or to give another gift away! What do you think?

Aloha, ~Su

New Stuffs!

Coming soon in my
Etsy shop:
suBringas.etsy.com


Left:
Ipu heke (double gourd): 10mm grey oval freshwater pearls and 4mm dark peacock grey freshwater pearls with silver "lei".
















Above:
Blue glass daggers casually wrapped with sterling silver. I'm still working on the story ;) .

BTW I did some sewing, and made gift boxes for my Etsy purchases. I'll be posting about those soon!

Aloha, ~Su

Easter Dessert

Homemade blueberry topping and mini cupcake-sized cheesecakes with chocolate cookie crusts:

CRASH! and The Tax Man Cometh

Sorry folks, I know it's been a long time but my iBook finally died. Apparently the logic board wasn't meant to last more than 6 years. Sadly I cannot justify a thousand dollars to get another Mac. *sniff*

The good news is that PC netbooks are the much better now - portable, small, and still powerful. Actually ANY netbook would blow away my old G4 that didn't even have a gigabyte, a gigahurtz, or a giga-anything. It will definitely be an upgrade for me, and with all the Google apps out there I don't think I'll be missing my iCal or my .mac account for that matter. I am dreaming of this ASUS here which is the next step up from what a friend of mine bought recently which has the N270 processor.

After today's visit with out tax guy, I am even happier to find the necessary funds to get a netbook, soup it up and get back to my online word of this blog, my etsy shop and millions of other neglected hobbies.

Stay tuned!

Aloha, ~Su