settle yourself in - there are a few photo to look at. its sunday morning and i am sitting in the aftermath. there is fabric, trim, buttons and thread everywhere and we swapped the dining table with the lounge furniture so we could all 17 of the stitchers in. but i couldn't wait to post the girl's beautiful work so all that can wait.
the birthday mantel
the birthday cookies - fun with an icing pen for me and prairie
the birthday cupcakes - vanilla and chocolate marble inside
i love the legs on the left and the hair on the right. i love the use of the letter 'o' bead as an eye and the gathered linen skirt.
i encouraged the girls to sew as much as possible but setting up the glue gun proved invaluable. these two must have sat together - same idea for the mouth! and the one on the right - that hair started out as a skirt - so cool.
whose daughter was glued to the glue gun? - why mine of course! this is her creation.
i love the way she turned this up to make the ears (as i saw them) into legs then make little stripy pants!
this was made by a darling girl a couple of years younger than the rest of the girls and sporting a broken left arm!
and this one was made by our neighbour who painstakingly sewed on the mouth. in all the busyness i forgot she wasn't a sewer but she did all by herself and never complained! after that i took her to the glue gun and she was away!
sweet little kitty doll. this was made by a new girl to the class who only arrived from spain at the beginning of the week and hasn't even started school yet. but she got in there with all the girls who made her feel very welcome. how nice that she will be able to walk into the classroom next week and it won't be a sea of unknown faces.
i told the girl who made this one that it was berry good - she indulged me by laughing at my lame humour!
this girl was one of the last to finish. the veil became a common theme! i love the little bag she made for the doggie button pet.
i was as usual, blown away by the girls efforts. they were so creative and worked so hard. so much so that when it was time for afternoon tea they cleared that table in a flash. i put out cheesy feet a la nigella (6x the recipe!) and my friend caro brought a plate of her gorgeous meringues - as requested by the birthday girl - thank you!!
i suppose now i should start the clean up though i think i'll still leave the rooms swapped around for a little while - i am enjoying the change. maybe another coffee and a read of 'bend the rules sewing' that prairie was given!!