tifi

1. How do I make a felt birthday crown?

-This is the most popular search here! The felt crowns that have popped up everywhere were inspired by Soulemama and I believe she will have a pattern in her book next year, if you can wait. Here’s how I made mine:

• I measured my kiddos noggins,
• then traced a shape that I liked.
• Next, I cut a piece of elastic for the back,
• which I then covered with felt (make sure the piece of felt is twice as long as the piece of elastic).
• I sewed it all up,
• then I added some ribbon.
• The end

2. How do I make/buy a poodle skirt?

- These are very easy to make! All you need is about 2 yards of basic craft felt and 1 yard of wide elastic for a woman’s skirt. You can use a simple circle skirt pattern like this one. I make the waistbands with very wide elastic and about 1/2″-1″ smaller than waist of the skirt (you want it to stay up, right?). I don’t make tucks to accommodate the skirt size. I just pull the elastic taut all the way around. Does that make sense? Don’t forget to use a ballpoint needle and a long stitch length when working with elastic!

3. What about doll bed quilts?

-This is a work in progress that has been shelved till I find more of the thread I am looking for. Try here.

4. Making peg dolls clothes?

-Try searching flickr for clothespin dolls or peg dolls and you’ll get plenty of ideas.

5. How do I give my lhasa apso a haircut?

-Funny, I looked this up on google a few weeks ago, but I decided I’m going to just take Isabelle to the groomer…and it turns out she’s a terrier mix anyway…

6. The Psychedelic print loveseat…

-I didn’t buy it and I didn’t get a picture of it, I don’t think. Bummer because it was too cool. Ah well.

7. Pics of 3 piercings in one ear and 2 in the other

-Yea, I have this, but no pictures as I don’t wear earrings in my second and third holes anymore. Sorry!

8. Pictures of post strep rashes, strep and rash toddler, etc

-No pictures of this either. My kids had something streplike recently (10/07,11/07) and their rashes were skin colored bumps that felt sandpaper-y. Then, DD got hives all over, and finally, the skin on their hands, feet and a few other areas I won’t name started peeling.

9. Embarrassing to wear a kid’s peacoat?

-Only if it doesn’t fit! I have a friend who is 4′10″ and regularly raids the girls’ department!

10. How to make bakes and saltfish

-Yea, I can do this, but I don’t use a recipe. Here’s one.

11. Vintage slips

-What do you want to know? I buy mine from thrift stores and plan on doing something cool with them one day. This lady does very cool things with them.

12. tarty grandma

-WTH? Wrong site for sure. My grandma is definitely snarky, not tarty.

13. thrift shop st lucia

-Are there any? I should ask my mom, she just got back from seeing my snarky grandma.

14. handbag construction

-Something I want to learn! Here’s a good resource.

15. Crunching leaves

-Fun!

16. my preggo body pictures

-First of all, I hate the word preggo. Yuck. Second, here’s one.

17. the walls in the mall are totally totally tall

-Ah, that would be my post on bathing suit shopping.

18. forced to wear leggings

-Wow, that’s never happened to me. Sorry!

19. shirring tutorial

-Hm, I guess this is in reference to the shirred top dress I made Girlie. Here’s the link to the pattern/tutorial.

20. how to sew a birthday banner/felt banner/etc

-This is pretty easy. For a felt one, just cut out same sized triangles, and sew them together with a ribbon or something. I sew mine together with bias tape. A fabric one requires a little more if you want it to be patterned on both sides. Cut out two triangles in each of your fabrics and sew the long sides together. I pink the edges, and voila!

21.  spacer dental

-Yes, ZB has one.

22.  hand sewn bed pillow doll

-What’s to know? Cut out two rectangles, sew 3 right sides together. Turn right side out, stuff, and sew up the fourth side. The end.

23. eloise poster

-We got ours at Hastings. It was on a board or something and I just asked if I could have it. Yea, you can do that.

24. hello kitty dollar tree

-This must be about the bento boxes we got there. Sorry, I don’t think they’re selling them anymore.

25. stupid nicknames

-Yes, we give plenty of those here. For example, Isabelle, our dog, is “Izawiz”, “Izabiz”,”Izagirl is a girl” and so on.

26. dana-milena

-Girlie’s Cabbage Patch doll.

27. christmas poodle skirt aprons

-Um, what? Wow…no words.

28.  princess and the pea wrapping paper

-Does this exist?? I want some!!!

29. bebe batman

-Yes, Bebe was Batman for Halloween ‘07.

30. greenfigs and saltfish

-Mmmm…My favorite! Recipe here.

31.  lamp nightstand combo

-Yes, I have one. Got it at Goodwill! You can see a tiny bit of it in this picture.

32. thrifted vintage mugs

-Here they are.

33. xanga tifi asthma

-ZB has asthma and I’ve blogged about it. You might want to try this label to find relevant posts.

34. how much does a lhasa apso cost in st.lucia?

-Bwahaha. No idea. Sorry. Gasson, that dog too hot for St. Lucia, eh? Bon.

35. sewing a tooth pillow

-Did that in ‘06 when ZB lost his first tooth. See it here. You can’t tell, but it’s tooth shaped. I just found a kiddie drawing of a tooth on the internet, cut fabric to match, sewed it up, stuffed it, and put a little pocket on. Tada!

36. cute thrifted dishes

-I have a few, but no pictures of them, sorry.

37. how to make a lego snowflake ornament

-Uh, I don’t know. Google it?

38. making paper snowflakes for 2nd grade party

-Martha has good paper snowflake instructions.

39. st.lucian myths folktales

-This is hard. I asked my mom to find some books with them on her last trip to St. Lucia, but she didn’t have much luck. She bought the two she could find, and the rest, I tell from memory, or I use one of my old school primers with stories.

40. paper snowflake ornament

- I love mine. It’s by Robert Sabuda.

41. grade five read aloud books

-I don’t have a fifth grader, but you might try looking here.