What I see through my camera's lens

I love photography as many of you may have noticed.  I take pictures almost every day.  Yesterday we went and visited some family in Ripley , Tennessee.  I took 149 pictures yesterday of kids and dogs and vintage bonnets just to name a few things.  As we were leaving it had been raining and thundering and I was just ready to get home and avoid anymore thunder storms.  

THEN.....my sweet little girl from the back seat told me to look out the window....

  And this is what I saw~    

(Click on the picture to enlarge)

Have you ever seen a double rainbow?  I haven't, isn't it the most beautiful thing you have ever seen!

 Creations like this can only be made by His hands... In a matter of minutes the rainbows were gone.

  I don't know how anyone can look at something like this and not believe in our Heavenly Father.

Winter T-Shirt Refashion to Summer T-shirt with Ruffles

I bought two long sleeved t-shirts for my daughter in March after they were marked down at Target.  I think I paid around $2.50 each for them.  Don't you just L.O.V.E. Target.  They are the only store were you can really see how much you have saved and they cycle through their clothes so well that if you are patient you will always fine great things marked down each week.  Anyway back to my refashion tutorial.  Sorry I only have the end result pictures, I forgot to bring my camera to work today. :-(

This is what the original long sleeved t-shirt looked like:

My sweet girl peep on St. Patrick's Day this year at our beautiful zoo.

Materials needed:

Long sleeved T-shirt

Matching thread

Sewing machine

Scissors

Instructions:

1. Decided where you want to cut your shorter sleeve. On the green t-shirt I cut them just above her elbow.  With the extra two long sleeve pieces you have left cut along the serged edge and throw away the serged pieces, also cut off the hemmed cuff.  

2. Next lay out your sleeve flat (it may curl up a little, flip it over),  Start cutting strips down the lenght of your fabric.  Cut whatever width you want.  For the green t-shirt I cut mine around 1 1/2 inches wide and for the Orange t-shirt 1 inch wide.

3.  Lay the fabric pieces out and stitch end to end together so you create a long strip of fabric. Trim all threads.  Trust me it doesn't have to be perfect and the ends don't have to match perfectly when you sew them together.

4.  Set your sewing machine to gather (I have an old machine so for me I set it to the biggest stitch and the highest tension)  The fabric will gather itself as you sew.

5.  After your strip is gathered, adjust the gathering to your liking and pin around edge of new sleeve.  

6.  Reset your machine to regular stitch and guide the sleeve around as you stitch on the gathering.  I overlap my ruffle at the end.  (Also I start at the sleeve seam)

The beauty of knit is that is doesn't ravel so you don't need to really hem any part of this shirt.

I love how the orange t-shirt turned out, I am so happy I cut the complete sleeve off.  NOTE: If you decided to cut the sleeve off completely, cut just beside the serged edge so you have the nice edge underneath.

Check out me easy 1 Step Tutorial  for the mock double layer winter t-shirts.

~Happy Sewing~

I am halfway through getting the tutorial ready for the fabric flowers; should be ready by Sunday evening.  You can check out the finished flowers HERE.

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Custom case for an HP Notebook

So my beautiful niece's 10th birthday was last Tuesday but her party wasn't until today.  I had decided I was going to make her a custom purse because she has watched me so many summer's at work sewing up a storm for everyone else.  THEN, my brother, on Wednesday, tells me what he was getting her for her birthday and could I made a case for her new computer/notebook/laptop.............hmmmm whatever it is called. 

Ok, so let me think... I have never made a case for a very expensive piece of machinery, what if it is too flimsy and falls out???  Then it would be a cute expensive paperweight.  So for two days I stressed over how to make it and them 9am Friday morning I had him pick out the fabric from my stash and I got started.

So what do ya think?  

I LOVE it, makes me want one too, but I don't have a notebook, just a big laptop~

Today at her birthday party:

I would say the HP Notebook was the biggest hit.....

Her asking my brother if he REALLY got her one?!?

 My giftt was next:

 Fits perfect!

I think when I was ten I was still asking for Barbies........ my how times have changed. LOL

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~Next up is the flower tutorial from the Teacher Gift: Custom Purse Post & sun visor CD cases~

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