A Teacher gift for a WONDERFUL 2nd Grade Teacher

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Today was the LAST day of school, where did the year go???

Ever since my daughter started school I have made her teachers a special gift at the end of year and this year was no exception.  I have had the honor of reading every week to my daughter's class.  Twenty of the most wonderful children have sat and listen to me read adventures of all kinds, from Camilla with her bad case of stripes, to Mona the Vampire with glow in the dark Dracula teeth to Clementine cutting off her best friends hair and then drawing it back on in permenent marker.

  I volunteer that time because I want to, not because I have to.  It allows me to get to know each child, not just their names but who they are, we laugh and talk about what they did on the weekends, I quiz them on big words in the books I read and I always, always listen, really listen to what they are saying.  Those kids know when you are just half way listening to them and they don't appreciate it! lol

Not only do I read to them every week I also stay and help out in the classroom.  I file their weekly work in their Tuesday folders and sort and organize whatever needs to be done.  I run earns, make copies (the copy machine doesn't like me) I run to the office, library, other classroom and anywhere else.  You know WHY? because I LOVE it! See the way I look at it is that I get that much more time with my daughter, to see her grow up, to see how she learns in class, how they ALL light up when their teacher talks to them about projects or something new they will be learning.  Did I mention she is an AWESOME teacher.

When it comes to creating something special for each teacher, I completely take their personality into account, what colors they love, their hobbies and I design each purse from scratch.  Yes, yet again, no pattern I just started cutting and sewing and creating.

Hope you like my latest purse design:

I love the colors and fabrics I chose.  I knew she loved greens, blues and yellows and after an hour in the fabric store these are the fabrics I selected.

 Love how the flower turned out, I have made tons of flower clips for my purses but this one really worked well.  I will be doing a tutorial on how I made it next week.

My sweet peep modeling the purse this morning:

Here is my daughter the first day of 

school this year and the last day:

Summer here we come!!! 

~3rd grade see you in August~

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What I'm Sewing this week: April 2011

I know it isn't April anymore but when I started this post last Friday it was! ;-)

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I have had so much fun sewing the last few days.  My projects have been a little bit of everything.  First I finished up a purse for a dear friend's mother.  She brought me the main fabric ( Alexander Henry's Green Yui Kokeshi Dolls) and I picked two coordinating fabrics with her two favorite colors from the Kokeshi Dolls farbic.  I think the red and teal were a great choice.  

Zipper Coin Pouch

Inside of Purse

I also made my very first pair of little boy shorts for my sweet little boy peep:

 I love this fabric and he LOVES cars.

I followed this TUTORIAL at MADE.

So simple and so easy to follow, I'm one of those that gets totally confused with the whole inseam/ crotch area.  Why? I have no idea but when I'm looking at the four pieces of cut out fabric my head starts spinning.  Do I sew the front to the back or the back to the back or the back side to the front side, I know you are probably confused now, right?!? 

 ~So THANK YOU Dana over at MADE for helping my head to stop spinning over how to sew pants~

Butt shot! lol

These ended up being a little shorter than I wanted so the next pair I made 2 inches longer.

Look for another What I'm Sewing This Week post soon! 

 I've been sewing all weekend!

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