Devil Dog Custom with stand!

Here is the devil dog custom again. I decided to make a stand for it that looked like a cake. I might remake the protest sign too, to say “make cake not war”…not sure.
I made the faux cake using styrofoam, plaster, and spackle. It was so much fun to make that I started on a larger faux cake to keep in my cake stand when it is not in use. I’ll post some photos of that once it is done.

sewn

Okay so I had about 1 yard of fabric. You might notice a blue fabric up there, that is one that when I made the design I was feeling a bit “eh” about, and still don’t really care too much for haha.

I was able to make 4 pouches and 12 tissue covers. I am planning to work on a few new designs for fabric tonight if I can.

School is going well, B says he loves kindergarten and wishes it was longer. Since it is half day here it is only 2 and 1/2 hours long. Because my older son is in middle school and gets out at a different time I have this odd juggling of pick up one kid—find something to do for 15 mins–then head to other school and wait for another 15 mins for my youngest to get out. It works out so I get about an hour and a half a day alone. Good for running errands or working on stuff at home. Not so good for doing both, just not enough time. It will take a little while to get used to :)

Spoonflower arrives!

My fabric arrived this morning! The colors are a little different then what I used, but they do warn against some color variation. I used lab color so not sure what I will do next time to make the color more true. I will have to read up more on their FAQs.

I am still totally thrilled with them, I think the girl one is my favorite. I am going to hurry and make the pouches so I can make and order new fabric now :) I have been wondering how photos of my plush would translate into fabric.

Thanks for all the well wishes on school. Today will actually be Bean’s first day. Yesterday Tom and I went to class with him, filled our forms, showed him around, and introduced him to the little boy he would be sitting next to. Then they said we could all go try out the bus since even though he is not a bus rider, they will use them for field trips. Then that was it, day over…and so short! Today I am hoping all goes well. He seems excited so that is a good sign.

Labor Day

My Labor day was spent at home with my sister Heather and friend Katie. There were no cook-outs, swimming, or normal end of summer sort of things. However we did make orange glazed cinnamon rolls and got to sit around talking for the day. They had each brought their kids so my children thought the day was awesome.

Today the kid’s go back to school! My oldest is already there, my youngest starts kindergarten today and has never been in daycare, preschool, or anything of the sort. I hope he has an easy time of it. Today is sort of a fake day since us parents are supposed to stay the whole time. Tomorrow will be the emotional day (I am sure more for Tom and I)

I’ll be back again soon with plush-ness…

saying goodbye.

#1 I want to thank everyone for all the sweet comments, animal stories, and just general kindness on my last post + Flickr. So many of the comments made me cry, and so many made me feel happy that so many animal lovers exist.

Today was another day of goodbyes, as I have mentioned before my parents are moving. The moving day is fast approaching and I had set up a lunch get together today so we could say goodbye.

They are moving to South Carolina and while it is not as far as the west coast it is still about 11 hours by car. All of my family has always lived close, and then my younger sister moved a few weeks ago out of the area, and now my parents too. Christmas is going to feel really strange this year with out them all here.

My older sister came to lunch and brought brownies. We wanted to make homemade food since my parents have been so busy with everything that comes with moving (and your pots and pans being packed in boxes) I decided to make baked macaroni and cheese. When we were growing up it was something us kids always asked for, we loved my mom’s macaroni and cheese!

I made a strawberry angel food cake for dessert and I think we all had a good time. My sister came early to help me and we took some food photos right before my parents arrived. Then of course we all got to talking + lunching and well I just didn’t think about my camera again. We did a lot of the “remember whens” and it was a really nice time.

They leave next week and I will have one more chance to see them before they go! I hope you all have a safe + happy Labor day weekend. It is the kid’s last 2 days before school starts and there is so much to be done.