Eek….we are a little late, but still squeaking CT in before Wednesday.

Most of our craftiness lately has been the out-of-necessity type or the re-fashioning type. First of all, the girls found these backpack/lunchbox/pencil kits in the Avon book while they were at Nana’s this summer. They both decided they couldn’t live without these kits for school this year. BUT, they don’t come in different colors, so I tried to talk them out of getting identical bags, but my pleas fell on very deaf ears. They both got a set.

So…I took out the chalkboard fabric (you knew that it was going to make an appearance again, didn’t you?) and made sure we can tell the bags apart.

Plus I get to leave little notes on the girl’s lunchboxes, which they still think is cool.

I have also been re-purposing all of the old leggings into bike shorts since we’ll be needing a new store of them for under skirts and dresses. And I took two of Addie’s favorite dresses that she just couldn’t part with and made them into skirts.

Crummy middle of the night photos…sorry. But I essentially just chopped off the top and moved buttons and buttonholes and now she can wear them for another few years.

And I’ve wanted to try this tutorial for many months now. Em had a brand new t-shirt that she helped paint sets with…and then leaned over one of the panels and got paint all over the bottom of said t-shirt. So chopped off t-shirt, plus birdcage fabric that I’ve wanted to use forever equals…

It turned out pretty cute. I love the birdcages and one of the birds is the exact same color of that crazy green t-shirt, so it looks good. It came together pretty easily, too – just a matter of getting some time to dedicate to it. The story of my life.

Next week I promise we’ll have some good stuff to show. I finally finished my sister’s birthday presents (yes, her birthday was in July, I realize that) so I’ll show those next week, after it gets to her.

AND, I’m sure we’ll have something to show from our Sewing Bee. I found this Million Pillowcase Challenge and thought it would be a fun thing for our Brownies to do and learn to sew at the same time. So this weekend our house is going to be converted into a sewing shop and I’ll have the proof next week. Happy Crafting until then…