Frozen inspired Finger Puppets and Concert

On Thursday my family and I went to hear the city band concert in the park. The theme of the night was Disney and they sounded awesome!

Unfortunately, I have to work the night that they practice so I don't get to play this summer. But the good news is the my sister and grandpa play in the band so I at least get to go and hear the awesome music.

Anyway, sine the theme was Disney and since I had recently opened my Etsy shop I decided to give away some finger puppets (the Frozen Disney movie inspired ones) for the "mystery melody". "Mystery Melody" is when the band randomly selects a piece of music and plays it without revealing the name and you have to guess what the title is (as it appears in the director's score). The announcers bring around a hat that you put a piece of paper into with your name and what you think the song title is on it. The first few people they pick out of the hat win a prize. The prizes are whatever people or businesses donate so they can be anything from band paraphernalia to local shop gift cards to event tickets. It is a lot of fun!

Well before the concert even started my mom saw a family we know and gave them a heads-up about what the prize was going to be. The lady decided to buy a couple of sets from me for her kids to play with while they listened to the concert. Which made me really happy because I didn't expect any selling to happen that night. I did being my finger puppets with me to finish while I was listening and I'm very glad I did. The really funny thing is that one of her kids won the finger puppets that they gave away! The kids were really happy and they really enjoyed playing with them!

Happy Machine!

So today has been a lot more productive than the other day. It probably went much better because I prayed before I started that today would be more productive, I wouldn't have any issues, and that the machine would work better. So it did.

I got quite a bit done and I decided that after every two or three puppets that I would wind a few bobbins while I cleaned the machine out. It worked like a dream and I got several puppets done. These are the ones I finished. Obviously I wasn't thinking to clearly when I made Aladdin in a white fabric but other than that nothing went wrong!

Tangled threads

My little Etsy shop has been up for a few days. So I have been trying hard to get some more finger puppets done because I have ideas for some other sets.

Since I needed to get some more done I set down at the machine to get to work. Well.....I kept having issues. It seemed like on every other puppet I had to rip the machine apart, clean it, pull out nested threads, or yank out a piece of fabric that decided to get caught in the machine. All in all it made for a very long day. Ugh! As you might be able to tell from the photos, I was a little more than frustrated.

Stopping for Flowers

This morning I went for a walk with my sister. It was a little warm but somebody needed to walk the dog. While we were on our walk I saw some really nice flowers that a neighbor had planted.

Now, I know that your thinking that I probably stopped and smelled the flowers. But you would be wrong. I have really bad allergies. Doing something like that is the equivalent of the cartoon were the character gets hit on the head with a hammer. But I did take a moment to thoroughly enjoy them. Plus, I decided to take a few pictures so that you could enjoy them as well.

Grand Opening!! Etsy Shop!

Drum roll please! I would like to announce the Grand Opening of my Etsy shop!

I am super excited! I have dreamed about having an Etsy shop for quite a while now!

I have listings for a few things, but more to come! Take a look and buy something fantastic! 

Happy Birthday Grace!

It's my sister's birthday today! She is really excited and so are the rest of us. She wanted an awesome cake and she said that it would be really neat if we could find one with a Hunger Games theme.

Well, we took it a step above and here's what we created:

Mom baked it but I decorated it. It is based off of the dress Katniss wears in the 2nd movie. And the bottom of the cake is some ribbon that we found at Micheal's. She really liked it and I hope you do as well! The top of the dress is some lace that I wrapped around the doll and the bow and arrow are just frosting and I used a cake decorating tip to create the waves on the dress. Also we used some yellow and orange sprinkles on the cake. There is also some orange frosting spray that I used to enhance the flame looks.
I think it looks pretty close! ;)

Fabulous Finds: Thrift Store (Idaho Falls)

Okay....so I know that you all are probably wondering what the deal is and well....the deal is that what I thought was going to be a quiet couple of weeks suddenly got very busy and I just haven't had time to post. Seriously! I ended up having to write a 5-7 paper in a week and on top of that five 50 million page long chapters to read as well. Ugh!!!

But for the moment I am caught up so here I am.

I had to go down to Idaho Falls for the Praxis test a little bit ago (which by the way I passed! Yay!) and we stopped at the local Youth Ranch. Which by the way every town should have! Here are my fabulous finds!

Starting at the top is a picture that I bought for about $6. It's abstract and I really enjoy it. I think that it looks like trees with some mountains in the background with some clouds. My dad didn't like it but I sure do!

The burgundy sign is for my bathroom, I have a Paris theme so it will be really cute!

I found a square table cloth that had blue flowers painted on and I think it looks very retro.

And last, but certainly not least, a picture album which is so awesomely vintage!

Anyway, another busy week coming up but keep posted for an awesome Hunger Games theme cake!