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Full CricleTutu How to:

Before this i took the tulle the longest way and folded it. I keep folding it until I had folded it three time. 3 times is for my daughter who is fixing to be 1 the tutu will be 6 inches long. For my sister's youngest girls. who are 10 and 8 i folded it 2 times which is long enough for them and any child i would say. Then I made sure the side where most of the folds are that they where touching. The picture below shows you when they are not touching.If they are not touching. also i know there will be loops on the other end that are connected will fix that later k.

 When folding i used dowel's because that is something long i had to use. you can use an yard stick if you have one. i also used the dowels to keep it as straight as i can while folding it on the floor. This is what i did to help make them touch while sewing. For the stitch i used when sewing was a straight stitch and i had it set to the longest it would go and for mine it was 5.0.

 When you get to the end of it i left some room at the end. i decide which one i am going to tie off. i look to see which one is going to be easy to pull and test it. if it is not easy then i tie it off then go to the other side. i pull one of the string and pull it. i pull it about 6 inches and then I start to move the bunching down to the other end a little at a time. mostly because it is easier to do it a little at a time then a lot at a time. also if you do all of it at the same time you take a chance of the stick getting tight were you can't move it because it is like a knot them.

 Here it is after i have moved it down  a little at a time to the other end.

 Here shows you how much i pulled and that the string just comes out. when i am done pulling i make sure to have pulled it to the length i need. if i have pull too much then up can move the tutu back to the extra room of string. it's easy to move back and forth if you need to.

 Here it is for the length need it for my daughter. also here is how close i sewed it to then end.

here is the head band that i will be using. i used the kind that they use for baby's to put bows on. i took the stick out of it and made it one long piece instead of circled.

 

i laid it on top of the tutu. I put the head band on top of the tutu and sewed them together make sure on these you sew as close to the edge of the headband. i didn't do that and it rolled up but i fixed it where it would not and you can not tell it did one bit.

OK remember I told you we could fix the parts that where still stuck together well here is where we do that at. I placed my hand threw the hole to the connected pieces.

Then i put my scissors and cut it apart just like below. This was for my daughter so it was the one that was folded 3 times well after i cut it i had 8 layers on her tutu.

 remember i said i sewed it to far from the edge well here is how i added detail and also fixed it so you could not see that it would roll up. i hot glued these jewels onto the tutu on the edge. where it touched both the headband and the tutu. at first i just did the red ones but afterwards i decide it needed more color so i did a red green pattern with the jewels.

 here it is where the red and green jewels. i did green to the bottom of the tutu and the red jewels closer to the headband.

Oh ok here is my daughter sporting her new Christmas tutu. i know the tutu is not fluffy but it will be. all you have to do is pull the layers apart i had not done that yet in this picture because i was just trying it on my daughter to make sure it fit her.  

here is the one i made for her for her Halloween costume with it pulled apart. i also made this whole outfit for her to wear with my mom's help. i used my cricut to make it. But this tutu was sewed onto the pants.

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Twelve Months Pink Birthday Invitation

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Preparing for Christmas Time

Everyone know that my favorite time of the year is Christmas. Especially it being Isabella's First Christmas this year. Her birthday is just around the corner and is exactly 6 days after Christmas. I have been planning her Christmas and Birthday for a few months now. The last few years i have only just did cards and signed my name and sent them off. Well this year I saw a post on Babycenter Community about what people will be doing and using for their Christmas cards. well a lady posted she would would be using Shutterfly because they had a special for blogger. The special is that if you have a blog, then all you have to do is write a post on your  blog about Shutterfly then you get 50 Free Holiday Cards from Shutterfly i think it is worth it if you get something free from it.  I am have gotten so many idea's on what i want to do for our cards to send out this year. also i am planning on making a collections of photo's on a card to send out with my Isabella's 1st birthday party invites.  Here are a few idea's I am going to use for our Christmas cards but after I pick the card i want to use i have to come up with what kind of photo  or photos i want to use because you can have one or more photos on them. which is great for me because Jake's family lives in other states so it would be great to send it to them to see different ones. also on top of it there is a price cut on the cards. you can get some for 90 cents that are really cute. I'm a bargain hunter so 30% off cards to send to family and friends is a great deal for something that is really nice and looks for expensive then it cost. these are some of the Photo Cards i like and more in likely will use. Here are a few links of the different holiday cards Shutterfly has to offer. The bottom one i more in likely will use for Isabella's birthday invite because i can put a picture of her from every month. I love that idea and i can't wait to do it!

• http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards
• http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards 
• http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards

My Smart Hands

Well a few months ago i decided i wanted to teach Isabella sign language. Well I talk to this sign language teacher at a school i sub at. she said it is a good thing to do. She told me a few words and really didn't start on it but everyone once in a while i do. I was on the site http://community.babycenter.com/groupsa495december_2009_birth_club? which is a board for mother's to go to, and talk to other mother's that had children born the same month and year. The link sends you to my board I apart of. There was a post a mother posted about a book for signing. i click on it and another parent posted a link to www.mysmarthands.com they have video's, a dictionary on words, tell you where someone teaches classes. a lot of other things. It is really helpful and i will use it more to help me teach Isabella which was the problem because i didn't know the signs for the words i wanted to teach her.