My Only Sunshine

Cutting Out

I have been knitting like crazy, but I can't show you.  I bet you've seen that on many blogs lately haven't you?  Yep, you guessed it, secret holiday knitting.

I do have things to show you though.  I spent a large portion of yesterday and today both cutting out things for Bug's second grade class.

They are starting a new math project in January and the teacher said she had HUGE amounts of laminating done that needed to be cut out.  She wasn't kidding.  I cut out a couple hundred 8.5 x 11 sheets.  It was easy work and I was happy to do it.  See what you have after you cut out all of those plastic coated sheets?

See what you get when you have help to cut all of those papers out?

After finishing all of that cutting I decided to cut some more!  Did you all see this post when it was posted?  Well I didn't.  It's wonderful isn't it?  What I did see was this post by glittergoods.  What a very very fabulous tutorial to go along with Soulemama's post. (not to mention how much I wish I had the cash today to buy some glittery zipper pulls for the girlies)

These little books I made using the tutorial will be perfect to give out at the holiday party next week for my DI Team.  I may even stamp each of their names on their little blank books.  Don't you think these will be good gifts for my little creative elementary schoolers?

This is what little blank books look like when you have help.

Costumage

Last week I showed you the head pieces my little Rock Faeries would be wearing in the Nutcracker.  You've also seen plenty of other costumes around my blog since I have two little dancer girls who are always wearing this costume or that.  This week I have the strangest costume yet.

From this picture it doesn't look all too weird, but trust me, it is.  This costume, that I brought home to sew name tags into, was made by a professional seamstress.  It's one large piece of fabric that has been sewn into a tube.  It has a piece of elastic sewn into the middle of the tube as a waist band and ribbons tied around the shoulder parts in order to keep the top up.  The edges are frayed and continue to fray leaving long string that catch on everything including the snowflake confetti that has been glued with craft glue all over the costume.  The costume is designed to stay up by being tied (those shoulder ribbons again) to a nude leotard.  Another weird thing about these costumes is that they don't really match each other, which I don't understand.  There are five faeries but one of the costumes is in two pieces and another is backless, but I don't believe they were originally made that way.  Go figure.  On the stage though, these costumes will look lovely on my little faeries.  It will be dark and far away and they will look ethereal and lovely no matter what they are wearing ( well maybe not if they were wearing sweats).

Look, my Chev Scarf is coming right along.