Reversible Brook-Lynn outfits -

Update:  made it through and need your votes: Project Run and Play
 So where should I start? By telling you about the clothes I made or about the lousy weather that totally destroyed my photo shoot? Let me complain about the weather first... we've had sunshine all week, nice warm weather and spring, and then today... this! Way too cold for the girls to be outside in tank tops. And being cold and generally miserable - they look a bit grumpy. I will try and get new pictures Thursday, and include those - smilier pictures, I hope... (I'm away for studies).
Update: I took new pictures today - still cold, but the weather is a lot better.

wearing mommy's shoes

Where's the ferry to New York?

What to do now?

 Now the clothes. My girls are twins, their father is from Brooklyn so we named the girls Brook and Lynn (Lyn means lightening in Norwegian, hence the double L) for their middle names. I took a picture of the Brooklyn bridge, cut it in half, wrote Brook on one side and Lynn on the other. This was my starting point for the outfits.

skirt one way

My, oh my?

  Brook wanted a tank top and skirt instead of a dress. Both the dress and the top and skirts are reversible - reversible is my favorite thing.

 I made them headbands and jackets. The black jacket is a peasant pattern, cut open in the front and held together with a ribbon.

 

 The reversed sides of the outfits - and the lopsided heart, intentionally - seriously!

 The purple jacket - the below picture was my inspiration, but then I discovered that Schwin and Schwin had almost the exact pattern, so I had to change it up a little - the girls really love ruffles so I added a ruffle at the bottom. Brook will get one in the same green color, it's cut and everything, just not sewn together - I broke three needles sewing the purple one...

 Loving the headbands...

 Brook tank

 Lynn dress, can you see the bridge?

 Reversed

 I just love the hems of this side of the skirt and dress - they look so cute on the girls.

This will be my audition outfits for Project Run and Play - now all I can do is cross my fingers I will make it to one of the two open slots.

Twin outfits

 My twins are very different - one is girlish and likes romantic, ruffles and pastels, the other is definitely into styles, but loves rough, grown up styles. She's the one wearing my heals inside the house every day!

 I wanted to make outfits that represented them - and they are both so happy with how they turned out - my inspiration being the denim -

 I told you... this picture shows them as they are.

ahhh, the sun....

 For the romantic: skirt and a peasant top.

 For the stylish: bubble shorts and a knit top with stripes going in both directions. She wants to wear the shirt off of one shoulder....

 The dogs are digging their new scarfs...

Dude, get off me!

There will be a jacket for each outfit... when they're done!

knit top with "bat" sleeves and elastic ruffles in the side seams

peasant top with shirring around the sleeves and bottom - and worn all day...

skirt with knit waist for comfortability - pockets with bias tape and double white seam

bubble shorts with knit waist for comfortability - nice both for winter with stockings and for summer

Class Teddy - Rols

 Last weekend we had the class teddy - Rols visiting. Last time, when Ariana had him for the weekend, I made him some clothes. Other parents have followed, and he has quite some things now. I really wanted to make him a trailer last time, to travel back and forth to the school in - but I didn't find the time then. This time, I made him a bag, painted it with fabric markers and voila, Rold now has a trailer.

Inside the bag, there are three pockets to carry his stuff. Oh, that's right, I also made him a sleeping bag last time - the girls helped me out with the sleeping bag and they helped me painting this time. When we have Rols visiting, there's a book in which we have to write what he did through out the weekend - I love making up the stories - so this time he had a big teddy bear party, he was a model and an actor - you see, I was teaching Sunday School this Sunday, about Eph 6 and putting on the full armor - and Rols was my knight!

Now Rols is back at school, but he'll travel with some nice wheels next time he's going home to someone's house.

Cowgirl party

 Yesterday my girls celebrated their 7th birthday with all the girls in their class - 13 girls total. Their actual birthday is today. We had a cowgirl themed party - with pancakes, hamburgers and meat sticks...

invitation

 I was away studying the first part of the week - and I hadn't finished their dresses, I took the sewing machine with me to the hotel... a little dedicated! This is how much I finished while away - a vest, two bandannas and half the dress.

 I decorated the table in red and white - polka dots and squares.

 Wrote names on the cups - for later use, I love the little glass decoration animals I foun - though not very cowgirlish...

 cupcakes!

 I decorated with buntings - four of them and red balloons.

 After food and sharing of presents we went outside to the backyard - (temperatures at freezing point, but sunny) - for shooting..

 gold panning (couldn't use water because of the temperature)

 lasso throwing

 horse shoe throwing

 and the icing on the cake - horseback riding! My cousin - seen in the picture - came with her horse, Mazing - and they got to ride around the backyard.

 All the girls got to take hobo sacks filled with candy and little things with them home.

I am such a blessed mother of these two beautiful girls - Arielle and Ariana - you make my day brighter, you make me laugh and you make my heart overflow with love! I thank God for you two every day - Happy birthday my beautiful, kind, funny, compassionate, smart - LOVING girls - 7 years old today!