"Hair Spray" Musical Circle Skirts

Lori and Cindy and kids not in school came here yesterday so that we could make circle skirts for all the girls for Music Camp in July in Rupert. The mini-musical they are doing this year is "Hair Spray" so we thought the girls would look adorable up on stage in these cute period skirts! I can safely say we had a ball! They were only here for about 5 1/2 - 6 hours and we chased kids, fed them (and not to be left out...ourselves!)  and had a dozen interruptions, (fun interruptions, however! Whenever our grandkids are around, I'm a happy Grandma!)  We still made at least 7 skirts in that period of time. My camera does not begin to do these skirts justice. They turned out darn cute! Lori did all the cutting and Cindy and I sewed as did Lori. She is so fast...Cindy and I a little slower...but hey, we had a great time! I love to have my girls around. They make me laugh and bring me pure joy!  I went over to Lori's about a month ago and we went to a Mill End Fabric Store in Burley and bought all this brightly colored solid rayon fabric in many different colors and then bought off-white eye-let lace fabric as an underskirt to each one. They all have black 2" fabric waistbands. So adorable and so easy. To be sure we had enough length for Regan and Lindi's skirts, we added even a second underskirt of black or black and white polka dot. We made one for Kami, too, because we couldn't leave her out if all her sisters had one! She loves it and has been wearing it non-stop since she woke up this morning. Here are a few pics of our day. We missed you, Julie! Maybe next year it will work out better. Lori took 3 pieces of the fabric home with her to make up to sell to some of the other mothers who might be looking for costumes! Thanks, girls, for making it happen! I know your schedules are so busy!

Rose Sisters Crafting Extravaganza and Cousin Craziness!

Might I just interject here before beginning this post that I am going forward at this time in my blogging! But, I will be interjecting older posts as time allows, so check backwards periodically. I can't believe I let myself get this far behind. I'll be weeks playing catch-up!

I'm sad I did not have my camera for this two day activity, but I took plenty of pictures with Cindy's. As I know she will blog about it and post pics, I may steal a few of hers, but will let her post suffice for most of them. Just let me say that it was SO MUCH FUN! Lori drove to Cindy's from Rupert on Thursday afternoon as all of their kids were out of school for IEA. Seemed like perfect timing to get together. Julie came on Friday morning with her kids to join the party! I was there both Thursday afternoon and Friday helping with the kids, food etc. and just generally enjoying watching our girls join together in making skirts for their girls and hair clips  to match! Lori has really enjoyed sewing for Kate the past couple of months and Cindy really wanted Lor to teach her the "how-to's". My mom gave Cindy a sewing machine a few years ago and it just hasn't worked well. Lori and I worked on it, readjusting a few things, and got it working well. So when Julie arrived with her machine, we had three set up and running! With Lori's help and expertise, Julie was able to make skirts for her two girls and Cindy skirts for her 4 girls. They turned out so darling and ALL the girls were so excited! Wish we would have had time for a fashion show, but it was just not to be. Lori went home with just hair clips done for herself, but with a great deal of satisfaction, I am sure, knowing she gave the sewing bug to her two sisters! The fabrics today are so fabulous!  I heard a lady say that women don't sew today to save money (because frankly, you don't!), they sew to create! And that is important to women! (Remember Pres. Ucktdorf's talk on the subject?)  What I enjoyed as much as anything was watching my little granddaughters, Regan, Morgan, Jordyn, Kate, Chloe and Lily create amazing hair clips with plastic flowers, fabric, buttons, etc. Regan learned to use the machine and made some belts, and Morgan would push the pedal while Cindy sewed (and held Kami sometimes!) When they weren't sewing, all the girls were playing and having a ball! It was so fun to watch Kaleb, Jack, and Brigham play so well together really not requiring much supervision at all. Cannon, Porter and Kami just played upstairs and followed us around. And Todd,  bless his heart, occupied himself. His buddy Regan really wanted to sew so he just played with the younger boys and on his IPOD with nary a complaint (at least not to me.) 

I think this time together got the four of us very excited about Sister's Weekend in two weeks in Park City. Thanks to our husbands who are caring for kids and doing without their sweethearts for a couple of days.

Fall - My Favorite Season of the Year!

I love the changing of the seasons and am grateful I live where I can enjoy them all. But fall just has to be the best! The heat of summer and my MS don't get along very well, so the joy of cooler days and nights at this time of the year bring welcome relief ! But more than that, I love the changing colors of the leaves and the winding-down of yard work and gardening. However, in all honesty, I love the fresh vegetables to eat all summer long so I am not complaining about summer or gardening, really!

For some reason, I don't do much holiday decorating at any time of the year except fall and Christmas. I had a free day and arranged to go spend some time with Lori. I have been dying to go to "The Gathering Place", that wonderful fabric store in Rupert and see all the gorgeous material I keep hearing so much about! We took our little sidekick, Jack, with us and had a ball perusing the goods! I just loved these fall fabrics and bought enough to make a new table runner as an afternoon project with my crafty little daughter, Lori! She was kind enough to drag her machine, ironing board, and all the other sewing notions down to her dining room table and we went to work. I am so thrilled with it! Thanks, Lori, for a great day! And thanks, Jack, for hanging out at the fabric store and at lunch with Mom and me. You are a trouper!