Embracing and sewing an awesome shoulder pad

Yes, shoulder pads are back. I wasn't so excited about this because I have the tiniest head, and anything that emphasized that, like a big collar and puffy shoulders, bugs me. So, I've slowly, but surely become accustomed to it because I've realized with some jackets, it is necessary. In fact, I started taking out the big shoulder pads and replacing them with my own that wouldn't make me as self conscious about my small noggen. Now it is time to share it with you!

Some of you might ask...why make it in a rectangle shape instead of the typical half oval shape? Well, I'm only adding a tiny, little boost at the end, and I didn't I want anything bulky. Though its small it creates such a huge difference!

Turn a men's polo into loose top with fun buttons refashion (and it's reversible!)

As I was mentioning before, my older brother is moving away (so sad) and was cleaning/DI-ing/packing for his big move. And luckily for me, they donated all their clothes to my cotton & curls refashioning charity. This Polo was one of the tops and I'm a sucker for stripes. I love flipping shirts backwards, it creates kind of a blank canvas in the front and a party in the back. By the way, this top is also reversible! 

A little bit of family is in town and I took advantage with my little brother as my photographer and Beck as the entertainer. He is hilarious. He seriously tells these elaborate stories about sharks or bears and can go on for a good 20 minutes. These two bottom pics are of him talking about a shark and his big teeth. This kid has an imagination that doesn't quit!

Purple skirt and a small family shindig

Love this little mad face.

This purple maternity pencil skirt was designed by the lovely Megan Nielsen, made by me. I was thinking it would be a casual knit skirt that I could throw on here and there, but after I made it and tried it on, it is quite a sexy little number! Well, for a prego women anyway. I'm loving all these maternity patterns!

I'm SO bummed that everyone has decided to leave me in Utah to go and further their education to provide for their family or something...pshhhh. What about me?! Just kidding, I know that one day this would happen, I just didn't know it would happen all at once. I currently have 5 siblings and 3 in-laws and a niece here, but a few short months from now, 9 will become 3. My brother is leaving on his mission tomorrow morning (don't even get me started about that one...it will make me cry), my other two brothers with fam are moving to Ohio for law school and medical school. And they ALL decided to leave around the same time. 

So this little shindig was a last minute invite for Mike and Emily (and baby Rosie) knowing that in the next few days they will be packed up and headed out to Ogden for a little stint, then on to Ohio for bigger and better things. It was quite the party! I actually cooked chicken, and it was fully cooked mind you and I prepared a raspberry vinaigrette salad (what?! I never go past a pre packaged caesar salad from costco). Beck sucessfully, for the first time rode his tricycle and Emily snapped some awesome shots of baby Rosie's Mad face and tried really hard to get a good angle on my extremely enormous belly in that cute maternity pencil skirt. Can you believe I'm that big already?! Anyway, I'm going to miss all the family, and I wish them good luck. Love you all. 

My refashion modeled on the beautiful Miriam

She is darling right? Love how this looks on Miriam from Mad Mim and how she styled it with the cute hat! Go here for the  before picture and the instructions.

Painting stripes on a tee shirt

I refashioned this top out of my brother's old undershirt and LOVED how the shape turned out (that tutorial to come), but I knew I wanted to do some sort of painting to it. After seeing this super cute top at Jcrew, I knew what I wanted to do. One of my favorite tops I own now!

Side story, I was at the local school's playground taking these pictures so Beck could play while I did one of my mini photoshoots....he was just in some shorts and sandals sans diaper. Trying to potty train, but being unsuccessful. Well, he of course went number one the second I had everything set up ready to shoot. So this was me quickly taking photos while Beck uncomfortably was asking to leave and slowly riding his little fire truck away. Oh, the memories we build while potty training.