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[PamsPride]

I love that show. I have not thought of it in forever!!! The dress link did not work.

Your boys should be pretty easy to dress. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
gina

Hmmmm....It is working for me. Did you scroll down?
Here is another link to it. You have to scroll down to see it. It is blue and black.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230496353461#ht_7351wt_930

 

[TTs Chicks]

that dress is beautiful! I have been watching Dr Quin all summer - GMC has been showing it every night from the very first episode and now it's at season 6 - I am gonna be so upset when season 6 ends and I don't have a new episode to watch!

 

[PamsPride]

I want to make that dress so bad!! But, where would I wear it????? I don't think woman are allowed at the FCF camp outs. They MIGHT let me come for dinner if I was dressed up but that would be it. They take this stuff seriously you know! I was joking with the Ranger commanders saying I wanted to leave ALL of my men folk with them. Then the commander said all they had to do was cook their own meals, clean up after themselves, and stick a knife and tomahawk in the target....and then be lazy the rest of the weekend! I said forget it! I am sending my boys back home with DH and the three littles and I am staying!!!

I am thinking the next thing the boys are going to need is a quilt for their FCF beds.

ETA: J's has Butterick patterns on sale for .99 tomorrow and I was looking at the site and Butterick has patterns that match the style for the boys!!

 

[TanksHill]

Ahhh, I see it now. Duh!! Very pretty. That thing must take a ton of fabric.

g

 

[PamsPride]

I made two pairs of wool mittens for my oldest DS for FCF. I made one pair with a faux fur cuff and I think they turned out really cool! I have enough wool to make another pair, for a total of three pairs from one felted wool sweater. I need to dig in my spare bedroom and see if I can find another felted wool sweater in there. I got a 1/2 hard of the fur when I went to J's today to get shirt and pant fabric. I picked up 4 yummy fabrics for his shirts! A burgundy, light olive, dark olive, and a light blue. I am hoping my DS can trade the extra two pairs mittens for something cool the FCF camp out on Oct. 9th.
Now I need to get the shirts made.....

 

[PamsPride]

I was BLESSED today!! I was given 15 3-5 pound bags of red grapes! I guessing it is around 50 pounds of grapes! 15 heads of cabbage. 3 cases...think cases the size of 2 xerox boxes or 6 xerox boxes of green peppers! 100 pounds or more of onions!! 40 pounds of small potatoes. A gallon of frozen blueberries. 2 small watermelons and 4 tiny cantelopes.

I am thinking grape juice out of the grapes. I will have to look up how to do that...doesn't seem hard! We already have a ton of grape jelly and my kids won't eat it. So jelly is out. My kids will eat some of them but not that many before they go bad.

Green peppers???? What do I do with all of these green peppers?? I am thinking dicing some of them up and putting them in freezer bags for adding to stuff like fried potatoes. But what else? I will probably give one of the cases away to the family with 7 kids.

Cabbage? My family will not eat kraut. Cabbage and noodles. What else? I am going to feed whatever we don't use to the chickens.

Onions. Dehydrate, dehydrate, dehydrate! Onion powder and onion flakes! We use a lot of it!

Blueberries. Blueberry syrup! YUM!!

Potatoes. I wish I had a pressure canner! They are the perfect size for canning and then popping open a jar and having butter parsley potatoes!

Watermelon and cantelopes. Half of one of the watermelons is already gone so I am not worried about them going to waste. I am not sure the cantelopes are big enough to do any with. Cut all 4 of them up and serve them to the kids. But they don't really like them....so whatever they don't eat is going to the chickens.


Agenda for today: Sewing a shirt for my DS for FCF. Holy carp batman! It takes 4 yards of fabric to make ONE shirt!!!!! That is more fabric than is in one of 5 yo DD's entire custom boutique outfits with all the ruffles on it! With so much fabric in them I am not sure I can afford to make to many for him to take to FCF to trade. I paid $2.80 a yard for fabric x 4 yards plus a spool of thread to match each color. I don't know where I am going to get decent fabric for much cheaper than $2.80 a yard and that was at J's. All of the local quilt shops want $8-$10 a yard!

 

[TanksHill]

Holly schmolly on the fruits and veggies!!! What a wonderful gift. Do your kids eat coleslaw??? Might be able to use up some cabbage that way. i don't know what to say about the green peppers. I have been dehydrating them for weeks. I don't know of any other way to preserve them. Maybe roast first?? Let me know if you think of anything good.

I know that amazing dress you like would take a ton of fabric. I didn't even think about the shirts. Must be all that sleeve!!!

I went to the fabric store today. I must stay out of that store. I bought some lengths of fleece for the tied blankets.

What type of fabric are you buying for the shirts?? Is there something you can recycle instead, sheets curtains etc.... 2.80 seems to be a pretty good price but when you need 4 yards per shirt. That adds up.

good luck with it.

gina

 

[PamsPride]

Holly schmolly on the fruits and veggies!!! What a wonderful gift. Do your kids eat coleslaw??? Might be able to use up some cabbage that way. i don't know what to say about the green peppers. I have been dehydrating them for weeks. I don't know of any other way to preserve them. Maybe roast first?? Let me know if you think of anything good.

I know that amazing dress you like would take a ton of fabric. I didn't even think about the shirts. Must be all that sleeve!!!

I went to the fabric store today. I must stay out of that store. I bought some lengths of fleece for the tied blankets.

What type of fabric are you buying for the shirts?? Is there something you can recycle instead, sheets curtains etc.... 2.80 seems to be a pretty good price but when you need 4 yards per shirt. That adds up.

good luck with it.

gina

The shirts have to be authentic Civil War colors. That makes it even harder because you can not just pick any old fabric. I picked fabric from the Calico section at J's.

I am going to make up another batch of salsa on Monday with some of the peppers and onions. That will not even put a dent in the amount I have though! LOL! The only thing I know to do with the peppers in give some away and freeze them. My dehydrator will be to full of onions to dehydrate the peppers.

 

[PamsPride]

First of all I messed up the collar on the first shirt I tried to sew. I sewed the interfacing on the wrong side! OOPS!!
Second.....OMG!!! As I am walking out of church DH tell's me that my oldest's commander from last year, who is also in FCF, told him "Yeah, we are waiting for your wife to make us all an FCF outfit!" ACK!!! I guess I better get to be an expert at this whole collar thing!
I don't know why it is WAY harder for me to figure out a collar on a man's shirt vs a custom boutique outfit!
Sigh....back to sewing!

 

[TanksHill]

Hang in there. You will get it and they will only get easier the more you sew.

gina