Felt Gingerbread House Madness Part 1 and A Craft Show.

Thanks to everyone who followed along with my process of making the Day of the Dead Chihuahua! Lots of great comments on Facebook. I really didn't realize it would be so interesting to so many people. SO thanks everyone for reading along!

I've been quiet since my last post because I was madly scrambling getting ready for a small local craft show last Saturday and after that I threw my back out, which is why I haven't posted anything. Back on my feet now so here we go!

 Here is my set up for the craft fair. I actually sold more than I thought I would. Lots of people commented on my logo and about how professional my set up looked.

So I had this great idea to do an felt Gingerbread House especially for this craft show I was going to be in. I thought maybe I'd do a raffle for it as a way to get people to sign up for my newsletter, but then I found out that the show was only for 3 hours so I scrapped that idea.

I really wanted to make it anyway so I did and I'll do a quick walk thru of the wips. First, I drew out some gingerbread house shapes: roof, front and back, sides and bottom. Second, I decided on the details, roof style, windows and details. Third, I picked a color palette.

Happy, fun and super girly color palette.

Working out the window shapes.

Sewing on the roof. This would have been so much faster 

if I had machine sewed this part, but I didn't of course.

I did tiny drawings of what I wanted each panel to look like,

then I drew the details larger on paper and cut them from felt.

 All the details and the house itself are hand sewn. Sewing

the details this way gives them a puffy appliqued look I just love.

I sewed the front onto the sides before I finished sewing all

 the details, which in hindsight was really dumb and I won't

do that again.

I wasn't too sure what I wanted to do on the front of this,

so I put the main details on and thought about it for a while.

More details on the front and I did the side window details.

I also put white mini pompom trim on for the frosting.

I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kind of girl so I decided 

to add shrubs to the front. I was going to do candy canes 

but the space was too tight. Then I put on the mini pink

pompom trim around the door, just for the cuteness factor.

The front door was too plain so I added a small window 

and a wreath.

I'll finish this in another post cause this is very photo heavy. Thanks for stopping by and reading!

Christmas Fun and a Turkey named Ham.

The Girl (my daughter) loved the doll I made for her! She was so surprised, thank goodness!

Binks was happy with his present too.

Made Lita wear a wreath collar. She was not too happy about it but it was only for a while and she should be happy it wasn't the Santa suit again!

This is my 2 year old nephew Zach. He was fun but tiring. I don't know how women my age have young children! (My older nephew wouldn't let me take a photo-he's 10).

Baby, Lita and Binks each with their new toy. Fun was had by all until Lita stole a cat toy and got popped in the face by Baby. Peace was quickly restored.

The Girl spent last night putting together a Gingerbread House for fun. The icing that came with was terrible so we dug out the icing I saved from the roll outs and she went to town.

I discovered at the second day of eating the holiday dinner (my mom always makes enough for an army!) that what my mom told everyone was turkey was in fact ham! We had a good laugh over that! I may have to go to the store with her next year or at least open the package myself and see what it is. Wackiness happens everyday around here!