February's Finish It Up Friday

I had a massive Finish It Up Friday. AJ has always been a drooler, not just when he is teething; ALWAYS. He can drench himself faster than you can believe. This was fine, a bit irksome, but fine until we moved to the great white north, and now whenever we step outside he has a little plate of ice forming on the front of his wee little chest. BRRRR! The drool just slides down plastic bibs and soaks his pants and absorbent ones simply slow the deluge. So the first order of business on FIUF was to finish the appliquéing on 4 plain store-bought bibs for the drooly little one. A couple of weeks ago I let S draw pictures for the backs of 2 and I did the other 2…feeling awfully generous about sharing the creative opportunity. Then I scanned, fiddled with and printed the drawings on iron-on transfer paper and ironed them on to 4 more blank store-bought bibs. I sandwiched a piece of plastic between two bibs and sewed them together and he has had a dry shirt ever since. I think everybody here’s favorite is the happy robot.

I've got to give you a close up of the one's S drew

They are baby aliens

and a baby T-Rex

I also finished refashioning a shirt that had gotten too short for Sage. I took two shirts that were too short for her and made them into one a lot like I did her jeans.  She loves having her jaguar shirt back especially with the new flower corsage.

I must admit that I did start a new refashioning project for myself too, BUT I finished it too so that’s really the whole idea of FIUF. I saw some cute, black, ballet flats in a Boden catalog, but they were $120.00. I wasn’t prepared to pay that much, and I had a pair of plain, boring, black, dress shoes just begging to be fancied up. So with a yard or 2 of ribbon, some bling and a LOT of industrial strength glue and I made my own knock-offs for under $10!