So I am posting thing I have made over the last few years. It helps to see a pattern done up with super cute fabric like these. I adore these dresses! And the girls look so young!!
Avery always did know how to strike a pose!
This was done with some super cute Bonnie and Camille fabric. Love their stuff!!
We had a fabulous weekend. I do worry sometimes the people will think we are exploiting Avery. But we get calls all the time for events for Avery. We have never (not once) solicited these for her.
We started out the great weather weekend with the St. Baldrick’s head shaving at McMullan’s in Las Vegas. What a great place. The owners lost a baby (yes, a baby) to cancer years ago. So for the last seven years they have hosted this event. Last year they raised an obscene amount of money. I don’t have the totals from this year, but I am sure they did at least as well. Our resident awesome photographer, Melissa Jacks, came and brought her mini-me (her daughter Ashton). If you need photos, Melissa is BRILLIANT with a camera…Seriously.
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THEN…..we got invited to Criss Angel’s Believe. AND he asked us back stage….
The show was A M A Z I N G!! It even kept Hallie in her seat the entire time!!! Criss is an Angel. We had great seats. There was another girl there who was just diagnosed with a serious kind of cancer. She is 16. Criss was super sweet to both girls and our family.
OH and it was Nathan’s 14th birthday. He was super thrilled about the cancer event, but didn’t complain either. Now he gets to go to church dances (gulp!).
Hope your weekend was filled with sunshine and hope like ours was!
Here is dress I made for Hallie. She looks so little! This was a Bonnie and Camille fabric. I adore polka dots!! Love, love this one..
This was a dress I made the girls when we were in Washington. The top is a crushed velvet and the bottom was a bolt of fabric my mother-in-law had left over from her oldest daughter, Lisa’s wedding. Lisa had her bridesmaids in this color. Funny how it all comes back around.
Avery is super good at posed looks. They all have a half pettiskirt underneath to make it full. It swished when they walked…
Hallie and Payton’s dress were from this same pattern. Avery’s was another. Hallie looks super annoyed. At least Nathan was smiling!
By Stephanie
I KNOW…it’s been SSSSOOOO long! Sorry…again. There are just some days that I can’t think about it, let alone write about it. How do you write about your daughter is being stuffed with toxic medicine. And she doesn’t eat. And the other kids are sick of it. And although you do have amazing opportunities, you would wish it all away….if only you had a wand.
And speaking of wands…I would like the Harry Potter version of Pinterest. The one that every time you pinned something….it magically appeared in your life. My dinners would all be wonderful. My butt would look amazing. My home would be spotless and decorated perfectly.
But since I don’t have a wand and can’t wish my daughter better, or make dinner appear and still have to exercise, I will try to be better.
I am working on a few dresses that I am super excited to post about. But in the meantime, you are going to get a few other items that I have made and just want to show off…not really. I just want to have a catalog of the patterns I have used.
OH, and Avery had her LAST dose of this round of chemo last week!!! She gets this week and next off. Then on to our LAST ROUND (I can’t say that enough). Four more doses!! Then DONE, DONE, DONE!! (Hopefully!!)
AND…..Avery ate three and a half pieces of pizza the other night! WOOO HOOOO!!! We are all thrilled when she eats more than Hallie!
Alright, so you are going to get some random posts over the next few weeks. I am gathering all the pics of the things I have made and their pattern numbers.
In these, after reviewing all the photos, Avery is sitting perfectly posed. Payton has a forced look on her face and Hallie was never close to the same position twice (she moves way to much!). And they all look so LITTLE! Kind of makes me sad…kind of makes me happy.
And almost all of the pics with Avery are pre-tumor diagnosis. She doesn’t even look like the same kid at all. Sigh….
Even Hallie said, “I was so cute!” Yes, yes you were…are.
