Category Archives: Pie’s Sewing

A Little Dancing Pizza and a Sweet Blog Award!

Posted on March 21, 2012 by apieceoflifespie

Yay! Today is the first day I am posting from my new laptop! I have been inching along on a 7-year-old laptop for years and our PC is not far behind it, so when my laptop finally died two weeks ago we started shopping for a new one. Last night we finally got one!

First order of business! I was awarded a lovely and sweet blog award recently and was very honored that I have someone outside of personal friends and family that even look at this mess of creativity. Thank you Lisa from My Scrap Nook! The award is the Liebster Award – which is German for “Dearest”. Paying it forward I am going to honor a new and fun blog buddy from my favorite part of my state (Wine Country) Lee Lee Cards. She has so much energy and life and I wish I could meet her in person someday… and we may just find a way to pull that off. I think you will enjoy her wit and sass and the fact she is a beautiful newly made VERY young grandma! 🙂

During the time we were in computer limbo, I have been keeping busy with many craft focused projects. This project was for my 4 year old’s first dance recital and we had to make a pizza costume out of a felt piece. So heading to my Cricut cart inventory, I found a pizza shape from Simply Charmed and used that as a stencil. I cut it at 8 inches and used buttons, ric-rack, baker’s twine and tons of glitter and stickles. I think it turned out pretty cute!

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Thanks for having a piece of “dancing pizza pie fun” with me!

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Easy as Pie Trick or Treat Bag!

Posted on October 29, 2011 by apieceoflifespie

I am taking a quick break from party prep! Here is one of my Halloween projects I just wrapped up. I made this for a dear friend’s daughter. I mixed the paint I used with glow in the dark paint, which I tested and it really glows in the dark! I was unsure it was going to work, so I was pleasantly surprised! This was a pretty easy bag to make, only took about an hour or so. It was all no sew since I picked up the bag at Michael’s for $1.50 and then me and the glue gun had a hot date (literally)! I promised my girls they will have one next year! 🙂

Now back to the pre-party madness! I will post pictures on Monday of the fun event and the fruit of all the hard work these past weeks… one hiccup today though! I rented white child chairs and paid for them in advance to have this weekend and when I went to pick them up they only had green! It really does not go with my ghost theme, but I will make due, especially since they were so apologetic and refunded me all the money for their mistake.

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4th of July Pillow Case Dresses

Posted on July 13, 2011 by apieceoflifespie

This was my first ever attempt to make clothing and believe it or not I surprised myself on how easy these were. Don’t ge me wrong, the first dress took me three hours, but then the second dress only took my about an hour and a half and trust me I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SEW! I am self- learning and I will say the worst part of the whole thing was trying to figure out the pattern – I felt that passing the Civil Service Exam would have been easier. 🙂