Pelican Costume Dress reveal

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I showed you the before and after picture of the dress HERE.  But this is now her IN the completed dress.

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She is in a State Costume Contest as part of the Louisiana PreTeen academic program going on this weekend.

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We decided a Mardi Gras version of a pelican would work.   The above picture is supposed to look like the Louisiana Flag.

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The nest is made with brown craft paper.   The baby pelicans are washcloths.   All beaks were cut from a file folder.

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The dress was created with a LOT of help from the AWESOME Jessica at Happy Together.  You should really go check out her site!

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Layer after layer of fabric ruffles added to the underskirt give the illusion of feathers.

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As long as The Apprentice sells the dress, she SOOOOO should win!

And I am very very glad to have all of you here with me at the new place.  Thank you!!

peace and pieces,
amy

 

 

Testing the system again

According to WordPress, my old subscribers have been moved.   But I do NOT see them.   So I’m asking those of you who have been subscribers to let me know via comment here, please!!

And I have added more free patterns to the Tutorials/Patterns page.  Let me know if there are any that were free that I’ve forgotten.

And now that I have wasted yet ANOTHER whole day, I have GOT to get some housework done!!

peace and pieces,
amy

 

Testing out the new site

Hello Twitter and Facebook Followers!   (and my mom who is my email guinea pig)

This is my first attempt at posting from the NEW and IMPROVED website.   I will eventually phase out butterflyangels.wordpress.com and have everything come through butterflyangelsquilting.com.  I warned you that I was trying to do new things!!   Thanks to the guys at JustHost.com, I have almost everything over here.  There is still a lot of tweaking and rebuilding, but that’s the small stuff.  The only BIG thing left is to redo my email list.   I’m still trying to figure that one out.

So anyway, a shout out here on this post would be greatly appreciated.  Comments are fun anyway, right?!  And until the next post,

peace and pieces,
amy

Blog/Website update

Ugh—SO frustrated.   Apparently, WordPress doesn’t make it easy for you to leave them.   Unless you use one of their affiliated hosting sites, of course.  And pay them.

My blog won’t export into the new WordPress template for the .com site.  I started in 2009.   That is a LOT of content……….I’m sick.