Vanilla Love

Madison's been going through a growth spurt lately and a lot of the clothes I bought for her at the end of summer are all getting a little small on her. Take this sweatshirt for example...

The sleeves were waaaaay to short on her. So I figured since it's only got a few months wear into it I'd make it fit her for a lot longer. I took out my handy scissors and my sewing machine and...

taa daa!..

Now it should last her till at least the end of the school year. 

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Madison has also been asking me to buy her some flowery things to put in her hair, but I thought I'd try make something at home before going out and actually spending money on them.

She thinks it's beautiful so I guess I won't be making that trip to the store. :)

(Kaelynn wanted a picture of her hair too)

I got the flower idea from The Trendy Treehouse.  I wasn't able to do it exactly like she did because I didn't have any brads in the house. I just used a button, sewed it on top of the two bottom layers, placed the top circle on top of that, and then used one elastic to secure it all together around the button. I sewed it onto a ouchless type elastic instead of attaching it to a clip or barrette. It seems to work!

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I made another, mostly futile attempt to get a picture of all four kids together. They get way to hyper when I take out my camera so I never seem to get my perfect picture that I imagine in my head but oh well. I'll love these pictures either way.