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18″ doll furniture and doll house

MJP is currently working on doll house / book cases for the girl’s rooms based on this pattern from Etsy. Our goal was that they would be part of their Christmas presents, however, MJP dropped one of the sheets of plywood on his toe, which laid him up for a week before Christmas! The only […]

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rollie pollie chairs for christmas

We are caving. My girls are some of the last in their classes to own some sort of ‘i’ product and we have decided they are old enough to take care of iPad Minis. I won’t go into the debate we had about whether this was the right time / okay, but will say that […]

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library dresses for santa visit

I am sure I will be devastated if/when the girls outgrow our tradition of new fancy dresses for their annual Santa visit. This year I used beautiful Westfalen fabrics, purchased from Fraulein Stephi’s Etsy shop. Our local quilt shop, Creative Edge Quilting & Sewing shop in North Vancouver, carried lovely coordinating gingham fabrics from Stoffe, […]

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doll salon birthday party

Borrowing heavily from a Lil Boo Blue party concept (and using the Stephanie Corfee graphics, available in the Lil Boo Blue  shop), we recently threw a 9th birthday party for our eldest daughter. A couple of things I did copy, straight from their blog: doll sized salon capes – 107 metres of bias tape later, […]

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go Canada, baby gift

Sometimes, I miss not having boys to sew or knit for. A friend at work and his wife recently had their second baby, and given that this friend is a big hockey fan / player, I thought this would help them cheer on our teams in the upcoming Olympics. The yarn is Debbie Bliss Rialto, […]

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serger fun (finally)

I have had my Bernina 1150 serger for 3 years, but other than serging knits before I washed them, hadn’t trusted it with projects. Though I had translated the Farbenmix Laura pattern 6 months ago, our busy life this spring, had left these projects in the ‘to do’ sewing bin.  The leggings were from the […]

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