Ellie Sew Sweet: September 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Fairy Birthday Party!

Of Course It's Possible to Have a Fairy Birthday Party

at Chuck E. Cheese's!

And you CAN do it on a budget!

Between what I had at home and what I bought at the grocery store:

valentine goodie bags with ties, Tinkerbell fruit snacks, stickers and band bracelets...

...and what I bought at the dollar store:

Tinkerbell paper sacks, frisbies, stamp rings, notebooks, puzzles and Pixy Stix

I was able to put together these Awesome Fairy Party Bags!

I put together Fairy wand bags that included
a foam wand with ribbons, foam sticky flowers and butterflies and lots of fairy stickers to decorate their wand!

Then, I started on the Fairy skirts!!!

I didn't want any of the girls to be left out of costume!

So using lots of ribbon, tons of tulle and some beautiful flowers

I started with these...

Started knotting the ribbon and tulle like this..

And ended up with these!!

Of Course, Emily just had to try them on with her fairy costume!

Now...on to the party!!!

Emily wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese's

And since they do ALL the work and ALL the clean up

I was all for it!

Meadow The Fairy from Fairy Fun Face Painting was there to beautify our Fairies!

Each of our Fairies had a fairy skirt waiting on their chair for them when they arrived,

but of course it didn't take long for them to run off and play!

Great fun was had by all!

Happy birthday to my Sweet Fairy Emily!

Ellie

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Coupon Binder on the Cheap!

YI've been wanting a coupon binder ever since I've seen them all over Facebook and I've been trying to win one loaded with coupons to no avail.

Sooo...being the sewer and crafter that I am, I have made my own from things I already had in my house!

You heard me right....No Cost!

I had recently cleaned out my sewing room and gave away many of my quilting magazines that I kept neatly in binders. I had at least 4-5 3" binders left over by the time I was through clearing out the magazines I didn't need anymore.

I combined those with a few items below that I already had in around my house

3 ring 3" binder

Cardstock and page protectors

Sewing machine

Ruler, marker and scissors

I had looked at the store for the inserts that are usually used to make a coupon binder, but I didn't like what I saw and how much they cost. I could have ordered some online, but that would take time and too much money.

So I made some up to match the coupon sizes that I needed. I placed a piece of cardstock into a page protector, made sure it was all the way to the bottom in and all the way to the left side. Then I started measuring and marking my sew and cut lines.

Sew along both sides of paper

Sew on solid lines, cut on dotted only through the plastic

Remove the cut part between the dotted lines

Make sure to cut out parts on both sides of the pages

You can see I've made pages for all different size coupons!

Next I taped some index tabs (that I have had sitting in a drawer for at least 5 years) to the pages to label the sections accordingly:

Clothing, Restaurant, Goodwill and Reward coupons
Fry's store coupons, food, cleaning, health and beauty
Walgreens coupons
Then manufacturers coupons:
Drinks
Breakfast
Diary
Refrigerated
Frozen
Snacks
Pantry
Paper Products/storage
Dishwashing
Laundry
Cleaners
Health and Beauty
Dental and first-aid