Archives for 2011

Photos of the Day: Beauty Parlor and OX Pumpkins

October 30, 2011 by Ashley Hackshaw

Hope everyone had a great weekend! My sister Perry and Boo painted all our extra pumpkins to look like OX Boo’s favorite ugly doll. Boo made a “girly” OX on the right adding lipstick and eyeshadow:

My mom took Boo to church this morning and my sister Perry dried and curled my hair. It was perfect because we had a bunch of company visiting off and on today.

Our friends Ben and Staci brought us a gazillion “Choose Joy” bracelets they had made! Love them. Now I just have to figure out how to distribute them!

Thanks for all the prayers for Cole last night from Facebook. He’s my mother-in-law’s nephew and was in a car accident Thursday night and is in a coma. I just know he’ll pull through….if anyone can Cole can…..he’s so young and full of life. I will keep you posted.

Tomorrow we’ll wake up bright and early to head to Loma Linda for my post op and chemotherapy. I’m excited to get my staples out!

Photo of the Day: Old Tater

October 28, 2011 by Ashley Hackshaw

My friend Shari (of Soren Lorensen Design) magically made some walkie talkies appear at my doorstep today. Lisa and I use them to talk across the house. I used this CB Handle Generator to pick our names and I think I busted a few staples from laughing so hard.

Lisa: Old Tater

Mine: Hot Lips

Here’s another one to try: Quizopolis Trucker Name Generator

A Strawberry Shortcake Dress (A Tutorial)

October 28, 2011 by Ashley Hackshaw

Silhouette just released their new 12″ cutting machine the CAMEO! Here’s my first project with it:

I purchased a simple 99 cent strawberry image from the Silhouette online store and had the machine cut it out onto vinyl shelf paper.

Many of you know that I haven’t been feeling well so I had a TON of help with this tutorial. Gicela brought fabric samples of scraps we had and I picked them out and she cut out the dress pieces and made them into a t-shirt dress style. You can use my Sienna Dress Pattern as a starting point.

Lisa used my strawberry cutout to make a contact paper silk screen (you can see the full contact paper silk screen tutorial here):

Basically the contact paper adheres to the screen (I use 110 mesh YUDU screens (without the machine) because they are flat and easy to store)……

……and you pull the ink (Versatex Ink) across the screen to push the ink through for your image:

Lisa also printed some polka dots onto some pink fabric and used my free beret pattern to make the hat. We already had the leggings but you could use my li’l leggings pattern to make a pair with a ruffle at the bottom too.

Boo loves it so it made my day! Here she is at school today with my mom: