Forgive me for not writing much more than captions. But I know most of you show up for pictures anyway. Easter was fun, pretty standard. I made the girl's Easter dresses (out of vintage curtains and material from the thrift store) and boy's bowties. Everyone got fun Easter baskets filled with goodies. The girls each got some pants, Mr. Will got a toy from Dinosaur Train, Ethan got Cars, I got the book To The Rescue and Carson got a new belt. It was a fun day as always!
Carson and Ethan. Ethan didn't get a bowtie fore a few reasons. 1. I didn't have time. 2. He doesn't have a white button up shirt. 3. I figured a bowtie would bug a little guy that small. But he really doesn't need it. He could be a wearing a paper sack and still look adorable!
My initial instinct was to make my own patterns for the dresses. But instead I went with an online tutorial for Audrey's dress and a vintage pattern for Siobhan's. Yeah, that didn't work too well cause everything that I cut out was WAY too big. So I ended up having to make up my own patterns anyway. But I'm so pleased with how the turned out! Nobody had anything even remotely similar at church! I had a to do a lot of new techniques that I've never done before so it was a good learning experience!
It doesn't get any better than that does it?
Sometimes they really do love each other! (They've been fighting a lot lately!)
The boys! Aren't they so handsome! And yes, I did convince Carson to wear the bowtie willingly!
We can never get a good family picture and forget about me ever getting in one. We need to learn how to use the timer on the camera.
The girls...I got my skirt at DI! I love thrift stores!
Mr. Will...he's always got to be doing something!
3 comments:
Wow Meghan! Great job on those dresses...and the bowties. You McGuire's are all so talented! Your family is beautiful!
Your kids look darling! I love the dresses and of course I love the bowties. Great minds think alike. =-) I used the Sis Boom Bosco Bowtie tutorial by Jennifer Paganelli (it was free when I got it, but now I think you have to make a purchase to get it). Which one did you use? There are a couple things I didn't like about the one I used, so I wouldn't mind trying another. Lee would probably wear more bowties as well, he was the hit of all the guys at church! I got the downloads for the books from this site: http://www.simplyfreshdesigns.com/ scroll down to find the ones I did, she has some awesome stuff including some New Testament ones that I haven't done yet. I printed them at Costco, put them back to back, laminated them, and then got them bound. The kids really like them.
Awesome job on the dresses! They are darling!!!
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