Thursday, July 2, 2009

Shirring, Smocking, whatever you want to call it....

you've got to try it if you haven't already!

It is really so unbelievably easy, and it makes you look like such a pro.
I made both of these Canada Day dresses in about a little over an hour. Granted, I could probably have adjusted the straps a little better, but my kids were not complaining.

Talking about Canada Day, the capital city was rocking hard.
It was supposed to rain all day, but it did not! So, there was some seriously hard partying going on all over the city. I mean, I heard that there were some 350,000 people downtown. We did not head downtown, but we enjoyed the party at a big festival in our neighborhood. There were free bouncy castles and slides, great concerts, demos from the local firemen, and lots of food. We also took the kids to the carnival; not my favorite because of the crowd, but the kids enjoyed it.
After all of that, we got to go home and hang out on our patio, enjoying good food and drinks with our lovely guests.

I haven't really been able to be online much because I have been (and still am) enjoying the company of my visitors from lovely Georgia. They are just so much fun!
So, I hope you understand if you do not hear from me for the rest of the week.
Have a great weekend, everyone.

3 comments:

Myrnie said...

So cute! I bought elastic thread a LONG time ago, but I've been looking for the right project (and the guts to try it out.) Looks like it's time!

Aunt LoLo said...

Ugh...ANOTHER thing for my shopping list??! I suppose if I must, I must. ;-)

kate said...

I've always wanted to try shirring, but no clue where to begin...hmm...maybe a certain blogger could whip up a tutorial (nudge nudge, hint hint):)
Not spending as much time online here, either, but today it's pouring and the kids are with Gramma. I s'pose I better get offline and get back to painting my baseboards ;(