More beach robes!!!!

I made beach robes as birthday presents but of course as protocol, before they are wrapped and given away, my kids have to model them for me.

 



   

 

Halloween 2014: Jake and the Neverland Pirates

Jakes Boots

 Prepare for picture overload.

Leila's Sunday best

I made this little dress a looooong ago and am only now putting it on my daughter. Its a tad bit to small but she was a cutie in it even though she was not too happy about taking pictures. =)

Beautiful Amanda

Red bridemaid's dress. Old pattern. Beautiful girl.

Tessi's Wedding

My last sister got married!!!! We always knew her wedding was going to be the biggest and most expensive because of her lavish tastes and requests. Although is was an extremely crazy and busy the week of the wedding it.was.so.much.FUN!!! Such great memories! Her friends and many in the community jokingly labeled it the "wedding of the century" and the "royal wedding". I must say it came pretty darn close. My sissy had 15 girls in her line and she had the girls wear three different styles. I was in charge of making 4 of the dresses. It was a simple pattern but for some reason it caused me a great deal of stress. But they're done and another project to go down in the books!

stage one

stage two

stage two

Final product: Maid of Honor and the "dress" group



12 of the 15 bridesmaids in the line



Me and the dresses that made me a slave to the sewing machine

All the bridesmaids: the dress group (highschool BFFs), the tutu group (dancing buddies), and the peplum group (Utah BFFs) 

The bride and the dress group (Hawaii friends)

Kati's baptism

My best friend's daughter, Kati turned 8 and in our religion we have the privilege of being baptized. Kati wanted a Samoan puletasi to wear to the special occasion. She is the cutest, sweetest little girl and she looked adorable in her Samoan attire.

Halloween 2013: Wreck it Ralph

When I asked my son what he wanted to be for Halloween this year, his immediate response was to be Felix from Wreck it Ralph. I thought perfect, our family matches the characters almost perfectly! I love homemade costumes so much more than store bought, so I tried to be as creative as possible in putting our costumes together. Ngatoa's was pretty simple, we got his shirt and hat from Savers and I used felt to make the 'FF' logo on his cap. I made his and my husband's gold metals out of cardboard which I spray painted gold. As for my husband's costume, i had to put a little more thought into it. I searched high and low for brown overalls and was out of luck. No one, not even older Tongan men own overalls anymore. I considered buying a new pair but I decided it was a complete waste of money for one night. So I ended up buying brown pants from savers and I cut up a brown sheet to make the top half of the overalls, which I simply tucked into his pants. genius! at least in my books. ha! As for Leila's costume (who was dressed up as Venelope- and you can't really tell) I made her sweater out of a shower curtain (made out of fabric), her skirt out of the same brown sheet that I made David's bib, and her leggings were made out of an old sweater. As for my costume, I slapped on a blonde wig and declared myself Sergent Calhoun.