Ruffle Pants Upcycle

Follow these six simple steps:
1. Go to Goodwill, try to ignore the smell.
2. Find a dress with a ruffled bottom.
3. Use an existing pair of pants as your pattern. Don't have any? Pinterest has gobs, imagine that.
4. Sew pants using existing hem and side seams, leaving triple the width of your elastic at the waist.
5. Hem to length and create your waistband, then thread your elastic and sew closed your opening.
6. Add a button or a pocket and a darling daughter and there you have it.

From trains to tiaras...

Claire has recently decided to jump on the pretty princess, dress-up, and pink-loving bandwagon (with very little persuasion from us, in all honesty). She's thrown her trains to the side for tutus and tiaras. It's endearing and sweet, yet sometimes a little scary. If it's this dramatic at two-years old, what will life be like in ten years?! Thankful that we still frequently catch her reciting her alphabet flash cards, asking to play her animal memory game and kicking a soccer ball in the backyard with her daddy. After all, no little girl actually grows up to be a princess, right?

Playing princess with her besties, Emme and Addie!

Trouble?!

 

She's even got Paige on board...yes, she sure did put this on her sister "all my byself!"
Yes, you read correctly.