Jurassic Tea

So the tea was a success for the most part. My table only sold 2 tickets and I bought one of those. Then the person who bought the other ticket couldn't come till later, but it worked out because two very nice ladies came to the day of the tea. My table only had four settings instead of the original 8 to save room for moving around. This made it hard for my table to have a centerpiece and was a little more cozy. Because of this I put all my toy dinosaurs on the wainscoting on the wall next to the table.

Rusty was our fourth guest until we gained two.

I saw someone do this online so I made one two. The cookies are snickerdoodles. The secret to get the correct footprints is to stamp the toy dinosaur's foot in while the cookies are still hot when they come out of the oven.

All of the dishware turned out fantastic. They were done using clear waterslide decals that I bought online. I would use these for anything I want done custom.

Special thanks to Diann for this awesome birthday gift.

This was a lime keeper at one time. The eggs inside are key lime pie bites from Walgreens.

Good old iron-ons make custom fabric easy. Also I was very dissapointed with the lack of dinosaur fabric at craft stores.

When I washed the dishes these were the only ones I lost the decal on. I didn't have time to spray my dishes with clear coat and let them air out before the tea. Also, they soaked too long in water.

Oh look dinosaur poop.

The menu and ticket to the event.

Clever Girl!

Because my table was smaller than the table cloth in order to get it to fit right, we had to tie a knot with the excess fabric. So I decided a pterdacytl needed to be stuck into the knot for decoration.

This food was amazing!

This is the coolest teapot I have ever seen. The Tea Rex was a christmas gift from Michele.

This was the party favor I gave out at the end of the tea.

I had fun and hope to do this again next year. Hopefully next year I can do a table with 8 settings. Michele helped out a bit too, and took many of the pictures towards the end.

Panda slipers

For these slippers I took the idea from a workbook magaizine and modified the slipper design from Crochet today! to fit an adult sized foot.

Giraffe Sweater

I used a pattern from crochet today for the sweater vest. The giraffe I looked at a photo of a giraffe and just free handed the shape.

V for Birthday

I made another birthday present! I painted the justice league symbols with acrylic paint on a cardboard V like you would buy at a craft store.

Striped Man's Scarf

My pastor asked me to make a scarf for him since it was so cold this year. He had recently given me yarn so I used the colors he gave me to create this. I used a pattern and altered it to work for my uses.

Dinosaur Halloween

So for Halloween I went as Mabel from Gravity Falls. I need my trusty Waddles, so I dressed up my T-Rex as Waddles the Pig. I only had that day to get the costume ready for my dino friend so this is what I came up with.

Elephant Baby Booties

My cousin's baby was recently baptized and I only had a couple days to get this done. I impressed myself by finishing these in two days. I used a pattern from crochet today! July/Aug 2011 Magazine.