Bed Heads

After completely losing all faith in the USPS, I took extreme measures to hand deliver my nieces birthday presents to them. Of course, our little eleven hour trek to Tennessee had nothing to do with the fact that I hadn't seen them in over a year or that we were also hauling my mother-in-law's old hunk of steel Kenmore sewing machine and cabinet.



The pj bottoms that I was worried about being too small were in fact a little too big. And you know what? I'm perfectly okay with that. The pattern I used to make them was not sized to fit little skinny minnies like these two. My sister had to cut a couple inches of elastic out of the waistband of Katie's and they both have to roll up the cuffs. I got the mis-matching shirts at Walmart.



They wore those pajamas to bed every night we were there. I think they like them.

For their other birthday presents, I made each of the girls a matching pair of pj bottoms for their American Girl dolls. Don't have a picture of that, so just use your imagination. Adorbs.

I gave them the jeans that I got at the resale shop to help me size their pajama bottoms along with three more pairs that I found later. (I love that resale shop. I got one pair of Justice for Girls jeans and three pairs of Gap jeans with really cute embroidered details, all for about $7.) As I mentioned earlier, I gave them my mother-in-law's old sewing machine (the one I used before I got my new machine), a couple of books with simple sewing and embroidery projects, and the sewing pattern that I used to make their American Girl doll clothes to help them get excited about sewing.