Give it a Twirl Day!

What a day we had! We started off with measuring everyone, assembling the patterns and getting them cut to size for each of the girls!

They were all quite amazed and delighted that these pieces would somehow become a skirt for them!

Things got a little crazy after the girls got all their fabric cut out...my serger just wouldn't cooperate. No matter what I did. Eventually we gave up and pulled out my almost 40yo Kenmore. It is a great machine! The girls were amazing all the while...preparing for the fashion show...exchanging phone numbers...playing little clapping games. It was fun to be in the room with them.

Let the show begin! The entire narration was written and read by the girls...they chose the music, the order, everything. They wrote some great comments...the moms loved it!

I love how unique each and every skirt turned out. I had such an amazing day with the girls!

Just look at them all...10 one of a kind twirl skirts for 10 one of a kind girls.

I hope the girls had as much fun as I did!

Enjoy!

Heather

Bright Lights, Big City!

I know it's ONLY Toronto to some of you but it's been awhile since we've spent time in Toronto Proper and it was nice to visit (glad we don't live there anymore!)

When I heard that Redpath was opening their doors for Open Doors Toronto...how could I resist? I mean what could be sweeter? The kids were super excited to see their friends from the Acts of Sweetness Team AND they had been asking about visiting Redpath (TRUE story!) Hmmm, I wonder what else is on their bucket list!

Here we are driving in...you can't see it here but there was a HUGE line-up (and we were running a little late - Mr. CB moves slowly on Sundays!) But lucky us, we knew the person at the gate and they let us slip in with the next group when we got there!

This is Richard Feltoe, he is the curator of the Redpath Museum. He had some great one-liners for us before he took us into the tent for the video about how sugar is refined!

Look how excited Sarah is here...and this is just about watching a video!

The refining process brought me back to my roots in oil and gas (really, it did!)

So each of these containers has sugar in various states of refining...from Magma to Fine Liquor. Mmmm liquid sugar!

Speaking of sugar...everyone of us loved this part! This building is as big as 2 football fields and gets filled with the raw sugar (not sugar in the raw that you buy) but the sugar that comes off of the boats. Look how tiny that tractor looks!

We finished our day by waiting almost 2 hours to go up the CN Tower. It was totally worth it though...the kids loved every second of it!

Enjoy!

Heather

The Princess Spa

Since our workshop has been renovated...things have been grand! It just makes me happy to go to work and it's so lovely and easy to pretty up after a creative explosion (what can I say, I have to get ALL of my fabric out to really work!) This week's party was lovely and the mother of the birthday girl as so thrilled to walk in and find the tables set with flowers along with the ingredients required for our first project (Get the cupcakes in the oven!)

After cupcakes came our soap! Instead of mini-soaps we did regular sized ones with Silly Bands inside this time. The girls loved it! (I must admit, I would like a prize in my soap too!)

The girls were astounded when they heard that there was another craft and delighted when they found out that it was Shrink Art and they got to watch it shrink!

This week's cupcake design was simple but fun! We put a quick layer of buttercream on then topped it with blue fondant and golden crowns.

With the open house there have been a lot of goodies about...just look at what everyone took home (in addition to their crafts!)

I have a lot more to tell this week...let's hope Blogger co-operates!

Enjoy!

Heather