Tomato Fairy Upcycle

Back in April, when I was still largely pregnant, I found the most amazing Cynthia Rowley tomato print shell dress at Goodwill. It was a teeny-tiny size four with a busted zipper.  Since I am nowhere near a size four right now, I tore it apart to make Amelie a tomato fairy dress for the East Nashville Tomato Art Festival. This was the dress:

And this is the print.  Perfect, right?

The upcycled dress and bloomers:

And this is Squeakerton in the dress:

 I used the Prudent Baby Sweet Shirred Summer Dress pattern. Precious, huh?

How to Please Your Mother-in-Law

So we missed my mother-in-law's birthday last year.  A person might think that her husband would know his own mother's birthday.  I know the birthdates of everyone in my family and there are 11 of us.

Just saying.

Anyway...we needed to make up for last year's fail by doing something really lovely this year.  Accidentally getting pregnant and having a tiny dovecake put us on the right track and allowed us to make what turned out to be (in my MIL's words) "the best b-day present EVER!" It was awfully precious.

All a person needs for this personalized gift is some construction paper, scissors, scotch tape, a digital camera, Walgreens, a 3 slot picture frame and a gorgeous child to model.  We took 2 versions of the pictures. 

This one, for emailing and posting on her facebook page on her birthday:

And these three to put in the 3 slot picture frame and send up to Ohio:

This method could be used for any number of occasions, perhaps with themed outfit or scenery.  If I was really motivated I would do whole scenes like the mama at Mila's Daydreams.  She's very good.