iCARLY BEDROOM
My daughter was a huge iCarly fan, and for her 7th Birthday we created an iCarly Bedroom for her. I had a local woodworker (Keystone Woodworks, Bob Hilstein) design the ice cream sandwich bench (similar to the one on iCarly) with the only change being it opens as a toybox. I covered it using brown fabric and the ice cream is neopolitan, because the colors matched better. We changed our her lampshade to pink, painted the room pink, and added designs on the walls.
The pillow sham and dust ruffle are machine sewing using at least 10 different fabrics, I make the bulletin board covering wood with batting then fabric and toole for the criss cross. The throw blanket/quilt on the bed is also machine sewn.
PRINCESS BRIDE DRESS
In 2008 My daughter wanted to go as a Princess Bride for Halloween, so I found a pattern, made a few adjustments and made her this dress and veil.
LORD FARQUAAD COSTUME
There was a year my daughter was insistant on being Princess Fiona however the only Shrek character he would be was Lord Farquaad. So I found a pattern, made a TON of changes and created this Lord Farquaad halloween costume for him. The hat and wig was made from scratch without a pattern.
HARRY POTTER HOUSE SCARVES
For my daughters Harry Potter birthday I made 32 scarves, 8 for each house. I bought flannel fabric at a local sewing store, 2 yards each of blue, canary, scarlet and green and 1/2 years of gold, bronze, silver and black. I cut the large pieces lengthwise to create 8 strips, then I cut squares of the smaller pieces to create the stripes.
HARRY POTTER HOMEMADE WANDS
I bought 7/16 width 12 inch wooden dowels (solid wood) and using a Dremel I created 30 custom hand made wands using a couple different grinding bits and a 1/2 inch sanding drum bit. I tried to make each one as different as possible giving them their own personality. After a light sanding I used three different wood stains applied with a rag, and after the stain dried I applied two coats of a semi gloss clear coat.
