A saga of some wrap pants.

Last weekend, we did lots of tie dying – many pics to come later.  But…  This post is a saga.  About wrap pants.  Just follow me for a bit…

I got this crazy notion that I needed some light airy pants to wear to the folk music festivals this summer.  Also, they would be great for lounging around the house, after a long hot day at the bakery.  So, I bought this pair from Dharma Trading. They were beautiful, and fit well when they arrived.

After washing and dying however, they were a bit, um, what is a nice term, scant of fabric on the sides.  I was showing more thigh than I cared to.

Fortunately, they fit the Glitter Glue Princess perfectly!  Admittedly they are a hair long, but they give her full coverage, which is great.  She just likes to fiddle with the ties too much, which is annoying.

I took the pair that didn’t fit and drafted a pattern with an additional 4″ on the side that ties.  The nice thing about the pattern is that there is only one real seam in the pants – the crotch seam.  Aside from hemming, there really isn’t much to making a pair of these.  Winging it a bit and building my own pair, I shortened them to capri length, and came up with this:

They don’t look like much here, but once washed and dried, they look like this:

Forgive the weird slanty thing going on- the tie wasn’t fully tied in the back, so I was pulling on them, which caused the weird tug thing going on.

I like how they dyed up.  I just ordered another 6 yards of rayon challis to make more….

This is what happens when you craft too much….

Fun with Dry Ice

This sort of thing makes the Glitter Glue Princess’s friends think we are either totally cool…..  or totally insane.

Miss B thought we were “awesome!”

A profound thought from a mermaid

This quote was on the bottom of an email from my friend teri:

A party without cake is really just a meeting… ~Julia Child

I really, really need a shirt with this on it….  And a big slice of cake!

Other shots from Anaheim

I told you earlier that Saturday was my birthday.  My goal was to get straight from the airport to Disneyland to use the free entry on your birthday offer.

I was flying United, and after my first leg to Denver, I found they had oversold the flight by 30 (!!!!) seats.  I stood patiently in line, planning my plan of attack on this, as I could see that the counter people weren’t having a good time arguing with the people who couldn’t understand what they were trying to do.  I get to the front of the line, where a counter person (also named Jill!) helps me.  She immediately states that I have to take the flight 4 hours from now.  I put on my sad face, and tell her that it’s my birthday, Disney is where I’m headed, and I simply cannot go that late or lose my free entry.  She looks at me, and says that it simply won’t do, another person named Jill missing her birthday at Disneyland, and puts me in first class! 

My Karma balanced its self out when I was trying to cross the street to get to the car rentals and tripped – went flying and landed on my palms and knees – something adults really should avoid doing.  I discovered that the 6 people in the cars waiting for me to cross the street were much more self absorbed than I expected, when noone helped me up, and started honking for me to hurry out of their way. 

Regardless, I made my way to Disney, rode three roller coasters, as well as some familiar rides, all without incident.  I should tell you that when you wear the birthday pin at Disneyland, EVERY EMPLOYEE tells you happy birthday and calls you by name.  At first, it was great, but after 4 hours of it, it got a little weird.

All Glitter Glue Princess wanted from the trip was pressed pennies, especially since she had no interest in the roller coaster part of it.  I picked these up for her:

The first day of the food show, I figured out the scam going by parking at the convention center – $10, with no re-entry.  Not acceptable, when I can park on Disney property for $12 with unlimited re-entry and simply take a shuttle.  Admittedly, it took longer, but I enjoyed the benefit of being able to go off-site when necessary….  Regardless, I would have to pass in front of the parks when I did this, and one day, I encountered this:

So cute – it showed up on Tuesday when I made my travels to the Grand Californian for the shuttle.

Remember my hubbie’s obsession with Cones?  I took this shot just for him:

Photos of the sunset, taken at Huntington Beach:

when Food Geeks get together, it looks something like this….

This was how I spent the last few days of my life – amongst the professional food geeks of the world (actually, we call it the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo).

I sat through exciting courses such as mind mapping new menu items, new product technologies, project management, partnering for innovation – you get the idea.

From the keynote session – The Current Economy and the Future of Food.

A long shot of the booths to go through.

A little excursion to the garden…

Glitter Glue Princess and I took advantage of the extremely nice weather Saturday and visited Meijer Garden for a couple of hours.

We wanted to check on the koi at the waterfall and see how many made it through the winter – there were only 15 or so out of the couple hundred that used to populate it.  We were trying to coax them out with Cheerios, when a little girl hurls a 4 inch rock into the pool and scares the bejeebus out of the poor fish – I don’t think they will probably be as easy to coax out next time because of it. 

Regardless, we took some nice shots:

The new Chihuly piece in the cafe.  It spans across their entire dining room -

Pictures taken by the waterfall -

This picture is by special request, for Suz.

On her way

The fifth grade culmination ceremony was on Friday this past week.  Glitter Glue Princess is no longer an elementary school student – she is officially a 6th grader.

Sorry about the blurriness of shots – she was just too far away and she was moving too fast.

Consequently, that also means that school is now over, and summer begins.  Now to try to conjure up things for her to do for a few months – class at Meijer Gardens on art, as well as a few trips should do the trick.

A memorial day 5K

Glitter Glue Princess ran in a charity run for cancer research on Memorial Day.  A couple of her friends from Girls on the Run went with her.  Some pictures for sharing:

Meet the newest member of the neighborhood.

This is Daisy – she lives down the block and around the corner from us….

Doesn’t she look just like her mama?