carnival is a coming...

It is skating carnival time once again.

The last while I have been very busy cutting, pinning, sewing and serging skirts

for 10 very excited girls.

Once Bugsy's skirt was done she decided to model it

and try her waltz jump in it

Seems she is all of a sudden looking a little bit older than before.

She wasn't this big last year was she?

The skirts were actually quite easy.

I modified a skating skirt pattern by eliminating the casing

and sewing the material straight onto black elastic.

Simple and easy!  And so glad they are all done!

carnival

we have been busy this week

preparing and practising for the figure skating carnival

the theme this year was Wizard of Oz

our oldest daughter was in two numbers

the yellow brick road

(2 pictures below)

and over the rainbow

(remaining pictures)

she had a lot of fun

and after a season of freezing our butts off

it was good to see it all come together in the end

now we can hang up our skates for the winter

and dream of spring

or if that doesn't work, we can try and find it

next week is spring break and we leave on saturday to head south

well, not really south to alot of people (we are staying in Canada)

but south to us!