{"id":2447,"date":"2012-08-19T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2012-08-19T10:13:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T15:13:43","slug":"last-minute-birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"last-minute birthday gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>yesterday, we were invited to a birthday party for a 3 year old friend.\u00c2\u00a0 we don’t go to lots of birthday parties, so i had remembered the day before the party that we should probably bring a gift.\u00c2\u00a0 i thought i’d pick something up for her while we were out on errands, but that didn’t happen.\u00c2\u00a0 i woke up, the morning of the party thinking maybe a nice felt crown would work, so i texted her mom to ask if she already had a crown.\u00c2\u00a0 yup.\u00c2\u00a0 of course she does!\u00c2\u00a0 i asked what else was on her wishlist and got “princess dress” or “cute camping chair.”\u00c2\u00a0 a quick browse through pinterest looking at both of those projects and i realized that the princess dress might be do-able with stuff i had around the house, the camping chair not so much.\u00c2\u00a0 this princess dress tutorial from fireflies and jellybeans in particular caught my eye<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>i went to my craft room to browse my stash.\u00c2\u00a0 not a lot of pink, but i did find this great orange tulle and some orange and red felt that i had just enough of.\u00c2\u00a0 i ended up swapping in some pink ribbon for the waistband and tie and to go over the neck because i thought i would be more sturdy than felt (an elastic neckband might have been a better idea, but i think this will work fine).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>i waffled between a heart and a simple orange stripe for the bodice, but the happy toddler helped me choose.\u00c2\u00a0 if i were to make this again, i think i’d make the bodice flare out at the bottom (more of a trapezoid shape than a square).\u00c2\u00a0 other than that, i really love this tutorial and the whole thing came together in less than an hour (including making design decisions and cutting it out).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>and i think she likes it!\u00c2\u00a0 it even fits over her purple princess dress!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>sorta.\u00c2\u00a0 hmm… may have made the skirt panels too wide (makes it difficult to tie it tightly in the back).\u00c2\u00a0 easy-peasy.\u00c2\u00a0 this one’s definitely going into the favorites files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

yesterday, we were invited to a birthday party for a 3 year old friend.\u00c2\u00a0 we don’t go to lots of birthday parties, so i had remembered the day before the party that we should probably bring a gift.\u00c2\u00a0 i thought … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-stuff","category-kid-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}