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Old Navy Shopping Spree

February 12, 2013 By Erica Deuel 9 Comments

I am obsessed with Old Navy clothes.  No joke.  In all honesty, it is my favorite clothing store.  You can’t beat the prices and quality.  I was beyond excited when I was chosen to write this campaign.

old navy store

Old Navy’s Kids and Baby Sale is an annual event I tuck in my head.  There are so many “basic” pieces we need every season like gym shorts and solid colored shirts that you can not beat paying only $5 each.  During this sale, even the cute collared shirts, character shirts and jeans are priced almost half of their normal cost.  The deals are unreal.  Cute sundresses at $5 and $8 each?  Yes, please.  I will take one in each color.

This annual Kids and Baby Sale is going on right now.

old navy little girl dresses

old navy girls dresses

We might frequent Old Navy so often, that I am breeding three little smart shoppers of my own.  My Caleb is almost six and has opinions of everything he puts on.  He’s at that age (already!?) that I hardly buy him clothes without asking if he like them first.  There is no use buying something that he wont ever wear.  I decided to take him with me on my shopping spree for a fun little mommy date.  Here is a short segment from our date.  (Stay tuned after the video clip for pictures from our modeling shoot.)

He is hilarious, and we had the best time shopping together.  It’s a good thing everything Old Navy sells is really cute, because he was picking up colors of shirts he liked that I wouldn’t have chosen for him.

picking out shirts at old navy

old navy t shirts

Smiley faces, beautiful clothes… and that all hits you right in the doorway!

old navy welcome team

Since we both have our favorite local Old Navy layout’s memorized, we went straight to Caleb’s size area.

boys section at old navy

After we ooohed and awwwed over everything in the boys section, he tried on a few things to make sure they were perfect.  They were, and I got a series of Superhero poses right there with the items in the dressing room.  He was so excited, and I know he felt so cool.  It warmed my mama’s heart.

We took our cart of his items and some things for J and headed to the girl section.

old navy dressing room

old navy cart full of clothes

modeling old navy hat

My sweet boy was so excited to pick out items for his siblings too.  I loved watching him pick out things that he knew they would like.  He struggled back and forth over the character shirts for Reagan.  They had so many good ones!  The final debate was between a Minnie Mouse and an Elmo and Abby shirt.  Elmo and Abbie won, and Reagan is thrilled!

old navy character shirts

elmo and abby

I think I could of bought a pair of each of these shoes for miss Reagan.  They are sooooo cute!

old navy girl shoes

Old Navy has such cute accessories to complete outfits for awesome prices.  I love their hair and jewelry items.  The pink hair bow Reagan models later is one of my favorites!

Caleb ended up getting two pairs of shorts, three shirts, a hat, and a pair of flip-flops.  J got two shirts, a pair of shorts, a hat, and a pair of flip-flops.  Reagan got two dresses and a shirt.  Can you believe ALL of that was about $75!?  The deals are unreal right now.  You need to go check it out!

comfy boy clothes

shirt and flip flops

sun dress

young old navy shopper

We had a great time on our shopping trip, so of course we had to come home and have a photo shoot in our new clothes.  No matter that it was raining!

sweet siblings

siblings walking in the rain

sibling hug

brotherly love

kid old navy models

These kids have my heart and are so stinking cute.  Put them in nice, clean clothes without any stains or food and it’s like over the top.  Since we were already outside, we enjoyed a nice rainy walk.

follow the leader in the rain

Kids playing in the rain

Thank you Old Navy for amazing prices year round, and this Kid and Baby Sale is just incredible!

happy kids1

If you don’t believe me on the deals, check out your local Old Navy store or look online.  You will be thankful you did!

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I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective, and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.

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Ruffled Fabric Bag

December 29, 2012 By Erica Deuel 4 Comments

Now that Christmas is over, I can show you some things I made as presents and gave away this year.  I’m not a fan of surprises but people I love are, so I have been withholding showing these presents.  I am excited to start with a walk through on this ruffled fabric bag!

Do sewing patterns scare you?  They scare me!  I have used sewing patterns twice with my mother-in-law’s assistance, and I’m still intimidated.  I think there is something with how they have to be precise and accurate that keeps me away.

Instead of buying a simple sewing pattern with canvas material, I preferred to buy a canvas bag for $2.99 (that I got when it was 50% off) to use as my template.  I would rather see what it is supposed to look like finished and take the time to deconstruct the bag by literally picking all the stitches out, just to sew it back together later.  Is this messed up?  Probably.

After taking apart a brand new bag, I picked out the fabrics I wanted to use as my ruffles.  I wanted to make the ruffles fun but also not too bright since this gift was for Matt’s aunt.  I cut my fabric into 3″ strips, and I then lightly folded the fabric slightly over every inch or so.  This created a ruffled look once I sewed a line at the top on the fold.

Once I had several ruffled fabric strips, I started pinning them onto my bag, leaving a little overlap of the two ruffles to cover the seam.  I started at the bottom of the bag and worked up.  Once they were all pinned on both sides of the bag, I was ready to sew the strips on.

After the strips were all sewn on the bag, I trimmed the “extra” ruffles that were hanging off the side of the bag.  Those you can just throw away.  The next step is to turn your bag inside out and sew up the edge of the bag to join the two sides of the bag together again.

inside out bag

To have the feminine flare at the end of the bag like mine, simply push the last two ruffles up so they do not catch in your sewn seam down the side of the bag.  An easy way to measure this is to fold the bottom of the bag back to what is was like and leave your ruffles out of that fold, so when you sew down the edge of the bag they are not caught.

I went back and added a ruffle on the top of my bag.  Since my bag was already closed all the way around, I simply overlapped the ruffle at the top and ended the new ruffle edge folded over so it looked like a ruffle.  I think the edge is pretty hidden this way.

edge in ruffle

I also covered the straps of my bag with a matching fabric.  To do this, cut two 2.5″ wide strips.  I then ironed my fabric strips to create a fold like this…

My bag’s straps were 1″ wide, so I ironed the fabric strip covers with a 1″ margin, so they would wrap around the original strap and could be sewn down the middle.

bag straps1

I literally then sewed down the middle of the strap, so my fabric covers were attached to the original straps.

Where the fabric covers started and ended I added a row of stitches to seal the fabric closed (as shown above).

It was not the prettiest finished look, so I hand sewed some big buttons over the handles’ edge to cover up the transitioning seam of fabrics.

I really liked it with the buttons, But I decided to pin on a big floppy flower I found at Old Navy for $2.99.  The bag can be worn with the flower, or it can easily be taken off for a different look.

I really love how it came out!  Now, that I have completed one bag, I think I could make it a lot faster a second time and might be brave enough to try just buying some canvas rather than a bag to add that destroying step at the beginning.

What do you think?  Do you ever add steps that seem to make your project easier, but they might actually make it harder?

Did you make any Christmas gifts this year to give away?

I hope you have a great weekend with your family and enjoy the last of this year!  If you have not entered my Year in Review Giveaway, please do!  It’s not too late!

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