Baby Angry Bird Costume

I'm letting the cat out of the bag a little early this year.  Our family, well most of us, are going as Angry Birds this Halloween!  And I don't know if you've priced out the costumes, but, uh, they ain't cheap!  So it was time for Mommy to think outside the box.

And I started with out youngest.

The yellow angry bird.

Here's what I found online.

And it would never do.

So I bought a long sleeved onsie.

And some lemon yellow Rit Dye.

I couldn't find a face online really, so I drew one.

(feel free to print it out and enlarge it as you see fit.)

I dyes the onesie and cut the face out of red, white, black, and orange felt.

I ironed some interfacing onto the wrong side of the front and appliqued the face right on that little onesie.

I also sewed on a little ribbon for the feathers and secured it with a button.  I think it makes it a little more girly.

Now, to add to the adorableness, I made a tutu, using my favorite go to pattern.

I cut a ribbon, black of course since the yellow bird has black tail feathers, and tied knots with about 20 inches in between.

I cut 3 yards of yellow tulle into 6" strips that were 12" long.

I popped in a movie turned on Netflix and tied and tied and tied.

And ended up with this.

Could you just die?!

Now for the cherry on top, I made a little bow.

I used a combination from two tutorials, found at Craft Rookie and Funky Polkadot Giraffe.

And looky looky what I made!

Cute little tuft of feathers if I do say so myself.

Add a black headband and some black tights and we're ready to charm the pants off of anyone we meet!

Halloween here we come!!

Installing New Glass Onto An GE Oven Door

I know, this is a very different topic for my blog, but we had the unfortunate opportunity to replace the glass on our oven range door.

We had a small incident with a child's chair which caused a massive explosion.

And much sadness.  

 So I called GE and got the information I needed.  It was no longer under warranty so we would just have to call someone locally.  I talked to someone in the parts department and got the part number, and then went to  Parts Select.com and ordered a new glass door.

It was WAY cheaper than I thought it was going to be and  arrived in really good time.  We're talking 4 days. 

There were NO instructions anywhere online.  There was a picture.

When I talked to the parts department, this is what he directed me to.

Soooo...

In order to help anyone else who has this problem, here's what we did.

First, unscrew the inside of the door using a torx bit.

There are two screws in the inside of the door that allow the glass to separate from the door itself. 

We've opened this before when I spilled pumpkin pie filling and it got inside. 

Once those screws are loosened, remove the handle assembly. 

 We used a 1/4" socket and took out the screws that attach the  handle onto the frame.

 There are two on each side.

 Once the handle is removed, you need to be careful not to let the door close because it could bend the frame.  This requires a second person.

 There are clips on the inside of the handle assembly that hold the glass in place.

 Remove any glass from under those.

 Then get the brand spankin' new shiny glass,

Align the glass into the bottom of the frame. 

 Line up the side rails of the frame with the glass.

 Position the handle back onto the glass and frames.

 Reattach the screws on either side

 The attatch the door back onto the frame and glass.

And just like that, good as new. 

 Start to finish, it took us less than 30 minutes to complete.

And that was with me saying "Stop!  I want to take a picture"

Moral of the story here is to keep all children's chairs out of the kitchen to avoid further explosions.