The Liebster Award

Good Morning ! 

I am really honored to be nominated for the Liebster Award. 

I will go ahead and post Sewing Mama RaeAnna's description, since it was very well put. 

Still working!!

Hi! I'm still here, and I'm still working. This has been a particularly busy week at homeschool because on Monday and Tuesday we had a friend of mine's son here with us.
We especially had fun on Tuesday because we went and visited the zoo. It wasn't too cold& the kids ran like mad. A mothers dream.


And today we were lucky enough to have a newborn baby, Katherine, here to play with us. She's just the sweetest little sleeper, i feel so odd not "playing" with her. How could i forget the blob days of my little man simply sitting and observing? 9 months moves by so quickly.

Through all of our visitors, I have been slowly trucking on my stripes and polka dots entry for the second challenge of project run and play. I made a couple of changes to my line up ...

First, I had misunderstood the challenge and thought that you chose either stripes or polkadots. Now after rereading the blog I realize it was stripes AND polkadot challenge. It reminds me of that old commercial ... where they have to change the name from sign& drive to sign THEN drive. lol... well back to the drawing board.

I had not wanted to do another dress this week because of last weeks challenge. Unfortunately, because of the mix up I couldn't use some of the pieces I had created for this weeks outfit. I didn't want it to feel like I was throwing polkadots on top of an already made outfit. It's not a good idea to do with any outfit, but especially with polkadots and stripes together. Am i right or am i right?

Well, thats where i'm at, don't count me out!

Week 1: Project Run [and] Play : Pattern Remix

Happy Project Run& Play everyone! 

I am so excited to be on my game this season & ready to post about my remix on THE FIRST DAY rather than two weeks (*or never) after it's over. booo for procrastination& perfectionism. 

I promise I don't share them because I don't feel like they turned out great. 

Like last season, I was STOKED to do the white sheet challenge. I almost completed an outfit, a pair of comfy fully lined drawstring pants (dyed burnt orange) and jacket that buttoned up the front. First, my pants didn't have enough rise on the waist & were kind of the wedgie-type. Poor girl. Then the jacket dyed a dull brown rather than the fall leaf brown I was shooting for. & from there I completely lost motivation and never even took photos.

The pants sit in her drawer unused& jacket in the closet. slightly used. 

This season I vowed to be different. 

I went big. 

I went bold. 

I even went detailed. 

... and guess what? I really like what I made. 

Christmas Photos :: A Quick Look at a Simple Gift

Each year, me & the mom's club (as we like to call our little group of mothers) like to get together and have the girls photographed for their grandparents. Unfortunately, each Christmas, budgets also tend to get very tight for each of us. This year, for the FIRST TIME :), I was confident enough to give them a photograph of the girls that I took. We brought them together on a sunny day, laid down a white sheet facing one of the huge picture windows & snapped away. 

Happy Festivus to the rest of us.

Good morning! It's so close to Christmas & I'm really excited to hand so many of my family members a little something I've handmade them. No I didn't pair it with lots of store bought goodies... why? Simply put, because more isn't better. I love Christmas for so many reason: the snow, the family, the thoughtful gifts, the unnecessary acts of kindness, the feeling of a global community. I also have many things I really dislike: my house gets trashed and crowded from all the gifts, my daughter can have streaks of "needing" everything or being sad that wishes don't get delivered to your lap, i DO NOT like to shovel. 

So this Christmas I am focusing on the things I love, and trying to save some stress for myself and others too. Less present, more meaning, more time spent DOING and less time spent GETTING. 

With that said, here are some of my handmade Christmas items. 

<3

my niece syd loves octopuses. and orange. 

What I've been doing...

Hello all, it's been quiet around my house these last few days. We had my dad and sister in town visiting for Thanksgiving, so lots of hustle and bustle... even for this quick moving family. 

Since my dad was occupying my craft room/spare bedroom there wasn't much going on in terms of sewing. 

Baby Boy/Littlest monster chose Thanksgiving to debut his new crawl. I was so excited. He went down for nap a boy who rocked back and forth and woke up a crawler. So, one day after his 8 month milestone he crawled. That'a boy. 

little man khaki pants

I don't know why, but I am so terribly obsessed with dressing my 7month old boy as a man. My heart nearly bursts when I find a tiny clip on tie or long sleeve button down. Those things are hard to find especially when you aren't willing to pay a LOT for them. Instead, I really do try to create the pieces that I can't purchase. Which is tricky since my last sewing class was in junior year of high school :/ . So I pin inspiration and have been trying to find patterns that follow along with the styles I like. (you can follow my little BOY fashion board on pinterest)

The newest pattern purchased (that I've finished, I've got another on the way!) is called "the unisex pants with adjustable waist," &I bought on etsy from The Lily Bird Studio.