Grateful for such lovely flowers…even though it snowed on Monday. Hope they survive! Funny kids..and childhood obsessions. It is currently Beyblades. At least he used his imagination and created one out of Legos. 🙂 We told them they HAD to […]
As I was taking the pictures for this outfit, I was a bit struck at how it looked like I was trying a costume on from an earlier era. Oh well. These pieces will be fine in more modern […]
Kailan has his First Communion coming up, and they need to have some fancy dress for this momentous occassion. He gets to drink wine. In church. I know some kids will likely show up in suits, but I didn’t want […]
Grateful for an early spring. Grateful for fun Easter traditons. Grateful for new Easter fun. My cousin’s family has an Easter egg hunt and games each year, and they invited us over for the festivities. The kids had a great […]
I wanted to make some new wristlets. I tend to use these a lot and my current one is from last April. The white ribbon is quite stained from a year’s worth of use, and I also wanted something with lighter […]
This Spring, we will turn the little garden by the kids’ playset into a fairy garden. It usually ends up unused and derelict all summer. There are a few iris that have been planted, but for the most part it has […]
I have a “slight” problem with random bits of papers being strewn around my sewing room. They are patterns that I draft and have no home. In the past I have been taking a gallon ziplock bag, writing on it […]
Grateful for those rather interesting moments of childhood. The kids were packing food for the Horn of Africa this week at their school and each were given their own hair net (the kids all packed 55,000+ meals!). Anya thought this was […]
You know how they say, measure twice and cut once? Yeah, I need to listen to that. I thought I might be able to squeeze a maxi skirt out of this green embroidered fabric, but alas I was about 1/3 […]
Brian sent me this recipe from Zester for Quiche à la Choucroute. It sounded pretty interesting and a new way to use the sauerkraut that his sister made up and canned for the family. This was pretty yummy, but unfortunately, the children […]
Kailan has been asking, and asking, and ASKING me to make him a cushion for his room. I have a bunch of fabric to fill it after my recent sewing binge, so I was able to fulfill his request. Like […]
Here is the next version and top #7 using this pattern. At least they are all a little bit different! I used two types of fabric on this one. The periwinkle blue is a stretchy synthetic fabric. It could be used as a bottom-weight, […]
