I Did It...

I think. I got all the jammies done, now all they need is a wash. I have been able to work on some bonus projects for my little girl. She had a rough week last week, this summer she fell and hit the bathtub with her chin and split it open. It was derma-bonded back together, but last Tuesday she took another good fall on our hard wood floor and split it open again, this time needing three stitches. It was the most horrid moments of motherhood thus far to date and the fact that I got an on call doctor that was a dink (that's being nice) didn't help any. I took the stitches out tonight after she fell asleep so we didn't have to go through any more excessive trauma. Looks good, but she is going to have a nasty scar, the stitch job was not so good, but at least it's under her chin. I figured some twirly skirts would be fun for her. Maybe the sun will shine long enough tomorrow for me to get some pictures of what I got done. If I don't get back till after Christmas, then Merry Christmas to all!!

Luke 2:1-20 The Christmas Story, the reason for the season, Jesus Christ!!!

Craftiness at its Best

I have been having so much fun that it was hard to take a break and blog. I don't have any pictures, you will probably get them all at once. The little girl I babysit is in Australia to visit family, hopefully their flight left the airport before the snow it yesterday. And, we will be on break from school starting this Friday and won't have to start again till Jan., I love homeschooling, we have such flexibility and the boys are flying by leaps and bounds. Asa read an entire Magic Tree House book last night before he went to bed and he's only seven.

I am hoping to be able to carve out some time to do some major updating to this blog, I have read some great books, finished some projects and have taken tons of pictures of the kids. I also have some projects that I have set aside for myself, a new vest and a new messenger bag. So, I am ready and set and now I am going to go!!!!

Here is some baby goodness for you all, and yes he has a pink bib on, a hazard that comes from having a sister that is only two years older than you are. He loves pasta of any kind and insist on feeding himself. At least this time he didn't use his food as hair gel.

Ahhhh!!

I have decided to keep a notebook and pen beside the computer when I am checking out all the cool blogs out there because I see something really cool that I want to do and I think "I can remember that one" , but I don't. I was just over at Little Birdie Secrets looking for something and found the post on the fun crochet washcloths that I had wanted to make but never got around to it. Ultimately there are just to many fun things to try and not enough time to do all of them. I have been trying really hard to prep all of my projects in the evenings so that on Saturday I can sew like a mad women and get lots of things done. So far its working, so hopefully I will have some great pics by Sunday night, but I can't promise because it is deer hunting opener this weekend and Jake will most likely be out all of Saturday so my sewing time will revolve around nap time. Maybe I can send the boys to Maga's for awhile.

Holy Cow.. Am I Behind

I was showing my MIL how to send a picture with am email the other day and in the process ended up going through all the pictures on the computer. I can't believe how many projects that I have done and not posted. So here we go, we will see how many we can get done before my little cling - on realizes that I am gone. I started this post at 2:30, it is not 4:41, just an FYI, when your 2 1/2 year old is quiet for too long, investigating sooner rather than later is a good idea


I made these fun polka dot fleece pants for Grace with some fleece that my sister gave me. They fit perfect, a little to perfect, the next growth spurt she has will make them to small. But, alas, not all is lost, my niece Clair can wear them next. I use Katrina's Sew Quick pattern. I now figured out why they fit so perfect, I didn't add the seam allowance like I was suppose to, it pays to read the directions (I apparently haven't figured that out yet)

I made this fleece cover for the little girl that comes and plays during the day. It is mermaid fleece with an extra soaker layer sewn in the crotch. I used a thinner fleece for binding on the edge. I sewed the extra in the middle first, then my elastic as close to the edge as I could, then the binding. I put right sides together and sew binding around the entire edge of cover, then I fold over the binding twice so you have a nice edge on the other side. It is easier for me this way because you don't have to make sure you catch both sides at the same time like with FOE. I have to take the velcro off the cover and make tabs instead, it was a touch to small around the middle. This is the Rita's Rump pattern, and while gathering the link I again discovered that reading the directions is a plus, there were supposed to be tabs on this cover in the first place.

I also made this cover for the little girl next door, it is a Katrina's Sew Quick Pull-up Cover, I love these because they work with fitteds or prefolds. I love them at night, fleece just seems so cozy and there is no elastic to rub or get too tight. I should have made it one size bigger, but because it is left over Christmas trees, Jairden can use it. Yes, I did sew the extra soaker layer in crooked, but I didn't notice it till the whole thing was done and I wasn't going to take it apart.

One down, I don't even know how many to go, but hey, at least I got the projects done in the first place.

A Very Productive Weekend...

We:

finished staining the bunk bed

painted half of a very large bedroom

several loads of laundry

started the curtains for said half painted bedroom

baked cookies, made granola, roasted a chicken, made beans and rice and better butter

washed a weekends worth of baking dishes in a single session

finished two pairs of jammy pants and a pair of short-alls (now that it is autumn)

untangled a mass of yarn (started dress for Grace, decided I didn't have the right yarn after working on the bottom hem all week, ripped it all out, didn't get to winding it back up before the kids got to it. A very patient and loving hubby helped me untangle it at 10:30 at night when he would have rather been doing something else.)

toilet paper holder and towel bar affixed to a stud, so hopefully that is the last time it had to be put up

tried to participated in a recipe swap, but so far not very many people seem interested in doing

Researched more about hypothyroidism since I can't find a doctor to prescribe Amour(a natural hormone versus the synthetic I was taking), I stopped taking the synthetic because I couldn't stand the side effects anymore. I decided that taking a pill everyday for the rest of my life is not the answer, I needed to figure out how to heal my body. I am going back to biblical basic, Genesis 1:29, a primarily raw foods diet, the one that God gave to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. My husband says that I am so far into the deep end that I am out of the pool!!

I hope all of you had a great weekend!!

Bean Bags for Micah

My nephew Micah turned three today and we are going to his party tonight and I needed to whip up a last minute present. As I was talking to his dad he was throwing Lincoln logs and that's when the idea hit me, bean bags, something constructive to throw. Four bean bags, sidewalk chalk(to draw a target) and a bag to hold it all. If I would have had more time I would have made a better bag and done some applique on the bean bags. I free handed an embroider "M" on one of them, it turned out pretty good

Girls Night Out

I went out with girls from church tonight, we celebrated July birthdays. We went for a boat ride and out to dinner, it was lots of fun. I made this little bag for my friend Sara, I even took the time to do french seams, I love french seams. Next time I will fuse to pieces of fabric together so that it is a little more sturdy, it was a little flimsy for my taste. I stuffed a plastic bag in it to get the pictures.

This is a french seam. You sew wrong sides together, then right sides together, so your first seam is sandwiched in between the second seam.

Not the best picture, but as you can see it is shaped like a box.
I made a little charm for the zipper pull. It was lots of fun. I found the tutorial here.
http://threebears.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/little-boxy-pouch-tutorial/

Feels Like Nothing was Done

Last week was horrid. I thought I would be able to get tons of things done, not to be. It took so much out of me to get my boys back and forth from VBS and it rain all week. I tend to suffer from SAD and it was a long raining week, hence no lawn mowing, so it looks like the African plains in my front yard. My jewelry board looks really sad, but I work well under pressure so we will see how it goes. Laundry got done, but that always gets done or we wouldn't have room to move in the house. I have one diaper half done and one pull-up done, I need to go and get more elastic.

Up side, my kitchen is clean and I got a little further in the decorating of the bathroom. We have lived here almost six months and it looks like we just moved in as far as the walls are concerned.

We went for a wonderful bike ride on Saturday afternoon. We must have been quite a site, my mom and dad have a tandum bike, my two boys, and my husband and I both had bike trailers. It was a blast and I think it will have to be a Saturday afternoon event from now on.

Just Say No!!! I Can't

Apparently I can't say no. I now have so many things to do I think I am going to explode. I love doing things for other people, I just hope they don't expect me to be Mrs.Speedy. So, to all of you who have asked for diapers or pull-ups, hopefully I will get them done before your child is fully potty trained. To my loving family, make this loaf of bread last because I don't know when the next one is coming.

Happy Father's Day

I hope all of you had a HFD, ours was very busy. It kind of started last night when the boys and hubby went to the dirt track races with my husbands dad and brother(and his kids). The track is an hour away so they didn't get home until about 11 pm.

Yesterday, we were also suppose to receive our baby chicks in the mail, but they didn't come. Low and behold, 12:30 am, the post office an hour away calls to tell us that our chicks are here. Our options, go get them now, 12:30am, go get them before 6:30 am, or wait until Monday morning and they will be sent to they local post office. Errr....
My wonderful husband was up at five this morning and went and picked up the peeping little box, they are so stinking cute! The one with the naked neck is called a turken, he/she wasn't picked on.
We had a very rainy picnic this afternoon, we were under the shelter at the park, the kids played on the playground and got soaking wet, but they had fun. We also had great food, which is always a blast when you love to eat like I do.

I also sewed my little J a hat this afternoon, it resembles a train engineers hat or a old time baseball cap. I had an engineers hat to look at, but it had enclosed seams, so it was only kind of helpful. It was only after I was done that I saw a tutorial of a similar hat on mushroomvillagers.wordpress.com, but I put mine together a different way and I also used some elastic in the back of mine.

So many ideas...

I have almost finished every started project in my craft room, most of it was cloth diapering supplies the have been cut out for nine plus months. I also made a skirt and ponytail scarf for G. I want to try and make a hat for her too, like a old school baseball cap. A little girl at my sons baseball game had one and it looked so darn cute. I also sketched out a purse, we'll see of my creation can go from paper to fabric. I took some pics of the skirt and scarf, the fabric is black with multicolored polkadots. It is kind of long but she said she wanted to keep it that way when I asked her if she wanted it shorter.