apron wings

A present for me

I saw a quilt in a box kit at the fabric store that was super ugly but I was digging the patchwork design. I cam home and thought I could recreate it with no problem but I have poor math skills and definitely underestimated this. Almost an entire pad of graph paper later I had it. Technically this started out as a nap quilt for Tony and I stole it. The apple/pear fabric makes me super happy and the pink was a little to girly. I added some super soft white cotton and wala! queen size. I'm super pumped that in a short amount of time I'll be sleeping under this! I definitely cannot handle quilting this on my machine so my mom is having it quilted for me for my birthday! YAY!!!

SIDE-NOTE: Check out my picture to the left, it's from my amazing unicorn birthday party Ashley P. threw me last year. It's my birthday face. This time I'm bringing the party to her.

This things a monster and every little gush of wind had it whipping around. Not a very easy subject to photograph. I have to say a special thanks to Tony for letting me use his clubhouse.

First Day of School

I really wanted to get one of those traditional first day of school picture where they stand there with the back pack on and give you a big cheesy smile but he was having none of it. He wouldn't even let Grandma take more than one.

But she trapped him in the car.

I've been super stressed and worried thinking about him starting school, but he was fine. He walked right in sat down with some other boys and started playing cars. I wish it was that easy to make friends, maybe if we all carried around hot wheels it would break the ice. 

Ashley M.'s Nappy Bag

It's always nice to get a compliment, and as a crafter there is no greater compliment than someone wanting you to make them something. Ashley M. e-mailed back as a friend of a friend who had bought a Nappy bag I made and asked to buy one when the baby came. I think she's due soon so hopefully this makes it on time. Collaborating over the internet can be tough sometimes but I hope she likes this,  her only specifics were reds and golds for the fabrics and owls, these kinda birds, or chicks for the embroidery. I went with chicks, I hope it is obvious what they are! This is the Amy Butler Nappy Bag Pattern altered just a wee bit and a changing pad of my own design. I'm not sure where the fabric is from but I had yards of it so I'm thinking it was a jewel of a thrift store find.

Cicada

"Tony's bugs" photo by Grandma

Tony has been collecting the empty "shells" of cicada with his grandma this summer, which he finds fascinating and rightly so. Check out T. Nathan Mundhenk's cicada moulting time series. Pretty Fascinating! We don't have any pictures that fancy but I fancy them.

"Cicada's in a hot dog holder" photo by Tony

Taking a break from being a bug collector

Budding Photographer

My little boy has become a budding photographer, he's always asking, "mommy can I take picture?" He's become adept at handling the camera and he never seems satisfied with my pictures, he usually checks them on the screen and then takes his own. Any time he wants to take a picture of any of us we spend a lot of time diving, crouching, and jumping to get into the shot, which has resulted in some pretty choice pictures of us at interesting angles.

Porch Flowers

Grandma

Grnadma

Grass

Mommy and Grandma

The Library Bag

I have always loved the library. Being homeschooled as a child meant that my siblings and I had the library to ourselves during the day. I looked forward to our bi-weekly walk to the library even when it was hot out, which in my opinion is anything over 73 degrees, nothing could keep me from the library. They have countless books and keep the air conditioner blasting, amazing. I never really looked forward to the walk home with my heavy load of books, although mom usually brought us a bag to carry them in. I now take trips to the Library with my little boy and he's become quite the "I can do it myself" -er and all of this got me to thinking about Library bags! I would have killed for one of these as a child, such independence - one pocket for your card and one for you money (for fines) and you can comfortably carry your own literary treasures. If you have a budding library enthusiast or know of one send them the link to my etsy shop!

Pants! Pants! Pants!

Last week while I was not posting I was busy making pj pants for my boy. Pj pants are always in high demand around here as they are either getting too snug or too short. Not being able to afford the character pj's he so desires from the megamarts I put $1 pattern day and 50% off novelty and character fabric coupons to good use. Thank you frequent buyer card! I finished 2 pairs of these a while back with every intention of making 8 and making them speedy but other things got in the way. Now with school fast approaching -yikes- it's been a flurry of crafting trying to get things done before I have even less time in which to do them. I made 7 pairs which gives me a total of 9 instead of 8 because the flocked red spiderwebs on the previous spiderman pants has been disappearing with each wash.

Pirates, Dinos, Trains, another Thomas, another Spiderman, Cars, and ...

...Transformers modeled by the grateful recipient. He loves all his pj pants and makes nightly request. Tonight I think he might feel like a pirate after I had to dig a golden necklace out of his nose.

Hot Fuzz-tival

For the DVD release of my all time fave movie I had to have a dinner/viewing party but first I needed the ultimate hostess apron

Menu

Meatloaf Cupcakes - I really wanted them to look like Heidi's but they looked really not cute but they were tasty

Church Lady Cheesy Potatoes - I made mine with hashbrown potatoes

Corn on the Cob

fresh strawberrys, veggies for dipping, crusty dinner rolls, and yummy Fuzzy beverages

and for dessert

Black Forest Cupcakes

It was a great night-delicious food, good company, and great movie