turns out it’s just as hard to NOT photograph them! Today I asked hubby to take some shots of me so I can send them on over to Wild Olive for her sponsor post. I had an idea for a pose and we set to work making it happen. I had to sit on the floor and Nate thinks it’s hilarious when I do that. He also thinks I’m his personal chair. We had some trouble getting shots around him. Here are some outtakes.
Posted in kid fun
Honest I did drive to Chicago, well mostly I passengered, but I was there! Here’s my 1 pic to prove it.
Yep, that’s it the one picture I took at the craft fair. We just got so busy wandering around and looking at all the cool stuff I didn’t really take the camera out again. Silly me. I even stopped at the RVA booth and met Elsie, again no pic. Add to that the fact it’s taken me a whole week to write about the trip and I’m kind of failing at this road trip documenting thing. I’ve been soooo busy with back to school-ness, catching up on orders and just life in general!
I did manage to get some pictures of the city though.
We walked a whole ton! I was a big party pooper and didn’t want to pay $16 to head up the Willis Tower, I’m sorry bff, forgive me. So we did a lot of wandering and general checking things out. There was, of course, a stop for deep dish pizza. It was INSANELY HUGE! The picture doesn’t do it justice but it was basically like a huge piece of pie only it was pizza.
After struggling to eat 2 slices each we left with the other 2 in a take out container and wandered the streets. Realising we’d have no where to put our pizza on our 9 hour road trip home and night in a hotel we passed it on to a homeless man. He asked for change and we gave him pizza.
I loved the way the subway ran on top of the streets, I know it’s probably not really that awesome but it was new to me and therefore cool.
We kept walking around as it got dark, despite the fact that we still had a 4+hour drive to our hotel room. I really wanted to check out Navy Pier but, foolishly, I led us in the general direction of it which proved to be a dead end street that was on much higher ground than the pier, and separated from it by 2 highways. Next time Chicago.
I’ll find some time this week to share my purchases and some link love for the fun sellers I saw.
Posted in kid fun, other crafts
Tagged beautiful mess, chicago, craft fair, elsie, Etsy, renegade
I’ve been a bit of a slacker lately with my online classes. Don’t know if my brain just isn’t into it because I’m not in school right now and it’s still vacation or what, but I managed to get my act together and finish the tote project we were assigned in Home Ec. Actually, not only did I finish it, I finished it twice!! I decided to make the boys bags for when we go to the library. I also thought they’d be a good place to keep the library books during their stay in our house so I can find them easily when it’s time to return them. But now I’m thinking these bags are so cute they’d make great overnight bags too. I used my cricut to cut out some big letters on cardstock and used those as a template to cut the felt.
I did make this a few days ago, LA included the tutorial from her blog as a bonus in the class, but I’ve been making those for months so it doesn’t really count as part of my ‘homework’. I added the rick rack to be fun, and cause myself some headache, I still haven’t perfected the use of that stuff!
I went downstairs last night to make something that was consuming my brain. I did the usual, ‘oh I’ll just work through 1 show and then go to bed’ and as usual didn’t go to bed until hours later. After completing enough to get my creation out of my head inspiration struck while looking at some of my new lovely fabric scraps. Originally I wanted to attempt the boxy pouch but quickly realized none of my scraps were the right measurements. So I ventured off on a journey to make a lined pencil case type thingie. And boy did it turn out to be quite the journey!!
After much stitch ripping, brain scrambling and muttered potty mouth words I have a very sweet and cute Snow White zippered pouch! I even got fancy and stitched one of my new labels into it. Shout out to Jennifer for those wonderful little labels by the way.
I only had the one zipper, there was a trip to the fabric store this morning.
Tagged fairy tales, japanese fabric, kawaii, labels, pencil case, pouch, snow white, zipper
While Nate was napping on Sunday Wesley and I got a little creative. I cut the diaper box into a robot costume for him to play with. We covered it in some foil so he’d be all silver a shiny. Little did I know what I was getting myself into. When I asked him if he wanted to come with me to the craft store he said yes and asked to bring his ‘robot box’.
We picked up some decorations for the front (buttons and stickers) and back (stripes aka ribbon). Then once Nate woke up we headed over to my Aunt’s house to visit with my cousin for a bit while she was in town. My Aunt’s dog was not impressed with the outfit. Sorry it’s blurry, robots move fast!
Wesley asked for some cheese and crackers and then was presented with the problem of trying to eat them while being a robot!
Later I had to run out for some milk and other things and robot Wesley tagged along once again. *sigh*
I too jumped on the blogsphere bandwagon and decided to join in on Elsie’s 4 simple goals (before 2011). Then I sat around in a panic wondering what the heck I was going to choose to accomplish!
I think I’ve narrowed it down.
1. Be more present in everything I do. Mostly when I’m with the kids, the dishes can wait.
2. Read books in bed again, before sleepy time.
3. Take time for just me more often.
4. Try to take awesome photos.
My kids created and photographed by me.
Other nice fancy pants photos borrowed from We Heart It (click images for link to source).
Posted in kid fun
I was so happy to get to pick out some fun and girl-ish stuff to make for the lovely baby Samantha. I also got fancy and appliqued some t-shirts to go with the reversible pants. Needed a nice thoughtful gift and a break from being a pillow factory.
You can’t really see but there are little brown, pink and white birds on the first pants. I added some brown with white polka dot fabric to the inside to make rolling up the pant legs more fun. On the second pair of pants I actually cut the leg shorter and added that bank of green apple fabric so when she grows bigger and can’t roll up the pant legs they’ll still look like they have a fun contrasting cuff.
Now I just have to get her counting book all done! :)
Posted in embroidery, kid fun, other crafts, sewing
Tagged applique, baby, clothes, embroidery, handmade beginnings, reversable pants, toddler
My in laws are doing some renovating and I noticed some old sheets in the basement protecting the wine from all the dust. So I went ahead and asked for them! They’re a little beat up, used for painting drop sheets in the past it appears but I’m hoping to find some usable chunks of fabric.
I’m hoping I can get a skirt out of those, or at least one of them.
This one is just awesome! It was stuffed into a vent in the ceiling and appears to have some moldy spots on it hopefully I can still get some fun use out of it.
I’ve been crazily crafting lately! I think of something, make it, and as I’m finishing or ironing or stitching new ideas about it pop into my mind, modificiations/enhancements/things to change . . . OR just a whole other project idea entirely!! It’s hurting my head. It’s also starting to take it’s toll. Last night, despite promising myself, ‘just 1 more show while I craft’ I ended up heading to bed at about 1am. Which is ok if your 19 month old doesn’t wake you up at 6:20 :/ I’m hoping I can just keep going until my sleep in day on the weekend, at this rate it will need to be Saturday.
So here are some of the things occupying my time.
I’ve also been working on passport covers. Not sure what lead me in that direction, I suppose I want to travel. In the past 5 years I’ve been to so many places – Cuba, the Netherlands, Egypt, England (a few times), France, Germany, Spain on the last day of school everyone was asking me where we were going over the summer and I said ‘nowhere’. People were surprised. We were in England and Spain last December but I hadn’t returned to work yet so they didn’t really know about it. So I suppose instead of traveling this summer I’ll feel like I am and create us some cute passport pockets, and some for my shop!
Made these for my boys, the print is super cute it’s all full of Canadian things, maple leaves, beavers, moose, fish, and landscapey things it’s super fun. I’m making Nate some reversible pants out of it as well.
Initially I made this one for me but now I’m amending my design and might have to create another one for me.
The little cut out felt is for a monogram but I’m not sure where to place it without covering a cute animal peeking out!
Posted in crafty books, kid fun, sewing
Tagged handmade beginnings, monograms, pants, passport pockets
Posted in crafty books, kid fun
Tagged books, craft hope, heidi henney, jade sims, resources
