Sewing for little girls is really fun, you can add extra touches to make your pieces special….things like bum ruffles!
I used some Japanese fabric that I had been saving and paired it with some of my Bubble Gum Basics. I modified the rise on these (because the last time I made them the rise was WAY to high), but I went too far i guess, as the rise is now too short! I will be unpicking it tomorrow and adding a casing out of the polka dotted fabric to bring the rise up a bit.
I still think they turned out super cute! Next up, the little one needs a jacket…i’m thinking linen with embroidery.
The bigger the mess, the more fun that was had, right?! We had some sweet friends join us for great food & great conversation. Nothing makes a Sunday better in my book than company for Sunday dinner…oh and add a little rain, thunder and lightning to the mix and really is was a great Sunday night.
I’m off to sew a button for Aaron and curl up with Dr. Pepper & Charles Dickens “Great Expectations”.
I stumbled upon a magazine by the above name- “seeing the everyday“, devoted to seeing the prosiacs of life.
I love this message!! I’ve always thought that if we stop and look, we can find beauty and joy in the daily minutia of our lives. Which is why I decided to take the camera on our morning walk yesterday…to capture the beauty.
I love the look of my oldest daughter with orange plastic sunglasses and shoes on the wrong feet! I loved that she stopped at every corner to do her “exercises”; and the sweet moment of her showing a toy squeaky mouse to her baby sister.
This is the stuff that I will remember and miss when they are all grown and I have all the free/quiet time I could possibly want. I may or may not remember the times we dressed them up fancy and took their pictures, but I do want to remember that:
when my son was 3 he would stop at every fire hydrant on our way to twist the top bolt
that my middle daughter liked to exercise at every corner
that my youngest gives the sweetest smiles upon waking each morning
What are some of the beauties of your everyday life?
Babers was 2 months old yesterday…I decided it was time for a real work out, not just walking. So this morning I popped in a VHS tape I thrifted a while back of the Cindy Crawford workout (perhaps I take this thrifting thing a bit too far?), I remember doing it in high school a few times and thinking it was good, so surely it will help me now.
Well, one 45 min workout later and I could barely stand because I was so dizzy and felt like I was going to loose my breakfast. I think I over did it. I proceeded to then lay on my bed in the fetal position for 2 hours before the nausea passed. I’m feeling better now, but decided I needed a chocolate cream egg to give me the strength needed to go shower (because totally undoing everything I accomplished with chocolate is the smart thing to do, right?).
I’ve decided the tape is going in the trash and I will continue walking- and NOTHING MORE, because really, who wants to look like Cindy Crawford anyway if it requires that kind of effort 3 days a week. Not me. In all reality I’m pretty happy with my body, just a little tummy jiggle that I would like to eliminate is all. Surely there is another way…
Spent the afternoon playing Monopoly with my family- until my son decided that he would rather play alone in his room with his “attitude”. *sigh*
Evening spent in the kitchen; roast chicken, rosemary roasted potatoes, corn, home made lion house rolls & pie.
All kids are now in bed, which is where I am headed with my copy of “Great Expectations”…nothing more inviting than freshly bleached sheets & a good book.
Found out my husband gets to take a business trip to N. California next month. Green with envy. Spent all day yesterday telling him I want a trip- that maybe we should go to Hawaii with the baby this summer- only to have to listen to his million and three reasons why we can’t go. Decided maybe I just need a weekend in San Fransisco…without Mr. Stick-In-The-Mud…any travel companions out there?
Hope your friday proves to be more exciting than mine!
in case you can’t tell, the green/blue of her shirt is NOT the same shade of aqua in her pants. It’s the Dorothy shoes with the frog socks that really make the outfit…don’t you think?!
i stumbled upon this today….and oh my goodness did I need it. Been feeling really out of my element with this whole mommy thing lately, if I were the crying type, this might have brought me to tears, that’s how much I needed it today.
Why didn’t I hear about the event before? Maybe in 2010.
