inside/outside

I'm still working on my projects but the truth of the matter is,..its not all going to get finished in time. I have this wonderful ability to work up more ideas, than can fit in one persons head. My list a five things quickly grew to 8 and I haven't finished anything yet. Hmm....(that was a sigh of defeat.) I need to go grocery shopping today. Which reminds me, that I'd much rather be doing this.

2 months old

Happy times

too much on my plate.

We are going on a trip to Disney World at the end of this month. What this means to me besides fun, is that I need to coordinate wardrobes, and get the family looking spiffy. This is a sport and more fun than anything else for me. But with only three and a half weeks until departure, trying to make five garments, (some for Easter which comes before we leave) and print some t-shirts, might be a tall order. Okay, its a tall order. I will admit it. I'm going to try anyhow. I'll document the finished pieces as I go.

Here is project #1: my everything bag.







I plan on putting a little zipper pouch inside for all my little goodies. You know, make-up, cell phone. I just ran out of "my babies are all peaceful, I should sew" time.

happy second birthday buddy

I wanted her to wear them some time soon,..

But it looks more like she'll fit them next year.
Here they are anyways. I should have ironed them before taking pictures.

edit: I meant to mention that they are pajamas.

6 weeks old

Yeah I know,..time flies when your having fun.

Do you remember these fisher price little people?
My mom saved the set I used to play with and brought it out for Samuel the other day. It brought on some serious imaginative play. He fed them all gold fish for dinner that night. With a few for himself of course.
(pictures courtesy of my husband)

mcdonalds is the worst

Yes thats right folks, sometimes we just go ahead and eat it.
It was one of those days and it just seemed right. (even though it wasn't.)

I actually got to set up my sewing machine and start a dress for phoebe. I'm using a pattern that I've had for a while, but I'm going to make a few alterations. I chose to make the small, but it is looking like it won't fit until September. Arg. I guess thats better than it being to small right?
I'm very excited to see if I can finish this project. I don't always make it around to completion.

My husband had me finally watch 300. I'm a fan of greek mythology and the like, and since I'm not bothered by gore in the least, I enjoyed it. That is minus, the over abundance of inappropriate nudity. (when is nudity appropriate?)

I heart babies in my bed

Joel showed Sam some vintage ( super nintendo) video games. He enjoyed it way to much and asks for the monkey games several times a day. He also continually tries to connect and power the system up by himself. After a couple days of this I decided it might be helpful to hide the evidence of its existence. So I put the controllers on top of our bookshelf. Sam spotted them and started making his way up the shelf. I'm not sure what to think really.



This valentines day morning Joel and I woke up with both babies in our bed. Even though this was at 5:30 a.m., it was still cute.

I made some little plans for tonight. Martha's ever so popular felt fortune cookies,

a new table setting,
for dinner and dessert.
My sweetheart surprised me with Amy Karol's Bend-The Rules Sewing!

boots again

I'm reading my new lucky magazine, trying to figure out what happened to fashion while I was pregnant. For some reason I find it really easy get lost in a lack of maternity fashion. And I really start to loose sight of what I really like to wear. I have some sewing projects in mind. A pair of shorts and a dress or two. I don't have patterns for either yet. Hopefully I can find some close enough to what I want so as to minimize alterations. Otherwise I might just wing it.
I want to get my feet into these brown babies.

Thats right, all the stores are trying to get everyone to buy sandals and I'm still looking at boots. I don't think I can help myself. I can wear boots with dresses in the spring can't I?


We are listening to this a lot lately, at Sam's request.

A smiling baby girl.

I ordered some new yarn from a recommended online discount store. I can't wait for the box to arrive! Who doesn't love getting packages in the mail? If it ever arrives (did I mention I have a hard time waiting?) I'm going to try to make the cabled footies in this book. I learned how to cable knit this past weekend and now I'd love to put the new skill to work.
In other random news, I love Trader Joe's and both babies have already peed on our new couch.