Jul 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sew strips that is…
I found a new fabric store while the kids were at dance last week…
Probably not a good thing.
This store has ONLY beautiful, adorable, marvelous fabric. They are tiny and know how to sew (unlike the chain stores I usually shop at.) They smock and have the most adorable baby girl dresses you’ve ever seen. Too bad my baby girl is a teenager!
I found it AFTER I’d made Jac’s nap-mat (which did end up very cute) but they had some even cooler material I could have used. (The one with the forest animals was too cute!)
This is what I ended up with:
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| 1933 Vintage Material- Chloe’s Closet by Moda |
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The material will make 5 aprons, so I’ll have enough for gifts.
I’m scared to start because I’ve never used a rotary cutter and was informed that
I was living in the dark ages. Wish me luck!
Jul 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
I thought I would be floundering a bit more this week since all my babies are in school.
No such luck.
We bought a fixer-upper to flip or rent and having crying fits so much fun cleaning, fixing, and dealing with contractor mistakes that I’m still sick about. On top of that, fundraising joys for school. I got six hours of volunteer time in already this week, probably more.
Yesterday, after feeling completely stressed out, I took Cole to the lake that is by the little house- the only redeeming quality I can find in it today. The lake was beautiful but very dirty. Kids hang out there and I found *whippits and other great things floating around. I think I’ll have my scout troop do a clean up soon.
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| Swans |
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| Happy Dog (before his swim) |
I have to keep telling myself all my stresses are self-inflicted and I have total control of that. Next week will be better. I say so.
*FYI- Whippits are where people suck the gas from the whipped cream cans to get high.
Jul 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
I am having to redo my blog design for the moment due to a loss of the template I was using.
Hope to get it done this weekend, but with
kids
houses to clean
other houses to fix
I don’t promise anything!
Jul 19, 2010 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
Today is the first day of school!
My 3rd, 8th, and Kindergartner
I spent all night making a nap mat cover for Mr. Jac.
I didn’t use a pattern, just sort of winged it from the nap mat my mom had made me in kindergarten (yeah, I still have it.) I put two stretchy circles of fabric on the end to tie it all up with, and Em made the pillow. I was happy to use the fancy star stitches my machine can do around the blanket. Fun!
All Rolled Up
Alien on the Blanket
All my kids are in school this year, and Cole and I don’t know what to do.
He wouldn’t stop barking when Jac was getting his clothes on like he was saying, “You can’t make HIM go too, it was bad enough when just the two big ones went!” My reluctant kindergartner was fine until I said “bye” in the classroom. I haven’t had a call yet, so wish us luck.
The house is too quiet.
Jul 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
I am really frustrated…
My book blog and cooking blog won’t allow people to comment for some reason.
I’ve been trying for awhile now to mess with the code or the setttings to see if it will fix the problem, but nothing has worked. Everything looks the same as on this blog to me. Today I even totally changed my book blog’s template and took out all the things I’d messed with in HTML, but still nothing. (By the way, let me know what you think of the look on the book blog. I’m not sure I like it.)
Maybe when the kids go back to school next week I’ll have time to fix all this mess. If I can’t, any suggestions on someone who can fix/redesign a blog?
Jul 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
(They don’t have their own website, but do have a facebook fan page.)
The Red Haven and Early Loring’s were in
We only picked a bushel and a half this year (150 lbs!)
Of course 75 lbs were for others (and yes, we can eat 75 lbs probably before I get them canned or frozen.)
This song kept going through my head…
