Its been a long time since I did the stroll.
Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back,
Let me get it back, baby, where I come from.
Its been a long time, been a long time,
Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.
Yes it has.
Okay, back to the blog. See, the trouble with a blog for me is that I'm usually too busy living life to write about it!
Since I wrote last:
I made a shirt for baby girl for the 4th:
Here she is wearing the top AND a braclet her great Aunt Lu made for her. It's extra special because Aunt Lu was called to heaven about a week ago. We'll treasure it always. It has little beads that spell Baby's name:
My husband became my "old man" again, this happens for about 4 months every year since his B-day is July and mine November. The rest of the year we're the same age, which I think is about 29 and holding.
Let baby girl have HER OWN ice cream cone (a very big deal for her, and the dog loved it too):
played with the kids in the backyard:
Painted my Big Boy's closet with Blackboard paint. As an ode to Randy Pausch, who was right, kids should be able to write on their walls, that's the start of creativity! Who knows, maybe someday my little one will have a submarine and an elevator too! The blackboard paint is great because my son can change his pictures over and over. You can see he's already drawn a hamster on a wheel (upper left), a person (lower left), a ladybug (lower right), and a sunshine (upper right), not to mention practicing writing his name and some abstract artwork:
And, what seems to be the bane of my existence right now, I'm making a wall mounted book display (a la Pottery Barn kids but without the price, although I think my percieved labor costs are quickly surpassing the cost of buying the darn thing). I just have to finish sanding it, paint it and hang it. The nice thing about making one is I can change the design (I used a stop at the bottom of each shelf rather than 3 dowels) and I can decide what color it will be (red). I also made the shelfs high enough to fit his beautiful Usborne picture books:
And I bought some fabric from a cool online store I found. It's called Crybabys Boutique. Here's most of what I bought (some is being used for gifts so I can't show that!):
An organic cotton rib knit for a dress for baby:
A Minnie Mouse Poplin, again for baby clothes:
A cotton Japanese Matryoshka print to embellish shirts and dresses for baby:
And this I didn't buy but totally want to. It's a cotton jersey knit and I've never sewn with a jersey knit before, so it's "the unknown", but I think it's a pretty cool fabric!:
Well, hopefully that is enough. I spoke with a friend the other day and she mentioned that she checks this blog for updates so now she'll have something to read!
Enjoy!
