Back to the Future

Okay, after making baby girl an apron I thought about making myself one too. So I went out looking for fabric and this caught my eye. It looked very kitchen-ish. And the green fabric caught my eye too so I bought some and made the skirt. Oh, and Never say Never, because I didn't think I'd ever try to sew clothes for myself again, but I did, and this time I managed to figure out the invisible zipper (eventually). I wore the skirt yesterday and it is quite comfy. I'm a skirt gal though, that or jeans. Today big boy wanted to make lemon cake (the recipe was in his latest issue of "High Five" magazine) so I got out my apron and we made it! While it was baking I thought it would be fun to try and look like a 50's housewife baking. So I put some makeup on, dug out the pearls, and voila! Honestly I can't stand wearing so much makeup, it feels so yucky, good thing I didn't live back then I guess. Here's the picture (big boy took it). We're off to eat cake!
PS- Can anyone spot why I'm a dunce. Post a comment if you figure it out (there may be more than one reason , Lord knows I'm not perfect, but there's one "duh" thing in particular I noticed).

ETA: The "duh" thing was that I didn't notice the fabric was directional and I made it upside down. The stems are all on the bottom of the lemons. I thought some were stem up and some stem down (would have made more sense), but apparently not! Oh well!

If you don't win it, make it!

You may remember a few posts ago I entered a giveaway for a toddler apron. Well, the winner hasn't been posted (at least not last time I checked) and maybe I'm a pessimist thinking I didn't win because I broke down and made one similar, so this is "inspired by Grosgrain". I didn't use any really good fabric though. I just used what was in my stash, stuff I can live without that I bought cheap. Of course, this would be cuter with the dress in the giveaway, but for now it's got me satisfied. And it fits big boy too (not that he'd be caught dead wearing it, he did humor me to try it on for me) so I know it'll fit her for a while. I also made the shirt baby girl is wearing. It was easy enough, but next time I'll leave a smidgen more room for the elastic, I had to use a REALLY small safety pin to thread it through and that was a bit of a pain in the rear. And again, I used stash fabric, nothing fancy. I'm too much of a nervous Nelly to just jump in with expensive fabric for a new project. And it's proabably a good thing too, this shirt was a tad on the short side. Next time I might make it a dress. Anyhow, here's the apron and shirt:





The back:

And, here you can't see it, but she's have a utensil battle with her brother, he has a wooden spoon:

I've gone to the birds!

I am in love with birds now since deciding it was going to be baby girl's next room theme. This week I decided to get a jump on some artwork. I had an old picture frame I wanted to fill and a friend gave me some of her old scrapbook paper and I got to work. Here's the finished product:







And on a different note, I don't know what's up with blogger. Some of my pictures from older posts aren't showing up. But I found that if you click on where the picture should be you can still see it. Strange. Anyhow, have a good weekend!