Valentines Already?? Yep, I am crazy.

I couldn't resist trying out this new pattern that I bought off of etsy today.  It is called a Peek-a-boo skirt and the pattern was made by LittleLizardKing.  Here is the link on etsy, I have made several of her patterns now and they are great for beginners with lots of pictures to guide you.  I am going to attempt a shirt of my own design to go with it, but I will have to get back to you on that, it may be a disaster!

Evie was my model today, and she is sick and fairly non-compliant (not that disobediance is unusual for her.... she is like that even when she is feeling good!) so the pictures aren't well styled.  Also, the settings I used were obviously not right because the lighting looks like crap in the photos.  Now that I am done apologizing for my shortcomings, here are the pics!

I fed her a cake pop in hopes of bribing her into good behavior.

I would have loved this picture if it wasn't so blurry and she should have been wearing a diaper cover.



Gingerbread Aprons

We found out a few days ago that Adam will be having his hernia surgery on January 7th which was the day before we had planned to hold Mylie's 4th birthday party.  For various reasons, we couldn't hold the party the week before the 7th, and the week before that is Christmas!  So we decided to have her birthday party a mere week away from now.  GULP!

So today, I had the gorgeous invitations designed by Danny (whose website has slipped my mind for the moment but I will add it in later or you can comment and I will get you a link.  If you need awesome digital photo invites that you can just print off at your local photo shop he is your man!) printed out and I will be hand delivering those tomorrow. 

I was inspired by this blog to hold a gingerbread decorating party.  Should be easy enough to do considering the house is already decorated for Christmas!  Each child will have a station with a gingerbread house (already put together and solidified, because we all know kids just can't wait for it to dry!) and all the icing and candy they need to make it beautiful!  I will be sewing each little girly their own gingerbread girl apron to wear while decorating as well as sending them home with the finished gingerbread house.   I have quite a few more ideas up my sleeve but will save them for later!

Here is Mylie, modelling the first apron I made yesterday.  I bought the pattern from my favorite place of course, etsy.

Two Steps Behind and Something Cute

Sometimes I feel like no matter how hard I try, I am always two steps behind!  The day started by rushing to get all three kids ready to get out the door and into the car.  As usual, I got Laina to school somewhere in the 5 minutes between the bell ringing to lineup for class and the bell ringing for school to start.  It is always a race to get her in the classroom before the door closes.  The day went on in the same vein, with me rushing to get Mylie into her dance clothes for the first class of the day (she has 2 on Wednesdays) and then being 5 minutes late to class.  After a quick trip to the mall, I was just settling down to some sewing with Evelyn napping in her crib and Mylie parked in front of Yo Gabba Gabba when I get a call from the school.  Seems it was an early dismissal day for parent-teacher interviews and I was the crappy parent who forgot and whose child was sitting in the office 20 minutes after all of the other kids had gone home with their responsible parents!  That wasn't the last of my rushing around but I won't bore you with the rest of the details.  It is sufficient to say that I will be glad when the Christmas break begins and I can get myself rested and re-organized!

And as promised in my last post, I got my sewing machine going again (who knew that they needed to be oiled once a year in order to work properly??) and finished up my latest project.  I've almost never made anything for an adult before so this is one of the rare times when I will be forced to model my project!  That being said, this is a Retro Chic Apron pattern that I purchased from etsy, and I *think* since trying it on, that it was intended for someone with a beautiful, curvy body, not someone like me who is built like a 10 year old.  And not just any 10 year old... a 10 year old BOY!  So I think I will be gifting this as a Christmas present.

Let me know what you think!  I love to get comments on my posts!