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Month: July 2013

  • We have been going, doing, seeing, being, swimming, dancing, bike riding crazies this summer! I have a post half started with some of our adventures, but for now let me just say, we’re happy to be home for a while! Bennet better get with the program, we’re a family that likes to road trip, and hating the car is not going to fly!

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  • I have a million other things to do (first birthday party tonight!) but have been wanting to blog so badly. After years of blogging I just get this itch when it’s been a while! I made the girls matching tops by modifying RTW shirts (well Bennet’s was a onsie, but I’m not a onsie fan and all of hers are chopped off like this). I’ve had the idea to do this for years (in fact, the grid fabric I bought for this specific project for 12 years, the shame!). I got a fabulous shirt when I…

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  • I have some major catching up to do on the blog. And a post has been started with photos of fun things we’ve been doing. But it’s Summer Kids Clothes Week and I decided I had to participate. So here’s what I’ve made so far: My little poser. This is a sweet and easy little bubble top that I lengthened into a dress length to make a nightie out of this very soft tissue knit (from Fabric Depot’s outdoor sale last year). Very good for spinning. She loved this. She loves most everything I make, I’m…

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