I’ve been busy like I think most of you are this time of year. I’m so enjoying family time, and Tuesday’s reaction to everything Christmas (the lights! the tree! the presents!). The days seem to be going by quicker (and the super short amount of daylight doesn’t help!). I was happy to see my studio looking like this yesterday:
Bathed in light! I took advantage of it and merged an idea I had earlier in the year, with one from the Yarn Harlot to come up with some stockpile kits from my own stash!
You might remember when I made myself a kit back in September and the mad scrapping that came out of it (that I realized today I still haven’t put away into albums, oops!).
Well I decided to put together some more to have to pull out through out the year. Stephanie (the Yarn Harlot) made herself a sock of the month club out of her stash of sock yarn and sock knitting patterns. She’s made up a pair every month and all she had to do was pull out the baggie of yarn + pattern and grab some needles. I love that idea.
I didn’t make up a dozen kits. But I did make four, plus one to dig into now (now being a relative term as I’m still merry making of course).
I tried to always include something older and something I especially love.
This bottom kit is the play with me now one I have sitting in a little tray on my desk. I have had this Klak tray from Ikea for years and it works great for pages/kits in progress.
I have realized a couple of things.
1. I have a lot of scrapbooking supplies.
2. I love them.
We have also re-arranged Tuesday’s room in preparation for her someday getting the railing off her crib and turing it into a bed.
I haven’t done a real nursery tour (at least I can’t remember doing one), because I didn’t actually get a bunch of matching stuff and decorate it like traditional nursery (lazy, plus the room was done being built about one week before Tuesday was born).
I ordered this giant beanbag for newborn photo shoots, but I’ll leave it uncovered in here when I’m not using it. Tuesday is loving this little nook (this is where the big reclining rocking chair was, we flip floped the furniture and put the bookcases in an L).
I finally put the branch drawer pulls on her dresser (that my grandfather made). I wanted to wait until it was painted white (along with the shelves for a more cohesive look), but who knows when I’ll get to that, and the other ones kept loosening up on me.
Where the giant chair is now. It takes up tons of space (has to be pulled forward so it can fully recline), and does not look as cool as those modern ones. You know what though? I would be a walking zombie with out this. Whose kid took three hours to get to sleep last night? Mine. Carmen asked me what I would do with my average two hours a night I spend rocking and cuddling Tuesday (Bj splits it with me most nights). I don’t know. Write the great American novel? Scrapbook my entire life in month? Miss cuddling Tuesday? Probably the latter. She is just so damn cute.
Expect more random check-ins until the first of the year when I have excitings things planned (very!).
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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I’m watching funny things and going to Portland (my quilt guild meeting was last night). So this pretty much took the cake.
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I really don’t even want to look at the photos from our trip. It was so much fun, but so is December in general and I’m getting into the holiday spirit. This makes it hard for my brain to wrap around lovely warm Hawaii! I didn’t take my camera with me much, but here are a few shots, and some things I want to remember.
-It was sunny and warm and lovely… and that didn’t mean I got to hang out on the beach and relax! Ha! More like the opposite. Tuesday wanted to explore and dig and get wet. I wish I could have some how recorded her little laugh when I held her by both hands and dangled her feet in a wave. She loved to feel the pull of the water going back out and would have happily been carried away if I let her.
-Diaper free! I was all about what was best for Tuesday when deciding to do Elimination Communication and cloth diapering, but I’m not going to lie having her be reliably diaper free by this trip was a big goal. Last year half my suitcase was diapers! She’s 23 months and has been in undies full time since 18 months. She prefers a little potty seat reducer on the toilet but will go on any potty if she has to. Only a couple little night time misses, but no biggie with the waterproof pad I brought for her playpen.
-The last of her baby chub. Seeing her in swimsuits really brought home how skinny and tall she is getting. Much more little girl than baby. Though I still call her baby, so she calls all babies AND toddlers babies, including Chloe.
-Speaking of names she thought Carmen’s was “mommy” since she calls me “mama”. The four girls would go out together and Tutu would call for her mama and mommy to come over to her or look at this. Totally adorable!
-4.5 months as an age gap is quickly becoming a mute point. Chloe can keep up with Tuesday and then some! She’s about the same size (just a little shorter), and is full time on the potty too. It was great to see Tuesday with a playmate all the time. They were crazy funny together, running up and down the halls of the hotel. There was some hitting and fighting; which I’ve never had to deal with before and hope I handled well.
-The train! Or really any train! We could here this little steam train from our hotel. It goes so slow you could easily keep up by jogging next to it. Tuesday could have ridden all day long.
-She didn’t need to be entertained and there really wasn’t a whole lot to see on the short ride. I’d love to know what she was thinking. She did point out animals, cars, trees, and the water to me.
-We went on this together again later, a mama daughter date, to a little nearby town. We walked around and had lunch overlooking the ocean. I only had a tiny purse with me. I imagine it was the first of many similar adventure’s thrown together at a moments notice with my girl.
-If we weren’t talking about trains then we were talking about hula! We happened upon a free hula show at the shopping center by our hotel out walking one evening. She loved it and was seriously entranced. That sealed the deal and we decided to take her to a real luau. For three hours she sat and watched the dancers. She even wanted to be held by one after the show (and felt up her coconut covered breast, hilarious!). We bought her a little hula doll we call Teetee, and it’s big around here.
-A great trip with great friends. Probably the only downside was gaining five pound before Christmas so I like slightly pregnant… and I am not! But who can resist those Caramacs? Who?!?!?!
-I would also like to point out the whiteness of Tuesday and I… it IS possible to go to Hawaii and not get tan/burnt. We found some great coral friendly/free of all the yucky stuff sunscreen at our local health food store. People kept thinking it was our first day because we were so white, ha! Take that skin cancer!
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