Are these two little peanuts:
Karen's beautiful twin (fraternal) girls. On the left is Kourtney, on the right Kathryn. 
Tuesday and I spent yesterday over there "helping out" I use that term loosely, though I did bring food. My almost, but not quite 12 pounder is such a big bright eyed baby now! I notice all the little things she does, but seeing her next to these babies really showed me how much she's changed. She was about the same size as Kathryn when she was newborn.
That's Kathryn, Karen and I think that she and Tuesday might be bestest friends soon, as they seem to have similar personalities. 
Little Kourtney is just mellow, mellow, mellow. This is the first picture of her with her (so pretty almost purple) eyes open. 
Seeing Karen in that newest part of motherhood made me so happy. She has a wonderful fun spirit, and I know she is going to be (and IS being) a great mother. Snuggling with Tuesday and letting her nurse as long as she wanted tonight until her sucks were little flutters I'm just amazed with Karen and her girls. At only 18 days old we even loaded up our strollers and went out for a walk. I feel so lucky to know so many amazing women who are having or have just had babies. Lucky Tuesday to have so many little friends so soon. 
Now Chloe we're just waiting on you, come out, come out!
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Seam allowance that is. When I calculate quilt stuff or any kind of sewing thing it seems the math and I never really get along. A few weekends ago Sciarrino came over so we could have one of our good old craft days (yeah!) and I worked on a project you might remember me blogging about a while ago… if you read my blog in April 2006, oh the shame of my half finished project pile!
I laid out all of the triangles for placement (pattern is from Denyse Schmidt Quilts – Flock of Triangles). My little Sparkle Pants took her longest nap ever in the swing in an attempt to get me to focus on this project:
A valiant effort. I did get it all laid out and into neat little piles ready to be sewn by row.
I figured I could tackle the rows like one a day or something (I have 24 I think). But I got stuck at how to even put two of them together. I have made a quilt with triangles before, but it was so long ago that I don't really remember the details. I finally figured it out (and in case any one has the same trouble on flickr I explained it in one, two, three pictures). As soon as I had one row together I knew I had a problem. The freaking thing wasn't long enough – UGH. Now, it's not like I didn't have enough fabric for this queen sized quilt (hopefully this will go on our bed). Oh no, when I ordered it I thought I would need like 11 yards for the front. I don't know how I got there (even though I found all of my notes on the matter), but I did double check that I had the right amount of triangles for the length and width I wanted when I picked this project back up. And it sure looked gigantic all laid out on my floor. But no. There is like NO WAY I'm laying this thing back out again, I mean Tuesday is pretty much done with naps, so it would be almost impossible. So I'm going to sew up the rows as they are, leaving off the very end half triangles. Then I'll lay those all out and add a triangle to one side or the other, and then put the half triangles on. And after all that I still will have to sew the rows together, which might end up quite tricky since I'm dealing with bias. Me thinks I will not be quilting this myself. 🙂Is it any wonder then that I've decided to start a new sewing project?
With circles (which I've never done) and a pattern I'm making up myself? It's sure to be a success. Hopefully I won't be blogging about it in 2012. -
Bj and I were discussing ways we could get into better shape, and have decided we need incentives.
Bj: "Okay so how about this? You get down to 120 and you can have $X for the craft room."
(I want new cabinets in here)Amber: "Ugh, 120, that's like 20 pounds."
Bj: "You've weighed that before."
Me: "I weighed 110 when you met me."
Bj: "I can't believe you were ever that small."
Me: ____________
Bj: "Wait no, you're taking that the wrong way."
Me: "How is the right way to take that."
Bj: "I mean you've always only been this tall." (holds hand up to his neck).
Me: (mimes digging a hole).
It is so on!
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