When Taro was here visiting with his family I thought it would be fun to take his wife to a meeting of modern quilters in our town to show her some American craftiness. She was a little nervous about sewing in front of people she didn’t know since she is a beginner. I wanted to …
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Our little Mail Carrier
This is actually NOT a halloween costume, but I’m putting up the pictures now in case you have a little one who wants a postal carrier/mailman outfit. Tuesday has been super into mail and notes for a long time. I need to do a post about how we utilize that for learning, and her cool …
Collage – 100 days of Tombow
I have been given the opportunity to participate in Tombow’s “100 Days of Tombow”. Tombow sent me some of their amazing products, and in return I got to use them (and tell you what I did) and they donated money to the Council for Arts Education. A pretty amazing deal! For 100 years Tombow has …
Summer days
Ah sweet summer days. They are long, but still it seems I do not have enough time in them! (<- apparently, I started drafting this post in June!). We did check some things off our to do list. Finally hiked in Forest Park, we LOVED it. I can not believe this is in the city, …
Circle top – Modifying a Ready to Wear Tee
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 …
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Kids Clothes Week – Day 1 & 2
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 …
Teeny Tiny Trainer Tutorial
Tuesday was tiny, Bennet is tinier! Add to that starting EC earlier than we did with Tuesday and there are not many trainers that fit my wee girl. I did find these from Charlie Banana (it doubles as a swim diaper) and got one. SO cute. But since I sew and my friend showed me …
Things
I have to realize these things are never going to have their own posts. So here we go… 1. new swimsuit for Tuesday. My mother in law scored this fabric at the fashion district in L.A. And I should have had her get me boatloads more, because it is so awesome! 2. I’m selling our …
The Bear Sweatsuit
The I can’t help myself, this is too cute suit! Um, ya. I just want to eat her up! I started with this vintage pattern: Simplicity 9738 from 1980 (the year I was born!) I’ve been sewing with knits… a lot! This is a micro fleece from Jo-Ann’s (I could make a couple dozen of …
Listed on Etsy
on Etsy – discounted because I quilted a little too quickly. I’m blogging with minimal words this February. I’d love to see snippets of your life in photos too, please leave me a link in the comments.