Jul
02
2009Last night I was struck by the pastel beauty of the dinner table. So I took a picture 😀
We had carrots, green peppers, and tomatoes dipped in ranch, and pizza rolls dipped in pizza sauce.
Derek brought home bananas for dessert which morphed into this…. yummy.
Did I mention that these babies have turned me into a total ice cream fanatic? Usually poor Derek has to beg me to buy ice cream and grovel to get me to make it. We’ve made it every week for a month now…
Jun
26
2009Over the past few months we’ve been slowly receiving some items for the babies. A little box with diapers and burp cloths, another with bibs and some clothing, and a great one with baby hangers (!), clothing, and a pair of toys. But this week stuff has been pouring in and it hit me: I’m going to have a new profession.
I’ll be the chauffeur of this glorious little limousine! What a sight that will be!
I’ll be the laundry lady washing these sweet confections every other day.
But mostly I’ll be responsible for kissing these tiny faces.
Four arms and four little feet daily wreck havoc on my internal organs and still it’s hard to believe just how blessed we are to be having two perfect little girls.
Jun
23
2009So after I fell victim to the Matchiness, I felt guilty and had to make them another set of outfits that didn’t match. I bought two coordinating blue, pink, and brown cotton prints at Hobby Lobby and made use of quite a few bookmarked tutorials. I added some cotton yarn (for the piping), some poly fiberfill, and a tiny piece of matching blue cotton (for lining) from the stash. I managed to make 9 toys and 2 dresses for less than $8!
Little balls to kick and throw. I’m having so much fun tossing these randomly at the twins’ daddy that I think I’ll have to teach the girls to do the same! I made these from a tutorial found at Grand Revival Designs.
I would have made these baby cubes forever! I think they are so fun. Unfortunately, I ran out of the scrap blue cotton and didn’t think they’d be as fun without three fabrics. This tutorial is over at London Mummy.
And finally these sweet Itty Bitty Dresses from Made by Rae.
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I’m so proud of the pile of scraps left from the yard and a half of fabric purchased: there are absolutely no scraps of usable size.
Jun
18
2009I have this habit of stashing away fabric scraps that I can’t bear to part with. I keep thinking I’ll turn them into doll clothes or quilts or other little fun things. The scrap stash is actually larger than my normal sized fabric stash. Some of the scraps that I’ve held dearest are my linen scraps from making English Country Dance costumes. The striped pink/blue/yellow, the ginger, the yellow, the blue… I just couldn’t bear to part with them! I used some of the yellow to make 18th century fingerless gloves (mitts) and I used the stripe to line both a set of short stays and my blue gown. But still the scraps whispered to me that they could be more…
And so I introduce to you this tiny little quilt (about 25″x30″) that I have affectionately dubbed “The Tummy Time Mat”. Personally, I’m not a big fan of lying on the carpet because it irritates my skin and I’m also not a big fan of spending almost $30 dollars for a little mat with a pillow to lay my babies on. I love the feel of this linen and it’s wash-ability. I’ll use it inside and out. I just hope they both can fit on it together for awhile 😀
