Halloween/Thanksgiving skirt.

While making the blocks for Alex, I thought I would sew some of the girls skirts from a pattern I got from the same blog, Sew Like My Mom.  Did I mention how much I love this blog?  When I went to the fabric store, I ended up finding the exact same fabric she use. How cool!!  I love the fabric because I think it works for both holidays and with them so close together it's perfect.   The pattern she used is so easy and the length is perfect for Re. Hopefully she will be able to wear it next year.

So the blog said she was able to whip these out in 30 min.  Clearly she has been doing this for a long time. I had to measure, iron, sew on rick rack, sew a line, iron, then fold and measure bottom hem line, iron bottom, sew double line, fold and measure top hem line, iron top, sew line, thread elastic, sew together(no picture of this step, so did my best), finish off.

I know it sound like a lot, but it was really easy, just time consuming. Took me about 2 hours on Re's skirt and the rest were a little over an hour.  Thank goodness there were pictures on her website.  OMG, I don't think I would have attempted this without them.

Here's the finished product.  What do you think?  Thoughts?  Need a skirt made????

Sewing Project: Blocks

With Baby Alex being born, I wanted to make something for him.  I found this on one of my favorite websites, Sew Like My Mom.  Once I saw it I knew I needed to learn how.  The blocks are adorable and I love that she shows you how to make everything step by step.  Which is great for me since I am still a beginner. Only my second project since getting my Grandma's sewing machine.

Check it out.  What do you think?

I'm a Doctor

As I was packing up Re's clothes to spend the night at Amma and Saba's house, I asked her to help out.  Here is how it went:


Mama - "Re can you please get your toothbrush and hair brush"
Re - "No, I'm playing with Papa"
Mama - "Can you ask Papa to help you?"
Re - "Papa, can you get my toothbrush and hair brush? I am a doctor!!!!"


Now I get why she hasn't been helping me around the house.  Clearly playing Doctor is a full time job!

Update on New Year's wish list

So wanted to give an update on my New Year's Wish List.  I was planning on doing an update half way through, but 3/4 of the way will just have to do.  

1. Prepare, organize and make things happen for my/our wedding. (think thats a make or break item)     Wedding was a hit!
2. Learn spanish.  Parents got us Rosetta stone, so that should make mountains move in my trying to learn a language.  Working on it, finally finished level 1, but don't know how well it worked, but have 3 more levels to go.
3. Blog more.  Doing good at blogging at least a couple times a month. I am horrible at writing (going to say sorry now for all mistakes), but as Brandon says "if you read and write more, the better you will become" so here is to trying to read and write more! Still not good a writing but all of this writing has to mean improvement right??
4. Actually finish 90X, we seem to take a break after the 1st 3 weeks and then start all over again. Not a chance. Got to week 4, but then it was the honeymoon, never started back.
5. Run the Peachtree Road Race. We are headed in the right direction, we have a jogging stroller (thank you Amma and Saba)   We did it!  Had a great time and ran it in 1 hr 30 min.
6. De-clutter our condo. How did we get so much stuff? Have gotten to most areas.
7. Organize and finances. I think those are on every years list. Nope, I was so much better at this before Re.

Hopefully I can get things together for the last 3 months of the year.

Dress up for 2

We have been playing a lot of dress up lately.  Pretending to be all kinds of wonderful things.  This morning Re really wanted Dyna to join in the fun.  So I pulled out some outfits and halloween costumes that I had for Dyna.  (Go ahead and laugh)  Dyna has all kinds, Snow White, Batman, Dragon, sweaters, rain coat, the list could go on.  Re picked out a dress for Dyna to wear. She was so excited that they could wear dresses together. Dyna was not as excited, actually quite the opposite.  Take a look! 

As Brandon says "Dog torture at its finest!"