Saturday, March 14, 2009

Craftiness

My friend Penny has just taken up knitting and I think she must have had some latent knitting genius or something. These are the very first hats she has ever made. How cool is this? Haha...please excuse the post-workout look. Her husband and I train together in kali and he delivered them to me before class...I HAD to get a pic to Penny as soon as I could so...


Since we're talking about crafts, I think I've mentioned here that I've been sewing. I think the last thing I posted was Autumn's Christmas dress. Most recently, I made some fabric covered cork boards to go in my living room office space. I wanted something wall art-y so I used some gorgeous Echino fabric and cork tiles from Hobby Lobby.


And these are from Christmas because I didn't want to spoil surprises but I made aprons for a few of my friends. This was for Andi. I tend to think of people in "colors" if that makes any sense. Sometimes it's personality and sometimes it's just a color they like a lot or something random like that. Andi is orange and turquoise which is why I chose this combo:


Michelle isn't a color to me so much as a style so she got a damask since I always think of her as wearing cool and classy things. Plus her kitchen is red and black which totally sold me on this Michael Miller fabric. I made Lindsay a similar apron minus the bottom ruffle but forgot to take a picture.


This one was for Christine. She looks really good in a particular shade of pink so I think of her whenever I see it. I think this is my favorite one.


There's another apron that I didn't take a picture of and I'm working on another one now for Penny (realllly late birthday gift, lol). I also want to make Autumn a summer dress. It'll probably be one of the claire dresses (probably petal knot) by Sandi Henderson. I made Autumn's Christmas dress from the Claire pattern. I have some little things on my list, too. So many projects and so little time!!

Oh, yeah, here's one last christmas project. Headbands! These are almost all for babies although I did make a matching set for my friend Angela's two girls.


Here's Autumn wearing one and eating M&M's.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Breakfast Faces with Autumn

It dawned on me this morning that Autumn's breakfast might be a little odd. :) She normally has oatmeal and yogurt. And milk. That part is pretty normal.


No, it's really her post-breakfast breakfast that is a little odd. See that little bowl? That's tea.


Most mornings I have tea and granola for breakfast. And for the longest time, Autumn has had granola, too, but she usually insists on me dipping her piece in my tea. Which is fine but it got a little old having her insistently poking her granola in the air when the level of tea moisture wasn't to her liking.


So, I started putting a little bit of cooled tea in a small bowl for her and she dips her own granola. And everyone's happy!