More Shameless Self Promotion

So, I've been learning to sew for the last, um, 6 or so months. I started pretty small--baby leg warmers, an apron, stuff like that. Well, about a month or so ago, I was looking at some fabric online and ran across this yoga monkey fabric and absolutely had to buy it for Andi's daughter Sophia (andi owns a yoga studio). I got it in my head that I would make something for Sophia's birthday which was the 14th so I got a "sew easy" pattern and asked Nanny to teach me to read it. HA. HA. IT WAS SO HARD. lol. I might have bit off more than I could chew but Nanny is an awesome teacher so I not only finished it, but I am pretty impressed with myself.

Now--gaze upon my first real sewing project, the glorious result of 4 days of long hours of staring at an incomprehensible (sew easy, my foot) pattern, sewing, doing it wrong, picking it apart, sewing again, having to make up a section because the pattern's version looked stupid, learning to make button loops off the internet, and so on. Ta da!






Yay! I am hoping to get a photo of Sophia in the outfit soon...Andi just told me that Sophia wore the outfit to her birthday party and I AM SO EXCITED about that!

Here's my second brag...I made Autumn a dress! I took a smocking class at a shop called Lace Cottage back in May. After practicing a little, I got started on a little bishop dress. Here it is after I finished smocking it and Nanny started showing me how to assemble it:


And here it is on Autumn today! It's a little big but that's definitely better than a little small, right?


Next I am going to work on something a little less traditional for her...a smocked dress made from electric blue houndstooth...it is super soft!

15 months old!

Not much exciting--just Autumn's pre-bedtime, post bath roam.

More Adventures of Autumn

Autumn and I went to Costco a couple of weeks ago (where she spent the entire trip saying "ay-o!" to everyone and looking baffled if the person ignored her). Mike really likes the churros there so I got him one to have with his lunch. When we got home, I put the churro on the hall table so I could bring the groceries the rest of the way into the kitchen. I heard Autumn rustling around which is no big deal. She likes boxes and there wasn't anything she could damage or could damage her so whatever. She's quiet. Well. This is what I found when I went for the next box:


As I think everyone knows, I'm training in kali again. A friend of ours named Michelle takes care of Autumn until Mike gets home and then it is pretty much papa-monkey time until I get home around 7:30 twice a week. One Thursday I came home to this funny sight:


What is with this kid and boxes?


This is my sewing box. She likes to sit on it. And push it around. And play with the latches.


After crawling all over it, Autumn pushed the sewing box over to where her crayons and paper were. She set herself up like this all on her own. Stop growing up, baby girl!

A Day in the Life of Autumn

Today mama aka "raze" (which is what I seem to like calling her) let me have some of a push up popsicle since I was good while she worked at the office. I love ice cream. It was good and every time she took it away to fix it for me I cried because I thought she was taking it away. She didn't! But she did eat some of it. ::glares::


I played in my box a bunch today. I love my box. Mama and Papa think I might be part cat. I push it around the house and throw things in it, like my blocks. But my arms are too short to get stuff out so that's a problem.


After my nap, Miss Michelle came over to watch me while mama ran errands (she usually goes to class but she hasn't been feeling well). I love Miss Michelle. When mama got back, we played dress up! Aunt Leah got me this in Hawaii. Mama says that maybe I can be a hula dancer someday like her mom was...even though mama was pretty bad at it, I might have more rhythm.


The end!

Wedding Photos Part 2

From Lindsay's Wed...

Well, the wedding album is complete so download away and feel free to pass it on to anyone who might want copies. Like before, the captions are in the album so that this post doesn't end up being 30 pages long. :)

Another Public Service Announcement

This weekend (Aug. 1-3) is the fall sales tax holiday weekend in Tennessee and Alabama. You can click here for a list of sales tax holidays nationwide.

More photos to come of the wedding! For now, have some Molly Chillin.

Part 1 of the wedding day!

Here's a link to the "getting ready" pics. The album is captioned so that this post isn't a huge, long one. :)

From Lindsay's Wed...