Sunday Post

Corbin was sick with a cold on Thursday and Friday, but he is doing much better today. He just has a lingering cough and runny nose now, but he is obviously feeling better. Jovi went to a friend's thrid birthday party on Friday and had lots of fun. We went to a church ice cream social that Juan was partially in charge of on Saturday. It was lots of fun, Jovi had two bowls of ice cream and two popsicles wich was about average for most of the kids. I learned that I like colored sprinkles in my vanilly ice cream, yummy!

To make up for having a post with no pictures last time this will be full of pictures of stuff I made this week. On Wednesday I went to a friend's baby shower. Their family is adopting a one year old little girl (so exciting) so I made this for her.

It is a pillowcase dress with matching bloomers. I plan on making any future little girls we have lots of sets like this. I unfortunately think that Jovi is a little too old for bloomers, but maybe not. I might try it in the future.

On Friday I finished this dress for Jovi that I have been working off and on for over a month.


Overall I am happy with it. The pattern came with sleeves, but they fit really wierd so I took them off and bound the edge instead with self made bias tape. The pattern called for putting a zipper in the back of the dress, but I've never sewn a zipper before and am a little scared of them so I did ribbon ties instead. I had to add some hook and eyes to the back because the ribbons just weren't doing a good enough job of closing the back. I really need to get over my fear of zippers because I'm sure just putting in a zipper would have been easier than what I did.

And finally, because I showed you the wood shapes cut out. Here are some of the shapes sanded, painted and finished. There is wood burned detailing on all of them, but the trees. They were a lot of fun to make. My favorite is the owl.



Have a great Sunday!

A quiet week and entered a contest

So, this past week hasn't really been news worthy, not that I'm really complaining. A quite week is a good week. I worked on the wood shapes on Saturday, but they aren't done yet (I'm waiting on a beeswax finish I ordered) so no pictures. Jovi went to nursery without crying this Sunday. I was talking to her teacher a few days before and she said Jovi had the most "energy" of all the kids in nursery. Jovi is one BUSY little girl. Corbin sits up reall well now and has started getting on his hands and knees and rocking. I'm thinking he will start crawling in the next few weeks.

So I found this website http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/index.html that I really like. It has lots of fun tutorials, great ideas and good information. They are having a contest right now about "natural" play spaces. I entered Jovi's kitchen, you can check out my entry here http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/our-play-kitchen.html . I'd really appreciate it if you commented on my entry and rated it. The prizes for the contest are really cool. If you enter, let me know and I'll vote for you too.

Dresses and a Chance For a Free Quilt

The internet is a wonderful thing. There are so many creative people out there that are willing to share their amazing talents, this post is thanks to them. I had found a tutorial on Craftster (http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=170402.msg1742893#msg1742893) on how to make the CUTEST toddler dress out of a button up shirt and on Sunday I just HAD to try it. Sure I have a ton of projects just waiting for me to finish, but sometimes you've got to put aside the "work" and just do something fun, right? I started out with a small women's bowling style shirt that I found at the Roanoke thrift shop for $2.


And then following the tutorial I turned it into this... (We were trying to teach Jovi to pose for pictures and this is what we got, SO cute!)



I just realized that I didn't take a picture of the back of the dress (which is actually the front of the shirt with the buttons), but since the design was just SO cute I made another one and I have picture of the back and front on it.



I had a lot of fun making the dresses, unfortunately Jovi does not like the straps on them. Juan thinks the ruffle bothers her so I replaced the straps with ribbons on the first one and she likes it a lot better. I may have to do the same with the second one, but I'm crossing my fingers that she will just get used to it because the ruffle strap is just so cute.

And for a chance to win a BEAUTIFUL free quilt, go visit this blog http://oldredbarnco.blogspot.com/ and post a comment. Isn't is so cool that people offer givaways like this. I'm actually thinking of doing a giveaway on my blog, not that I want tons of readers or anything, but givaways are always fun. Stay tuned for more on this possible giveaway...

A Week of Sick

Well, this week hasn't been much fun. Jovi got a sore throat on Tuesday, then a fever that night and had the fever and sore throat through Wednesday night. We went to the doctor on Thursday because I was worried about strep throat, nope it wasn't that it was Hand, Foot and Mouth. The Dr. said it was a common childhood virus that can last 7-14 days. Her sore throat came from blisters on her throat and she could get blisters on her hands and feet too even though it doesn't look like that is going to happen. The past two days her fever and sore throat have gone away, but it looks like Corbin caught it too because he has a low grade fever and has been crying inconsolably at night. He acts ok durring the day,but very little sleeping is occuring at night. I thought kids were supposed to sleep more when they were sick, not less. Aparently my children didn't get that memo.

On a brighter note, Corbin is learning to sit up. He can go for whole minutes now without falling over. And he has started getting into a crawling position. Here is a picture of him sitting up.


Jovi has learned how to open the refridgerator door. She loves going to look for "something to eat" and handing us whatever drink she has asked for out of the refridgerator. On Friday, I was nursing Corbin in the other room when she came in with hot dog buns. She told me, "Come mommy, hot dogs!". I followed her into the kitchen where I saw two cold hotdogs sitting on the counter. "One for me, one for you mommy!", she proudly showed me. How could I say no to that? It was hot dogs for snack, at least for her.

I had plans to sew a bunch this week, but with sick kids a lot of the stuff I planned didn't happen. Some sewing did occure though. Some I can't show till I give it as a birthday present to my sister, Laura, but I made these bibs. The bottom two are for a friend's babyshower that I wasn't able to attend, but I'll give them to her this week. The top four though are for Corbin. It is so fun having an embroidery machine!


Here's hoping for a week of wellness next week!

Fun Saturday

So, I've been working on a new skill, woodworking. It's alot of fun. After a Saturday morning trip to Home Depot we spent the rest of the day working in the garage. Juan used his new router to work on a bedframe for Jovi's room and I worked on sanding and finishing some blocks for Jovi. I also got to use our scrollsaw to cut out some cute shapes that I plan on sanding and painting for Jovi to play with. Here is a picture of the shapes I made. The three on top will be owls once I paint them. I drew the snail, house and trees all by myself :).


Here is what we did with the blocks today.


So, to add a funny story...On Friday I mopped the kitchen floor. Jovi wanted to mop too so when I was finished I gave her the mop to play with. She wanted me to put water on the floor, but I told her no, that she just had to pretend. I came back about five minutes later and noticed the floor was a bit damp and sticky. Jovi proudly says, "Mommy I peed! I mop pee!". Yep, it was true, she peed on the kitchen floor so she had something to mop with. Extremely gross, BUT extremely creative. It's funny now, but at the time I was quite angry and disgusted as I mopped the floor for the second, actually third time that day.

Aquarium

Jovi, Corbin and I went to the Dallas World Aquarium on Monday with my sister Laura. We saw penguins, manatees, sloths, monkeys and lots of fish. It was a lot of fun. Check out the pictures.



A BIG thank you to Laura who remembered to bring her camera!