This project was my first refashion, and my entry that got me into the Project Toddler Runway competition at Shwin & Shwin! This project started percolating after I had gone through the bins of my pre-pregnancy clothes for like the third time, trying to see if any of my favorites would fit. A depressing task. I know I {…Continue Reading}
As part of my Blogiversary week, I’m re-posting some of my early blog posts, but trying to go back and fix things up a bit. Here goes: One of the main features of Arden’s nursery is a peg rail going around the room. The idea was a bit of a collaboration between my mother and {…Continue Reading}
Today is the 1st Blogiversary of A Jennuine Life. Where has the time gone? I thought I’d take this week to re-share my first post and some of my early projects, but edit the photos better and update any changes that have occurred. Sort of a best of (or worst – since I was still {…Continue Reading}
Arden has begun singing quite a bit lately. She sings herself to sleep – we get to listen over the monitor and it’s so sweet… she serenades me with the same line of “Jingle Bells” over and over on the drive into daycare in the mornings… and now Dave has her singing the blues while they {…Continue Reading}
Yesterday was on of those summer days in Michigan that is just perfect: not too hot, not too cool, just the right amount of breeze, bright blue sky with just a scattering of fluffy clouds, and the cicadas humming in the background. Arden and I took advantage of the day by playing in the yard, swinging, {…Continue Reading}
Arden’s pillowcase was dirty, so I went to the linen closet to grab another and spotted one of the cases my Grannie had embroidered. I thought this pink one would be perfect on her bed and it was! Charlie the tiny Teddy bear agrees! Does anybody actually hand embroider borders on pillowcases anymore? I think {…Continue Reading}
Sorry it’s been two weeks since my last post! Crazy heat, third trimester fatigue, and summer life have just caught up with us around here. I’ve been making decent progress on prepping the nursery, so there will be some posts coming up about that. I haven’t been completely unproductive. I made this fish pillow for {…Continue Reading}
After bath, I always put lotion all over Arden. Recently she’s become enamored of the process and gets lotion in her little hands and rubs it on her legs. I got to be the lucky recipient of some of her attentions tonight as she rubbed lotion all over my 27 week belly… … and my {…Continue Reading}
We had Arden’s second visit to the dentist this week. I’m not sure what’s going on with the goofy look on my face, but she did awesome! She did super with the hygienist; she really didn’t want to let the Dr. look in her mouth, but she went ahead and did it. She’s got all {…Continue Reading}
I have the top of the quilt mostly done – just need to add the borders and then we’re on to quilting! I really love how this turned out. It’s not real obvious in the photo, but the center square of each block is gathered. It’s such a little detail in a simple design, but {…Continue Reading}
