From time to time, I get the opportunity to share product reviews with you, my lovely readers. Â Tom with Uncommon Goods contacted me recently with just such an offer. Â Having been a customer of Uncommon Goods in the past, I enthusiastically agreed. I was given free rein to select gifts for our family from their {…Continue Reading}
Another fun Halloween is in the books. Â The girls get to choose their costumes, and once I’ve bought fabrics and start sewing there’s no changing. Last year they went as a pair of gnomes, and I lalaloved the coordinating costumes. Â Plus, those quilted dresses were (and still are) worn for lots of other events from {…Continue Reading}
School is (finally) back in session!! Â While I love summer and we had lots of fun swimming at our community pool, going to movies under the stars, museums, visits into the city and more I’m ready to be back to a weekday routine around here. First I feel like I should share the quick snap {…Continue Reading}
When Victoria from As It Seams asked for participants for her From My Mother to Me series, I knew right away I wanted to take the opportunity to tell the story of how my mother shared sewing (and creativity in general)Â as a passion with me. I could tell you about the prairie style dress she {…Continue Reading}
It’s here! Â The much-anticipated FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! Â We joined in with pretty much every family everywhere to make our attempt at Pinterest-worthy first day photos. Â And the result? Â Some close to that bar and others just a little silly: Hadley is always hamming it up, so I just told them to get their sillies {…Continue Reading}
We took our annual trip to visit my parents in Florida at the beginning of February. Happily, we missed part of one of the rounds of frigid temperatures while enjoying the beautiful weather in Southwestern Florida. We took a couple of trips out on the boat, once to a sandbar, or what we call “shell {…Continue Reading}
We’ve traveled regularly with Arden and Hadley, and they do pretty well. Each trip we take brings some new gadgets or tricks to the table, so I thought I’d share a couple of gems from our most recent trip. First was the coloring book I made for Arden. She will sit and color for HOURS, {…Continue Reading}
This past Sunday the weather was per-fect for sledding: 40 degrees, sunny, and there was plenty of snow on the ground. So I gathered up the girls and headed to our local sledding spot – the slope off a bridge over a river. Arden’s first trip down a sledding hill: And Hadley and me (with {…Continue Reading}
If you’re thinking the timing of this post is a bit odd, then you’re right. Growing up, we always did a crafty project after Thanksgiving dinner and I mentioned to my Mom that we didn’t get around to doing that at home this year. So she gathered up all the fixings for this cute project {…Continue Reading}
Now that Hadley has passed a year, I’ll do quarterly updates until she turns two. Since her birthday, Hadley: Attended her first parade. We went with gMa & gPa Sunshine to CMU’s homecoming parade. That’s my sorority house in the background. Went Trick or Treating for the first time. She is so definitely an extrovert. {…Continue Reading}
