Hadley at 21 months is a study in contrasts: She has mostly two speeds: full-tilt and crash. She is a dynamo of activity and full of vim and vigor. What exactly does vim mean? Wait, just checked and it means enthusiasm… That is, until you think she’s in for the long haul and then check {…Continue Reading}
If you follow me on Instagram (I’m @jennuinelife), you’ve seen the unfolding events of the bluejays which have nested under the metal awning of our side door. Since the nest is over my head, I’d snap a picture every few days or so with my cell phone to see if there were any eggs, and on {…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}
At long last, spring has finally settled in on Michigan. That explains to a large extend my lack of posts for the past couple of days. That and all I have to share project wise is more progress on the dancing dollies and some miscellaneous mending. I feel so ashamed when my family goes around with popped {…Continue Reading}
Are you sewing for Kid’s Clothes Week? I usually try to participate, but this week it just wasn’t in the cards. I’m on my first ever trip to Massachusetts to learn more about my new job (same company, different position). I’m about 90 miles west of Boston which definitely puts the recent bombing at the {…Continue Reading}
I whipped up a skirt to turn the second of the clearance t-shirts I purchased recently into an outfit. This is the first cut into the Riley Blake fabrics I bought to be part of the decor at Arden’s rainbow birthday party. I couldn’t get her to wear it for pictures today, so we’ll see how {…Continue Reading}
Our big little girl Hadley Marie is 18 months old. She is 34 1/4″ tall and 29.7 pounds which puts her right at the bleeding edge of the charts for each. She’s a big girl, but she’s proportional. Every so often we capture the illusion that they’re not always picking and poking (and pulling hair {…Continue Reading}
Arden’s started taking dance classes last year, and her second recital is rapidly approaching. Her class is doing a routine to a song about dolls and teaching the dolls to dance. So guess who volunteered herself to make 15 dollies so she and her classmates could have custom dolls with hair and eye color {…Continue Reading}
I’m still here, and I’m pretty busy to boot! On top of Sew-vivor sewing, I’m also working on Covert Robin and Package Pal goodies (and a top secret project)! So lots of action, but nothing I can share with you just yet. My first challenge for Sew-vivor is complete and photographed, so I’m all set {…Continue Reading}
I have about three projects for Arden’s rainbow birthday party that I was planning to post about. I have the projects completed (or mostly so), but we’ve been hit by a little bug around here and I just don’t have the energy for photo editing and post-writing. Poor Hadley had diarrhea over the weekend so {…Continue Reading}
