I don’t have any fun projects completed to post, so I’ll just do a quick wrap up of what’s been going on. We broke ground – literally – on our garage reconstruction. On Thursday, they took out the old slab, dug for the footings, and put in the foundation walls. We’re using a treated lumber {…Continue Reading}
Decorating our mantle is a little difficult, since it usually ends up being a catch-all for everything we don’t want dogs, cats, or toddler getting into. But with all the inspiring mantles I’ve been seeing, I thought I could give it a try. The vase on the left was a wedding present and is filled {…Continue Reading}
Arden’s not an exceptionally squirmy sleeper, but she does move around enough to get uncovered and often wakes up cold. We use sleep sacks – Aden + Anais have nice muslin ones that work great, especially in the summer when you just need a little something – but there are never arms on sleepsacks. So, I thought {…Continue Reading}
I finished Arden’s Halloween costume! This was so much fun to do. I also got to try out the embroidery features on my new machine by adding “Chef Arden” to the hat band. I’m so happy with the embroidery and other features on my Janome Memory Craft 9700 that I’ve decided to name it. She will {…Continue Reading}
We had a beautiful fall day in Michigan, so I decided to play around with my point & shoot camera and my favorite model. Some models are notorious for being difficult to work with, and mine is no exception: We started out slow, with some blank stares Then we progressed to a series of shots {…Continue Reading}
Following the tutorial for The 90 Minute Shirt on MADE, this meets my hour-a-day requirement for the Kid’s Clothes Week Challenge for days four and five. I know it’s called The 90 Minute Shirt, but it took me a bit longer than that, and I had to make up my pattern following the instructions here, {…Continue Reading}
Remember the jeans I refashioned into a pencil skirt for me a couple of days ago? Well, here they are again! I really liked the nice big hem on these jeans and knew as soon as I started the skirt refashion for me that I wanted to do a toddler skirt for Arden. How handy that Homemade by {…Continue Reading}
