I am a SEWING MACHINE! :-)

So recently I have been sewing, sewing sewing! It is so much fun and has just confirmed my need for a little girl! I am only posting the pictures of my 2 latest Masterpieces. OK, so they don't QUITE live up to that title but I AM very proud of them. I have also been sewing petticoats for the Spring Pilgrimage that we have in my town. A lot of the old houses are open to the public for tours and there are docents dressed in period dresses to show you around. It is a fantastic time and I was a docent last year and decided to help out on sewing as well as be a docent this year.

This is my first tote bag I made. It is lined with chocolate fabric. Cute eh?
The dress is just a t-shirt I bought on SUPER SALE at gymboree for my niece and then sewed the skirt on it. It is not perfect and taught me a very valuable lesson about sewing with knit (wow, I actually know the names of fabrics now, this makes me laugh): do not do it in front of your children unless you would like them to say words not fit for a 2 and 3 year old! It did turn out pretty cute though.





Oh yea, the kids are kinda tired of my sewing adventures because they don't really see it as adventure and more like a reason why we aren't playing outside so we did rake some leaves and let them play in them. If only I could sew outside while the kids played. That would be IDEAL.





Oh, Eli helped daddy rake and Parker mostly carried around huge handfuls of leaves and threw them onto Eli. Such is our life. And, I KNOW there is a HUGE amount of leaves here, we pretty much waited until the trees were completely bare before raking because, really whats the point in doing it before then!

Until next time.....