I need more time!

Oh man, have I been busy.  Traveling, having guests at our home, sewing up a storm, making some jewelry, playing with my kids, hanging out with friends, reading, spending time with God and my hubby...you get the point.  

There are never enough hours in the day.  Sadly, my house (and this blog) has taken a back seat.  As I look around right now, all I see is clutter everywhere.  I wish I could get inspired.  I wish I had a major surge of energy pulsing through me right now, but writing this blog post is only happening by my mustering up every last ounce of energy I have.  And all I'm doing is sitting on a chair.  Phew.

I have a project in the works.  It's one I'm really, ridiculously, giddily, stupidly excited about.  But it's a lot of work.  Hopefully I'll be able to talk ALL about it here soon.

But for now, I leave you with a few new projects that have been keeping me busy and a very fun fact.  This blog saved my diaper bag.  Yep.  Some very kind people in Minnesota (if you happen to ever stop by here again, Shauna, then hello!) found my diaper bag in a bush many miles from where it was stolen, disassembled the contents, pieced together the information inside and found my blog to let me know.  Today, my favorite little diaper bag arrived in the mail and ALL of my faith in humanity was completely restored.   I sure feel blessed, and Ben was happy to see his Batman toy again.  :)

Sew crafty.

I thought I'd up the corny ante a little.  Should I keep going and see if the next blog title could get cornier?  Anyway.

I decided that I'd learn to sew this week.  It's about time.  I've had this sewing machine sitting around since October and the only thing I've sewn so far are curtains.  And even that (the easiest thing ever, I've been told) I did horribly wrong.  Somehow I ended up with curtains that were way too short.  So much so that I had to make cornices to go over the top so we could lower the curtains.  Well then.

I started with some baby washcloths.  Those turned out awful.  I was trying to use up some old velour pants and I thought they'd be great as one side of a baby washcloth, but, er, not so much.  I guess I should have known that velour is difficult to sew.  They were a disaster.  I almost quit.  But then I came across something called the ten minute onesie dress.  Okay, this I could do.  Anyone can do it.  And then there was the ruffle butt onesie.  I don't have a serger or pinking shears so I had to do it a little differently (and a little less cute), but I still love the results. 

 

I added a little rosette because I'm kind of obsessed into those right now.  

So I thought, hey, that was fun!  Let's do some more!  So I went to Hobby Lobby last night and I was in serious crafter's heaven.  I was there for a really, really long time.  And then today I dove right in and whipped up a whole ensemble!  

I did the dress a little differently with elastic around the waist instead and I like it much better.  I sewed some extra fabric onto a burp cloth and made a rosette for the onesie and a rosette headband.  And then I found matching ribbon so of course I had to learn to make hairbows.  Little Addie Bear agreed to be my model.

Ain't she a peach?

Fist bumpin', ya'll.  It's how we do.
  (I promise to be done with my southern throwback now.)

Adalyn's favorite part is chewing on the end of the skirt.  Seriously, it's all she does.  I guess I can market it as a teether/dress?