Catsup....Ketchup....Catch up.... Yeah, that's the one.

7/29/10

One would think that with me posting every 2.3 days, I would have everything covered. Nope. I need to play catch up.

Maria, my cute little sis who is preggers with her first baby (a girl!) came over last Monday to sew and squeal over my baby clothes stash. Well, she sewed and I tried to corral my kids, who wanted nothing more than to play in the big pile of fabric we had on the floor. She ended up making a darling brown/pink polka dot blanket and I cut out some burp cloths. I finally got around to finishing them last Friday:

I made all of these with scraps I already had and one yard of $3 flannel I found on sale at Ace. (Pause to grab calculator...math is not my forte...) That's .25¢ a burp cloth!!! Not bad, eh? And they're cute!

Then I took this polka dot flannel to my mom's and serged around the edge to make a receiving blanket. I used those scraps with some red material I had to make two more burp cloths and then I tried my hand at making some fabric flowers:

Cuuuute! If I do say so. (Third time saying "cute" in this post...wait now that's four...)

Last fall, I about died when I saw this owl knit fabric at Jo-Ann's. It was on clearance and when I tried to go back and get more, it was gone. I had been wondering what to do with it because I am NO good at sewing with knits. But some brown fleece that I had ended up being perfect to stabilize it. So I made a self binding blanket for Luke for his b-day coming up. No judging on the corners. I'm not done with them yet.

I'm working on a couple other things (and my mending pile that has been accumulating for three months--ugh) but they are for gifts, so I will post them after I've given them.

Madelyn has kept busy with a couple of pool parties (and having an epically bad time with swimming lessons--but we won't go into that...). Last Monday, she had her cousins Nathan and Ava over to play. This was the first time Luke used his baby pool, and although there was no sand to eat, he was in heaven.

Yes, we own a lot of kiddie swim paraphernalia. And this is not even including all of it.

Then on Wednesday this week, my friend Michelle brought her two girls over for another round of fun:

It was hilarious watching Madelyn and Emmy together. They are both queen bees and are both so bossy. They are not used to having to share supreme power. Little Kate just roamed around eating grass and rocks and Luke chilled in his pool. Good times.

And now I am a little unsure of what to with myself because Mark and Madelyn have gone camping with the scouts up in the mountains around Beaver. It's so odd not having Madelyn here. It's too QUIET. I guess Luke and I and Netflix will have a night alone. (I think I am going to enjoy this....shhhhh!) :)