Randoms

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I just thought I'd post some random things since its been awhile and I haven't been sewing these last few weeks....

1. Have you heard of Google Reader? It really is spectacular! I may be the last person in the blog world to use it, similar to Face Book.....so let me know if you use it. For those of you who don't and love looking at other people's blogs its really a good tool. You plug in all the sites you like to visit. Then when you log into your blog, you click on the dashboard link at the top. From there you click on view in google reader. It shows you what blogs are updated! For me, everyday I'd click on all my peeps and my eye candy area to see who updated....now it just tells me! Love it!

2. 89, this will be my 89th post! Which means I'm close to 100. At the 100 mark I will be doing a giveaway! So check back.

3. Got any good summer grilling recipes? Of course I only do quick-n-easy ones. Share on people!

Ok, thats really it. I saw some adorable fabric the other day, some of this with a very cool coordinating fabric. I think I'm going to make an apron for my lovely friend Erica with it and it will be in the latest Angry Chicken's apron submission. Stay tuned!

Quick Sew

If you enjoy sewing you'll enjoy this project. I found the tutorial on Olive and Addy, it links to this site. I used most of her modifications and it worked great. I haven't ventured into make clothes before, but it was fun. Took just a few hours (would have been faster if I cut correctly the first time) and I'm happy with the final product....which doesn't happen very often. I seem to pick things apart that I make, its kind of annoying even to myself. All that is left is to anchor the elastic, but since I didn't measure her myself I thought I would have her try it on first to make sure it fit properly.

Get sewing friends!

Phoebe is Finished!

Thank goodness :) No, she wasn't that bad, but she did require alot of hand stitching, which I'm not super experienced in. It seemed complicated so I kept putting it off...but ohh the lovely Internet provided me with some great tutorials on all the different stitches she needed and I finished last night. I might add a few eyelashes.


Now on to the skirt, I better get that done pronto! Ohh and I added a cute pic of Davis who wanted his picture taken this morning as I was snapping a few of Phoebe (that is her name on the pattern).

Catch up

I've been MIA. So I thought I would post a very random rendition of what we've been up to.

July 4th weekend- We traveled to the Dirty South (aka Medford). We go every year for the fourth. It includes an adult raft trip (very fun), lots of BBQ's, lots of kiddo's playing, a parade and a big fire works show at a friends house. Had a great time seeing friends, and Davis enjoyed seeing a parade for the first time and fireworks. He screamed for more bands and waved to everyone during the parade and clapped and shouted WHOA during the fireworks.

We're Official!- No not pregnant, but after we got back from Medford we had Monday off (B had all week off but I'll get to that later). We decided that Davis and I needed passports. So we ventured to a few post offices and finally got it done. I wish I had a copy of Davis's picture...seriously folks, its hilarious! His hair is going every which way, he is slyly grinning, and looking off to the sky. I'm not knocking my own kid, but B and I laughed and said it looked a bit chester the molesterish :)! HAHAHA we laughed! We are hoping to join B's parents in Canada in the next month or so....but really....I want to go abroad, so now this is one last thing stopping me.

Boys Weekend!- Nope not for little 2 year old boys and wives, but B headed to Bend for the annual North/South golf tourney. Its just a tourney of friends from here (North team) and the dirty (medford/south team). So D and I tried a few things out. We had date night at the gelatto shop, which he refused to try gelatto so I ate the whole thing.

We had a garage sale at my sisters (I made over 400!!), we hit the Camas Library for story time (SOO much fun), we then hit the Portland Library off Belmont on Saturday for their story time.

If you haven't done this, I highly suggest it. We sang songs, read books, the kids played, and played with a parachute. D loved it! While the kids were playing we were supposed to go around the room and share other good places to take your 1 year old....UHHH folks, I work 40+ hours a week...this is a treat! But I had a few places up my sleeve so I didn't sound like a complete bad mom! So moms....a few spots they mentioned- Urban Grind, Airplay Cafe, Wilshire Park (they have a younger play section, we checked it out today and its great!), Mt. Scott pool, and the park off Fremont and 7th...I guess they have a good water play area.

Sewing- I'm working on this for my Neices birthday! Its been fun, but challenging...not sure how many more of these I'll ever make. I also plan to make this as well, which I'm really excited about.

Back later this week to show the final product.