It's been a busy month or so, and stupid TypePad just ate the post I spent an hour working on. (Enter expletive of your choice here: ______. I've already said them all, though. Yep, every last one.)
So I'll just spare us both the regurgitation of that post since a) it's late and I'm cranky now and 2) I can't remember a damn thing I said in that last post.
Hmpf.
Instead, here are some pretty pictures:
This sweet baby is three now. And potty trained. She loves to call me daddy and loves it even more when I lower my voice and imitate my husband's accent to talk to her. She and her big sister are no longer sharing a room and we're all much happier for it. Aussie Bites (from Costco) and cereal are her favorite foods. She still prefers everyone else's shoes to her own.
Makena, my toothless girl, is loving kindergarten and already has like six new best friends. She's a good student and loves learning new things. But she still doesn't like chocolate and that's okay. More for the rest of us. We're managing her asthma with daily inhalers and so far this sick season, so good. She also loves to color and draw and has close to a thousand crayons that seem to multiply daily.
And this big little dude is doing much better after scaring the crap out of us with pneumonia last week. Our boy is rarely sick and we were all so upset over just how sick he was. The only lasting side effect is his princely expectation that we still be at his beck and call and that every waking moment not spent at school is spent as a couch potato under a quilt watching endless episodes of Hannah Montanausea and The Suite Life of Cheesy and Predictable. He's enjoying first grade and LOVES to read. Woohoo!
I've also been doing some quilting in the diminishing number of spare moments I've had lately. Like this one I made for Aly Dosdall's sweet new baby, Faith. Faith is the first baby born to a Write. Click. Scrapbook. designer since we launched, though she won't be the last. Mary MacAskill, Elisha Snow and Rebecca Cooper are also expecting!
(For this quilt, I used a Moda Layer Cake (their Sweet Line) and followed these instructions for the pattern. I machine-quilted the triangles. It's not perfect, but I am happy with how it turned out.)
And if you haven't checked it out yet, we have a new gallery, "Eye On Design", at www.writeclickscrapbook.com. Here is one of my submissions - you'll have to click on over to see the rest of the amazing gallery!
And then, struggling to find my waning scrappy mojo, I created this yesterday:
(Letter stickers by American Crafts, birdie die by Stampin' Up!, labels by Avery, patterned paper is KI Memories)
There's lots more to share and say about the past month, but not today. Hopefully I'll get time for another post here over the weekend.
See you soon!
Gorgeous as always. xoxo
Posted by: Martha | October 14, 2009 at 04:44 PM
So glad big man is doing better! Your quilt is darling!!! You do great work no matter the "mojo". Glad to see this post.
Posted by: Allison K | October 14, 2009 at 06:29 PM
your children are gorgeous. i know you're a good photographer and all, but you can't fudge looks with a camera and photoshop. fun that the babe is potty trained! and fun for makenna to have her own room. and why not wait on him? hugs to you!
Posted by: emily pitts | October 14, 2009 at 07:30 PM
If that's a waning scrappy mojo...
"I'll have what she's having"
Sorry, randon When Harry Met Sally quote :)
Glad you're back!
Posted by: Jody | October 15, 2009 at 06:04 AM
You seriously need to post more often, you are so damm entertaining ! and I mean that in the nicest possible way, this made me laugh my socks off...
"Hannah Montanausea and The Suite Life of Cheesy and Predictable"
When I stay in the same room as my kids when they watch these I start to feel like my brain has leeked out through my ears, but I thought it was just me being British and this being American "TV Junk"
Posted by: Louise | October 16, 2009 at 08:46 AM
1. Are we supposed to tell you the expletive we chose?
2. Pnemonia - BAH. I've had that, no fun. Extra hugs
3. Beautiful quilt - I need to work on quilting again!
Posted by: Sharyn | October 16, 2009 at 09:40 AM
I adore how you stitched those labels--definitely going to try that! And if this is lack of mojo, I want to be you. Thanks as always for the inspiration.
Posted by: Jennifer Larson | October 18, 2009 at 07:03 AM