first booties

I was searching for a cute pattern for some baby booties and found this one.

they are so simple, but if you're not a knitter you could make them with some fleece squares and just blanket stitch them together - which is what I'm going to try next!

what's in a name

November 8th

our little sprouting bean at 9 weeks :)

it moved for us and we saw its head rock back and forth and it waved its arm at us

its heart was flashing away on the monitor - 170 bpm

heard the heart again on the Doppler yesterday at 11 weeks - I can't wait for 20 weeks to see it again and stop calling it a it!

elephant "rattle"

I found this cute frog rattle on a link-a-doo loop and wanted to try and make my own. it seemed simple enough... but I just couldn't get it right :(

I gave up on duplicating the frog and just did what worked best.

I put a jingle bell in his head, but it's sorta muffled :\

I also put Smarties wrappers in its ears and those came out sounding really good :)

new knobs

I bought a $40 dresser on craigslist a while back for my nursery. it had silver knobs and looked alright, but I got some green ceramic knobs from my aunt Cindy years ago that I thought looked so much better for a baby. I was worried that since the knobs were a little larger they would scratch up the front of the drawers if they became loose and turned, so I used double sided tape and neon green felt to cover the backs of them before putting them on. now I can switch back to the silver knobs later if I want and don't have to worry about any scuff marks showing.

leaf bracelet

CRAFT magazine posted a link on facebook to maya*made's how-to for a cute leather leaf cuff and I just had to make one for myself.

I didn't have green leather, but I had a beige colored scrap that was sorta ugly on the finished side but super soft and shiny on the other. I've been wanting to use it for something for a while, but I just couldn't get over the color :P I finally decided to try staining it with some green food coloring... and it worked! it's exactly the green I wanted :)

I sewed the leaves together on my sewing machine since the leather wasn't too heavy.

I think next time I'll put a faux button on and use a snap so I don't wear the button hole out.

bunnies don't come from eggs...

but there is one in every peanut.

happy early Easter :)

baby slippers?

I love these :D maybe next time I'm at the thrift store I'll see what I can find in the area of a size 10 for my odd husband who would SO wear these ;)

heck, I'd even wear 'em!

Roxie HATES flying sharks

she was throwing a fit in the backyard yesterday and when I looked out I thought it was weird that she wasn't running back and forth along the fence like she usually does when the people walk along the other side. she was in the middle of the yard looking off somewhere else.

then I spotted the kite.

it took flight a little closer today while I was cleaning mud off her paws - it was all I could do to hold her back.

I am super sensitive when it comes to spinning. I used to be able to handle all the spinning rides at Six Flags and they were actually my favorites.

my dad would get sick easy on them and I always thought that was odd, then one day I couldn't handle them anymore :( I rode some roller coaster with a few spiral loops in it and nearly lost it. I tend to black out on them now and then I hafta sit and wait for the nausea to pass afterwards... only to do it again O:) so yeah, I figured this onset of dizziness was just something I got from my dad - which it might be - but apparently is something that can be "cured". so, after reading this article on Yahoo! about how ice skaters don't get dizzy, I've decided to try and "get used to it".

straw shrimp

make cute shrimp from a drinking straw! who comes up with this stuff?!

hmmm...

got some more snow - rebuilt the snowman and then made a toilet.

I didn't think I could sit on it safely, so I decided throwing up was good enough.

I like the face Matt's snowman is making behind me :)

"oh no! are those my eyes and mouth in there??"