Kid crafting

The kids made some masks out of paper plates (just a random day I was trying to give them something fun to do):

I had good intentions...

I really had good intentions of taking pictures and uploading them of layouts I have made at the last swarm and since then. Really, I did.

Then I got sidetracked and started a new blog about some things that I have been researching and discovering within the last year or so due to some health issues I have had. I plan to use it more of a reference page than actual blogging, but will update it when I find new information. If you care to take a peek...here it is:

Apple A Day

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Be a blogger, and a follower...

I just noticed all these things saying "Follow This Blog" on some blogs I like to visit and decided to check out what it is all about. I think it is a great idea. You can follow all the most recent posts of blogs you like to visit from your Blogger Dashboard.

To get some followers of your own, go to "Customize" and then on your blog layout, click on "Add A Gadget". Click on the plus sign nest to "followers" and then save your changes and you can start having blog followers (leave me a comment if you add this or already have it on your site). If you'd like to follow my blog, just look over on the right side of my page and click "Follow This Blog".

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I just found out you can follow a blog even if the person you want to follow has not gone through the steps above. On your "Dashboard", go to your "Reading List"...below that is a button that says "Add", and when you click on it, you can add the URL of whatever you want to follow. I even added some to mine that are not Blogger blogs. Anyway, just thought I'd share!
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Really, I do plan to post some pictures of some layouts I have done...I am just slow going at getting pictures taken of them. But for now, this "update" will have to do.

and PS...two more months (and counting) until our new baby boy is set to arrive!!!

Pregnant on Halloween...again...and again...

This was the third time that I have been "big gut" pregnant on Halloween. What's a girl to do for a costume? You can't just dress as a princess and pretend you don't have the belly. Well, here are the things I have come up with in years past...

Pregnant with Lacie...and dressed as a man with a beer gut (and there's my husband as H.I. from Raising Arizona) -
Yes...the arm pit hair is fake (done with eyeliner)!

Pregnant with Javan...and dressed as a basketball hoop (and Lacie dressed as Larry the Cucumber)


Pregnant with our little baby boy...and dressed as a disco ball (some friends wanted to dress as ABBA and I had to help them out)

Pumpkin Fun

We went to my brother-in-law and NEW sister-in-law's house today to have some pumpkin fun with them and the kids. They carved a pumpkin while the kids painted and put stickers on another one. Here are some pictures from the day...

A book for Grandma...

My Grandma (who lives in Washington) is turning 80 and so our California family decided to put together a little book of letters and pictures for her. I had to get it in the mail in time to make it for a party our Washington family is putting on, so I only got one picture of the cover.

Here's how it turned out:

The finished product...

Here are some shots of Lacie and her flower girl gig (in the dress I made) at my cousin's wedding:

(How cute!)

(Her hair...she had all sorts of stuff in there!)

(Testing the twirl-ability of the dress)

(Lacie & Mommy)

(Another shot of Lacie)

A different kind of crafting...

Lacie (our daughter) is going to be the flower girl in my cousin's wedding. He (Bry) is getting married next Saturday. We leave a week from today to go to Washington and are staying in Seattle, and I am excited about the trip. I haven't been to Washington in over 10 years!

Anyway, I made Lacie's dress for the wedding. A little different from the crafting I normally do, but it is still a craft. And if you care for a background on my sewing history, I started sewing when I was in elementary school and was given a sewing machine for Christmas in 4th grade. I still use the same sewing machine. I made many of my own clothes when I was younger, some for my cousin (Molly) when she was younger, miscellaneous odds and ends, and also made another flower girl dress for the first wedding Lacie was in (I think that was about two years ago now). She has one more to go (Caleb's brother is getting married in October)...and I am not making a dress for that one. I am flower-girl-dressed-out!

The wedding is going to be all sorts of fall colors. The dress is really more like a deep red/burgundy color than what is showing up in the pictures, but I guess you will have to use your imagination for that...oh, and obviously I will be doing something with her hair.


The pattern showed a very fluffy bottom of the dress, but it didn't have me do any netting underneath. I made up my own little extra skirt for underneath and attached some netting to give it some poof. (It is very odd looking, but it serves its purpose.) You can see the net sticking out in the pictures a bit, but I have fixed that. Netting is wonderful because you just snip wherever and it is finished. Oh, and actually, the netting in the picture is showing much closer to the real color of the dress...so that can give you an idea.


The back of the dress...


If you have hints on how to tie a pretty bow on a sash, please share. It is harder than it should be! I am wishing I would have made a sash with a velcro on bow that was pre-made all pretty and didn't have to be tied, but I didn't, so now I have to tie the thing. Ugh.

This is the best picture I could find of Lacie in the first flower girl dress I made her:

And luckily someone else tied the sash that day!

IT CAME! IT CAME!

Today my blog candy from Ms_Dee arrived! A new Paper Gator!

Look out world! Everything with corners will now be rounded!

Thank you SO much, Ms_Dee!!!