Cuteness: Sam

Introducing, Puddle Jumping in action! These designs are meant to get dirty and have fun with the wearer. Here's Sam in the a cute vintage pickup shirt his mom made at the appliqué party:





Give one a try for yourself!

Ice!

Someone recently posted photos of the icicles on their house to their wall on Facebook and wanted others to do the same and compare. I think that we can definitely be in the running to win. What do you think?

And for all you mothers out there (I don't think there's too many holding out) who are still trying to erase that temptation in their boys to turn the mundane into tools of death:

Yes, he turned his icicle into a gun after I mentioned it would make a cool trombone. Oh well.

Be Mine

Did you have a great Valentine's Day? When you have people in your life that you love, this holiday is a wonderful day to celebrate. We get excited to fill up the heart bags each year with some goodies for our children.


This year we had mini cupcakes (Actually, they were brownies. I felt like plain chocolate cake wasn't chocolatey enough!) and left it at that. I knew that the PEZ dispensers the kids received from their babysitter (God bless her!) would add to the sugar rush that day.

So, what do you get two little people that you love dearly? Well, we thought love would be in the form of wiggly snakes. Yes people, the snakes were a hit. Nothing says love like a terrifying, wiggling, scaly reptile. ;)


I truly hope all of you had a great day! I'll be back soon with some new projects this week.

Take care!

Down Time

Isn't that what the weekends are for? I am so thrilled to have had all the activity and wonderful comments yesterday and today. If you are new to this blog, welcome! Please leave me a comment so I can get to know you and maybe check out your blog as well.

Ah, back to down time. This week has been a little more busy that we'd like it to have been (you know how that goes). Now we are enjoying our time with family and friends and just hanging around.

Someone who has been hanging around with us is a new friend named Archie. I will definitely post more on him later but for now, Archie is busy going on adventures and being a companion. He's already showing signs of wear and tear and I'm contemplating a re-do but wondering if the preschooler will notice the switch. Hmmm...

Have a happy Saturday!

Guest Blogger

Guess what, guys? I am completely thrilled to announce that I'm going to be a guest blogger on Celebrate the Boy Month hosted by Made by Rae and MADE. I am beyond excited to see what fun stuff each blogger and guest blogger has to share with everyone.

Much more exciting is the fact that I'll be making my Retro Race Car appliqué pattern available FREE as my contribution to the Celebrate the Boy month. How exciting is that? Puddle Jumping's scheduled appearance is set for February 12th so please be sure to check out the site by then to get your pattern and see the tutorial.

Get Out Anyway

All I've been hearing around the neighborhood (and the blogosphere too) lately is all about someone's either come down with the:
1. flu
2. H1N1 (or swine fever! heh, heh)
3. a virus
4. something that's going around and I think we got it from uncle marty at the last family get-together

... or some such icky-ness. Well, it's been through our house too. As much as I wanted to keep myself 'clean' of all illness, I was struck with it as well. My husband kept apologizing thinking that he gave me the flu, while my daughter coughed in my face and my son tried to stick his finger in my mouth to kiss a boo-boo.

No, honey, you probably didn't give me this flu. (I hear all you mothers of toddlers laughing in agreement)

So, just to get out we sometimes go for walks and waddyaknow? We also got some entertainment to boot. My children decided that they liked watching the roofers put on a new roof for a neighbor so much that they plopped right down to watch the action. These guys had some good music blaring and were in generally good spirits (even for a really cold day). Once they caught sight of their little audience, they really put on a show. Some of the guys waved while others tried tossing soft drink cans up to the guys working on the roof. A few of those cans I probably wouldn't try to open.

This is all just to say that we do find fun in the ordinary, don't we? My children are constant reminders that there are all kinds of interesting and exciting things going on around us all the time. We just have to look for it.

Stay well everyone!