I'm a mother of three, five and under. I'm a wife to a perpetual student. (Seriously, just graduate already - I mean, "I support you, honey.") I'm a child to the only Father who can claim to be Perfect, and I study under Him daily in hopes of learning from the Best.
I believe in breastfeeding, natural childbirthing, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and attachment parenting.
Compared to the bottle-feeding, Pampers-wearing, crib-sleeping, day-caring world around me, I thought maybe that qualified me as a Natural Mommy.
While I was rummaging through my craft box, I saw I had kept the triangles I had cut out while making Olivia’s crown. I started playing with them, to see how easy it would be to make a little quilt out of them. But before I knew it, I had these sitting in front of [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on November 18th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Now for the fun part. And as it’s 2 a.m., my creative juices are flowing. It reminds me an awful lot of college. I printed out a large (600 pt), bold, Century Gothic ‘B’. I was flipping through the fonts, saw “Century Gothic”, thought “Batman” and what do you know? Success! (Also, if you right [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on November 18th, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This thing took me ALL.DAY (and into the next day – I didn’t go to bed til 2!) to make. Once I got the hemming done, it was easy as cake and even fun. But THE HEMMING. *shudder* I started by drawing a semi-circle on the fabric. I used Benjamin’s height from shoulders to ankles, [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on November 18th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s a tad taller than I’d hoped for (and I say “hoped” because I never can do math well enough to be sure that it’ll work out just like I planned…), but it’s a crown, and it’s a cute one, at that! I think it kinda looks like a pirate crown. A pirate princess crown. [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on November 17th, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Well, I survived the sewing machine thus far! It hasn’t all been perfect, but I think it’s turning out okay regardless… I sewed the inner crown together – just on the top, leaving the sides open. Then I had the fun task of pulling it all right-side out. I used closed scissors to poke all [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on November 17th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Welcome to Craft Day! Today is a day I’ve set aside to make some homemade Christmas presents for my children! You can play along, too! Do you have some crafts you’ve been meaning to get done? Use today as the motivation you’ve been lacking! Come and craft with me! That’s a lot of exclamation points! [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on November 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
I wrote this post awhile ago, but got so caught up in Baking Day, I kept postponing it. And after Baking Day, I was amazed at how easy and fun it was to accomplish things live with you all on twitter! And now I want to do a Craft Day! Who else is making Christmas [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on November 6th, 2009 | 11 Comments »
The Yoda: I did not make his costume. We bought it for Olivia. And every.single.child since has been Yoda for their first Halloween. Yep, both of ‘em. The Princess: I did not make her dress. It is a flower girl dress from a wedding she was in this summer. I did not make the crown [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays, The Craftiness on November 2nd, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Unless I make myself a cake. Which Olivia thinks I should. In the shape of a dog. But I won’t. So I’m done ’til March. Three birthdays within a month of each other. Granted, I didn’t have a make a cake for Levi’s, but having a newborn for the other two definitely made life more [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness, The Daddy on July 15th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hello from my couch! From between two piles of laundry! Hi! Can you see me? I’m the one with my feet up. The one who is currently not nursing nor holding an infant. The one not changing a single diaper! The one who just put in ANOTHER LOAD OF LAUNDRY. Two children ago, I would [...]
Filed under: The Craftiness on July 2nd, 2009 | 7 Comments »
