sewing bug

Help! I'm addicted to sewing lately and I can't stop! :P In the past 2 weeks I've made the following for Miss A: white swing top blouse w/ flower pin, navy capris, khaki 2 layer ribbon skirt, and a navy full-gathered-skirt jumper. Boring colors I know, but since she has to wear uniforms this year, I thought I'd try to fancy up the drab wardrobe with some of my own creations. They are all very simple and I guess you could say contemporary styled. I don't like a lot of "fluff". I reworked the store bought patterns almost completely though. All in the vain effort to create cleaner, internal, seams. Sad thing is, yes it looks really sharp, but no one can tell how much work you put into it. Not like some fancy stitch work that totally shows off. Nope, it's all hidden away inside the garment. That's ok, I did it to give A a bit more comfort because she hates itchy gathered seams.

I also made another sling. Pink, green and yellow big flowers. Totally girly to carry around that sweet Miss S. All my slings that I made for X are too big anyway. Woohoo!

Pokekids

Both of my kids are obsessed with pokemon. So for X's 3rd birthday (yesterday), we gave him mostly pokemon themed toys. He was ecstatic.

My husband thought it would be funny to photoshop the kids into a pokemon picture, just a cut and paste onto a poster type design. Then we printed it out in 4x6 for them. They both totally got a kick out of it. It gave me an idea though. Both kids are forever pretending to be their favorite pokemon characters. So I thought, why not take the photoshop thing one step farther and turn them into that fav. character?

I created "Xantle" after Squirtle and "Alisew" after Mew. I printed them a picture each of their character. A thought they were the funniest thing in the world. She laughed for almost an hour. Even went to bed giggling. :D That just makes a mama's day. Course I feel bad for "one upping" my husband, but I couldn't help it.

X wants to go to cool

I bought A some animal hair clips for valentines day. Yesterday, she wore the blue hippo ones in her hair. As she was climbing out of the car, X yells to her "Bye Sissy! Bye Hippo!" I guess he noticed. :P

X has a new desire for going to school. He plays dress up and has been wearing his sister's old pink hello kitty back pack around the house and everywhere we go. He tells me constantly "I go to cool too." He wakes up from his morning nap and must get dressed, shoes on, hair brushed, and completes the outfit with that pink backpack. He will then tell me from that point until we go pick up A that he needs to go to "cool". Poor thing, I try to tell him that he has to wait till he is 3. At least he has fun playing that he is going. To see the excitement on his face when I finally tell him it's time to go to "cool" to pick up A... that's the best part. It'll be a sad day when I have to let him go off to kindergarten too. Heck, even preschool will be rough.