What I'm Working On: pillows & pumpkins & aprons

Wow, what a great surprise!  Just got home from taking Mason to preschool to see an email from the awesomely awesome Heather that she featured me today on her blog {House} of A La Mode!  What a great way to start off an otherwise mundane day of laundry & mopping the floors.

Here's a couple things I've been working on, crafting-wise:

Remember the lemon + lime bridal shower I threw for my cousin a few months ago?  And remember the incredible cupcakes that my friend Annie made for me in exchange for some quilted pillows for her bed?  Well I FINALLY finished them for her!  I love how they turned out:

And the other day I realized since I'm constantly washing my hands, I'm constantly ending up with wet jean legs from drying my hands on my pants.  ;]  I found an easy fix in about 20 minutes with a fat quarter from my stash and some homemade bias tape.  No pockets, no fuss, super easy.

There's lots of fq apron tutorials around the web, but the one I saw that sparked me into creating this was at Prudent Baby.

Also I'm trying to decorating a little bit for fall and Halloween around my house .... I made this cute pumpkin out of a scrap of vintage material and a little brown polka dot scrap.

Next up:  finish a few personal swaps I have going and finish the boys' Halloween costumes.

Thanks again Heather for featuring me!  ;]

Grahm at 14.5 months

Mason was a great baby.  He sat.  He stayed.  He didn't climb.  He didn't walk until he was 15 months old (I was HAPPY about that!)

This one ...

Well ... he's not quite ... the same.

He doesn't sit still.  He doesn't stay still.  He climbs.  He leaps.  He scales.

He's a bit different than Mason was .... and I am having to learn how to parent a totally different breed of child.  He's fearless.  He's fierce.  He's argumentative and onery if he doesn't get his way.

We had to rearrange his nursery so now his crib is smack-dab in the middle of the room where he can't rip the curtains down again or knock the picture frames off the walls or bang on the wall with his little fists.

But he's also soo happy.  And so cuddly.  And so expressive in his emotions that you just can't help but love him (and of course we do! -- LOTS!).  He's just giving me lots more gray hair.  And I can't help but think that he's going to be my first trip to the ER with a screaming, bleeding child in tow.

Even Mason has started saying "(big sigh) oh, Grahmmy!!".  Guess he's heard that one too many times.

But we all love you, little one.

At almost 15 months Grahm:

- says Mama, Dada, ball, byebye, eeeeeeee!!!
- signs "milk" "mom" "dad" "more" "all done" "up"
- loves throwing a ball, any ball
- loves his matchbox cars
- loves cuddling with his soft blankets
- likes riding in the bike stroller
- walks a few steps at a time but WAY prefers his spider monkey crawl.  Everyone that sees it says he looks like Mowgli from Jungle Book.

September Flickr Favorites

I love Flickr and the constant source of quilt-y / fabric-y / rainbow-y / goodness it provides.  I am constantly starring or marking favorite different pictures I come across in Flickr - some items I want to make for myself, or for gifts, or just a pretty picture I want to come back to admire later.  Here are some of the amazing pictures I favorited in September:






Click on the mosaic to view it on Flickr and to see the individual photo links.