A walk in High Park

with Lucy and Nico’s “Guardparents”, Andy & Mere:

A dress for Aunty J

So, if you peruse the crafty blogosphere, you have probably heard of Grosgrain a blog hosted by Kathleen, who makes the most beautiful clothes for kids and then gives them away.

I usually don’t enter these types of giveaways, but when I saw this dress, I knew I had to try:

Such a pretty maternity dress, and wouldn’t Aunty J look awesome in it? So, the way you enter is by putting a link back to the original giveaway so…. CLICK HERE! so I can win J a new dress!

Our New Home…

It isn’t ready yet, so stop asking.
Our tentative move-in date is July 29, 2010. We’ve been watching its steady growth over the past year, and this past weekend we went on a short tour of the site – which was cut even shorter by my lousy reaction to the flu vaccine.
Here are some photos – the first is pano shot, my first with the phone, which is why it’s a little wonky. The next two are our place! The top right hand corner of picture #2 is our home. The third photo is our terrace. The fourth is Bob the Builder, who is overseeing the project from his dad’s shoulders.

The Crafty-to-do list item #145

Holy crap, the cuteness!

This is based on a Martha Stewart pattern, deftly executed by the awesome Homemade by Jill. Ni would look freakin’ adorable in this!

Halloween Wrap-up

Even though I said that I had the entire month of October to make costumes, I forgot that needing an entire month to create, source and sew something was back in the day when I bought most of my accessories, was making myself one or two costumes, and I didn’t have two children. Needless to say, I was taping, hot gluing, and tacking my outfit at 5pm on Friday, October 30th.

Nana and Poppa have purchased warm and cute costumes for Lu in the past, and this year added Ni to their shopping list:

She was just carried around and stared at the lights. We ate her candy. She also made out with a little boy named Oliver, and is now the neighbourhood hussy.

Lu had a teddy bear costume. And then decided she wanted to be a butterfly. And then decided she wanted to be a ballerina. (“Mama? Can I have ballet lessons?”) So, the butterfly wings from last year were salvaged, and a tutu made from the petitcoat of her flower girl dress, plus the bear costume equals:

When asked, she described herself as “I’m a teddy bear ballerina costume”. She clearly understands trick or treating now, and loved checking out all the big girls in their big girl costumes. She also thanked the neighbours for “visiting with her”. She did about ten houses, and then sat with Poppa and handed out Smarties – only the Smarties, mind you, as those were her favorites – until Mama got tired and wanted to go home.

BONUS!
My top five favorite Halloween Costumes of 2009 that I didn’t see in person!

And #1 for 2009 (both for the costume awesomeness, the kid’s patience and the parents’ full on geekiness:
You must click through to see the Arduino in action!

I have a crafty death wish…

I pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of “new” manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 2 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that I will share the love and post a photo of my refashioned, renovoted, recycled, crafted or created item of clothing on the Wardrobe Refashion blog, so that others may share the joy that thy thriftiness brings! Signed, Michelle

http://nikkishell.typepad.com/wardroberefashion/

6am iphone photowalk

Crafty TTC

I don’t have any crafts to do on the streetcar for a second day in a row.
So I’m amusing myself by taking sneaky pics of a lady looming what appears to be a tightly woven scarf. So cool!

Peterborough

This past weekend we went to Peterborough for a family wedding. Lu danced until she fell asleep dancing with the bride. Ni was passed around amongst her Great-Aunts and Great-Uncles while she cooed and batted her eyelashes.
These are three of the seven pictures I took over the weekend. Remember when I used to take hundreds of photos with my DSLR? Yeah, me neither.

The Crafty-to-do list: Item #542

Via boingboing.

OMG! Seriously? Isn’t this screaming to be DIY’d? I would definitely use this in our house, and especially in the condo. And it folds up to hold the iron? **faints with delight**