How To: Birdie Theme Birthday

Owls are currently a pretty popular baby theme (birthday, nursery, you name it). I hear they’re on their way out and that foxes are the new big thing. Either way, I wanted to do something sweet, but not typical. And […]

Christmas Decor 2012

Lest you think we’ve been too busy to decorate for Christmas, we actually put up the tree the Sunday after Thanksgiving! Avie tried to help… But mostly, she was completely uninterested in the tree. For outside, we put up some […]

Thanksgiving

I know, I know… it’s almost Christmas, but bear with me! Last year we somehow managed to mess up our every-other-year plan to split the holidays because Ansen’s parents moved from Topeka (2 hours from Wichita and my family) to […]

Projects That Kept Me Busy

Interestingly enough, in the middle of being completely unmotivated to live life, I managed to work on a few projects. I think the main reason was because I had a deadline for returning the serger. While I know my mom-in-law may have let me keep it for longer if I had asked, I decided I didn’t want to know because I needed the deadline of Thanksgiving. Otherwise… none of this would have happened…

DIY Pin Cushion

I didn’t have a pin cushion and I couldn’t justify buying one. So, I decided to make one with some scraps left from the sleep sacks I made Avie. I started with a circle… Then I started some large basteing […]