i'm in love

i worked on this baby every lunch break for a week. i enjoyed every minute of it, even gathering the purple layer. no lie. I am very happy with myself for starting and completing a project without distraction and i just LOVE how it turned out.
Instead of giving it a full bodice like the tutorial does I decided to go with a lace up back. This way the dress will fit her for quite sometime. It fits her now as a long dress and the twirling model is a little girl in my class who just turned 5. Its a shorter dress on her and i belive there is still room for growth because the exposed orange section in the back where their is no bodice has a few inches of stretch thanks to that wionderful clear elastic. (i love that stuff) It would make a cute top with some pants. It can be worn as a skirt and if need be i could always remove the red bodice and give it a waist band.
god i wish it would fit me!

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rainbow twirl skirt

so ive been wanting to do this for quite some time, ive even had the squares ready to go more then once but lost my pretty little piles to the wrecker and her love for sorting and placing things in rows. i think i always chicken out because i really dont look forward to gathering that purple row but i DREAM about this skirt! i need to just do it. so tonight the wrecker and i sorted and place colors in rows. ive already sewn all the squares together and gather orange yellow and green and then go figure... i run outta clear elastic! damn!!! postponed again, but off to a way better start. im too sleep to post any other pics tonight. hell im even too sleepy to turn this one the right way. no worries ill post plenty of pics when im done!

happy valentines day

we had a nice cozy day today. I planned to take Kaija out somewhere special for some fun but it poured rain all day! So we decided to stay in and blow up the air mattress and hang out in the front room. we watched movies and ate popcorn, did a few little projects, took a nap, made heart shape veggie pizza for dinner drank some hot chocolate for desert.

Kaija spent Friday baking with her Nana, she made some very yummy chocolate peppermint heart cakes and Nana made a very cute card with the picture of Kaija baking. Kai was very excited to give me her cakes when she got home and even showed me how to eat them.

I made Kaija a valentines inspired circle skirt the night before while she slept, so it truly was a surprise. when i gave it to her she said "oh its beautiful mommy, you made it for me. me try it on right now"

i heart poka dots

just some cute last minute valentines day bags i made with twas quick and easy and the kids helped. we made 14 of them in a half an hour.
i love the vintage poka a dot ribbon around the top of the bag.
last minute i ran out and grabbed some glittery wired ribbon that worked perfect for the handles. thanks for motivating me rachie.

hbot

i spend an hour in one on sunday. it belongs to a dear friend of mine who has been doing hyberbaric oxygen chamber therapy also known as HBOT for a few months now. im still pretty new to this topic myself but to sum it up at the risk of sounding scientifically silly... you climb in and and get comfy of course. L zipped me up and turned it on (which she can do by herself but shes a pro now) the chamber begins to pressurize to something like 4 times our atmosphere. it provides pure oxygen to breathe. (how cool is that!) which moves your blood to places in your body it may not reach and restores cells and.... i dunno google it!

what i do know is that it was awesome! it was the perfect temperature, and surprisingly quite roomy once it begins to expands. your eats do start to clog in the first few minutes but the pop easily by yawning or wiggling your jaw.

Of course once i was in i went right into trance. it was wonderfully peaceful :)

"blue water"

its a bit of a family tradition, colored bath water that is.

as little girls Carly and i always got to pick a color add a few drops of food coloring and get our bath on. So naturally i carried on the tradition with Kai, and naturally she ONLY ever wants "blue water"

the shirt she grabbed off the top of the laundry basket, it was her "bathing suit" and yes that is a tub full of plastic bath toys! as much as she loves them...they drive me nuts. anyone have any good ideas for homemade bath toys?

happy birthday bob

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