So what have I sewn over the summer? Not as many things as I originally planned (of course). Probably the biggest news was our local fabric warehouse — owned by Cottontail Originals — has decided to shut its doors and has been selling off its entire inventory all summer long. Needless to say I’ve bought plenty, mostly linens and cottons, but a fair amount of ribbon and other trim too. This dress of Asha’s I altered from a shirt pattern, and it matches a simple shirt & pants outfit I made for Niki. Getting them both to pose together with their matching outfits was no easy task, however…

I did make Asha another outfit, and this time let her pick out the fabric from Walmart. An…interesting choice, as usual for her; the texture is a funky sort of weave almost like a basket weave. All I know is that it frays like crazy, which was almost enough to force me to learn how to use the serger I borrowed from my mom.

Oh how I hate allergy season. It’s been so dry and unseasonably warm here that all the cedar trees are LOADED with pollen, and it’s making me want to claw my face off. What better thing to do than to stir up some dust by cleaning the house and building myself a new computer (necessitating digging into the old computer, which is dusty, of course)? But anyway, here I am now, on a zippy fast new computer and a box of kleenex at hand.

Karen over at Blogging Baby posted about an article I found
about the phrase “Gotcha Day”. Both of our kids have such days coming up — Niki’s is April 10th, and I’m trying to think of what to do for it. And what to call it! I’m thinking about “Forever Family Day”, since it was the day she really entered the lives of not just us, but our extended family and friends.

Asha’s is in May, but it’s only a week after her birthday, so I’m even more unsure what to do about that one. Of course, she’ll just be two, so I’m probably off the hook for a few more years…