Shelba

Almost There

Instead of cleaning, I'm attaching all the layers to the pink and brown quilt.  I hate this part, I really do.  But I'm just going to get it out of the way so I can do the part that I love best, quilting. 

Okay, I'm off to pin the hell out of what you see above.  Good night!

Pink Shirt

I through this once white shirt into the tub of pink dye (when I was dying backdrops) and I love how it came out.  I decided to mess with a good thing and sew some circles on them and it came out okay. 

I like the way I did the circles on the first one better.  I have an extrastrength needle in my machine and I was too lazy to seek a different one out.  The last one I did (with the extra strength needle) was kind of tough on the t-shirt.  I'm going to have to dig out my other needles, I think. 

Blue Playdough

I kept waking up last night feeling like I was going to throw up.  It was because I was dreaming that Zorba and I were frying blue playdough pancakes...and eating them.  And I would not stop dreaming about this, it went on all last night.  Gag.  I feel sick writing this. 

We play with playdough a few time every day.  I buy playdough every week.  And Zorba has to open a blue can of playdough whenever we do play.  This is why I think I dreamed about us frying and eating blue playdough.

Santa 2006

We skipped the Santa portraits last year because I knew Zorba the Tiny wouldn't enjoy it.  This year, I knew she wouldn't enjoy it, but we did it anyway.  My mom did it to me, so I get to do it to my child.  There will be no breaking of the cycle here.  Zorba, I hope you do the same to your children one day! 

No worries, Zorba was back in my arms right after this was taken.  And Santa made it better by giving her a candycane and a jinglebell bracelet. 

My Day

Today was spent running around to get Ray's passport renewed super speedy style.  Super speedy as in sent off today and we'll receive the new one on Thursday.  Super speedy style passport renewal costs many dollars.  But since he is going out of the country soon, it was necessary.  I wish I was going out of the country with him.  Sniff.  Sniff.   

After dropping the passport stuff off at Fedex,  Zorba and I stopped off at the Lobby of Hobbies and I snagged the last silver tinsel 4.5 foot Christmas tree.  Score!  And I let Zorba pick out some unbreakable (I'm sure we'll find a way) ornaments (Pink and glittery, of course!) to put on our snazzy little tree.  The tree is going in her playroom.

Then we came home to find a package from my June dtc secret pal and we got a great book about crafts you can do with kids and Zorba got three packages of pretend food.  I owe my secret pal a huge hug because this pretend food occupied Zorba up until she went to bed. 

And here and there during the day, I've been working on the pink and brown quilt.  I originally intended for it to be a smaller, but since I cute enough squares and since it won't take THAT much longer, I'm going to make it bigger.  This will be the last 3" square quilt I work on for a long, long, loonnnnggg time.  I'm thinking of selling this one.  And the last two I've made too.  We'll see. 

It is quite a bit bigger than this now.  Why did I decide on 3" squares, why? 

Danielle

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  I know Danielle did.  Did you see where she spent Turkey day? 

Skunk Eye as Demonstrated by a 2 1/2 Year Old

Yeah, the Christmas card picture is proving to be a challenge, but that is not a surprise.  Even offering up candy bribes didn't help much.  That is all right though, because I'm not giving up.  Not yet. 

Evil Came Knocking

A group of boys came to our door (probably around 10 years old) and said they were on a scavenger hunt.  They needed to trade this thing (a gingerbread thing that goes on a door knob) for the coolest thing in our house.  Hello, The Fortunate Hammer!  What is cooler than The Fortunate Hammer?  Huh?  I'd like you tell me, because I can think of nothing cooler.   I gave it to them and a couple of them (good kids) said, "This is cool!" 

But this one little boy, who I could tell is pure evil,  told me, "No, thank you, we need something cool.  Something for a boy."

And this other boy (who totally rocks) said, "But this IS cool." 

And the evil little boy said to me, "No, no thank you." 

All the little boys listened to The Omen and agreed that they would move on to the next house.

I snatched The Fortunate Hammer back and told them, "Yeah, good luck, you aren't going to find anything cooler than this." 

Bib Therapy

Zorba is down for her nap, so I'm trying to get this place picked up.  So much to do, so much to do, there is always so much to do.  As soon as she gets up we're heading out to run some errands. 

I did manage to whip out a bib last night/this morning.  It has been awhile since I have made one because my sewing machine was acting up.  Or so I thought.  Really all I needed was a heftier needle to get through layers. 

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Side A

Side A up close and personal.

Side B

Side B up close and personal. 

I love to sew.  It makes me feel good.  It is good therapy.  Except when my sewing machine screws up, then it is the opposite of good therapy.  But most of the time sewing is my light box. 

T-shirt

I threw these circles on one of Zorba's onesies this morning. 

I was happy because she wanted to put it on immediately, but she also wanted to put on the overalls that she brought to me.  The overalls covered up the circles which would have made taking pictures of her with the t-shirt difficult.  So this is her reacting to me holding the overalls behind me. 

The thing is, she usually doesn't like wearing this pair of overalls, but today she had to have them on and she had to have them on NOW. 

Zorba, she is a sweet mystery. 

This project was super duper easy.  Less than ten minutes kind of easy.