Sewing - The little shirt dress!

As I've heard from others, I learned a lot from making this dress..

These were the biggest things I learned:

1. Next time, I'll use a sturdier shirt! The fabric on my thrift store find was pretty thin and threadbare.
2. I'll use the expanded pattern from Dana next time - the armpits are pretty tight on this one.
3. It would help to have a real child in mind for the dress, so that I could use actual measurements!

The waistband is from a pillow case that my Grandma Reese embroidered. Because it's her embroidery, I'm kind of reluctant to give the dress away. No remedy but having a baby girl of my own :)

Toys - The Littlest Birds

I've started making these birds from scrap fabric and old sweaters, after seeing the cool ones at Spool Sewing and Sew Liberated. So far I've made three little guys. And Sam and I chose a branch from the back forty that the birds are going to sit on. But before I got to glueing them, Sam had so much fun playing with them and making them talk to each other. So they might not ever make it to the branch.

The big fuzzy purple one is the dad, while the other two take turns being the mom or the child. My husband tried to convince him that the fuzzy one should be the mom, since I'm the one with crazy curly hair in the family, but he's not having it. The big fuzzy purple one is, and always will be, Dad.

Toys - Some ideas work better than others...

The 'snow globe' we tried to make using a peanut butter jar and crunched up egg shells :) Back to the drawing board...


The coffee filter flower bouquet Sam gave me for Mother's Day, co-created with Auntie Cheryl. So beautiful!

Photography - B&W Botanicals for Block-Printing Inspiration

Inspiration - My art day...

I already posted a little bit about this at yo-yo reggio, but here are a few more photos of the fun I had today. I'm officially in love with block-printing. I've got my block-printing wish list to make and buy brewing...

As you can see, I'm having some trouble with the photo orientation tonight, but you get the idea!