car seat blanket sale

my sister-in-law is having a sale on her car seat blanket pattern.

it is a blanket that you put  into the car seat, and it has slits for the five point harness to come through so you can wrap you baby up nice and snug!

i have made 3 of these blankets in the last couple of months for friends, and they have been the biggest hit!

everyone says they cannot live without it!

she is also giving two patterns away for free!

go check out her blog for the sale!

trey in the early morning...

trey's aunt emily (my 17 year old sister) spend the night last night.

he told her he was going to TP her car...she did not believe him.

trey was up before her this morning, put his sneakers on, and headed out the door in his pj's with toilet paper under his little arm.

this was his first time TPing. 

i was impressed with his natural ability.

check out the arch on that air born toilet paper roll.

i took this video on my phone.

i wanted to give him a little scare, so i snuck up on him and yelled "hey kid watcha doin!?"

he just looked at me and said "mom you know it's just me!"

 

i am going to have to keep my eye on this kid when he is a teenager...i see lots of toilet papering in his future.

fighting "upper-inner" exposure one skirt at a time...

i had been wanting a denim skirt forever!

at the end of this summer i was at the gap and i finally found this one!

it was is a way cute pencil skirt, but there was one problem...

the slit was wayyyy too high for my comfort.

whenever i am shopping for skirts it's a problem!
why are the slits so dang high!? 

when this happens i like to call it "upper-inner exposure" :o)

my husband laughs every time i say "upper-inner"...that's why i say it, ha!  anyway...

i came up with a way to fix my problem.

i took some dark blue knit fabric from joanns.

knit is nice and stretchy...so i would still be able to move around in the skirt.

turn your skirt inside-out.  with the selvage (the self finished side of the fabric) lined up with the bottom of the skirt, and the slit laying flat open, i just cut out a piece of knit that was a little bigger than my slit.

then sewed it down right a long the very edge of the fabric...taking my pins out before i got to them so i wouldn't break a needle.

yes!

problem solved!

love it!

my friend erin came over last week and wanted to see if i could do the same type of thing with her black pencil skirt.

the slit on that skirt went all most all the way up to the zipper!

seriously!?

 

I decided to use lace for this one.

Lace stretches a little bit.  It also has a nice finished selvage edge.

I doubled the layer of lace so you wouldn't be able to see through it.

I pinned the lace starting from the skirt being inside-out, making sure that the selvage edge was lined up with the bottom of the skirt, then turned the skirt right-side-out, pinned it, and then took the pins out from the back.  This way I didn't have to worry so much about breaking a needle.

Then I trimmed the extra lace off close to the seam and was done!

It works and is so super easy!

Go get out your old skirts with those slits that are just too high!

november...

trey is a tree climber.

he has scared just about any visitor or neighbor we have had, by hiding up at the top of one of our trees.

now that the leaves are falling, he has put his tree climbing skills to good use.

i was talking to my dad on the phone while trey and i were raking up a huge pile of leaves.

he heard the exchange between trey and i.

"hey mom can i please climb the tree and jump into this pile of leaves?"

me against my better judgment as a mother, knowing that he maybe could get hurt, but eventually being won over by the fact that it would be really fun, and he will only be a kid once,  and the fact that i would want my mom to let me do it :o)

"sure just aim for the middle."  i say.

then i say to my dad, who really is just a big kid himself, and has rubbed off on me...

"this is your fault you know"...and he doesn't deny it because he knows it is.

trey was nice and safe and landed right in the middle each time.

 

he would land in the middle and then do this dramatic roll off to the side.

lucy came out and had her go at it...

but safely from the ground!

happy november!

ask and ye shall receive...

well hello everybody!

i have had several readers ask for a video on how i made these roses.

i made a picture tutorial you can take a look at here...

but i realize that a video would make it so much easier to follow.

i love my readers...so i did it!

i have never made a video that was cut and put back together so this is a first for me.

i am a little shy about it and felt like a dork while making it :o), but if it will help you guys that i am all for it!

while i was making this video trey came up to me and said "hey mom what the heck are you doing?"  i had to cut that part out!  then later, when he was making top ramen on the store-top, i heard him explaining every step of just how he was doing it...i was so embarrassed for the both of us.

here's how to make it...

here's how to sew it...

 

i had to show you this pillow that i finished!

i used the same steps as in the video but added 3 more thicker strips of fabric.

the pillow in the back with the yellow flowers i did not make...found it at

  target!

 it is still there for $24.99!

i am making a bunch of pillows to cover my couches.

stay tuned for more!

 

i am making these hats for christmas gifts!

now with the video you can too!

p.s.  this is going to be huge to my husband and anyone that knows me...after listening to these videos i now realize how soft spoken i really am and that i truly do mumble.  i can't believe i admitted that! no one can ever hear what i am saying and now i know why.  i am going to get so much crap from my husband for all the times i have said "nevermind" after he as asked me to repeat myself.

sweet lu on halloween...

i have had several family members say "hey wait a minute we never got to see photo's of little lu on Halloween!"

well don't you fret!

i laughed my way through Halloween this year and let me tell you why.

first of all, we had already been to a Halloween trunk-or-treat the night before Halloween.

i told the kids that one day of trick-or-treating was enough...trey was excited to just hand out candy that actual night of Halloween.  i figured that was that.

well Halloween came, and it was our little lucy who took to handing out candy.

she sat outside in the cold waiting ever so patiently for the trick-or-treaters.

it was just too cute for my little heart to handle.

then, our little friend liam came over.

he was a cowboy.

when his parents headed out to take him trick-or-treating i heard my little lu run up stairs...next thing i knew i see a flash of pink run past me as i head to the door to pass out candy to the trick-or-treaters.

wait where did lu go!?

i looked for her and found her two houses down standing at their front door...shoeless, in her costume, bucket in hand!  i was so surprised that she had run out in the dark by herself!  she doesn't do that ever!

last year she was so shy and wanted nothing to do with knocking on doors.

this year she was a maniac, stopping at nothing to get a bucket full to the top with candy!!

so out we went!

i laughed every time liam ran past with his funny little run in those cowboy boots...i will never forget it!

trey dressed up as a skeleton the actual night of halloween.

he thought he was pretty cool...and so did it.

lucy ended up with a bucket full of candy so she was a happy girl.

i had forgotten how much fun halloween and trick-or-treating really are!

i especially loved seeing all the little babies in their costumes!

what a fun time of year.

bring on thanksgiving!