Halloween

 My costume this year was Little Bo Peep with my two little sheep.  Fig was in the depths of despair in her sheep costume and wouldn't even look at the camera, so we only got two phone pictures of her back.. but Plummy did pretty well, thankfully she is too young to know better. But this means I will have to get her a winter sweater to keep this whole wearing clothes thing going!

january

After putting away the Christmas decorations i always want to organize things and decorate around the apartment,

new year, new giant calendar!

My mom gave me her milk glass collection, and i brought the first piece back with me.

 New Christmas book on the shelf.

Some old records of my dad's that i brought back from the trip.

lots of clean laundry to put away.

And a little show and tell of a few more Christmas presents,

instax mini!

 colorful children's books

 cute little black apple notebook

more pretty tapes

my sister painted this mini portrait of Fig!

halloween

 this year i dressed as marie antoinette and fig was her royal pug. Fig's favorite thing to dress as (like last year) is a pug.

this was also my favorite thing to dress as, especially this morning when i woke up with my hair looking like albert einstein. it was like a double costume surprise.

this and that

counting down the days to our family vacation in duluth next week! the whole family can make it this year,  yay!

gathering up all my threads.

 here is a preview of one of the new collars i will have coming to my shop in september!

 and a couple pictures of my and my little friend fig and our books.

(ps, this polka dot dress is also from the same pattern i showed here , also with the same changes)

summer walk

i've been sewing quite a lot this summer, and i thought i would start sharing some of my finished projects. (thanks for the interest to those who have asked!)

so, here is my new blue top,

here is mike with a happy fig,

and here is me with a gnat flying  into my face.

i used this pattern, with a couple of changes.  (leaving out the puffs on the sleeves, and making a gathered skirt instead of the one in the pattern)

i've made a few different versions of this guy.  i also love it as a dress, with short sleeves or sleeveless, and with or without the collar. oh so many options.

birthday

yesterday was my birthday and i am now 27!  mike and fig decorated with pink balloons and we went out to lunch at my favorite bakery. and got a cupcake and macarons. (of course)

we plan on going out to celebrate more this weekend because i was not feeling well at all yesterday, and my birthday dinner got postponed.. but sometimes when you are 27 you are just forced to be mature, and to do things like extend your birthday into a whole week which also gives time for more birthday treats and presents. and that's ok. 

valentine

happy valentine's day! 

fig in her valentine crown

toast on pink dishes

heart pins

card making

this week