Bows and Blossoms

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Trish

This is Suann’s uber cutie little girl. Suann lives up in Marysville and has this awesome hairbow business. I couple of posts ago, I put up a photo of my little one with a hairbow…this is one I purchased from Suann. They stay in even in super fine baby hair.

Anyway, Suann ordered a mommy and me purse set from me and I added in with her purchase a little dress for her daughter. Suann made this adorable bow to go along with the dress. I love it! I love being able to find things handmade and made locally. So share this link with your other “mommy friends”. When you order something from Suann – she sends it to you in this adorable little box, wrapped so pretty – it’s like getting a gift!

As the snow falls outside my office window here on campus, and my baby is talking to her dolls on the floor here…and the big sisters were just dismissed early from school…I’m thinking we had better wrap things up and start heading home while we still can. I love LOVE LOVE snow but hate driving in it, especially when I have the kids with me. I think the baby could stay here all day – she gets loads of attention from everyone that walks by my office door…and the students think its funny that my office is set up like a nursery. Hey, it works and everybody is happy!

Happy Snow day all!

Ciao, TRP

Bib Mania!

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Trish

My hubby and I went on a little frenzy today with bibs for our baby! We chatted last night at bedtime about the designs and then this morning everybody chimed in on just how the different appliques should look. Andalucia fabric by Patty Young for Michael Miller I cut about 5 different designs and pieced it all together. Then we tried to put on the snaps. Shhheeezz! I think we busted about 10 of them before we gave up.

SO…we dropped our older daughters at an afternoon birthday party and took a trip over to the local fabric shop for a pair of pliers designed to put on snaps. Hoping to catch a bite out to eat, we headed to the local wine bistro…not open. Then over to our old favorite, Village Wines, also closed due to renovations! And…we don’t actually drink alcohol but our favorites happen to be wine bars, both these places serve amazing food! Next try, a local mexican eatery and it was open. We gobbled down a ton of chips, salsa and some mighty big burritos. Yummy! Hit the spot…oh, yeah, back to the snaps!

We get home with our new mighty pliers and my husband goes to work on the bibs. SUCCESS! We got the snaps on all of them and tried them on our little cookie monster! Too cute!

This gorgeous fabric with the heart I appliqued is a line called Andalucia by Patty Young. I love this designer…she has a fun blog and I love the surprise of colors from this line. I’m totally going to swipe her latest birthday party idea she posted for her daughter. She did a super fun cooking party and made the guests aprons, chefs hats and oven mitts. With my twins birthday next month, I’m thinking I may do the cooking thing and the aprons. Chefs hats and mitts…a bit too complicated for me :>) But, follow this designer. She’s got fun ideas!

Anyway, the whole family enjoyed this process and my twins want to be sure that we bring their favorite, a brood of fat little birdies on orange dots, to church tomorrow. They think she should wear it all day, not just at meal time! I listed several on ebay and eventually, I’ll get some up on my etsy site and my dot.com, whenever I get time to finish setting it up! I”m still working on finishing up some orders from Mary’s party – kind of wierd because I lot of the fabrics are on backorder so I’m stuck waiting for them to come in to finish up.

So, what do you think of the fat little birdie? Cute isn’t he? You should have seen my husbands idea for this applique…whew! He’s a good artist but…I’m a better designer I think!

Ciao, TRP

Sock Monkeys

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Trish

Remember sock monkeys? I love them! My daughter saw a kit for making one and so I gave it to her for Christmas. The box said for 9 and up. She’s 7. So, she asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked and asked…you get the picture, asked non-stop on Christmas day for me to make this for her. So, I get it started and have her help. Ahh…9 and up? Hello?! I was ready to gouge my eyes out making this thing! Sock knit is not the easiest thing to sew. Trying to turn the tiny little narrow arms and legs right side out…man! Of course, then he has to have a sleeping cap. And slippers. And his own little teddy bear.

Now that he is made though, we all love him. And want more! We’ll be on the hunt for more to add to our lonely little guy to start a collection. Besides old vintage ones…anybody got any ideas where we could find others?

I mentioned the other day that I was working with a graphic designer to turn my patterns into a marketable product. I’m really excited about this whole process. We discussed the packaging, product photos, and names. My husband and I came up with a great name for our first line…you’ll have to stay tuned in and wait for their debut to find out what it is! Garden theme of course.

I honestly didn’t get much of anything done today. I sketched designs some and painted a few. The hubby has a nasty head cold as does the baby. The baby barely let me put her down today. She just wanted held and cuddled. Even though she was a bit cranky, it sure was nice to cuddle all day and just relax. I so very rarely get to do that. We just enjoyed watching the snow fall most of the day…and listened to my husband blow his nose every few minutes. I sure hope I don’t get it because I am a terrible patient. I hate being sick.

Tomorrow is Friday but I’m not ready for the weekend just yet. Kids home and all. I need a few more uninterrupted days of peace and quiet. I think this whole sleep deprivation thing with the baby is starting to catch up to me. I could sleep for a week in my wonderfully cozy flannel sheets in my big king size bed. Ohhh…can you tell it’s just about bed time. Thinking about sleep already. I seem to think and talk about sleep a lot lately zzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

Ciao, T