my friend kerry is having her third baby. but her first girl. and long awaited girl. 😉 so, i wasn’t sure what to get or make her, given the little amount of time i’ve had lately, but i decided at the very last minute (thursday. the shower was friday) that i could make a baby […]
the melody miller typewriter cake.

as i mentioned in my last post, approximately 38 seconds ago, our quilt guild had melody miller in last night as a special guest speaker. she makes a lot of super fun, bright vintage-y fabrics. as soon as we knew she was coming, my pal lee suggested i put my cake making skills to work […]
my new favorite bag of all time.

soooooo…. our quilt guild had melody miller drop by for a visit for our february meeting (which was last night). i had planned to take a little workshop she was teaching today. but, childcare situations fell through, and i was forced to give up my spot. so, i convinced derek that i needed to take […]
happy valentines day.

today was valentines day. lame. but ike is in public school, so we get to participate. we decided on fun dip valentines. and isaac got to work addressing them. today, he came home with a box of standard valentines, little pieces of cardboard with a single piece of candy taped on. and then THIS. from […]
small things

not much happening on the sewing front lately. i’ve been getting up at 430 to go to the gym. and i have so many kids running around all day. so, when we get our knuckleheads settled in for the night, i am usually too tired to accomplish anything and i watch mindless tv and go […]
ike writes

our big kindergartener has been coming home with lots (millions, really) of classwork everyday. my favorite things are the sentences and occasional accompanying illustration. he had to write a weather report one day. this is very scientific. playing with john. “never gonna catch me!” a full report about his birthday sleepover. ixiding. he loves penelope […]
charlotte family saturday.

with no pressing engagements or cakes or other such things to suck up our time this weekend, we decided to head south the the queen city of charlotte north carolina to check out the discovery place museum and possibly ikea. we’ve never been with our own kids, but i went with jake about 7 or […]
challenge quilt

so, our quilt guild participated in the big modern quilt guild’s michael miller challenge. we received some madrona road fabrics in the blue/yellow/black colors and we were allowed to use any solid or any other madrona road fabric. furthermore, to kick off our guild’s new relationship with senior services, we decided to make wheelchair quilts […]
20 pictures.

i think all of our chickens are finally laying. including the easter eggers (americaunas), who lay greenish-blue eggs. anna still loves yo gabba gabba. mostly brobee. as evidenced by this picture. heather and her girls came over to play the other day. livy loves our chickens. anna is pretty crabby lately. we see this face […]
bulldog cake #3 for z.

my crazy week of cakery ends with this pirate bulldog cake. it’s the third bulldog cake that i’ve made for my friend kim’s youngest little guy, who is 4 today. he likes bulldogs. and pirates. and yellow. that equals this cake. last year, i made him this cake: and the year before, this one: so, […]