Spring has sprung

The tree in our front yard has produced small flowers which will soon yield beautiful bright green leaves. Now that I am able to get out more with the boys, mostly on walks around the neighborhood, I am become more motivated and inspired to create things. Among them is a garden but depending on cash flow, the larger garden may have to wait another year still. Until then, I will do my best to keep what annuals come up alive and healthy and look forward to return of the birds and a new batch of babies.

I am finally getting to a couple of projects I have been collecting materials for over the past few months. One of them is just to keep the boys occupied/teethe on - a small fabric square that crinkles and has ribbons attached. I originally saw the idea in a book/magazine/website a few months ago and the crinkle inside is the wrapper from wipes refill packages. Given that we always have plenty of these to spare, I started collecting them until the opportunity to construct one. The main fabric for the one pictured was actually from a onesie my sister handed down to me for the boys and the ribbons came from presents from various friends/family/occasions that I saved for future wrapping/crafting; so essentially, I spent $0 on making it. I can see this as being a pack-rat, but I like to think of it more as up-cycling :) I have a couple more I am working on and will post images as I complete them.


I attended the Sewing & Quilting Expo with my mom today and was overwhelmed with new ideas. I had enough money to get a few supplies and my mom paid for us to attend a class on altering patterns and existing garments to fit better, so if anyone has something they're cool with me experimenting on, I'd love to try it out. Unfortunately the woman couldn't really answer the one question I had and was less than pleasant to be around, but I didn't let it ruin my entire experience. I am really interested in trying my hand at quilting one day, but for now, I think I'll still to smaller stuff and try to finish up things I've already started.