Tabletop Runner: Finished

Nice to start and finish my first quilting project. Here the binding is complete. I love it. Thanks Camille for the great inspiration!

Uh oh...

Someone in our house has the crafty bug. Many visits to Joanns, late nights with chocolate, an invaded dining room table and a very patient husband and daughter.

Learning to quilt a tabletop runner. Want to make your own? Go here

Just need to finish the binding. I made this in one night! I love the harvest colors, they were a charm pack at Joanns named "Carnival" by Fabric Central. The squares were already cut out. I love quilting. Thanks mom for the great sewing machine! I love it.
Butterfly shoes for a newborn babe. I was hesitant to post these pics before they got their gift. But, I'm sure they are too busy snuggling with their baby to check my blog! It is supposed to look like a distressed edge butterfly on the shoe. It looks like that, right? Right? Oh dear, I may have stayed up too late these past nights. :)

My Scrapbook Hybrid. I DON'T scrap pictures into albums. I like to scrap into frames so people can actually enjoy my scrapping. This was a "Nocturne" Scrap Kit from Joanns also. Frames bought there too. I love those 40% off coupons.

Thanks for looking! It feels good to get creative again. I'd been just reading other's blogs and decided to get to it.

The fairy princess has landed.

I can't get over these cute pics of Aubrey. She is such our girly girl! A typical day for her is dress up, carrying things around in baskets and pushing her baby doll in her stoller.

We love her and her fire-engine-driving ways.

Aubrey and potty training...

Aubrey has really been expressing interest in the whole potty thing lately. Although I feel like we are very far away from actually GETTING her to use the potty, I thought I'd role play with her doll.

Her doll got a little potty awhile back and she was practicing putting the baby on the potty. Right before this video was taken, I got the amazing idea to grab some raisins and Ryan grabbed the camera.

Here is what unfolded..

Why we love having a girl!

5. Because watching her put eye shadow on her cheeks is too cute!

4. Because she cordinates her shopping purchases better than I do.

3. Because she's the best mommy to her little dolly.

2. Because a tutu goes with any toy.

and..

1. Because (despite being so stinking sweet and girly) she's not above eating dirt from outside!


We love you Aubrey.

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More swimming...

Gone swimming...

Some of you may be wondering where we've been. It's been a fun summer and after a small timeout from blogger, we are back! I couldn't get blogger to get our pics up, after 4 times I put it in timeout.

Aubrey is really growing fast. Her mind is grasping many concepts like animal sounds, and copying the words we say (like blueberry and applesauce). It's really cute. She is 16 months now and almost ready for nursery on sundays. We have taken her in a few times and she loves playing with the toys. Her favorite toys are baby dolls. She wraps them in blankets and holds them, giving them little pats on the back - just like we did with her. Sigh. She's so darn cute!