Sunday, October 31, 2010

"... there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids." Robert Brault

I love Halloween!

Pictures are on the baby blog.

I apparently tricked some of you with Nani's costume preview. The hat isn't normal sized--it's dinky! I figured a teeny hat would be way more adorable. And it was. It made the outfit.
In doing this costume, I learned compiling is much easier than sewing from scratch. I'm hoping to be able to compile most of her costumes. We'll see, though, once she starts getting into all these Disney princess movies I've bought her.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Baby blog updated

She had a birthday!

And there are also videos of her walking (with assistance).

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

An open letter to the kids outside

The streetlights are on. It's dark. My grumpy baby is sleeping.

Stop screaming.

You do this every night.

Where are your parents?

Exasperatedly,
Your (also grumpy, apparently) neighbor

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

My toes are froze and my nose is froze

I finally finished the quilt I made for Todd. He designed the pattern, and I think it looks great. Because I'm an uber-nerd, we made the pattern using Publisher (we even copy and pasted the fabric from JoAnn's site), but it was actually really fun and much easier to design it that way. I'm really pleased with how the quilt turned out, even if I did make several major mistakes ("opportunities for growth" Ü).
His two requirements were that it's warm and big. I put flannel at the bottom (my new favorite), and the quilt is the length of our couch. It dwarfs me, and it's so snuggly.
He even let me use this very cool paisley fabric as binding.
It's so sweet Todd encourages and supports my hobbies. I very much appreciate it.

Also, because we're getting into trying to warm ourselves, yesterday we bought me my first pair of boots. They're not at all what I thought I'd want, but I'm so excited about them and how practical they are; they're blasted warm (the inside is lined with fur). And they look cute with skirts, which was my goal.