abcdefg morning

a - apple

b - banana

c - caramel, cookie

d- dallin, dip

e - ellie

f - funny face

g - grins, giggles

National Emergency!

Sara! Renee! Amy! Anyone else out there that quilts....read me now....HELP me now!!!! I am making this quilt. Made with these luscious fabrics. Although I never got the fabric that I won, I bought some any way. All this is really beside the point. The point is....

(warning...cell phone pictures edited in Picasa) I turned on my iron today, and it started spewing this {look down}
AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!! What am I supposed to do? I can't just throw it in the wash, nothing is back-stitched. Please, somebody, help! This is a national emergency!!!!!

A Prototype (skirt)

I am constantly scouring the internet for free tutorials. Easy ones with no buttons, snaps, or zippers. Here is one that I found that took up less than an hour of uninterupted free time. Anyone can do it! Now, I just have to find all of my scrap ribbon. Where did I put it? That's the question of the day!

plum

This plum jam better set up well in these recycled baby food jars. Because it was a pain in the rear to fill them up. Being the obedient wife that I am, I did this at Paul's request. Oh, but they are so cute!

"Why? It's a classic!"

Those were the words that came out of Paul's mouth when I told him that I was sick of my old, store bought, tomato pin cushion and that I was going to make one instead. But then, he really got into my new project and helped me with the pliers ('cause you just might need 'em). This pin cushion was quick to make, and a fun challenge for a sew-in-a-straight-line girl like me.

Heather Bailey's Square Deal Pincushion

Sewing OCD

Paul wants his kitchen back. I have taken it over with all my sewing stuff. I am obsessed. OBSESSED. Give me a week and I will be sick of sewing!

In the meantime, meet Ellie's new reversible smock.Won't this be cute over a white shirt with jeans?
Here is the FREE pattern and tutorial.
A couple of things that I did differently from the pattern was lower the neck line and arm holes and I did not add a seam allowance like it calls to do so that it would be a smaller size.
LOVE IT!

Wannabe refashionista...

I have been perusing this blog lately. It's made me miss the HUGE D.I.'s and Savers in Utah. It's made me walk up the hill to my small Goodwill and scour the aisles. I found this skirt (jr. size 10 and short) . I brought it home for Ellie to slobber on. I made this. It was fun to make and it went a lot smoother that I expected. Only a few unpicks, holes and pokes. Taking the official pledge might be kind of hard for me, maybe in January when I make all my New Year's resolutions.

Full Belly

This was for dinner.

{pesto turkey burgers w/ grilled sweet potato fries} And this was dessert.

Full, happy belly!

Sweet? or Sassy!

Today, we had Dallin's little friends over to make peanut butter play dough pizza. It's a super easy recipe:

1 cup smooth peanut butter

1/2 cup honey

2 cups dry milk

Combine the honey and pb first, then mix or knead in the dry milk. Back to the point of this whole post. This girl is so sweet, but boy, she can be sassy (funny sassy). Paul was talking to her, trying to confuse her, like he does with most kids.

Paul: "Hey Brittaney, boys rule and girls drool!"

Brittaney: "No!!! It's GIRLS rule and BOYS drool!!!"

Paul: "I'm pretty sure it's the other way..."

Brittaney, interrupting him mid-sentence: "You'll just have to get used to it!"

You go, girl!

Food, fun, flowers

A weekend away would have been ideal, but we stayed home and made the best of it. We try to make every meal count when we eat at home on a special occasion, complete with spicy, sweet, salty, and savory.

Summer Art Projects

Gotta love those hot, humid days! We've had some doozies here, so I have been trying to look up some fun projects for Dallin to do to keep him busy inside in the land of air conditioning. I found such a great site. It is a blog that blogs about other peoples craft projects that they have blogged about on their blog. It will take you all over the internet and could keep you busy for hours! It's not only for kids (ok, it might be, but there are some things that I would like to do too. I like to connect with my inner child.)

Here's the link.

Words to live by

Read it.

Needed it.

Loved it.

This worthy.

Tie one on me

You all know about by most amazingly talented friend, Sara. Yes, I like to suck-up to her...she sent me, or rather, Dallin this tie. She made it, with her own two hands. I LOVE IT!
DALLIN LOVES IT!
We all love it, but getting a good picture of it is another story!

Thanks Sara!

Nothing too exciting...

..or elaborate, but we had fun being together on the 4th.

Tutu Tutorials

How'd I make it? I can't find the exact tutorial that I used, but there are PLENTY of them out there.

Here here here are three different sites, but similar ways.

I just made an extra long one the other day for my neighbor girl who needed to fluff up her flower girl dress--wish I took a picture!