Thanks for the bonnet pattern love! We are moving kid speed around here, but all of them will go very soon.
I made these green cords for Sadie. She is tall, much taller than the average almost 5 year old. The heart knee patches are for her now, 4 almost 5. . .it's crazy that we have an almost 5 year old. She seems so old sometimes, but most of the time not. She started reading last week. It freaked us out so much, we starting crying. She kept at it for over an hour, right before bed and she couldn't sleep all night. We haven't brought it up to her since, just trying to play it cool. She needs no pressure and I hate to have her perform for anyone, but man, oh man, it was so cool to experience that with her. I am so happy we were both right there when she started. It's like watching someone do a Rubik's cube. . .incredible. It was a game for her. She said she wanted to go to "reading class" and then, after establishing that she was "Lucy" and I was the teacher "Clara" she just went for it, slowly but surely.
Here are some car pillows. As requested by both girls. The yellow fabric is from superbuzzy, the others from my stash, I am 99.9% sure from Cia's fine shop.
It's been a rough few days. Lots of adjustments with family life, my work, and the 3 girls. I'm not sleep deprived, but my brain is soft. Very soft. I get so frustrated when I make mistakes and have a paper trail (or e-mail trail) to prove it. God, my e-mails to friends lately have been seriously impaired. And that's even after I proof-read.
I have been trippin' because I read somewhere recently that the baby on Nirvana's Nevermind album cover is 17 years old! Good god can that be right?? Okay, really, this freaked me out so much. That album came out and was on heavy rotation when we got our very first place. I lived with my now husband and a good friend, and I remember it so well. It was our second year of college and we had our first real kitchen, and our first real parties, and I was thrilled to do so many things for the first time--like buy a cool shower curtain.
Fall gets me excited for needlework and I have been really itching to try a blackwork project and bought a lovely book about it I will post about soon because it's so amazing. I was reading up on the history of black work, and thank god for The Tudors on Showtime (Grammie has Tivo) because I knew all about the main players involved. That hottie Jonathan Rhys Meyers makes it pretty easy to stay focused on the show too--but where is the naked? Not enough for my taste, I mean come on! And I shouldn't be writing any of this because my husband is a total hottie too, but you know what I mean. So, I do like Johnathan, but Clive Owen, not so much. Weird huh? Because they look sort of alike. Sort of. But Clive does look hot here, I will say that.
