Wee Wonderfuls

a dull read

Ok. I figured out the most boring thing to blog about yet... unpacking. There's nothing to say about it. A long, messy, cluttered, unglamorous progress. The end result might not suck but still it's that just-moved-in unpacked. Not that smartly appointed, just the right knick knack, everything in its perfect place thing that happens way way down the road.

For now it's just going to have to be little snippets here and there...

a parked camper

a new shirt by small object sarah from art star. monsters!

outgoing

** update**
and popping in again to say the Spring Stitchettes are sold out now. Thanks so much to all you awesome stitchers!! and to those of you who were mentioning ballerina stitchettes... funny you should mention that, more on that later!

hey thanks for all the stitchette orders, you guys rock! just wanted to pop in and say all the orders from yesterday and the day before went out in the mail yesterday. I've got my fingers crossed my new post office is as efficient as my old one. and if you're looking at your package thinking "oh my, she is harried" please know Oscar did a lot of the stamping!

Spring Stitchettes in the Shop!

The Spring Stitchettes are up in the shop now! Miles' Mother's Day, Ula's Umbrella, Oliver Observes and Georgia Grows are all ready and waiting for you to get stitching. We weren't able to get as many printed up this time as we normally do (a little house poor already) but if they sell out there will be a reprint available later this Summer.

The rest of the Stitchettes have also been restocked and are now available in the shop.

Thanks!

home sweet home

We're here! We made it! It's amazing... a miracle really. How those one gazillion bits of stuff and junk made it from there all the way over to here completely stuns me. We had the very best movers ever. They knocked it OUT! The best moving experience I've ever had. If you're in the Chicagoland area and moving I highly recommend them... usa movers.

We're falling over tired, completely surrounded by a fortress of boxes to unpack, ikea furniture to assemble and projects to complete but I'm so flippin happy. I guess it finally sunk in... our own house! I'm having lots of little happy warm fuzzy moments. Seeing Oscar coming up the basement stairs and thinking how tiny he looks and imagining all the times he'll be walking up those stairs to me progressively getting bigger and bigger or watching him chase a butterfly in the backyard or waking up the first morning and realizing we look up at an evergreen outside our bedroom window. It's such a relief to be able to finally feel some calm in the middle of chaos.

And how about a little gorgeous in the middle of this mess. This breathtaking doll quilt came in the mail from one of my oldest and dearest internet friends, Jen. And yes... it's all Liberty prints!! I see she blogged it today so there's more info and pics on this amazing quilt over here. I had to pull some packing tape off a box so I could stick it up on Junebaby's wall right away and admire it. So pretty! Thank you Jen xoxo!

see you on the other side

The movers are coming this Saturday. Time to stop prepping the new house and to concentrate on packing up around here. If you see a crazed pregnant woman at the Jewel screaming about how much *&%@! packing tape it takes to pack up one apartment or standing in the hair color aisle wondering if stress can really turn your already graying hair completely white, say hi :) Otherwise, I'll see you on the other end, have a great week!

Oh! and Spring Stitchettes will be for sale early next week.

Japanese treats

Well I could show some of the pics I've been taking lately...the way way wrong colors I've picked out and painted all over the walls of our new house being my top favs. Did you know being pregnant makes you blind? I knew it made you stupid but I guess I forgot the blind part. My vision is for crap. The dr. says no new glasses though because it's temporary. She suggests going to Walgreens and picking up cheapy reading glasses. I'm wondering if she noticed I was wearing glasses. Am I supposed to wear the reading glasses over my glasses? And evidentally this baby is making me colorblind as well. Will these magic reading glasses maybe restore my sense of color so I can pick out a friggin paint for our bedroom!

Anyway, happy treats instead. Surprise mail from a friend whose friend picked up some fabric for me in Japan. Isn't that sweet!

and some hidden away valentine's candy (I know looks like easter candy) that Tim picked out for me at Mitsuwa but completely forgot about.

Have a great weekend!

scenes from the trenches

picking paint

picking carpet

covering yet another paneled surface, this time brick(!) paneling. who knew they even made such a thing.

thanks for all the input on drywall v. paint! in the end we had to go with the economical "paint over it" option. good thing because I think the carpet guy just took me for a ride. I'm totally numb to financial pain at this point. what? it's going to be one gazillion billion dollars for that? ok.

if you're looking to sell me something...now's your shot.

shiny and new

We have our first before/after shot of the house!

living room before with carpet (and last owner's stuff)/after with shiny smelly new floors

here's a more depressing before and after

magnolia tree out front before (78 degrees)/and after (31 degrees)

our next project is junebaby's room which is covered in paneling.

we removed one strip so far which accomplished two things, leaving half the glue on the wall that needs to be sanded off and stripping off the other half of the glue with wall attached leaving crevices that need to be spackled or filled in somehow. anyone tackled this horrible project before? any tips?

new mailing address

In yet another move to be all professional-like I went and signed wee wonderfuls up with its very own mailbox. From now on all love and hate mail can be sent to:

Hillary Lang
Wee Wonderfuls
P.O. Box 1136
Wheaton, IL 60187

yarn wrapped spool animals

For Easter... a repeat (originally posted 4/11/2006)

Here's another little something I was kicking around when I was working on crafting with your kids ideas before. I did the bunny first and she's by far my favorite (and the fuzziest!) but I think all three are pretty cute. It's kid friendly because you can go the all glue route instead of sewing. I did a mix of both glue and sewing.

click through for more info on how-to...