Wee Wonderfuls

"Your personality is sparkling this year"

I had another one of those pesky birthdays yesterday. The best part of the January birthday is being able to get presents on top of the present orgy that is Christmas. Unfortunately this present buying pressure is a bit too much for some (Tim) so I just let loose on the internet in the name of birthday and bought up a bunch of crafty goodies I've been eyeing all year. I've got packages due any day now from reprodepot, purl soho and gail wilson. Can't wait for a little show and tell!

In the meantime I'm playing with some new Dick Blick supplies... and really wishing we had Windows 95 somewhere so we could make ourselves this!

we're going to need more frames

christmas is packed away but the wonderful gifts remain, my new print by dutch door press from rose and radish. thank you tim :)

tops

I've been doing some Phoebe sewing lately. I made her a little Christmas jumper using the same pattern I drafted for this one and I finally tackled some knit fabric and made the top she's wearing in this pic. The knit top was something that had been churning around in my head a while and I think it turned out very cute even though my machine hates/eats knits (these are on the way) and even though I had to chop off the sleeves because I didn't leave enough room for chubby baby wrists.

These two are the latest additions to Phoebe's wardrobe. I used one of P's other jumpers as the pattern for this cord top and the gathered plaid one is from a pattern in one of my Japanese sewing books that I resized. I love them! Phoebe sewing is addictive.

maybe they ran out of fonts?

It seems like all the bloggers want to write books and all the bookers want to write blogs. We're losing Blueprint because Martha thinks all the kids want blogs, not mags? Perhaps Marty has something up her sleeve. MarthaSpace? MarthaTube? I can't wait to download complicated Martha recipes on my Sidekick. Or maybe Martha will twitter us every 10 minutes with a Good Thing? I think she should just stick to making us old ladies happy with gorgeous page-tearing glossies.

knits

sweater by my Grandma, doll by Kathe Kruse.

hello january

so far you're very pretty.