Working on me

Can I just say that summer colds suck! Yup! I've been hit with one heck of a summer cold. And my sweet little S has yet another ear infection that poor little girl. Now I get why she gets so cranky, being sick sucks, especially when it's hot out. So from now on I'm going to be 100% sympathic toward her. She gets so cranky and hard to deal with at times, but it's not her fault. And I know that, and I'm working on it. And while we're on the topic I'm going to just work on my patients over all. I need to be slower to anger, slower to snap, more understanding, more sympathic. I've come to the realization that my kids are always going to do things, and it's my reaction that builds their character. Well that's not true, I've known that all along. But I lost sight of it in the craziness that has been the past 18 months. But I've re-relalized this, and my attitude is going to change due to it. My kids deserve the best, and I'm going to do my best to give that to them. But in doing so I need to work on myself. In working on myself, I've decided to try and taking my sewing to a new level. My etsy shop has eleven items, in it and 14 more waiting to be photographed and posted. My goal was to have 40 items in it by Friday, but then I was hit by this horrible cold and spent all day yesterday in bed slepping. So I hope to convince S to model a few items this afternoon and post those 13 items this evening after the kids are in bed. So I can settle for thirty items. Check them out, it's all girls items and maybe next week we'll add a few boyish items. Any suggestions on how I can promote my shop? I need to be selling those designs. So any promotional help you can provide would be loved and greatly appreciated! Well I think this post has been scatter brained enough for one day. Sorry about that! I'm going to go photograph some skirts for the shop!

Hello Summer!

How is your summer going? Mine is going great! I won't lie though, while things are great we have hit a few rough patches over the past few months. Nothing to bring us down!

I"m currently working on filling up my etsy shop! It's about time right! I hope/pray/dream of become mildly successful in the world of etsy. I'd love to be about to help supplement our income, even just a little is better then nothing right! And what better way then doing something that I love, and I'm decently gifted at?! My goal is to have 40 items in my shop by the end of the week. So have I have twenty dresses made, eleven of which S has modeled and are posted! Hopefully my little diva will be in a modeling mood today!

As side from working to fill the shop with my hopes and dreams, we have been enjoying the lovely sunshine and summer weather lately! Pools, water parks, bike riding, beach camping. It's been a great start to summer! The kids are both at an age where they can play together outside which makes it so much fun for both of them! They are really playing well together and enjoying it, which is SO nice to witness!


Well it looks like my pictures are uploading side ways again! So annoying! I'll work on it and upload some soon~

Mother Son Day

Yup I'm still kicking, although you wouldn't guess it based on  the ghost town my blog has become! Sorry! This happened last year too. As soon as the weather gets nice, my crafting and blogging seem to slow waaayyy down. And boy is it gourgoues outside lately! 


Last week I took Nathan to Disneyland with my aunt and cousin, who happens to be Nathans age! It was a mother son day and it was great! Those boys can be so well behaved when they want to be! They got along great and wanted to ride all the same rides! We had a great trip and I'm so happy I got to spend some alone time with Nathan. It was much over due.

Can you believe they are only 6 weeks apart!

I made Nathans Mickey shirt! He loves it, he actually even wore it today! I'll post about it in depth another day!

All in all Disneyland was a great day!

Another Dress!

Hey guys sorry I missed yesterday! I swear I have 4 unpublished K.C.W.C. projects! It's crazy trying to get them done and modeled and then blogged all in one day! But I'm loving the progress I have made this week, guess that's the point right?! 


So still unpublished are two dresses that I have yet to buttonhole. It really sucks that my normal machine is such a pain in the a** when it comes to buttons. It's turns projects that are 98% done into projects that sit on my sewing desk for months then by the time I get around to finishing them they have out grown it. But I promise I'll get those buttons done, cuz I love the fabrics I used for both dresses! 


Today's dress needs a minor stitch in the v neck but other then that I really like it! I love the simplicity of it, Plus it's super soft because the white bodice portion is made from one of my old spaghetti strap undershirt. You all know you've got 'em too! This photo from Pinterest was my inspiration for the dress, I love how it was cute and simple, let the girl be the one that draws your eye not the dress!

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This one is more gathered at the waist, I totally winged mine. No measurements were taken for this dress, totally guessed my way thur it while Sydney was sleeping. I think I'll make around, a bit longer this time and with a better V!

DIY Kids PJ's KCWC Day 2!

I made Nathan 4 new pairs of pajama pants. It's warming up around here and he is growing like a weed so of course he had no pj's aside from the fuzzy footsies! I also made Sydney an adorable dress that I love, but I still need to put the button holes on it. My machine was bought at an estate sale and sadly the button holer was missing. So I have to drag out my older machine to button hole. Today I will do it because I plan to make a second item that requires buttonholes today!

But back to Nathan's new pj's. I tried to get fancy with them. All are slight different, but all basic pants. They come together really quick and I love that they have huge cuffs on the bottom to be let out as he grows!  Cuz that boy is a weed!

Well Day 1 of Kids Clothing Week Challenge went great! Both the kids actually napped at the same time for a decent amount of time. I was able to get a whole project completed, and it was the only one that I hadn't cut out ahead of time. I used these great Hurley men's board shorts I picked up at good will to make Nathan some board shorts!

 A simple refashion! I love the finished product! It wasn't to difficult and the board short material was great to work with on the serger and sewing machine!

All I did was trace a pair of swim shorts he has from Target for a pattern. I also took the pocket off entirely, would was so big it would have looked silly on Nathan! Lastly I took the tie closure off and reattached it to the mini versions so they looked more like they were actually un tampered with Hurley trunks! Not goodwill mommy hack job! :)

So tell me, are you sewing along too? I'd love to hear from you if you are!

Kids Clothing Week Challenge Time!!

Hey guys it's officially Kids Clothing Week Challenge Week! Yay! I'm planning on really doing it EVERY DAY this week! I even cut out all my fabric for 7 project this weekend! Now they are all ready so I can just sew, not messing around with pattern cutting and such!

I'm really looking forward to it! Sydney needs some summer dresses, Nathan needs some summer pj's. I'm going to try a few refashions maybe some swim shorts for Nathan after I learned what not to do with these ones, jeans turned into a jean skirt for Sydney, and one of my cute summer top from years gone by refashioned for Sydney! And then there are a few little loss ends of unfinished projects that I'm hoping to finish up this week too! So needless to say my goals are lofty! We'll see where I am at the end of the week! I hope I can post a project each day. But let's face it sewing for an hour a day, photographing the finished project and then blogging about it might not happen! But I'm for sure going to give it a try!

Any grand plans for you this week?

On an unrelated note, Nathan is officially riding a bike with NO TRAIN WHEELS!! He never used training wheels, thanks to his "Strider" bike! He is loving riding and I hope to post a video of him doing it this week. After I get Al to help me figure out how on earth to do such a thing! Have a great week everyone!