Book of Numbers Tutorial

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Etsy Update

I've been adding some things to my etsy shop- not super interesting but it's where I've been. Things take much longer now then they used to! 

Growth Charts- just the printed portion so you can decorate and finish them yourself.

I restocked the sunshine garland

and added two new versions 

 this blue one is my favorite

I have a few more that in the works... need to make a joanns run so it will probably be another year... yuck!

And here is the boy- I meant to post this picture with the video the other day as an AFTER shot he wore himself out! This was his first fall asleep while playing... I love it!

and here he is rocking his outfit from Grandma C she sent a box of awesome goodies- I need to show you the toys... they're awesome. We we're able to squeeze him in the shirt once- he's such a porker he is already up in 9 month clothing  (sometimes 12 month) but the pants will fit for a while longer.

Alright off to see what I can accomplish today!

I made a dress

With Mums help - of course! It was fun but I will never be a regular clothing sewer... way to many instructions, and I am fully aware this is a super simple pattern!

I LOVE it! It's made from Modern Meadow Herringbone by Joel Dewberry in Lake

Unfortunately I won't get much use out of it until next year since it's not nursing friendly 

But I have another one in the works that we altered to hopefully take care of that problem! Of course it has been in the same stage of incomplete for over a week now so who knows when I'll get around to finishing it!

Saturday was a perfect day

We spent the afternoon arranging mums house and sewing while the guys went for a bike ride and then we ate 'Mexican' food and watched two (5ft+) gators swim around a pond with those creepy soft shelled turtles... we did not hope the annoying children fell in.... 

And then we ran by the beach for a quick walk

The first one Micah stayed awake for

These two crack me up

and it is so much fun having these two so close

hope all of your weekends were lovely too....back tomorrow....

Mum's having a giveaway--

One of her projects made an appearance in this magazine- go check out her blog and comment for a chance to win!

I kind of fell out this week... a ton has been going on but nothing you all would find interesting... hopefully I will get my act together and be back this next week! - no promises...

Micah and his go cart

Micah hit 6 months over the weekend. Poor thing is dealing with his first cold/congestion. We went to the Dr. for his check up yesterday and he is now 19 pounds and 27.5 inches. He rolls everywhere- still no sign of crawling (as far as I can tell) and refuses to sit (unassisted) but if you put him in his walker he zips all over the house trying to see what he can get a hold of and slobber on. He's recently figured out how to turn around and is very good at following us and running over our feet and ankles- here is a (shorter!) video of him on the go.


Micah in his GoCart from jessica colvin on Vimeo.

So... I made fabric...

Mums been on my case to try it out so when I saw that Michael Miller had teamed up with Spoonflower I decided I might as well try and enter the contest. Unfortunately I didn't get chosen to be in the top 75 but I thought I would share my design with you because it was a really fun process. I titled it 'A Day at the Zoo' it includes 23 different animals that are commonly found at the zoo. The fun part for me was I wanted all of the animals to be drawn to scale it was interesting to see how all of them measured to each other since penguins and giraffes don't often hang out together...  

 I know the resolution on this is terrible - so you can also go here to check it out. We are planning on printing it up and making something- just need to figure out what.

I'll probably take the rest of the week off. I have a sinus infection and am pretty useless at the moment!

** I just realized Kara made it to the 75 which is SO awesome! Go check it out and vote!