A couple weeks ago, a friend contacted me with questions about participating in a craft fair. She was having a hard time understanding the legality of using patterns to make items to sell, and just about the selling process in general. It’s a pretty complicated and gray area, so I didn’t have a lot of…
Easter Egg Shirts
Last year I was sort of industrious. The girls got matching dresses. This year, not so much. But I did remix this shirt from two years ago that had recently met with chocolate milk stains of death. One for each kid, and they might’ve been the same color if either of the stores I visited…
PJs for PJ
Even in our sleep we’re big Virginia Tech fans. I thought PJ needed some pjs to reflect that. The shirt is made from an old shirt of mine that I cut up and repurposed. I love that I didn’t have to hem the sleeves or bottom hem, and I was able to cut off the…
Holey Sheet!
Yeah, seriously. Actually, two of them. But “holey sheets” didn’t sound as fun. I love jersey knit sheets. Especially for kids’ beds. But apparently there’s something tempting about them. Tempting to pull at them or poke a pencil through them or…. well… honestly? I have no idea where these holes came from. I was dismayed…
To the Max
Our friend Kim is due to have her baby boy Max on December 20th so we had a nice little shower for her yesterday. Unlike the other 5 pregnant ladies I know, Kim found out the gender of her baby and told us what his name would be, so I was able to make her a gender-specific, personalized…