Lost Teeth & Disneyland

Today is my first baby's sixth birthday! I can't believe how fast the past six years has gone by! A few weeks ago he lost his first tooth and as you can imagine it was very exciting. We had been waiting for two weeks for this tooth to finally come out. I'm glad I had that time to find the felt tooth my aunt made for me when I was little. I don't know how I knew where to find it. I'm a bit of a pack rat and very sentimental so I kept it in pretty good shape. It's fun to pass this tradition on to my own kids!

My first lost tooth - 1977


Ryan's first lost tooth - 2008


Every July we go to Disneyland to celebrate the big day so we went yesterday. We had a really fun time and I made my two little ones Mickey pirate shirts. I had intended to make Ryan one but I just ran out of time but he didn't seem to mind. He was happy to wear his cool Incredibles shirt. I tried all day to get my little guys to model the shirts but couldn't them to both stand still together and get a good shot. I finally was able to get this one.

Cute Mickey shirts- and pretty much how I felt by 7pm


Melissa

Garden Update

A few months ago I told you about the garden I planted (click here to read it). I thought I'd post a little update and show some pictures. Some of the lettuce and spinach didn't survive and only one pea plant is growing. But my tomatoes are going crazy! I have five tomato plants and one of them is completely taking over the whole garden. It's like a jungle! I'm very excited since I love tomatoes and with the big salmonella scare this spring it's a relief that I'll have my own to eat and not have to worry about that.

Enjoy and Bon Appetit!

How the garden looked the day we planted it in April


Welcome to Tomato Jungle!




I have over twenty tomato buds growing


Finally some ripe ones!


Corn is growing nicely


First tomato from the garden sliced with basil (also from the garden) and fresh mozzerella


Added some Olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt & pepper - YUM!!

Shutterfly Album

Ok, I think I figured out how to post my Shutterfly album with a bunch of my samples. Hopefully this works.


Shutterfly Album

Thanks for looking!

Melissa

Etsy

I have finally listed some burp cloths on Etsy. I haven't listed anything there for probably a year so it feels good to finally get that checked off my list. Etsy is a little different than ebay because it only lets you upload five photos so I can't show all of my fabric. So, I have to list each print separately which means I need to go through all of my photos (probably thousands) to find the files I need. So stay tuned and hopefully I'll be adding more and more over the week. Etsy is really growing thanks to Martha having several Etsy sellers on her show this past year. Also with ebay alienating so many sellers with their fee and feedback changes a lot of people are going to Etsy so I have joined them.

Here is my Etsy link- you can also find it on the right side of the blog.

Etsy link

Back to my roots

First off let me say that I can't believe it has been two weeks since I posted last. I feel like I just posted the other day. My oldest son "graduated" from Kindergarten last week so we've had a flurry of end of the year stuff to do. I thought once summer started I'd have all this extra time to blog, sew, clean, workout, etc. because I wouldn't be shuttling everyone around town all day. Boy was I wrong. I am now the Activity Director for my three little guys who expect me to keep them entertained ALL day. This is going to be a long summer! But I shouldn't complain- we are having a lot of fun.

So this brings me to the pictures below. Monday is our designated "craft day" and our first project was making tie-dye shirts. Sounds fun right? Not so much with a three year old that just wants to squirt the color all over and not listen, LOL. Luckily I had the sense to put the baby down for a nap before we started! We all got lots of dye on us (some of which is still stained on my hands and nails) and we did have fun. Below are some pictures- and don't worry, we did not leave the house all dressed in our tie-dye shirts together.

Oh, and let me explain the back to the roots part. I grew up in a small Northern California town. I love to say that it's still stuck in the 60's, lots of old hippies still around. I get a big kick out of it when I go back to visit in the summer because it is just so the opposite of where I live now.

My two oldest doing their new favorite pose


The baby who got to sleep through it all


My cool tank top. My mom will be shocked to see me wear this!


Melissa

Thank You!

Just a quick thank you to those of you who supported me in the Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser. I raised over $1,400 and Team Cooper raised over $40,000 in total!

Here are some pictures from our fun walk. It was a beautiful day on the bay!

Ryan and Cooper



My two little ones

More new fabric and bib

Just a quick post to share with you some new fabric I found and to show a bib I actually made.

Blue woody fabric- very cute!



Brown fabric with aqua blue flowers. I actually have this print in three other colors but didn't have this combo! I also have it in brown with hot pink, green and light blue.



One of these days I will figure out how to upload albums so I can have all my fabric choices for you to look at.

Lastly, is a bib I made. People always ask me if I make bibs. I do make bibs but they are store bought plain white bibs that I embroider. I finally decided to try making a bib and I think it turned out pretty nice for my first try. I embroidered the baby's initial on some chenille- I have so many small pieces left over from the blankets I make - and then used cotton for the back. A great customer of mine placed an order of a blanket and burp cloth set so I just made this to go with it as a thank you. The only thing I forgot to do was top-stitch around the edge.

Anyway, here's the front...



and the back...



with matching burp cloth...



I need to make a few more samples then I'll be listing them.

Melissa