We had a long day yesterday. We managed to wake up early to catch a parade, barely. Isabelle wasn’t much interested though.

She thought the bookstore was more fun.

And the park.

Where she got a popsicle.

Then we ended the night with fireworks, her first ever. “Oooooh” is what she was saying.

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On the weekend, when I was trying to start the reverse appliqué skirt for myself, Isabelle said, “Mama, make dinosaur!”

And I said, “Ok” and hurriedly made one.

Then Alan said, “why does it look like he’s squatting to take a poop?”

“I don’t know! But did you know I didn’t stuff his neck completely? How the hell did I manage that?!”

That’s what happens with hurried sewing.

Everyone enjoy your weekend. We’re waking up early to watch a parade! Eeerr…or I should say attempting to wake up early.

Project Notes
Pattern: Brontosaurus from Toys to Sew
Fabric: Calls for felt but I used fleece

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I know I just posted on Monday but I feel like I’ve been gone for ages, like I have so much to catch up on. I think the reason is, we had a busy weekend out with friends. And Isabelle has been a handful. Then there was my first post on Label-Free. So yeah BUSY.

Today, I finally managed to get the pictures off the camera. So a little catch up here. On Sunday we went to watch Wall-E. It’s the first time Isabelle has seen a movie in a movie theater. I think she handled it very well. I mean how could she not like it? Popcorn. Icee. Cartoon on a big screen.

We went with our friends Veronica and Dennis. They sat in seats in front of us because it was so packed. At some point Isabelle wasn’t sitting anymore. She was standing. It was nice though because they could hear Isabelle when we couldn’t. They said they could hear her oohs and aaahs in their ears. Now if strangers were sitting there, they may have been giving her dirty looks. And we wouldn’t have known Isabelle was making oooh and ahh noises.

She almost lasted the whole movie, but not quite. Towards the end she started saying, “go home! go home!” But pretty darn good for her first movie theater experience.

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I’m really excited about this! Aimee, the Founder of Betsy Ross, an indie sewing pattern company, invited me to join her in a new blog, Label-Free. Go read my first post in a, how to sew from Japanese craft books, series here.

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Yes. That’s my little troublemaker. In a bag. What you can’t see is everything else she managed to stick in there. A basketball. A few toys. Woody. Then she stood there, with her feet stuck under everything, saying, “help!”

And here’s the troublemaker with poo on her face. No, just kidding. Seeing if you were paying attention. She was, let’s say, over enthusiastic with the washable markers. And my little monkey knew she was being a handful. I could barely get her to stand still to take this picture. She kept running up and down the hall yelling, “dirty! dirty!”

Here is Miss Trouble “playing” with Waldo. Doesn’t that look on his face say, “why are you just standing there with a camera, woman? HELP!”

And onto a different bag, a bag of foe.

I’ve been saving this post from Angry Chicken so I’d know where to get some FOE (that’s fold over elastic). And now that I have some, I don’t have any more excuses for not starting a reverse applique swing skirt.

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