Summer and Sewing April 29, 2009

The past few days my sewing nook has seen more action than the last few months. With summer coming up and a large stack of fabric I felt obliged to make Sophia some summer clothes rather than pay inflated prices for them. The girl is very demanding and pretty much refuses to wear shorts, pants or capri’s so I really have had no choice but to get reaquainted with my sewing machine and make her some dresses. I still have a few more to make, but I thought I would post a few pics of what got finished today.

Still doing the ballet poses. I guess 6 months of ballet made more of an impression on her than I thought! Anywho, this style is a peasant style dress that is super easy to make – I only had to rip out seams once! I love how she looks in this dress.

I decided to make a matching skirt for Ellie out of the same fabric. She looks so precious in it. I still need to make her a matching shirt; I am thinking a red one would be be perfect.

I love the skirt, but my favorite think about this picture is her pudgy little hands. She is almost 3 years old and still has these petite little baby hands complete with dimples on her knuckles.

Once the shirt is done for this I NEED to make a headband to go with it. Hopefully she will wear it long enough for me to take a picture!

All this sewing has been a nice diversion from my lack of a husband the last week. Thank goodness for a sewing machine and a good friend who spent the day sewing with me!

In Leiu of a Recital April 23, 2009

So, Sophia will not be participating in her recital. She missed all of her March classes because of either her or Ellie being sick and she just hasn’t enjoyed it since the new year. Since January the kids have been practicing only their recital routine. For one hour. Every week. You can see how that can get old quick to a 3 year old. She had fun before they started practicing their routine, but I honestly had to drag her there every week in February – so come April she just didn’t want to go back and lost all interest in ballet . . . until we picked up her recital costume. She has since begged to go back – especially when I told her what a recital was. Yes, she does like attention. Anywho here is a video I took last night of our own personal recital!