One Cute Pack Pack

I did it. I made the cutest back pack ever (or pack pack if your Emily)! It's from this book.
I htought it was well written but could have used more construction photos. It was fine though. I've alreasdy cut out the pattern for the Unicorn.

I put stuff in it so you can see what it looks like when used.

Emily loves it:)

Here's a shot of the straps which I love! It's from the Lizy House line, Red Letter Day. And you can also see better how the bag is put together from this side view.

And a close up.

I'm hoping after washing, the white spots will frey a little around the edges and look better.

eee-kay-ahh

Gigantor frame from Ikea (or ee-kay-ah if you think you're German...he he he). I took out the glass and put in a piece of paper for Emily to draw on. As soon as it comes in the mail it will have a piece of dry-erase where the paper is so she can draw and erase, draw and erase and we'll have new art all the time. I had to find a piece of the dry erase stuff large enough as the opening is 15"x20" or something like that.
I'm really happy with it.

We got these two chairs for Emily and Ava from Ikea too since they have destroyed Jon's chair from when he was little. It's stained and stinks from leaky diapers and bottles and greasy fingers. I'll have to get it professionaly recovered some day.

Boooo:(

They love the chairs and I like how they look in the living room, like adult chairs.

Random cuteness..

Just wanted to show something that I really enjoy cleaning off Ava and all the other places it gets stuck to. I especially enjoy stepping on it or finding it stuck to my pants later.
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My email seems to be working sort of. I have to get into it differently than before. yay!

email kaputt

Is anyone else having trouble with Yahoo Mail? I can see Yahoo as my home page and read and click on things but when I click on Yahoo mail & sign in, the page is blank and says "done" in the bottom left hand corner. Anyone? This has been since about 11am yesterday (the 10th). So if you've emailed me since then, I can't read it! I'm going crazy! I need to respond to some emails.

Hanging bag

I made a tutorial! My 1st ever! Corinnea will be testing it and giving me feed back and after that I'll post it. The tutorial is for this hanging bag/bin thingy. Not sure what to call it...
Any name suggestions?

The cool thing about it is it has boning around the opening so it stays open. The reason I made it in the 1st place was becaues I had 3 seperate containers for trash, paper and plastic. I recycle in my sewing room. A lot. I'm always suprised at how much I throw away that could be recycled.

But you could use it for so many things...thread bin, scraps, trash container next to your computer, etc. and it's so easy to make!

Halloween came early this year..

Our basement flooded so I had to bring up stuff that got wet and wash them. This costume, my friend Dara sent EMily, was one of them and now Emily has it on all the time!

And then puts it on Ava..

This is not what emily is wearing for Halloween though!

butter ball

I got the book in! I LOOOVE this book! I've only started making the mushroom back pack so I can't say the patterns are easy or even understandable YET.. so far though I would make every project in this book. Hard to say about some other craft books I've purchased over the past years..

Yesterday was HOT (as was today) so I took Emily and Ava next door to play in our blow up pool. I say next door and not in our yard because they are redoing the roof and there is scaffolding and fence up around our tiny bit of grass. Yesterday they put up a flyer saying to keep our windows closed because they were sand blasting the walls (or something like that). Close the windows for an indefinite amount of time?? In this heat??

You have to click on these pictures to supersize them.

Ava is the chunkiest baby.

I mean cottage cheese knees and rolls galore.

She's a butter ball.

Her bikini top kept riding up and exposing her bubbies.

The whole time we were out there,

she alternated between stern face and laughing.

Cuckoo...

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