I’m working on another Super Easy Patternless Tutorial for this bag, but in the meantime, this is a fun bag I made for Wally. It turned out a little big, proportion-wise, but I wanted it to be big enough to carry home library books.

As mentioned earlier, Wally got so excited about the baby longies I made, thinking they were for him, that I decided to make him a pair, too. I have one leg left to go!

No, it’s nowhere close to fall, but I’m slowly checking items off the “must sew before baby arrives” list.

This is a fun pouch I made from some super fun fabric I found at J0Ann’s a while back. While I was at it, I also restocked my store, and as soon as I open again in August, you can buy yourself your very own Flames and Dragons pouch - or choose from one of several fun designs.

I finished these longies on the way to Chicago, and Wally immediately thought they were his. “Did you make me a pair of pants, mommy?” He was so excited. So, I’m making a pair in his size, as well.

I am really pleased with how these turned out. I like knitting pants in the round a lot more than knitting two flat pieces and seaming them. More information on the pattern and yarn is here.

A few weeks ago, the lens on our camera broke while we were in Chicago. I don’t mean it had a malfunction. It’s in three pieces, and another small part fell off today. The camera shop assures me it’s repairable, but I have my doubts. We’ve decided to just buy a new one (we’ve already repaired that one once, and it’s a matter of economics at this point).

Problem = we’re having a hard time finding what we want/need locally.

So in the meantime, I have my zoom lens. I literally have to stand in the next room to take pictures. So, while I’ve been making a LOT of goodies, I’ve been unable to photograph them.

- A new maternity skirt for me, finished today.
- A wet wipe bag for me, finished yesterday.
- A restocking of mama pads, mama pad bags, and breast bads.
- A ring sling for a friend.
- Some knitted pants.
- Knitted pants in progress.

Sigh. Just imagine them.

Not the best picture of me (taken after a long day at the beach by my 4 year old), but here is me in one of the freezer paper stencil T-shirts I’ve made recently. It’s a picture of a bun in the oven. I made it as a way to tell family that I was expecting, but nobody caught on (or else nobody stares at my chest, which is, I guess, a good thing).

We borrowed a Bug Crafts book from the library, and Wally quickly picked out two projects to make first. Clothespin Dragonflies (no picture, sorry!) and these Bug Glasses.

He was a bit distraught when I cut up his paint kit to make the glasses, but we routinely give our egg cartons back to the farm we get the eggs from, and the paint kit was the only egg carton we had in the house. He recovered quickly, though.

I will say, I’m so happy that Wally finally is starting to enjoy actual crafting activities. I’ve always looked forward to doing crafts with my kids, but until recently, he could not be bothered. Suddenly, though, he loves creating things. Yay!

Here is a pair of wool pants I’m working on. I love this yarn. It’s just Lion Brand and is nothing special, it was in the stash I took from my mom’s house, but it’s so pretty.

The pattern is Caffeinated Knitter’s fancy pants pattern. I’ve never knit longies in the round before, so this should be fun/interesting. I started it a few weekends ago, but haven’t been working on it much lately.

First - could my sink seriously be any grosser? this is the sink the Washing machine empties into, and also is our utility sink for things like washing out paintbrushes. So that’s why it’s so gross. It was fairly gross when we moved in, so not all the grossness is from us!

Anyway. I wanted to make this little area look a little less cluttered. I keep our junk towels under the sink, and was sick of looking at them. This sink skirt was SOOO easy.

I basically just cut a piece of fabric a few inches longer than the length from the sink lip to the floor, and a few inches wider than the sink’s circumference. Hemmed it on all four sides. Sewed the hook part of a strip of Velcro to the top of the curtain. Hot glued the loop part to the sink. (Most places recommend using peel-and-stick Velcro for the sink, but I didn’t have any. But I did have a glue gun that was sad from neglect.) Stuck the curtain on. Voila. Done. It was a 10 minute project, not counting the time spent waiting for the glue gun to heat up, deciding I could knock out a few other quick things while waiting, forgetting I was waiting, and remembering the glue gun about 20 minutes later as it’s oozing hot glue all over the top of my washing machine.

(also, you can see that the area cluttered back up in a hurry. The garbage can has to go there. The floral box is actually a sturdy stepstool for my son to reach the sink. The small bucket is our downstairs hamper for putting towels and wipes that are dirty. That was supposed to go under the sink, but didn’t fit. I’ll have to figure out a way to get it under there.)

We spent some time working outdoors yesterday morning - it was warmish but on the cool side, so as we worked, we were just the right temperature. Wally found some worms (five of which are happily - so far - living in the house) while I raked leaves. We didn’t have a chance to get rid of the leaves on the sidewalk before winter, and so over the winter, they gradually became this slimy thick mess along the edges of the sidewalk - gross. I also raked the leaves off the herb garden to get it ready for spring - I usually cover the herb garden with leaves in the fall to help prevent runoff when the snow melts.