No Blog Posts does not = No Sewing: A Catch-Up

I have been bumbarded with sewing projects the last few weeks. (weeks... eep). I have been working on switching my 15 month old over to cloth diapers and I have been working on Christmas presents for family and friends. I want to post pictures, but I'm not going to attach names, in case one of the receivers of the gifts happens to read this (unlikely).

So we'll start out with diapers. These were the first diapers I made.

Then I made a diaper for my daughter's baby doll. 

The most recent diapers have snaps, and a much better fit. 

Pre-fold

I also made some plush dolls.

And then I played around with some fabric paint. 

And then I tinkered with some beads, charms and chains.

I also took my kiddos trick or treating 

and tore down Halloween decorations. Oh yeah, and did mom and wife things. =] 

So that's what has kept me so busy. 

30 Day Blog Challenge - Day Nineteen

Your Biggest Regret In Life.

Not being there for my sisters more when I lived with them. Maybe things would be different...

30 Day Blog Challenge - Day Eighteen

A Book You Could Read Over and Over and Never Get Sick Of. 

Technically three books, but they are awesome. Of course, this is also my favorite author. 

Or 

And the other books in this series. Another favorite author of mine. 

Or 

And the other books in this series. Love them. 

Or 

I love books....

30 Day Blog Challenge - Day Seventeen

Your Highs and Lows of this Past Year.

This year hasn't had many ups and downs. From October 2010, being married with two kids to now, October 2011 being married with two kids, there hasn't really been much change. There hasn't been much challenge. And this worries me, because we have become too comfortable, it's too easy, there's a mountain to climb just over the horizon, I can feel it. Of course, feeling as I do could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. You  know, tell yourself something will happen so often that it actually happens...

30 Day Blog Challenge - Day Sixteen

Your Views on Mainstream Music.

I don't think I have views on mainstream music. I'm not much of a music critic. If I like a song, no matter the genre, I will listen to it. Over and over and over.... etc.

30 Day Blog Challenge - Day Fifteen

Write 15 Interesting Facts About Yourself

#1. I am not interesting.

#2. I am the oldest of four girls and we were raised by a single mother when we were 8, 6, 4 and 1 until present.

#3. I met my husband on MySpace when I was 17.

#4. We married when I was 19 and he was 20.

#5. He was the second person I had ever dated.

#6. We have only ever had sex with each other. That's right. We were virgins.

#7. I'm ALREADY running out of interesting things...

#8. My dad travels the globe selling fishing tackle. He has met the likes of Vin Diesel, Lisa from Ice Road Truckers, and many many others. Selling fishing tackle. Makes you want to fish, huh?

#9. I was in choir in high school. An all girl's group my freshman and sophomore years and the advanced show choir my junior and senior years.

#10. At 16, I sang the National Anthem with a friend, on the radio on July 3rd.

#11. I sang at our Baccalaureate (I graduated June 5, 2006) and the seniors in the show choir sang at our graduation. I had the first of the two solos.

#12. I played with Barbies until I was 18, and I only stopped because I started college, and my youngest sister stopped playing with them. After that, I had no excuse to keep doing it. (I do now though!)

#13. Haylie was born two weeks before our first wedding anniversary. I was 20 years old.

#14. Alexis was born 25 months later and she completed our family.

#15. Alexis is 14 months and still breastfed. Whoop whoop!

More Halloween Fun and a Tutorial

I mentioned before how we don't have much by way of Halloween decorations. I do, however, have craft paper, glass candle holders, chop sticks, and crayons. Today I made a center piece for our dining table using these things. And I took pictures along the way for a tutorial. 

First I took my orange paper, glass candle holder and tape. 

I put the cup in the middle of the paper like so...

Then I cut out some of the paper so it looked like this. 

Then I pulled the paper up around the cup and taped it in place (on the sides and inside the cup)

I then drew on a face with a sharpi.

Next I took my chop sticks....

And my black paper (or white paper with black crayon) 

And cut out various sized ovals and circles. These will be petals. I took one of the smaller 'petals' and wrapped it around the small point of the chop stick and taped it in place.

Keep adding petals to look like a rose. Then take your green paper and wrap it around the 'stem' of the flower, taping it in place.

Make as many flowers as you want. Put them in the pumpkin glass, add some marbles, top with some curly green paper if you want and this is what your center piece will kinda look like. 

Now, I don't have a tutorial for this next part, but I took the decorations into the kitchen as well and cut up some ghosts and bats. 

It's starting to look a lot like Halloween =D