Baby Book

I have been slooooowly making progress on Theas baby book.  I recently made lists of all the catchup I need to do and printed out a bunch of photos. (Eventually I will get to Jones’s too).

Heres 8 months using old old kit.  

And 10 months.

And her first day of preschool. 

A Week in Our Life

I have been wanting to make handmade films for a while.  There was a class that was offered but I didn’t really want to justify spending $200 on it.  So I have been watching some skill share/youtube/instagram videos.  To get ideas, see what tools they used etc.  Mostly I forget the ideas that inspired me.

Last week I tried extra hard to at least capture more moments in video.  I feel like some days it was really successful - like I like how Monday you can follow my shoes places, and the perspective on some of the kids playing.  

Just in case the above link doesn’t show up Try this one https://youtu.be/YaG9dGlU-_A

The song is Cute and available royalty free from Bensound. 

I edited with videoleap (although not really much). 

Anyhow I think I will try again and make a video around Christmas time as well.

November Snow

It snowed the other night.  And it stuck a bit.  

My kids were so excited they asked if there was a snow day?  

But alas not even a delay!

But since regularly everyone is up before the sunrise about 6, there was plenty of time for snow play before school.  They even came in and switched pants since I need snow pants for both kids that fit! 

They both wished for more snow to build snow forts with the neighbors and make a snowball fight. I think they are flashing back to last year when the neighbors used their shoveled snow to make LARGE snow forts and my kids invaded and helped them enjoy. Sadly the snow didn’t pack well and it wasn’t enough for a fort.  

But we enjoyed the snow that we did have and then we kicked all the icicles from mommy’s car and came in for cocoa before school.

Improv Quilt for My Niece

I finished this quilt for My niece over a month ago she’s only almost 3 months old now.   But only just now mailed it out to her.  It’s not exactly matching her nursery because I wanted to use more bright colors.  Originally I was making rosette blocks you can see one in low volume lower left and one in pinks upper right.  I abandoned that and was going to make half rectangle triangles after I made several I didn’t like that either.  So then I merged the rosettes and triangles and made it improv style mixing in scraps from other quilts and my stash.  

I like the finished product.  I added a tag from a scrap as well one side says her name and one aide mine. The back is just larger scraps sewn together.  

Not there was one picker that ran thru the quilt but I just left it once I noticed the quilt was entirely quilted.  

I think this is my third finish for the year.  Now I have zero gift projects on my list so it’s only selfish quilting left.  

And here’s a picture of the cutie from Halloween.  I can’t wait to meet her.

25 - New Fitbit

I acquired a new Fitbit about three weeks ago.  So far I am averaging about 5500-8000 steps a day which is lower than I’d like but given I spend about 8 hours a day sitting to work seems on target.  I am going to work this week to try and get it up to be more between 7,000-10,000 until he next few weeks forcing myself to get up from my computer more, and perhaps taking short walks at lunch.  

Halloween 2019

And just like that halloween is over.  Jones ghost costume I made did get worn but only last night for trick or treating and while it was all that he wanted it was terrible weather for a ghost costume that catches all the wind.  Lol.