So, I totally didn’t expect to win the first week of SYTYC! Thank you again to everyone who voted for my seat! I didn’t take pictures as I went along, so I’ll share what I have and explain the rest the best I can. If you need more help, please let me know! I started with my bare, empty tv stand. My super amazing Dad helped me add the shelves. One vertical, splitting the tv…
Continue readingI haven’t been doing a lot of sewing outside my weekly projects for SYTYC (there’s still time to go vote this week!), but I have been doing a lot of shopping!! I save up money to spend on after Christmas sales because you just can’t beat ’em. Last week Target marked their clearance toys down to 75% off and I went to three different stores buying things up! In total I bought 57 toys: little…
Continue readingI think I really underestimated the level of time consumption the SYTYC competition would take! I’m trying to be really meticulous about my projects each week because I want to do well, and it’s been such a demand on me. Chloe started crawling the week the competition started, so I spend my days keeping her out of everything, fishing stuff out of her mouth, breaking up fights over toys, and trying to maintain some sort…
Continue readingThank you to everyone who voted for my window seat last week! I’m working on a tutorial (I seriously didn’t think I’d win so I didn’t make one as I went along!) as well as my project for next week. In the mean time, head over and vote for week 2. There’s a ton of cute “Kids Can Do” craft ideas! I hope everyone posts tutorials because there are definitely some things I want to…
Continue readingI still can’t believe how quickly 2010 flew by! I guess when you move, have a baby, and start a blog all in under 3 months, you set yourself up to lose track of time! I also had 3.5 times the amount of orders that I had in 2009! It was definitely a year of sewing! 2011 will also be a year of sewing, but on a different magnitude. While I will still sew custom…
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