Hello again!  Why do I always feel like I should start out with that?  Weird!  Anyway, I have been finding lots of great things on Etsy lately.  Now they have 'suggested shops' for me based on my favorites. These are all sorts of new shops I've never seen before full of fantastic things.  Even though it is STILL raining in Seattle I am dreaming of sun and working in the garden so this week I have some garden themed faves for you.

I love this "dirt soap" by Aunt Nancy's Soap!  It almost makes me want to have a boy since my daughters would definitely not be into this.  She also makes a confetti soap and I am thinking of buying that.  Aly loves to wash her toys in the sink which apparently takes a lot of soap.  I can hope that a bar soap would get used slower than liquid soap right?

I found these by Peg and Awl on the front page of Etsy last night.  They are so beautiful but I'm not totally sure what I would use them for.  I think they would make pretty planter boxes and for some reason I love that they are nesting.  It could be fun to use them to bring my harvest in from the garden with but I think they should be on display.  They are too pretty to just be workhorses.  What would you do with them?

I'm thinking of changing up my Week in Review posts.  I'm afraid it will get boring seeing the same things week after week because the reality is, we just aren't that exciting.  I try to enjoy the little things like playing at the park or the zoo or just enjoying the blue sky which is so rare these days.  Baking bread.  Watching the girls explore.  Fun for us, but probably boring for you to see yet another picture of Aly rolling down the hill or looking at animals at the zoo.  Also, while I like taking all the pictures and this really forces me to live intentionally, taking pictures is not always convenient.  I want to be IN the moment with my girls, not always behind the camera trying to capture the moment for the blog.  So for now I am planning on giving the highlights.  Some pictures, but probably not a picture for every day.  

So here is what we have been doing...

 My husband made a cow out of plywood for my mom's birthday.  She calls the cow Flat Bob.

I planted my potatoes in garbage cans.  One has red potatoes and the other, yellow.

We've gone to the library.  

And the big news, my baby turned ONE!

It's been over a month since my last blog post.  Yikes!  Where did the time go?  There are 2 main reasons I haven't been blogging lately.  First, I used to blog after my girls went to bed but they started going to bed much later since it is now light so much later.  Second, I got a new computer and couldn't remember my blog password.  Duh!  It's the only password I couldn't remember, my husband picked it so it's not one of my usual ones.  Then when I finally got that figured out something about my blog and the new computer don't get along.  Blah, blah, blah, here I am and hopefully regularly.

I made a new skirt for Aly the other afternoon.  It was one of those I-don't-want-to-work-on-whatever-I-should-be-working-on projects.  I've been wanting to find something fun to do with old T-shirts.  I don't know why, I actually don't have a ton so I had to buy some for this skirt.  I used 3 different shirts.  Looking online how to make a 3-tiered skirt I saw that each layer moving up is slightly shorter.  Lucky me!  The shirt for the bottom was an XL, the middle layer was a L, and the top layer was a M.  Each one was already a bit shorter than the previous.  So I cut my loops (the bottom was pre-hemmed, I just used the bottom of the shirt), sewed them together, and folded over the top to put in elastic for the waistband.  Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy as the Geico commercial says.  

I'd really like to make one in red, orange, and yellow, or all pinks, or maybe even pastel colors.  I loved making this skirt and really love how it came out!  

I have another plan for a T-shirt refashion.  Something for me this time.  But my pile of new Mei Tai fabrics and pillowcases for skirts is fastly growing out of control so it may be awhile before the next refashion.  

What have you refashioned?

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