trend: colour (or what i've been doing lately)

today's harvest. how spectacular is that? the one pink one is going on my plate. i grew it, i get to eat it.

and in other technicolour news, my best girl turned 6. this is the cake from her 'friend party'.

why yes, that is 60 litres of industrial strength jell-o. i will spare you the pictures of the cousins eating it with spoons, then their hands, then jumping right in. suffice to say that it eventually looked like a horror film and my kids had red legs for days following. the lawn has barely survived.

making mistakes a la mc hammer

what a colossal mistake. colossally bulky crotch. i had intended to make loose linen cropped pants and even drafted the pattern, bought the fabric and notions, and did all my due diligence. where did i go wrong? well, i was seduced by a pair of sarouel pants in the may issue of burda.

instead of continuing on with my original pattern, i made the sarouel pants in linen despite the instructions which clearly stated 'cotton gauze'. so now i have a pair of well-made linen pants fit for a clown. or mc hammer at his peak.

birthday suit - kids' clothing week

i finally found the cardreader.... these are the clothes i made for my little guy for kids' clothing week. that's the rear view of the shorts and the front view of the vest - both out of linen i had in the stash. the lining of the vest is from an old dress shirt of daddy's. the little guy just turned three and this was my present to him. the transformers are from his siblings.guess which present he liked best... transformers! more than meets the eye!

cardreader, where for art thou?

i sewed my brains out last week but my cardreader has gone missing. so i will have to take the pics and post this week. i had better get pics of the kids right quick - before they blow out the knees and get grass stains all over the clothes.
wanna bet the cardreader will be found under all the fabric scraps sitting under my work table???

middle of the beginning

and that's what i did on saturday. i pulled potatoes and weeds and made raised beds. if i bend over one more time i may never get up again...

love : taxes

a cute calculator like this would make tax time a little more enjoyable. but only a little...

sibling love

when you are a five year old girl it is all about rainbows and phonetic spelling. she made this and taped it on her big brother's door: 'best brother in the world'. word or should i say "WRD".