Crocheted Woolies ^_^

Hi Everyone! Just thought I'd post a few pics of some woolies I've made in the past ^_^ These pics are hosted on photobucket, btw. All of the NB stuff is for sale btw! Just message me for a price and measurements.

Preemie/NB Skirty in PW ELegantly colorway


NB Skirty in PW (forgot the colorway name)


NB wide leg longies in PW Elegantly colorway


NB Capris with extra ruffly legs in PW Cristal colorway


Large Longies with standard ruffle in PW Elegantly


Large acrylic Skirty


Large Acrylic Soaker with ruffled legs


And just for the cute factor... ^_^
Heather

and

Mikayla

A bit of everything...

So things have been pretty crazy around here lately and I see it's been a while since I've posted but in my defense there's been a lot going on! ^_^ So here's my update...

Sept. 25th - I picked up my consignment sale check and I have to admit I was rather disappointed...didn't sell a lot. My guess is that there's just too many people consigning at the MKA sale. They have an overload of clothing! (Hence the reason I spent so much...I kept finding more stuff to buy!) So I brought home my Winnie the Pooh Travel System (stroller, infant car seat, & base) and a basketful of clothing that didn't sell. *sigh* I'm going to do a yard sale at my dad's (along with a friend of mine) in a couple weeks to try to move some things out. Dad has several things he needs sold as well so I'm going to be busy getting everything together, cleaned, tagged, and ready to lay out that day. -_- Eh...I need to get started on all this soon...
Sept. 26th & Oct. 3rd - A friend of mine from church and I discovered a need for sewing lessons so we've started a sewing small group at church on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. We have a pretty good sized group so far. Debi's handling all the actual sewing teaching and I help with the sewing machines (I honestly didn't realize I knew so much about sewing machines until I started helping some of these girls and women that knew NOTHING about sewing!!!). So Sept. 26th, we went to Joann's and Debi walked us through picking out fabrics & notions and taught us how to locate and read pattern covers. We all picked out our fabric and notions that we needed for our first project (a simple but very cute apron). I picked a chocolate fabric with the names and containers of different spices arranged on the fabric for the main fabric with a contrasting chocolate fabric with green circles all over it. It looks really good together! On Oct. 3rd, we got together at the church and Debi walked us through layout of the pattern on the fabric, how to pin down and cut out and little details we needed to know to cut our patterns out of our fabric and then we pressed the fabric to prep it. Then we all got out our machines, turned them on and used scrap fabric to test our skills and tension and all that before starting on our projects. Most of us got the main parts of the apron seamed together and the pockets made and ready to be put on. Did you know that you're supposed to press your seams as you finish sewing them? ^_~
Oct. 2nd - I went to a Creative Memories Scrapbooking meeting with a friend of mine and we had a great time! This one was at the consultant's house and man is it a beautiful place! They have 27 acres with a lake and a beautiful house! She had a whole room that was just for her scrapbooking stuff and meetings!!! We spent the day scrapbooking and just having a great time! I had to make a Scholarship Drive poster board for the dance school Heather and I attend so I did that first. I got to use one of the cricut's that was brought along and that thing is awesome! Debi (the friend I went with) ended up buying it from the lady that brought it for a great price! After I finished it I got 4 pages done on Mikayla's birth scrapbook before Eddie arrived to pick me up at 5pm. After that, we rushed back to the dance school for the Open House. IHS Dance has recently acquired a new studio building in town and we've all been working hard to get moved in and start dancing there. We started having classes in the new building a few weeks ago and just had the opportunity to have an open house. There were several people there and we had a blast! Kelly (the director) had us all doing the chicken dance, a version of a line dance, and a bunch of other fun dances around the studio. Everyone was laughing and having fun. ^_^

Newest News: I am now a LICENSED seller of Wigglebunz Creations Soakers, shorties, longies, and Skirties! I can make them as cloth diaper covers with gussets and extra room in the bottom for those fluffy cloth diapers or I can make them with flat bottoms for babies and toddlers to wear as clothing over disposable or AIO/pocket cloth diapers as well! My plan is to start making a regular weekly blog post of my work in progress with pictures! I'm hoping to get enough business from this to help pay for Christmas presents for the girls. So if you want custom sized bottoms, please email me to get a slot! Oh and my new business name is Lizzie's Loops! (Mikayla's middle name is Elizabeth, and Lizzie is a nickname and I was thinking about different combinations for a business name and this came up ^_^) As I get more organized and everything, I'll post an official opening blog post and get some pictures up of items I've made in the past. I'm hoping to add crocheted shirts and other items as I find patterns that I like and can get permission to sell the items made from them. Hopefully, I'll get enough recognition that I can do a collaboration with some yarn dyers, too and get to work with some nicer yarns. ^_^ Hopefully this endeavor will succeed and I'll be able to work at home for a while...it'll be a nice distraction from cleaning and sitting around bored too ^_~

Return to the Consignment Sale!

Today, my mom and a fried (Maggie) came up and we all went to the last day of the consignment sale that I talked about last week. We took the girls with us this time and had a blast! It was 1/2 price day so we got some wonderful deals! I was mostly looking for some leggings to put under dresses for heather and a few other cute pieces and needed some more pants/jeans for Mikayla. We found a lot of great stuff for 1/2 price! I found both of the original Care Bears movies and several 2-episode videos of Care Bears as well. I got a case for a "walkman" CD player that also has a zipper pocket for CDs. I'm going to use it for Heather's Leapster and games. It's just the right size and she needs something to keep it all together. She's been using a little open purse for it but would constantly lose the games (the 4 we've been able to get her anyway). She does great at keeping her tea party stuff and barbies in little backpacks we have, so I think she'll do well keeping the leapster in this case. My mom got a few things for both of the girls as well! She bought a beautiful Christmas dress for Heather and a really cute black and white skirt, legging, and top outfit that's really cute for Mikayla and a darling Mickey/Minnie Disney store dress as well as several other things for each of them. I'm really happy with our purchases and for just over $250 total (for both trips) I now have an entire wardrobe for both girls for the entire winter! Many of the clothes I bought have never been worn and the others are all in EUC to like new! Have I mentioned before that I LOVE consignment sales?!! ^_^ I'm working on getting pictures of some of my favorites. I'll get them added in soon ^_^
God Bless!

A Trip Down Memory Lane...

So I was searching through a box of old DVDs and movies a few days ago and found my DVD copies of Rainbow Brite!!! It has all the episodes of the original RB from Beginning of Rainbow Land through the Movie. So I pulled it out and put it in our DVD player and my daughter, Heather, and I watched all the episodes and the movies. Not surprisingly, she absolutely LOVED it!!! She was glued to the TV for all of it and has requested it every day since! It's amazing to me how my favorite show from the 80s has now become a favorite of my 3 1/2 year old daughter! She talks about Rainbow Brite, Starlite, and the color kids constantly now. It's rather cute ^_^

I LOVE Consignment Sales!!!

So, I've always loved going to kids consignment sales, especially My Kids Attic in Montgomery, AL. I put a bunch of stuff in it this year, including the Winnie the Pooh Travel System and another stroller (we had 3!!!) as well as a BUNCH of fall/winter clothing that the girls had grown out of. When you consign at least 15 items, you get a free pass to a consigner's only pre-sale the night before opening to the public. So Friday night, I went to the consigner's sale with the main purpose of picking up 2 carseats I had seen when I dropped my stuff off the week before. They were Eddie Bauer seats that converted from harnessed to High-Back Booster. Well I got there at 4:30 and of course all the seats I was interested in had a red tag except for one of the EB's. Unfortunately, it didn't have a tag at all! Somehow it had walked off without a red tag being placed on it. So, I spoke to one of the ladies working there and they agreed to put a red tag on it for me in hopes that if it wasn't claimed, I would have "dibs" on it. So I went on and looked around and then noticed that someone had put a note on the travel system that the carseat was expired!!! I knew it wasn't so I found someone and showed them the expiration date and finally convinced them to remove the note. Last thing I needed was for it to sit there because no one wanted an "expired" seat that wasn't expired at all! So Disaster was averted there. After that I was finally able to get into the good stuff!!! ^_^ I went down into the basement and spent 4 HOURS searching through shoes, clothes, toys, and a little of everything to come out with my awesome finds! For $160 I came out with 2 pairs of shoes for Heather, a pair of shoes for Mikayla, a REALLY cute pink pea coat for Mikayla, and most of a wardrobe for both girls. I managed to score a Chez Ami outfit that I absolutely love more Mikayla. ^_^ I've been wanting one for ages for at least ONE of the girls but they're WAY too expensive retail! I also managed to find a cute skirt and sweater outfit for Heather to wear this winter that MATCHES an outfit I have for Mikayla! I had saved the 12 month version of it from Heather's baby shower (she wore it a few times herself ^_~) and now have a matching outfit for Heather. I can't WAIT to see them in their matching skirt outfits! SO CUTE! Oh, and I got a great candy cane dress for both girls (not matching but with the same candy cane theme) for their Christmas pictures this year! I'm really looking forward to having them done. I'll have to try to find my camera and get some pictures of my finds soon! It's hard to believe that Heather's going to be 4 on January 7th and Mikayla's turning 1 on November 4th! Time has passed WAY too quickly!!! My babies are growing up too fast!
               Anyway, so Eddie's parents kept the girls while I was at the consignment sale and Eddie came back and picked me up and we went to go get them from his parents' house. Heather decided she wanted to stay with Grandma & Grandpa, so we took Mikayla and came on home. Eddie's parents brought her home this morning and Mr. Eddie was able to fix our Central A/C unit. The fan motor had broken down on us a few weeks ago and we've been surviving on a single window A/C unit since then. We had to wait for the motor to come in (which took about a week). It arrived yesterday, so they came down today and he put it in for us. It feels SO much better having the central unit running again. The bedrooms stay a lot cooler and the house in general is much more comfy! So after it was fixed and they went home, I started dinner around 5 and then my brother texted me and mentions that they're going to dad's to watch the football game (Alabama - ROLLLLLL TIDE!!!! ^_~)  So I had to finish getting dinner fixed and pack it all up to take to dad's. I finally got there around 7pm and we hung out and ate our dinner. My brothers had ordered pizza but honestly, I prefered my baked chicken, sweet potatoes, Rice pilaf, and Mac n Cheese (for Heather) much better. We didn't have any green veggies in the freezer (need to make a grocery run tomorrow!) so it was a little heavy on the starches but it was delicious!!! We had a wonderful time just hanging out with my dad, brothers, and their wives and then finally got back home in time to get Heather and Mikayla into bed on time. I nursed Mikayla to sleep while Eddie got Heather to bed and then I got back up to do a few other things. Now however I really need to get back to bed so I won't fall asleep during church tomorrow! Good night everyone and God Bless! ^_^

An Introduction to my life...

Hi Everyone! My name is Amy. I am happily married to Eddie, my husband of 5 1/2 years. We were married in 2005 and have thoroughly enjoyed our life together so far. In January of 2007, we had our first child, Heather. She has never met a stranger! She is a happy, loving child who is always eager to meet people. She is rarely shy and makes friends of all ages very easily. She is 3 1/2 years old now and she is tall and slender for her age. Many people think she is older than she is due to her height and verbal ability. In November of 2009, we had our second child, Mikayla. Our daughters have two very different personalities. Mikayla is very cheerful but has very serious expressions most of the time. She loves to just sit and watch everything going on around her. While she loves having people around her, she tends to be more clingy than Heather was and prefers to stay close to Eddie or myself and doesn't go to others as easily. Eddie works at Advance Auto Parts as an Assistant Manager. He's been working there for about 6 months now. I am a certified Elementary & Special Education Teacher. Unfortunately, jobs are tough to find here this year due to proration and I am currently staying at home with my lovely daughters instead. While I enjoy my time with them, I must admit that I miss teaching and hope to find a teaching job soon!
           We are a semi-crunchy family and use cloth diapers for the girls. Heather used cloth diapers from the time she turned 1 until she started potty training last year. She still uses cloth diapers for night times. Mikayla has been using CDs since birth! Newborn diapers are SOOOOO cute! ^_^ I miss the itty bitty stage! We chose to CD for health reasons. Heather had terrible rashes in disposable diapers her first year, so we switched to cloth and her bottom has been so much better ever since. Mikayla also has sensitive skin as well as mild eczema and while she generally is ok in "sposies," we now prefer CDs and use Heather's stash (plus a few more ^_~) for Mikayla. We also use cloth wipes. I also breastfed Heather for 6 months before she weaned herself (latch issues mostly) and have been breastfeeding Mikayla full-time since she was born. Mikayla has taken to BF'ing much easier than Heather did and I imagine she won't completely wean for quite some time. I try to use kitchen towels instead of paper towels (although we keep those on hand, but they last a good while since we rarely use them) and have been gradually switching over to "green" cleaning products.I love to crochet and try to make a few pieces for the girls each year. I love to shop at consignment sales for gently used clothing for the girls and often sale clothing and toys that the girls have grown out of each year.
          We are a Christian family that believes in a strong relationship with God. After all, it's not about religion...it's about relationships! We build our relationship with Christ through prayer, study, fellowship with others in relationship with Christ, and doing our best to reach out and show people Christ's love (even though as humans, we often fail miserably at this...but we try our best! that's the key!) ^_^
            Well, I guess that's it for now! Hopefully, I'll keep up with this one! ^_~ I'm generally terrible with blogs but since I'm at home now, I'm hoping I can manage to keep up with it! Plus, having babies at home tends to give good stuff to talk about ^_~