Little Girl Goodness

Seeing that we're expecting a little girl in July, my spare time has been used making necessary (okay sometimes not-so-necessary) items in preparation for her arrival!

We have plenty of baby stuff, but are definitely lacking in the pink/frills/floral department.

So, here's the lightweight baby blanket I made for our baby girl:

The fabric is from Moda's It's a Hoot line. I love the cute little owls and the tree designs. I used a charm pack and some of their tree fabric in a bright raspberry color. The backing is a light blue flannel and I absolutely love the cheerful yellow for the binding, which was some fabric from my stash.

Next up on the to-do list was a coordinating carseat sun shade.

Lots of projects

I had these coffee tins sitting around and I realized I was putting off doing something with them because the stupid stickers were going to be hell to peel and clean.

So in a desperate effort to get them off my to-do list, I wrapped them in some cute papers. Voila! Done and done :) They turned out pretty cute, I think. The circular design now holds my loose leaf teas:
... and the floral ones went to my MIL's house, where I think they'll fit in quite nicely!

Stay tuned for more crafty projects that have been churned out lately... call it the 2nd trimester energy surge and pre-nesting stage.

Extreme Peek-a-boo

Sometimes the sillies just take over:

Lots of laughs, squeals, and full body slams...

Life is good.

Green Eggs and Ham!

We started our St. Paddy's Day week off right this morning with some better-than-the-traditional Green Eggs and Ham:

Avocado Bacon Scramble

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• Ingredients:
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• 4 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 medium ripe avocado, peeled and cubed
• 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
• 3 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled

Directions:

• In a bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, salt and pepper; stir in avocado.
• In a skillet over medium heat, melt butter or use nonstick spray. Add egg mixture; cook and stir gently until the eggs are completely set. Add bacon and stir to combine. (Serves 3 .)

Of course we also had to include some time with Dr. Seuss:

Does anyone else have any fun St. Patrick's Day traditions?

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17 months

A helper

I walked away from a quilting project, only to return to find birds camped out on my quilt top... nothing was disturbed, just two little birdies who decided to say hi.

But pretty soon there was walking
and lying down
and rolling
and hiding :)

Slide

Ethan's gotten the hang of going down the slide with minimal help from me. He can climb up the stairs, walk across the platform, and is learning how to sit down at the top of the slide (I have to help with that part usually). He also tries to say slide, but it sounds like "ssssslah" and he always says it in a whisper...it's too cute!

Finishing projects

That's been the goal around here lately! And here's one I've finally finished after a loooong hiatus from quilting :)

It's a small lap-sized quilt that is getting shipped off to my grandparents in California. The fabric is called Tranquility, by Moda... I just love the mix of colors. I used Kona Cotton in Cream for the sashing. It's a basic stacked coin pattern from Moda Bake Shop's website. I did minimal quilting since I have another stacked coin quilt in progress that I plan on quilting all over with wonky straight lines, and I like do try new techniques with each project!

A few more pics:

Ethan's favorites

Here are Ethan's favorite books these days at 16 months:

16 months!

I took these yesterday to mark Ethan turning 16 months old.