Wee Wonderfuls

oscar's stuffed hand turkey

oscar's stuffed hand turkey, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.

phew! I've been trying to upload this photo all day. comcast SUCKS IT*

I've been dying to show off Oscar's latest Thanksgiving project. Thanks Marigold for the link and thanks to Bella Dia for the cute idea! I traced Oscar's hand on fabric and he sewed it up all by himself. His first sewing project! He had such fun stitching it up and has been begging me all day to do more sewing. Thanks for all the fun crafts suggestions. We've got a full project to-do list now. Thanksgiving is making a comeback.

* they've blown off our service calls 2 days in a row. I've had some insufferable conversations with customer service. "sure, one moment, I can do that"... 10 minutes later! and now they've got me hanging on "instant" chat for 10 minutes for heaven knows what.. oh wait. to try to sell me phone service. good grief. if you're wondering why I am crabbing about it here, it's because I'm testing a theory. thanks for bearing with me.

christmas items at ikea that could not be resisted

ikea christmas, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.

Oscar is lobbying hard to skip right to Christmas. He is not impressed with Thanksgiving crafts and decorations. We're on the hunt for a big ceramic turkey. I thought that would get him in the mood. I had to explain over and over yesterday how if you put Christmas up too early it ruins the excitement. Not sure he's buying it.

Anyone have any fun Thanksgiving kids crafts ideas? He's thoroughly exhausted hand turkeys. Halloween with its ghosts and monsters is much more exciting I guess.

leaf pile

leaf pile, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.

looks like I'll be blogging from my phone until sometime between 1-4 tomorrow when comcast comes over to fix our busted internet. comcast is so awesome. oh well, it's been a gorgeous weekend to be off the computer!

library books

Blogging every day is going to be a breeze. If I go back far enough in iPhoto I always find something I meant to blog and never did. 9 times out of 10 it's library books. So there will probably be lots of books on the floor shots this month. Today, some cross stitch inspiration...

frilly dilly

I think I want to make a headband or some sort of hair accessory or necklace like this one from JCrew for Phoebe. 

I think I really like it and then I can't decide. I don't like overly frothy little girls stuff but I do love it in small doses. I think something like this would be so cute paired with jeans and a t-shirt. It's sort of a moot point because she'll never leave it on her head for more than 2 minutes put together. Maybe. It's a good excuse to window shop millinery flowers over on etsy. 

My favorites so far are at this shop, Mary Not Martha. Then I decided it was a sign. Phoebe looks like a cross between my mom, Martha, and Tim's mom, Mary, so one of Phoebe's many nicknames is MaryMartha. The shopping fairies are telling me I'm on the right track.

And more fluff for the foofer. I mentioned the other day I was heading to the basement for the fancy fabrics. Well I brought up a arm full of sheer printed vintage stuff that I thought would make good dress up dresses. This is what I've got so far. I finally got out the elastic thread I'd bought to make the Heather Ross smocked sundresses and I made this dress. Not sure what I've got here. I was going to add some gold sparkly trims and then thought maybe it's a peasant girl dress sort of thing. Maybe a before the fairy godmother Cinderella?

look who is sitting next to each other

just plunked my new (old) orla kiely bag down on the table by my o.k. target mug. makes me so happy! I bought the bag on ebay about a month ago and oh how I love it. I justified it by saying I'll never need another bag again and I might be right. I don't think my love for it will ever waver.

also on the table, dmc floss colors for the cross stitch patterns. I'll tell you what's a good time. spending half an hour in the floss aisle at joanns while your 2 year old tears things apart and your 5 year old hollers at her for tearing things apart while you hunt and peck for matching floss colors. why don't they have them all in a row? all the blues together, then all the greens, etc. there must be a reason they arrange/number them so haphazardly.

nov.

November! Isn't November one of those 'do something every day' months, blog every day? or write a novel every day? Something like that? I'm going to try to blog every day. Maybe. Yes, I'm going to do it. Starting today.

The end of October went by in a blur and I'm realizing I have no good photos documenting it. I have a new nephew!! Another boy for me, baby Jake! He's a cutie. But I'm not sure I'm supposed to be showing baby pics here. In arrived right in the middle of all the holiday excitement. Halloween was a doozy this year. Our kindergarten party went off without a hitch and was super fun. We had 3 games and a craft and the kids rotated through and then sat down for treats. It was a lot of fun planning and I'm sort of bummed I didn't sign up for the holiday party too. My favorite idea from the party was mummy wrapping drinks and gluing on googly eyes. And the donuts on a string were super fun. Dangling food should be a part of every celebration.

The kids were in store bought costumes for their 2nd year in a row. We were all geared up to make Mr. Freeze for Oscar but then the practical realities -- of trick or treating and wearing the costume to school and the weather -- sort of took over and we went with his second choice, Batman. Phoebe was Tinkerbell and she's been wearing her costume every day for 3 weeks now. I can't believe I didn't make her costume but I'm planning on making up for it. I'm heading to the basement for the frilly fabrics now!

new fall header

new fall header, originally uploaded by Hillary Lang.

look quick! there's a new seasonally appropriate header up. of course the halloween themed things will be outdated in just a few days. wonder if I'll keep them up there as long as I did those dang valentines.

butter

I sure had to restrain myself to not write a dorky post title today. So many goofy butter sayings popped into my head. If I had to pick a least favorite part of blogging it'd be the titles. I want to switch over to doing asterisks or something but that'd be so annoying when you're looking through the archives. Anyhoo...

I finished up my cross stitch quartet! This weekend I picked up these frames at Ikea and I love them in the frames. So cute and easy and ready to go. Butter joins the group and so all told we have eggs, apples, wool and butter.

Time to start making charts!

orange

I think the sun is supposed to peek out today. I'm hoping so because I have some little somethings to share. Actually I have lots to share. I need to get the camera out. We've been battling sick stuff for weeks it seems but I think we're around a corner. I need to take advantage of this breather because I have a feeling it's not going to last long. No, scratch that. I'm cheerful, healthy and optimistic! That's half the battle when facing sick isn't it, having a positive outlook. Ok, more soon!