It’s spring!
Our seeds have sprouted, the morels are out for the picking, I seem to spend every weekend mowing our little yard, we are diligently planning our summer fun, and after the first round of exams I am squeaking by with A’s in both Microbiology & AP3.
Now back to work I go! :)
Spring break is finally here!
I’m still working, but I get to go home “early” (compared to when I’m in school), which means fun afternoons with Miss Etta!
This weekend we finally finished her play tent/teepee. I got the pattern from here, with some slight alterations. The fabric is from my favorite store IKEA (Thanks Chris!).
As you can see she is thoroughly enjoying it!
While we are embracing this break from school, I am also nervously waiting for June 1st to roll around. What happens June 1st? Well, that’s when I hear back from the Nursing Schools I applied to for Fall 2012 Admission! So cross your fingers for me, while we… wait..wait..wait…
I’m sure the time will fly by, but often it feels sooooo sssssllllowwwwwwwww. Luckily I will be plenty busy with two courses next term (Microbiology and Ananatomy & Physiology II), so my blog posts will be sparse and infrequent at best (your official warning)!
Enjoy Spring!
Surprisingly, I’m not really one for chocolate brownies, I tend to choose other goodies over the common brownie. That is of course, until I met THIS brownie a Cocoa powder, brown butter, walnut chunky treat. The recipe was recently published in Bon Appetit, and it is AMAZING.
I highly recommend.
I ate all my brownies… and didn’t photograph, I guess I’ll have to make more!
I love babies, and even more, I love ONESIES!
I personalized a bunch of these little guys for a new neighbor baby, and thought you might enjoy them too! The pictures could have been better…. but you get the idea!
I hit up my stash of Etta baby clothes for the onesies, and the fabric scrap pile for the cute fabric. The mushroom and tree patch fabric is from Heidi Kenney’s design available on spoonflower or maybe still in her etsy store.
I made a fabulous orange polka-dot reversible apron for a good friend’s birthday!
Here I am modeling it, before it got wrapped up and hand delivered with a birthday song!
The reversible apron pattern is from Lotta Jansdotter’s Simple Sewing.
This is the second time I’ve attempted the pattern, and I made some slight changes (wider waist straps and a different type of straps, I also got rid of the gather at the neck straps).
Here is something I was busy working on this past holiday season! All in all I made 3, two turned out awesome… one not so much (I’m keeping the dud).
Felted Scull Potholder/Trivet, pattern from Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet
Before Felting
After Felting
Pretty cool eh? This guy ended up in my sister-in-law’s stocking!
I varied it a bit from the actual pattern, instead of two squares crocheted together, I just felted one square (the first attempt to felt two together came out a bit thicker than I wanted).
Inspired by Soule Mama…
A weekly post capturing a single moment from our wild life, to savor.
Photo taken by Colton Allen.
A little post Christmas present for myself!
We had a wild and crazy fun holiday around here! I crafted up a small storm after my triumphant finish to the Anatomy and Physiology course I was taking at my local community college. The most exciting fun of the craft storm was learning a new jewelry skill, metal stamping!
I made 3 necklaces with hand stamped pendents for my family and friends. However I managed to wrap everything and give it away without a single photo to document.
Last night I made this little something to dangle around my neck. The wedding ring has been around my neck for some time (my finger shrunk and I can now shake my ring off at will if wearing it), I think it looks great accompanied by a little Etta pendent and crystal.
