The Goose is Getting Fat

Well, Christmas is coming. I'm done shopping, pretty much - just Dad is left, but I know what I'm getting, so I'm not concerned about it.

Which leaves me with a few weeks to make as much stuff for the girls as I can cram in around other projects. Yesterday was a major workday! Canned 7 pints (8?) of kidney beans, re-did the hand-basting on my brother's wedding quilt, completely stitched up and stuffed a Molly Monkey (still needs eyes and clothes), and FINALLY finished crocheting and embroidering the hair on Lizzie's doll. And re-stuffed the little neighbor girl's old bear.

There's stuffing and loose bits of yarn all over the floor. :P

Unfortunately, I'm sick today. :cough-hack-cough: No voice again. What the heck is up with this ill health thing, anyway? :grumble:




But I love Lizzie's doll!

Tree Skirt!

Busy day, today - canning and whipping up some household recipes. Dishwashing soap today (one part borax to one part washing soda), as well as some of that salt scrub stuff that was in the Martha Stewart magazine. I've been looking for a salt scrub for a while but find them far too pricey for my wallet. Epsom salts, oil, and a drop or two of an essential oil? Yeah, I can afford that.

I'll be so glad to have these beans finally canned! Ugh. It's taken me long enough to get around to it.

Anyhow, here's yesterday's project: a new tree skirt! I'm in love with these colors.





Emilie said that the tree needed more pink and a little fuchsia. Mommy delivered. ;)

Experimenting

Something new in the shop today. I worked on it last night and set the snaps this morning, after everyone was awake. I found this pattern in one of the size 10 designs Tante and I were looking at. Used it to gauge timing for construction... But, holy cow. So cute!


I added an extra snap so that the hat can fit a younger child, but the hat sits snugly on a larger girl. I'm thinking how adorable this will look with ringlets spilling from the bottom. *mommy swoon*




Anyhow, I put the hat up in the shop because Emilie wants me to make her a red one, "because, really, Mama, red is my favorite color and not blue." Nevermind that blue is my favorite color this week. I can feel another burst of pink love coming, though.

And, yes, in the background that is a Christmas tree. We have both the aluminum and the cut tree up and trimmed, now.