Play Food

I didn't know I could knit play food until I tried! Then, I decided that it would be my daughter's birthday present, as I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago.  Here's the fruit I've knit so far.  I'm going to eventually be adding some to my Etsy.  They will be knit in 100% wool yarn and stuffed with clean wool.  I think they're awesome!

1 year old portraits

Because portrait places--even Walmart--charge an arm and a leg for crappy portraits and I can't afford a nice photographer, we decided that I'd take Bunny's 1 year old portraits.

I wasn't so sure how I felt about doing them myself.  I can take a half decent picture sometimes, but I don't consider myself an amazing photographer or anything.

But I did them with my husband's help and I have to say that they came out half decent.  I guess, with such a beautiful subject to photograph, I shouldn't have been surprised :-D
Enjoy!

Bumblebee Butt

 I'm really proud of this new soaker that I just added to my shop! I don't know where I got the idea from, maybe it was just inspiration from seeing my black and yellow wool yarn skeins together, but I'm pretty pleased with the product! It's a size Large, and I haven't tested the upward limits to that size yet, but I think it can fit a baby from about 20-25lbs to 35+ easily.  My daughter is 18lbs in the photos and it's big, but with knit wool, that's not a problem.

Custom Order

Recently, I made a friend.  She's a friend of a friend that I visited when I was on vacation.  While we were all swimming together with our little ones, it was brought to my attention that she was interested in cloth diapers.  Since I'm a cloth diaper fanatic, I quickly told her all the best brands and about how well cloth works for me.

Enter Facebook.  My friend's friend who I friended on facebook (Yikes!) is an amazing--no AMAZING--photographer and posted some pictures of her little one online.  They were beautiful pictures except for that little bit of paper peeking out from underneath a onsie.  Yeah, so I'm totally biased against ugly, disposables.  I said, "Girl! You need to get some cloth on that baby's bum!" and then offered to send her some diapers to try.  Since I didn't have money to buy some for her I made some.   Guess what? She LOVED them! So she ordered five more diapers and one more cover.  Her specifications were pinks, purples, greens, and yellows.  I asked her about her daughter's nursery theme, and she said, owls, birds, and trees.  Then I stalked her photos online and found pictures of her daughter's nursery so I could get a feel for it.

And that's when I made this little guy for her--Oh I love him to death!  He, along with five, coordinating diapers were made in about a week of moments stolen here and there when my daughter was happily engaged in her food, or her kitchen playset, or in her crib, sleeping.  Sewing projects can be challenging with a toddler running around, but with those stolen moments and a kitchen table full of my crafts at all times, I was able to finish her order.

 I was pretty pleased with the result.  When she got the diapers, she immediately posted pictures from her phone of her daughter wearing them on FB so I think that she was too.  That makes me happy.  Very happy.

A Modest Barbie Doll

 I know, I know.  Bunny is too young to have a Barbie doll, but since she was given one and I thought it would be a good idea for her to use it to learn about different body parts (eyes, hair, feet, etc), I let her open this one that her Aunt gave to her.

 The problem was, however, that this particular barbie was wearing a tiny little bikini which not only poses a choking hazard, but is not the type of image I want seared in my little girl's brain.  Neither that nor the ridiculously skinny body underneath the swimsuit.

So, I knit this little dress late one night while watching an episode of Covert Affairs.  I made some mistakes because I was making up the pattern as I went along, but I'm overall quite pleased with her modest little barbie doll.

Sewing!

Hey, guys! I'm so sorry I haven't posted lately! I've just been SO BUSY!!! I am fulfilling two orders for fitted diapers for friends (totaling 7 diapers plus a cover or two and the covers take much longer and require more work) and I've also been perfecting my NB fitted pattern so I can start to sell them! My friend here is testing a total of 4 NB fitted diapers--all have slight variations on them, and my blogger friend over at The Jacobsen Family has agreed to test three more diaper patterns. So, in the past week, I have cut out all the pieces for 12 diapers.  I normally don't sew more than 2-4 diapers in a week (though there was that one week I made 7 for a friend).  In addition to that, I'm still hard at work on some wool shorties for my Woolie Winner. In addition, I write reviews and other posts for The Cloth Diaper Blog which earns me some spending cash for things like replacing the video camera I broke at the beginning of the summer. 

Whew!

With all that and cleaning my house and working part time and still trying to put my daughter and husband first, you can see how my blog got put on a back burner this week. 

Pictures will come soon.  NOrmally they come once a week because I was doing Bunny's weekly updates on my personal blog, but now that she's over a year old, I'm only doing monthly posts so I have to remind myself to upload pictures intermittently.  Among those pictures, I'll include some of the diapers I've been hard at work on. 

Birthday Party Princess

This tutu was one of Bunny's birthday presents, so since her party dress had chocolate cake all over it and most of the guests had gone anyway, I changed her. Also, it matched her periwinkle Fuzzi Bunz diaper and of course those pretty eyes! Ha ha!

Seriously, though, what kid needs that many toys?  I wish there was a way to share the immense wealth we have here in the US and other Western Countries evenly throughout the world.  I feel poor all the time but when I look back and realize that my one year old daughter has more toys and clothes than most kids can even dream of because they're busy foraging for food, I feel ridiculous for my financial worries.  It makes me think that maybe I'm that rich man on a camel trying to get through the eye of the needle.