My creative cup is overflowing!

The Blog

As you can see (and if you can't, please hold down the "Shift" key while clicking the "Refresh" button in your browser), I've begun the migration over to the new pretty graphics. I'll be continuing to pretty up the site in the coming weeks...I'm hoping Blogger is a little more CSS friendly than it used to be. But before I do anything else with the design, I'll be launching the Patterns and Recipes pages. Those will be up either tonight or tomorrow. I'm hoping for tonight so I can spend tomorrow doing super-fun creative things, like...

New Products

...dyeing some yarn (which may or may not go up in the shop -- we'll see how much I love it), making button bouquets, finishing the knitted tank top, making more bags,



perfecting this reversible dress pattern,



and so on. I am loving making these dresses...

The Kids
...because Becky decided after she got her adorable dress from Grandma Tedi that she is definitely a dress girl, so it's super fun to put these together for her and let her pick which side she's going to wear. Also, one of her favorite things to do is to thank people for giving her things, so she's constantly saying, "Thank you, Mommy, for my beautiful dress!" which is nice.

Here are a few more pics from our little photoshoot. As soon as I pulled out the camera, Zack started saying, "Cheese!" right along with Becky. This is another new word for him, so I started snapping away. He's still got a very small vocabulary, but I think a big part of that is because Becky answers for him a lot. I'm not too worried, because he's very good at communicating non-verbally. We've got our much delayed 18-month and 3-year checkups tomorrow -- finally no one's sick! -- so I'll see what the doctor has to say then.





The stains on his shirt are a result of the lunch I had served them just before we started taking pictures: ice cream waffles! Trader Joe's wholegrain waffles with a little scoop of homemade vanilla and a drizzle fo chocolate syrup. Big hit with both kids, though Becky didn't care for the chocolate syrup on her waffle and has decided she would like strawberry next time. They both handled it well enough that there will definitely be a next time. I love it when I plan something fun for the kids and they actually do have fun with it.

posted by Laura Y. @ 1:26 PM