We eat out more than most families – I’m vegetarian and my husband is not. It can be hard to cook meals that satisfy us both. It can be easier (and often cheaper) for us to each pick out what we want in a restaurant instead of us having to cook two dinners at home.(…)
Quiet books, welcome to the 21st century! I’ve wanted to create a robot page ever since I learned what a quiet book is. I’m very glad I waited so long to really think it through, because I learned about e-sewing. E sewing is using special electronic components and conducive thread to create interactive textile projects.(…)
Here’s one more vacation/travel themed page! This page was about 3 weeks in the making due to two weeks of me being quite sick. It was all I could do to make it through each day taking care of Jax and doing as much work for my day job as possible. I still came out(…)
Our latest quiet book page is another beach themed one for our upcoming vacation. Jax is thrilled with it and couldn’t wait to try it out. It is a very simple page featuring sandcastle parts you can build into any structure you’d like, then store away in the bucket. Here is what I used for(…)
My next quiet book page is currently being sewn (sneak peeks here), but I wanted to share some photos of another crafty love of mine: crewel embroidery! I grew up in a family where the majority of the females did needle arts – some cross stitch, some all forms of needlework. My mom, who I(…)
Do you like the sweet ribbon I used on my ice cream parlor quiet book page? I think it was a perfect addition to the ice cream parlor awning. I have extra, so I am giving away two 37″ lengths of this cute ribbon to two lucky readers. The ribbon is 3/8″ wide, white with(…)
I’ve been quiet here, but busy busy busy! This week has been work, time with Jax and sewing the latest addition to Jax’s vacation quiet book: an ice cream parlor! (If you are a fan of the Facebook page, you can see little sneak previews as I sew up new pages.) This page is a(…)
The Itsy Bitsy Spider Climbed up the water spout. Down came the rain And washed the spider out! Out came the sun And dried up all the rain. So, the Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the spout again! An animated gif would gave been too big for this page, so you’ll have to suffer through(…)
I will be making a number of beach and summer themed quiet book pages between now and May when we take a road trip to the beach. My next page will be Isty Bitsy Spider, but I’m trying to decide what to do after that: ice cream parlor or bonfire and s’mores. What do you(…)
I’ll be doing a lot of beach and vacation themed pages over the next two months leading up to our trip to the Outer Banks. There will be other pages as well, including an Itsy Bitsy Spider page coming up soon. Here is the first beachy page I’ve completed – an ocean-themed iSpy page! This(…)
Are you ready to cook breakfast? I’m so happy to be back to sewing after my little break! And I think this page came out adorable… Jax loves pretend play cooking and playing with his kitchen, so it made sense to do a breakfast page after someone asked for a frying pan on the Facebook(…)
Ask my son what he wants for dinner and his answer will most likely be “sushi!” Of course, he doesn’t really eat actual sushi, but we go to our favorite sushi spot and sit at the bar. They bring him bowls of miso soup with rice and heaps of tofu and little plates of crab(…)
