Right now my little darling is making her dad’s chess pieces sing the Santa Lucia song. She is drilling them quite hard to behave and sing. It is absolutely adorable to watch and it makes me sad that we loose this childhood ability to imagine that the simplest things are some completely different than what […]
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Christmas Dress – Express Version
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on January 1, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
The Fall Memory Dress
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on October 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Fall is a season of vibrant colors and beauty and yet it always brings up an intense sense of loss in me. Old memories come back to haunt me and everything becomes a bit bittersweet. I keep getting glimpses from previous falls and even the simplest memories can bring up intense feelings of loss in […]
Holding onto summer
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on September 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I probably should have started the summer by making summer dresses for my daughter. Instead I am ending the summer with a summer dress sprint. There is a certain risk she will have grown out of them next summer but it is first now that I have a little bit of time each evening to […]
Princesses don’t just wear pink. Really!
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on August 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It has gotten to a point where my little girl refuses to wear anything other than a dress. Preferably a pink one! I am really not sure where she is getting all those girly genes from, maybe they were just silent in my generation? Winter will be tough for her when you have to wear […]