My first project of the fall........

and while it should be cleaning my house..........it's not, it's something much cuter and much more fun!

Now that the weather is cooler, I've really felt like sewing and crafting again. I didn't do much over the summer with the heat, the girls home and camping. Oh, I didn't realize how much I missed my machine and glue gun.

A couple of weeks ago, I purchased the Molly Peasant Dress pattern from YCMT. When I first saw it here , I thought it was adorable and fell in love with it. It came out so cute and is one of the easiest patterns I have ever worked with-so, so, so much easier than patterns from the big pattern companies. The instructions are very clear and straightfoward. It really was a fun pattern to work on!!

My 6 year old loves her dress and it looks so cute with leggings under it.

Now, she's suppose to have yellow leggings on that I got from Lands End for 50% off the sale price-score! but do you think I could find them the day she wore this to school-of course not, they are in this house somewhere though-she tried them on with the dress-but where is the question! I'm sure in a couple of days, I'll walk into a room or open a drawer and remember oh yeah, that's where I put them and I'll remember why I put them there and why it was such a good idea at the time.

Maybe it's too bad this post isn't about fall cleaning, because maybe I would have found the leggings.

Makes Me Smile Monday

Squeezing in every last minute of summer on Sunday!

Summer Memories........

so sweet.......

The girls are back in school and you can feel a definite change in the weather, still warm during the day but much cooler at night.......

summer is winding down and so is Picnic Table Talk at ABC and 123.

Today's Picnic Table Talk is a Summer Wrap Up.

The girls and I had a great time looking through all our pictures from the summer and remembering all our fun. Oh, it wasn't always peaches and roses but we had a great summer and none of us want it to end. We're lucky we have another camping trip to look forward to this Labor Day Weekend-yeah!

Our summer started with my oldest daughter's 6th grade graduation. We had softball and tball, lots of camping, biking, ice cream and playing outside. We camped at the beach for a week and went to Hershey Park for another week. We went to the zoo and played mini golf. We even went to see a house being built for Extreme Makeover Home Edition, met one of the designers and got interviewed by the local news. It was busy, wonderful summer and a whole lot of fun!!

Here's to a great autumn!!

See what everyone else has been up to this summer at the final Picnic Table Talk of the season. There'll still be more sharing on ABC and 123 with Show and Tell Saturday-can't wait!!

Aaaahhhhh....Can you hear that.......

it's the sound of silence.......

Yesterday was the first day of school for my 3 oldest girls - today my 4 year old started afternoon preschool.......the baby is napping.........it is so quiet here...........pure bliss!

Now, I didn't want school to start-I don't, don't, don't want summer to end-I don't want to get up at 5:30 to wake my oldest for school (there's something very, very wrong with having to be picked up at 6:45 by the bus-and that's with driving her to the last stop-it would be 6:15 if she got on at our house!)-I felt lost all day yesterday with the 3 oldest girls gone, but...........

I am enjoying myself right now!

I'm going to go fold some laundry but.............I get to do it in a quiet house, with nobody asking me for anything while I watch soap operas .........somehow that makes up for it a bit!

Extreme Makeover Home Edition

Way back at the beginning of summer.... way back when my computer was down ......when I couldn't post pictures.... my girls and I heard that one of their favorite shows was going to be close by. Extreme Makeover Home Edition was coming to our area!! Talk about excited-I knew right away I was going to take them to check it out.

We didn't know exactly where at first, just that they had picked a building company and were looking for volunteers.

We kept checking the day they were announcing the exact location and decided to visit that week. It was really amazing-so different from what you see on TV. We were lucky, we went on a beautiful day in a week of rain and were able to get real close-there weren't too many people. Everything was very organized from letting you know where to park and busing you to the site to where you could watch everything.

My girls were able to meet Didi and were thrilled. My older daughter saw her walking down the street and called out "We love your show". Didi came right over to talk to them which was so nice-you could tell she was hot and tired.

This is the view walking up the street after the bus dropped us off. You can only walk on the side of the road and there are trucks and workers everywhere. This house was in a development and I felt a little bad for the neighbors. Everyone had to pass by security and had signs in their cars that said resident. One thing you never think about is the houses around the house being built. Their yards are pretty much taken over and used for the tents where work is done, viewing spots and places to cook/serve food.

This is the house being built. While we were there, they did a lot of electrical work, put in the front door and started the siding. We talked to some of the workers who had been there all night and they had put in all the duct work. You can't really see in this picture but on the left hand side of the front door, there is a huge window made up of smaller windows-that was my favorite part of the house.

As I mentioned before, at the start of the summer we had rain almost everyday so the site was a mud bath. I took a picture of my daugher's feet and this was in the beginning. Our feet were filthy when we left and our clothes were all splattered in the back. There was a cow field close by too so there was a bit of a lovely smell in the air :)

My girls were interviewed by the local news and were on TV too-talk about double excitement. Celebrities for a day!!

Can't wait until this is on in the fall-it'll be so cool to see the show after having actually seen the house and the work being done.

We're Back Part II, Bibs and Burps

We're back from another wonderful weekend of camping. My sister's family and ours always go camping the weekend before school starts. We had to go early this year because her kids go back on Thursday. Mine don't go back until next Tuesday-yeah, another week of summer!

The kids had a great time again-they love being with their cousins. The baby loves being outdoors so camping is right up his alley!

I went to a baby shower last weekend for a friend in town. I already knew the baby was a girl and her name started with K so I had picked up two outfits and made a pair of matching bibs and burp cloths. They came together quick and easy which is good because I was sewing right up until I had to get ready per usual.

These two pictures are the bibs-front and back.

These are the burp cloths. Usually I cover the center with flannel and add ribbon but I tried something different this time and everyone liked them. I used the same K as the bib and tried to copy the cupcake on the flannel.


We also had a birthday party that same weekend but I forgot to take pictures-the downfall of sewing up until 10 minutes before you have to leave. I made her a shirt with her initial and a headband just like this one I did for a previous birthday. My 6 year old loves giving these as gifts as much as she loves picking out the fabric.

Have a great week!

Wordless Wednesday

YUM!

More Wordless Wednesday on 5 Minutes for Mom

Could we make that a 1/2 hour for mom :)
My girls are having a bit of a problem getting along today.