It's been a while - a long while

OK, so it's been a while since I last posted anything. It's amazing how times flies when you're having fun. Or blink. Or stop to smell the roses.

That's what my life has been like lately -  A lot of fun, a blink and remembering to smell the roses as I go. I'm getting good at that. You know, remembering to savour the here and now. Cherish the moments. Because I am sure that yesterday I brought my first baby home and today she is bathing, dressing and feeding my youngest baby. Seriously. All it takes is a blink.

Creatively I've been busy, but not really completing anything and certainly not starting anything new! I am trying, really trying, to beat my ufo pile into submission. It's not really working, but I'm having fun with it anyway!

OK, that wasn't the complete truth. I have started (and finished!!!) a couple of extra projects. They were quick, ones, AND they helped my blessings, so I can be excused! I am so blessed! As though they knew what I needed (and what my blessings needed) two different people blessed me with two different pieces of fleece fabric - one covered in fairies and one just plain black. I made a pair of pajama pants for each of my  girls (nice, warm, fleecy ones) out of the fairy fabric and a tracksuit for my boy out of the black. Very simple and basic, but I really enjoyed doing it - I haven't made clothes in ages. I had fun embellishing them too, because I just can't keep them plain. Some decorative stitching and some boyish buttons on the tracksuit, along with a contrasting zipper on the jumper... My gorgeous boy loves them so much that he won't let me wash them - he has them on the end of his bed as I type ready to put on after school tomorrow, just like he did today and yesterday and the day before that, after he wore them half of Sunday and all of Saturday. I think that I may just have to sneak them away, they are really going to stink! Just as well that they are black, I suppose!

Anyway...

Today I worked on some bears that I am selling, and took some photos of a fabric alphabet book that I am making for my blessings - in all honesty, it's for me too :-P

I will see how the photos of the alphabet book turned out and (assuming that they are OK) I will write a post about it later. I might also take some pics of the bears I am working on as they are now, so that I can document the process of them 'coming to life'!

Renee

PS - I'm thinking about taking on some study - not what I thought I would be doing with the rest of my year!