Keepin' it snappy today as K just informed me that I'm supposed to be making her an outfit for her and a friend for "twin day". I guess it's part of spirit week at her school and it strikes me as an odd theme (I worry that some kids will be excluded), but it is what it is. I have exactly one hour to do this, and I'm racking my brains for the easiest possible pattern. Anyway, as an incorrigible creature of habit, I frequent coffee shops daily to write in my journal. One of my favorite things …
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Overwhelm
I'm not sleeping much. I lay awake at night, wondering how I'm going to make a dent in my eternally long to-do list, how to keep the many people in my life from getting too upset with me, how to keep perspective. I drift off to sleep around 3 or 4am, none the wiser. For two years since I've started this blog, it's probably been obvious I've been on a kind of quest. A seeking of a better self? A digging and clawing from the depths of an unhealthy lifestyle to one that resembles normalcy? …
Father’s Day Free Printable
Just a quick printable for you today -- can you believe it's almost Father's Day? K and I are plotting to make this an extra special one for M, though we tend to be better at planning than executing... My own dad will be receiving one of these lovelies that I whipped up in the mail (maybe the hipster one -- my dad's pretty on-trend). I tend to make stuff for my own purposes and then share them here in the off chance others can get some use out of them. I kept things simple and graphic for …
22 Months and 3 Weeks
I purchased this tank top from H & M the second week of July in 2012. I remember this because I was frantically scouring the mall for clothes to take with me to a family vacation. That's what I always did for vacations; a profoundly unhealthy habit of accruing a whole new wardrobe just for a short trip. Cheap clothes that fell apart in minutes. I haven't bought a single ready-to-wear clothing item since. Almost two years for both me and K! Okay, I've gotten some socks and underwear for K, …
2014 Summer Sewing Plans
It's another installment of unrealistic sewing planning -- one of my favorite activities! Over the last year or so of sewing for myself, I've become enamored with dresses. I just love the ease of slipping a dress on, ready for the day in an instant. And now that I've survived looking through thousands of images of myself and have become truly and deeply okay with my "giant squash legs" as K likes to call them, I'm intent on adding a lot more frocks to my wardrobe. I lean toward simple lines …