A couple of days ago, I had coffee with one of my funnest (and funniest) friends and hung out with her four-month-old cutie pie son. Babies! It's been so long since I've held a tiny baby. The little guy was as mellow as can be and happily let me bounce him on my knee while my friend and I nearly spurted coffee everywhere from excessive laughing. We got quite a few askance looks from the other coffee shop patrons. I had been planning on gifting this wee baby sleep sack I started designing for ... Read more
Monday Outfit: Pink Cityscape A-Line Tunic
Good morning! We survived the epic teeth extractions (four!) on Friday, and K was her happy old self by Saturday. Her lips swelled up a bit, but she's no worse for wear and I'm constantly flabbergasted by kids' resilience. I was a class-A whiner when I got my wisdom teeth pulled. So I made a few things this weekend, powered by who-knows-what. I turned to my sewing machine for relief many times this weekend and in an effort to make my life easier, I decided to show you one thing today and ... Read more
Sewing for Me: The Sumo Wrestler Top
I had such high hopes for this top. It's from this book, and you can see how stylish it looks when professionally photographed below - I've shared this image before, and it got pinned like crazy. It's clearly a cute garment, but I'm guessing you can't have curves to pull off this look. The curves, oh the curves. They are accentuated in a way that I can't say is flattering. Hence the name of the post. So let's talk details: the fabric I used is a shot cotton, I believe. I've had it for ... Read more
Monday Outfit: The Un-fur-trimmed Coat Dress
It started with a vague excitement for my very small but very pretty faux fur stash. I thought, "Wouldn't it be so unnecessarily sophisticated and chic to make a fur-trimmed wool coat for K?" I'm all about unnecessarily sophisticated and chic. Alas, faux fur is NO FUN to work with. As soon as I came within an inch of it, it started to shed all over the place. In my crazy deadline-ridden state of being and due to my slightly OCD personality, I just couldn't hack it. So I resorted to an ... Read more
Monday Outfit: Bicycle Dress
Greetings from snowy Seattle. Snow!! It's been a winter wonderland for the past day or so, and this is highly unusual. The city stops dead in its tracks, uncertain of what to do with all this white stuff. K and M went sledding down a nearby hill yesterday, then returned almost immediately due to claims of "frostbite". I stayed indoors (I hail from Los Angeles, need I say more?); basically we're all wimps. And really, I should have been sewing puffy parkas and not a lightweight dress with ... Read more