When the school year began I told Yagel that Imma always comes back. This really helped hm to get used to his new preschool. It was his mantra. His teacher told me he would recite it often during the day…

Yesterday, we were driving home from school. This was our  conversation:

Yagel: Where’s Abba?

Me: At work.

Yagel: WHy?

Me: Cuz that’s his job.

Yagel: I want a job.

Me: Your job is to go to school. WHat’s Imma’s job?

Yagel: To always come back.

I am still scooping my melted heart up off the floor… I definitely have the best job, don’t you think?

my little man

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time suck….

I have been sucked into the internet time-suck… I have so much to do, and all I do is sit and look at other people’s amazing handiwork…

last night my dad sat me down and insisted that I make myself mini-goals for each week, and that I send them to him… he is so right. I need to get back on track, and fast!

Since I have nothing crafty-sewing to show, I thought I’d show you some pics I took a while ago that I really like…

Flowers... don't know what they are called 🙂

Leaves

Yagel at Alexander River, Dec 2007

I found the most beautiful pictures on etsy. The girl who took them is soooo talented. Check her out….

that’s all for now… off to look at my list…

MWAH!

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reduce, reuse, recycle…

In the spirit of green, I repurposed an old sweater that didn’t fit right after being washed in the machine and spun too much…

forgot to take a pic of the before… but here’s the after

with gingham trim...

I did the border in a gingham, with raw edges, on purpose, just for that rusticy touch. The bottom is “sewn” using the same gingham fabric…

up close

with it's friend

this pillow was done with a disappearing 9-patch that I learned from Blessed Roots.

And in the spirit of sewing, I made Ziv a rag-cube…

one side...

and…

the other side...

and since it’s been a fairly productive morning on the crafting front, here are some too cute shops I found on etsy:

penny people – beautiful artwork

Art and Philanthropy – stunning

the polkadot spot – cute buntings

manic muffin – gorgeous pillows

that’s all for now!

MWAH!

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O – M – G !

a picture is worth a thousand words….

my stamp

the stamp itself

MAde by the so talented mekoopelet… I can’t wait to use it!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

Did I mention that it is HANDMADE? WOW!

it came in the cutest little bag

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I miss my camera

I miss my camera. the one I have needs to be charged every day. And, I forget (Ziv is sucking my brain out through my boob 🙂 )…

I have been happily crafting along, made 5 bunnies and a scarf, and only took pictures of two bunnies… since everything was given away and I have no pics to show for it, does that mean it never happened? Too philosophical for me…

Here is Yagel’s bunny. He chose the colour and the fabric. It sleeps with him. With him and the other 17 million animals in his bed… it a regular menagerie…

bunny

Since I have nothing to show for my hard work, I’ll show you the work of others… at least someone is wise as well as creative… lol…

30 days is a talented one… she has tones of ideas and tons of links to other people’s great ideas… I have been reading for hours…

the long thread… another amazing blog… I can’t imagine what took me so long to find this one… she has a great list of 100 tutorials of 2008… that could take days to wade through…

And check out Jodie! So cute, so talented, amazing stuff!

And Blessed Roots: what a great way to display her kids’ artwork! I can’t wait for Yagel to draw something for me to hang…

And now, for the unsolicited pics of my two gorgeous kids… who played together yesterday, cracking each other up… and today, had a fight… if you can call it that (Ziv is only 10 months old), but she had a toy and Yagel grabbed it away from her and she cried…. the first of many, I know…

Ziv

another one...

Yagel, swinging the bunny

together...

thanks for reading! MWAH!

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… like bunnies

I have been wracking my brain for a gift for my niece. She’s got a birthday next monday… I can’t believe she’ll be a year old already! She is the cutest little thing.

Parparim wrote a really great and easy to follow tutorial and totally inspired me.

fuzzy bunny

 

the bunny's behind 🙂

close-up of said behind

sorry about the quality of the pics… I miss ny SLR…

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My first order!

Hooray!

But I can’t show it to you, cuz the recipient may see it… Ok, you twisted my arm… here’s a little peak…

🙂

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New Year’s Resolution…

Happy New Year all!

I have been racking my brain trying to come up with a feasible New Year’s resolution. And I was successful!

My resolution is to give gifts that are HANDMADE. Either by me, or by some other extremely creative person. Not bad, huh? 🙂

I am still in limbo in computer land…. We bought a new computer and it is been set up probably as we speak… I can’t wait to start rebuilding my favourites list and my files (so far haven’t gotten any positive feedback about the old computer 😦 )…

In the business world, my fabric tags are on their way to being made, this week I am going to make business cards and tags, I am even going to buy a ledger (hopefully I’ll be able to write more than just expenses 🙂 ) and a rubber stamp… AAAK! Exciting stuff!

That’s all for now… Thanks for reading…. MWAH!

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