Craft Break!

I've been cleaning all day.

Well, Hubs let me sleep in ('till 11! Whoo!) and I have been cleaning non-stop since getting up. Mainly hauling my craft stuff back up to my craft room (I tend to migrate downstairs cuz I get lonely up there all by myself!) and packing up Christmas decorations. I know, I know, Hubs and I are HUGE procrastinators but the tree is out on the curb and the decorations are packed up. Except for the ornaments. Gonna wait 'till Goose is in bed to pack those away. Its a job easier done without a toddler "helping."

So while folding laundry I found this shirt that apparently Goose took the scissors too. She cut a hole right in the middle front of the shirt.

And then I decided to take a craft break, since the shirt caused a light bulb to go off in my head. I knew just how to fix it! No sewing required and done in under 15 minutes. All you need is some Heat-n-Bond, fabric scraps and an iron (and scissors and a pencil or crayon, thats what I used!)

#1 - Cut out fabric and Heat-n-Bond paper and attach as per the directions on the Heat-n-Bond.

#2 Let fabric cool then sketch your design onto the back of your paper. Cut out.

#3 Again, following the directions on the Heat-n-Bond, attach your fabric to your shirt.

Ta-Da!!

Cute, easy and you'd never know there is a huge hole under there. And Goose was pleased. She thinks I am the "Best Mommy in the WHOOOOLE World" when I make her stuff.

The strawberry fabric is vintage sugar sack fabric and the green corduroy is scrap from a vintage skirt I altered. Both fabrics are from Fun Junk!

ETA - the model/culprit!

Back to Work

I am home from the retreat and exhausted like an MFer. I wish I would have called in sick today. I have loads of pics to post. LO's and others, but I have to do some trimming and editing first. Be on the look out.

If I don't fall asleep at my desk, I might even have them posted by the end of today!

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Pre-sleeping

Let me say, for the record, that I am a night person. I normally stay up till 11 or later if I am scrappin' or surfin' the net. But last night hubs and I went to bed at 8:30, right after I put Goose to bed we went to bed too. I can't even remember the last time I went to bed that early when I wasn't sick. I just feel old... and like a parent. But, I am okay with that. I feel like a new woman today! It's amazing what a good nights sleep can do for a person. Oh, to be well rested.

The hubby and I coined a term for this, actually. We call it "pre-sleeping" and here is why... As a parent, you are no longer allowed to sleep in. That is, unless you happen to be one of those disgustingly lucky parents whose children sleep until 10 (or, GASP, later) giving you the much needed opprotunity to sleep in. I am not one of those parents. I am also not one of those disgustinly unlucky parents whose children get up at the butt crack of dawn. Goose will sleep until 7:30-8, sometimes 9 if I'm lucky, which is fine, I suppose. Except that I would much rather stay in bed until noon. And that is how pre-sleeping was born.

Since there is no possible way to sleep with a child who doesn't want to be asleep in the house, we decided that the only way to sleep in was just to go to bed early. But going to bed early made us feel like parents and extremely old, so we came up with a clever and functional new term for it. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is pre-sleeping. Basically sleeping in before you actually go to sleep. Get it?

Now I don't care if you think its silly, because I think its pretty silly myself. And yes, I do know that it is the same thing as going to be early. Talk all the shit you want, you have to admit it is a pretty clever way of saying it, right?