Ottobre sewing for cute cousins

Ottobre
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I recently discovered a fabulous magazine full of Finnish children's patterns called Ottobre. By coincidence, one of my friends and co-residents from school, Romina, gave me a subscription as a gift this Spring! I was so excited! Here are my first attempts at clothing from their patterns modeled by Kate's cousins Jillian and Linkin: This dress was actually a pattern I drafted myself, but has matching shorts from an Ottobre pattern

June Garden

I think the peak of the garden is in June...July is just too hot for anything to do very well...I'll get the July garden photos tomorrow.

June 15, 2010

May 19, 2010

April 15, 2010

March 15, 2010

I pulled those darn potatoes that were taking over the front half of the garden and guess what?! Potatoes!
I've been having baked potates for lunch recently:)

The onions looked a little frail as well, so I dug them up too...onions!

See those tomatoes over the top of the trellis! I had enough tomatoes to can them and to make pasta sauce!

On the left is blueberry jam I made from blueberries from a nearby pick-your-own farm:)

Overdue update...

How is it that when I have the most free time, I'm the busiest? We've been doing a lot of swimming and Kate can now swim underwater totally alone without a floaty about 5 feet! She is really a little fish in the water and loves it.

Alex and my Mom were here for a week at the beginning of June. We love having them visit! Kate loves playing with Annie and Alex both. Alex mowed our lawn because Loren was out of town. He was so tired! It was a lot of work. We were lucky there were here then, because it has been SO hot since they left. Upper 90s every day.

My garden is hanging in there, but everything is pretty wilted after the long hot days. I had enough tomatoes to can a batch! I also harvested the potatoes that were taking over the garden.

All from the garden!

This is Irene, our neighbor that Kate adores. She is going to be in 4th grade and Kate thinks she is absolutely the neatest person on earth. She is wearing a skirt I made her out of an old t-shirt.

Dentist's daughter.

Papa Craig's visit

Kate wearing both of her new dresses from Nana (Debbie).

My Dad was in town for my almost graduation banquet a few weeks ago. I won't actually be done until December because I did an extra clinical reseach program on top of the periodontology program, but they were nice enough to include me with the rest of my class at graduation.

I don't think I've ever posted any pics from school before, but here is our group of residents. Yes, I only own one cocktail dress and yes, it is in all the facebook photos...

I heart Ty

Remember this baby gift I made from a t-shirt?

So the t-shirt was actually the shirt we all wore for Lindsay Stortz's bachelorette party in 2005

Here it is on the happy couple: Lindsay and Ty

...and now here it is in on sweet baby Ellie Cashen, with her daddy :)

Garden update

Currently harvesting:
snow peas
lettuce (almost finished- starting to bolt)
spinach (almost finished- starting to bolt)
parsley
basil
chives
oregano
yo choi
bok choi

We have tomatoes, brussels sprouts and peas that should be ready in the next few weeks and I'm trying some "summer glory" lettuce to see if it won't bolt...

May 19, 2010

April 15, 2010

March 15, 2010

Mothers Day Apron

Here is the apron I made for my mom for Mother's day--one side is Hungry Caterpillar which was Alex's favorite when he was little, and the other side is Beatrix Potter, which was a favorite of Beedoh's and mine. It was tough to find a coordinating fabric that matched both of these two!