Thank You Honey

For a while now, I knew that my best shot of taking both kids to the market and various other errands required Baxter to be in some sort of carrier device. However, the Snuggily that we have isn't suitable for him until he gets a little older. After going around and around, playing other possibilities in my head, I settled on the idea of a sling. I had never liked the idea of baby slings, they seemed too "hippish" for me, but now it seemed as though, that was the best option for me. I did like the concept of the Moby Wrap, but not only are they way more money then I would ever spend on something that I won't use everyday of my life, forever, but with a toddler to chase after, those wraps are too cumbersome. That is, they aren't easily thrown on and go. I happened to be at JoAnn's during their Fourth of July sale and got several patterns for $.99, one was a pattern for two different kinds of baby carrier, one a back/frontpack and the other was a sling. A few days later, me, my mom and the kids went back to JoAnn's. I found the perfect fabric for the sling. It was very inexpensive as well, it was on clearance, and then 50% off, and then it was end of bolt, and then it was a little dirty so I spent $4 total on over two yards of two different fabrics (the white was only a $1). I only really buy patterns when they are on sale for a dollar, and I try not to spend a lot of money on fabric, because if you do pay full price, then whats the use? you could go to the store and buy the desired item for less then it would cost you to make it. The sling should have only taken me an hour to make, if that, but with babies fussing, and no pain medicine, it took me three days. I wanted to have it done by time Aaron got off work today, but for some unexplained reason (baby brain) I just couldn't figure out the last step in the sewing instructions. I tried sewing the sling together three different ways until Aaron finally offered to look at the pattern for me and see if it made sense. He did, it did and he pointed to the picture. "see, it goes like that." I felt like the BIGGEST IDIOT ever. duh. Anyway, thanks to my hubby, I finished the sling. It even has a cell phone pocket.

Happy (late) Graduation Moriah!

I started Moriah's graduation present right before I had Baxter and wasn't able to finish it due to his arrival and after he came it's taken me a whole month to adjust to two little ones. Needless to say, her purse has been on the back burner, that is until now! For some reason the fabric just screamed Moriah and the design I used was half from a pattern and half from my head. I'm pleased with the out come, especially the zipper. Zippers have always scared me for some reason, despite how easy they really are.