A Sort of Virtue? And An Announcement
Aug. 18th, 2016 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Today I'd planned to be a running-out-and-about day, as the weather has finally cooled a touch (meaning highs of 89 instead of 97) and, indeed, I did run about a little this morning - to the community college down the street to register Wonderful Husband for Squiddle's fall classes since the website started throwing fits after I got myself registered but before I managed to get him registered, and to Aldi to get Squiddle a booster seat for the dining table at home.
But then we came home and had lunch and before going out again (to a couple thrift stores and the grocery store that has pomengranates on sale this week), I poked at a link I came across last night:
Stash Less.
And you know what? I decided I didn't really need to go browse the thrift stores for my day's entertainment. I've been alternating reading the series of articles with sewing up some stuff instead. I finished off this month's blocks for Block Lotto. And have seamed up two of the four flannel crib sheets I cut out earlier this week from fabric I bought at Costume College.
(They're a matched pair of very girly pink paisley flannel crib sheets. I asked my son if he thought it was pretty and he said yes and hugged it and tried to take it away to cuddle. Ah, for the expected-gender-role-unconsciousness of a two-year-old.)
(And, yes, I'm sewing flannel crib sheets in a heat wave. Crazy much?)
Which actually segues me to another point: yes, I've been making a lot of crib sheets lately. This is not just because I'm pregnant and in about six months will be moving Jazzy from bassinet to crib and thus have two boys in that size of bed, but because...
...my little sister is also expecting, and is due in January. Bonus is, my mother had informed her that she was the last hope for a granddaughter, and she has indeed stepped up to the plate and is having a girl! Yay, I get a niece!
(I have been holding off on saying ANYTHING about this until she sent out the announcement. But that is done so I now feel relieved of that particular restraint.)
ETA: Pushed through, and got all four sheets plus one pillowcase done. I put rickrack on the pillowcase since there's no contrast band. Does anything else scream "homemade" quite like rickrack? :)
But then we came home and had lunch and before going out again (to a couple thrift stores and the grocery store that has pomengranates on sale this week), I poked at a link I came across last night:
Stash Less.
And you know what? I decided I didn't really need to go browse the thrift stores for my day's entertainment. I've been alternating reading the series of articles with sewing up some stuff instead. I finished off this month's blocks for Block Lotto. And have seamed up two of the four flannel crib sheets I cut out earlier this week from fabric I bought at Costume College.
(They're a matched pair of very girly pink paisley flannel crib sheets. I asked my son if he thought it was pretty and he said yes and hugged it and tried to take it away to cuddle. Ah, for the expected-gender-role-unconsciousness of a two-year-old.)
(And, yes, I'm sewing flannel crib sheets in a heat wave. Crazy much?)
Which actually segues me to another point: yes, I've been making a lot of crib sheets lately. This is not just because I'm pregnant and in about six months will be moving Jazzy from bassinet to crib and thus have two boys in that size of bed, but because...
...my little sister is also expecting, and is due in January. Bonus is, my mother had informed her that she was the last hope for a granddaughter, and she has indeed stepped up to the plate and is having a girl! Yay, I get a niece!
(I have been holding off on saying ANYTHING about this until she sent out the announcement. But that is done so I now feel relieved of that particular restraint.)
ETA: Pushed through, and got all four sheets plus one pillowcase done. I put rickrack on the pillowcase since there's no contrast band. Does anything else scream "homemade" quite like rickrack? :)
