Still Obsessed

Okay so my list of projects in amassing...

• Spring Wreath (I book marked it)
• Swallow Mobile (Also booked marked, this isn't a project so much as a purchase:)
• Paint Popsicles
• Wii Minute Cards (Love this!)
• Hooded Towel
• http://www.etsy.com/shop/louandlee Love these!
• Homemade Playdough (to get the kiddo's playing longer)
• Tag Wallet
• Flowers on LED Christmas lights

 Turns out I also need to be keeping track of blogs I end up not being able to turn away from

• http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/

well there's a lot more but I'm tired so.... night!

Blog Obsessed

Okay so after a wonderfully empty Saturday I have spent an unhealthy amount of time Blog surfing amassing so many new ideas that they are bound to all fall out of my head so I will quickly jot down the ones I think sounded like fun...

• Cleaning  your blender by rinsing it and filling it with hot water and soap and letting the blender do the work
• Tiny 1st Birthday Party
• Cup Cake Paper Poms
• Foam Core Board with Black Board Spray Paint Voice Bubble
• Make a Wet Bag
• Make my Own mock gDiapers/Liners
• Make a Clothespin Holder Dress
• Make an Oven Towel Dress
• Putting cute Contact Paper on my Clothespins
• Adorable Birthday Invitations (Helium Balloon in a box, Message in a coke bottle)
• Pendant Banners for EVERYTHING
• Fuzzy Halloween Spiders out of yarn and pipe cleaners
• Making your own pinata
• Making matching Crayon rolls for "big" sibling when you make new baby stuff
• Oh and there was some kind of... Hot air sky lantern?

Well there's probably more but at least it wont ALL get forgotten now. Clearly I need to lay off the web snacking for awhile and do some of the more time sensitive things I've got to do like update our drivers licenses and get Little a passport.

Cute Laundry

So I broke my rule today, but since it's my rule I'm going to let is slide but simply changing the rule. The rule used to be "No new projects until the previous project is finished". This is a very good rule because as you know starting projects is one of the best parts and actually finishing projects while nice isn't all that fun most of the time. That being said my current project (making a quilt for my son) is taking MONTHS. I started about 2 months before he was born and because he came early we're now 3 months into his life and it's just dragging on. Lets face it every time I get to a spot in the project where I have to iron something all production comes to a halt.

This being said I've been accumulating projects I'd love to start and going a little stir crazy in the process. So I here by officially amend my rule. The new rule is, "No new multiday projects until the previous project is finished". Excellent now here's my after little's bedtime project....

Clearly fabulous. When I finished this, my wonderful husband put down the game he was enjoying to come dote on me and my lovely project. He said "you must love me" because it is a long standing tradition that when Laundry Day arrives I gripe at him for mixing up the colors. Anyway I'm pretty excited about it, after all, if a girl has to do laundry it might as well be cute laundry!

Bring on the Green... but wait

Okay so life as a new mom has apparently turned me into a weirdo environmental hippy. It all started when I decided to "try out" cloth diapering. It was something I was interested in mostly because I'm cheap or Thrifty which sounds nicer. I would have never imagined that I would jump at the chance to tell all of my friends how they should do it (nicely of course) or how I would now be trying to come up with other things that I can use cloth for. I used to pack all my leftovers in ziplocks to eliminate almost all extra dishes, now I'm considering making my own reusable washable bags. I'm planning on switch to cloth wipes soon and cloth napkins and and and... well today I hit a road block. Today I learned about "family cloth wipes"... um... yeah. The theory is good, if cloth is better for baby then um... well... no thanks. I just can't image having people over and them discovering that there happens to be no TP for their own personal use... I guess we all have our limits, I just found mine.

Beginnings

I'd like to welcome myself to the-twirly-skirt blog by explaining the name. My life is about to enter a crazy new phase. We decided to kick it all of by visiting some dear friends of ours in Arizona. While we were there my friend and I got to chat and craft while our husbands shot things on the xbox. One of the projects my friend made was a "twirly skirt" for her 4.5 year old daughter. I spent most of my time trying to make some headway in the quilt that I still haven't finished for my 2.5 month old son. While I don't have a daughter to make a whimsical skirt for, I can't help but want to make one anyway and once I finish this darn quilt I will.

In a few weeks my husband will leave for a year on his very first deployment and my 4 month old son and I will work hard to keep a home while he's away. This will be a place for me to post my projects (which will hopefully be many) and talk about life as a new mom where I can share my opinions about overpriced baby products and how overnight everyday became laundry day.