Rice Pack Attack!

My sweet knitting friend, Michelle, asked for a rice pack in a previous post when she saw the ones I made for my girls. This is my first try on an envelope slip cover for the pack that can be removed and washed. You can't wash the pack itself, so this is really nice to have. The base pack was sewn from some old jammies of Little Miss that she's outgrown and the cover was sewn from a flannel baby blanket. I really like how it turned out!

Birthday Video!

Teen Miss filmed and put together this sweet video of Mo and her birthday cake!

Everything's Coming Up Veggies

Meet (L to R) Steve, Reynaldo and Bitsy. I'm starting some avacado seeds. I know I have no where to plant a tree, but I just recently heard that grocery store avacado seeds are usually hybrids and won't produce fruit. Oh well. Maybe I can just have some nice avacado plants.


I made veggie soup with some celery and a bag of split peas we have left over from a previous soup I made. I used canned tomatoes, carrots and potatoes. I love using canned veggies, they're SO cheap! I also added garlic salt, a few bay leaves, salt and pepper. It was a nice simple, yummy soup.


I'm trying to figure out a way to grow herbs and veggies indoors. I have a south facing dining room with four tall, skinny windows that hopefully might work. These are my experimental containers... and some herb in the tin can on the right. There's cardboard around it with a plastic grocery bag nestled in the cardboard frame to catch water. There's nothing in the left container but rocks to set my plants on for drainage.


Here's another experimental drained water catcher. It's the bottom of a diaper box with a garbage bag liner.


I made these hot/cold rice packs for my girls. We have some rice packs already and I discovered that Little Miss actually relaxes a lot faster at nap and bedtime if she has something very warm to cuddle and fiddle with. She was using a long skinny one, but I wanted her to have a shape better for her and in a fun fabric. So, I used a flannel recieving blanket. We never use those kind of blankets anymore. I made one for Teen Miss as well because she was using a few to go to bed and I just recently stole one back. So, I made her one to replace it. =) Each one took maybe 10 minutes. I love my sewing machine, it's so fast (compared to the less expensive versions I've had, lol)! I'd also like to sew some washable nursing pads with the receiving blankets we still have.


I sewed these curtains for my kitchen window from a sheet today. I used an extra shower curtain rod in the window cut out of the wall for the curtain rod. I whipped these suckers out in like, 45 minutes. Did I mention that I love my sewing machine?


I'm this close to finishing Mo's blanket! I'm now knitting the fourth and final edge!

Birthday Party Pics!

You can see the pictures for Morgana's birthday party on my teen daughter's photography page on facebook, here. She did a really fantastic job!

My baby is 1 today! Happy Birthday to my amazing Little Miss! I have been so blessed to have a sweet angel in my life!

Cake & Cupcakes

Here are the cupcakes and cake for Morgana's birthday party! We just had our last guests leave not too long ago and Little Miss is down for her afternoon nap now. I will have photos from the party for you as soon as Kate gets them to me. She was the official party photographer.


Made by none other than her Mommy. She had a blast mashing this cake into nothing but crumbs with sticky frosting. She was waving her hands up and down and flinging cake on the floor, walls, my dining room curtains and anyone sitting nearby. Though, she managed to get very little in her mouth.


I did red velvet cupcakes for the guests. I ran out of cream cheese frosting, so the last two got buttercream. Hence the tags on them.


White cupcakes with homemade buttercream frosting. My nieces Danika (3) and Jordan (1) got their own special cupcakes with name tags and sprinkles. This was to hopefully make these cupcakes more appealing than the red staining red velvet ones... Didn't work though. Danika still wanted a red one, lol. So, they took one home for her.

Today is Mo's birthday party and we're all ready for guests!