Monday, September 21, 2009

Painful Cuts



I am done with the painful cutting.
I usually love cutting a project;
I feel strides of accomplishment,
lovely progress.

But this hurt.
I am making a quilt from my girl's baby clothes.
I cried as I cut each piece
holding it to my face
hoping to find some trace of their smallness
some whimper, a cry
of the littleness that was once them.

But it is gone.

They are big
and fast and loud
and they  laugh and tell me jokes 
and make me laugh too
and make it easier to cut.

It took me over a year
of looking and pawing over the sweet memories 
before I took sharp objects to them.
(I did save a box for each girl of favorite dresses and outfits
which I hope they will pass on)

And finally I am finished cutting. 
I used only knit onesies
and so I backed each piece with webbing
and trimmed them to neat little shapes
and saved each little ruffle and button.
I can see the finished product 
(waiting for me in pieces)
and I am happy.
Giddy.
Excited that these little treasures will no longer be 
hidden in a bag or box.
They will warm my babies again.



Even if they're not babies anymore.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

What you should be doing....

is entering all the fantastic giveaways at Needle Little Inspiration.
I just found the Pleasant Home website and I love all the wonderful things on it
(including the Needle Little Inspiration section!)
it's a brand new design and all sorts of fun little sections
Be sure to browse around the site-lots of great ideas here!






Wednesday, September 2, 2009

School Time

Bailey went back to school over a month ago
but all these great ideas are popping up everywhere
I had to get a post in about them.


Just Something I Made had a cute post on teachers 
with these great graphics and 
a wonderful idea to print them onto a bag for your child's teacher.



Living Locurto has some pretty adorable downloads 
(and not just for school, browse around!).  Some of the ones I was fond of:


School is Sweet  cupcake tags
Cupcake_tags






Morning_cards



Over at Ucreate
I found a link to Mish Mash 
and tutorials for a cute clipboard and an apple card



Mommypalooza has cute little school excuse notes

School Notes



And over at Babalisme, the cutest little labels



There are little apple note cards 
Apple-flats-2


And at the very fabulously cute Orange You Lucky, I found bookplates



Today over at Tip Junkie they  had Creative School Lunches
SchoolLunch

And of course Martha has to put in her two cents with her Lunch labels,
Notebook LabelsLunch Labels


Which reminds me I've got someone's lunch to make...