Ta-Da!

Isla Lovelace Hall

November 9 @ 1:13 pm

8lbs 20 inches

Gets hotter then a stick of hot glue!

What in the world can a Happy Hippy Homemaker do to keep her busy when the Captain is working, the laundry is done, the two year old is napping ? Get her crafty-ass in gear and get ready for the coming months and the newest Duckie edition to the family. The Capt has been sending me ideas from a CRAFT magazine that was the equivalent to his NERD Make Magazine. At first I paid no attention to it. As time has wore on I have realized that I have not only still have my passion for all things hair, and a slightly embarrassing scrapbooking fetish, I ALSO have developed an itch to do other things and learn a little bit more while I have a bit of time.

A while back a friend of mine told me about this book and I thought it might be a good idea, since it showed me how to remake all my concert T's into other items and not just OTHER fashion tops. This had basic patterns for T-Quilts, T-Pillows, T-handbags. I purchased it and have longingly looked at the patters hoping that someday I will be able to do. For my Bifday this year my sister gave me 2 OTHER tshirt books and this one on how to measure, pattern, and sew basic skirts!!!! OH it was a dream come true!!! Again I have longingly looked hoping that I would have the courage to go for it and make em. Here I am with Patterns know how, some sewing skills,(mostly learned from when I was in Theater in College) and the "what the hell" shoulder shrug. I started it today!!! My first is a few bags...simple with a pull string at the top!

TO BE CONTINUED...

Let's Review What We Learned.

Ahhh, I have just gotten up from my cat nap to realize that my dream of a house that was cleaned buy local birds and animals was all a delightful dream. It could have been messed up too, seeing house I am now 6 1/2 months preggers with my newest lil Duckie. Every morning I wake up to my little mover n shaker and just about every morning I have a new messed up dream to explain to the Capt. Today's sweet dream I was not only disappointed, I was DOWN RIGHT PISSED. I went from the beautiful dream of a clean home to THIS!!! GA!! How can I have ignored the mess in my living room and kitchen thinking it was a good time to nap?? The 2 year old has books,toys, Crayon's...and movies. In my awkward bend(seeing how the belly has now gotten in the way) I picked up, cleaned up and straightened up the small area. Now I just have to wait until the two tornado's called the Capt. and My 2 yr old Monkey swept through. The Lesson learned: If it's been cleaned enjoy it while it lasts.

I love that the Capt. loves to cook. I LOVE that. Elise thinks she knows how to cook as well. I LOVE that! I want her to be comfortable to be helping her dad. Sometimes she will sit in her chair and watch and listen as her Daddy tells her just how to mix, chop, and combine. I really don't LOVE the mess that sits after. Really is it necessary to dirty every Pot, pan, cutting board, knife... The Lesson learned: Good food is good food no matter the mess.

I have a 2 yr old Monkey. Every morning we get up and eat breakfast together. It is only at that point that I feel safe enough to dress her in freshly laundered clothes. Everyday we eat lunch together and naps...and I realize that her clothes are a dirty mess from helping me in the garden or wandering around the yard, that lunch isn't going to really make that difference. In the afternoon we like to go places...be it the store, the parks, grandma's house...I am at that point forced to put on a clean shirt on her because she can not leave the house looking like that. I then realize how many clothes she goes though a day and in a week. It is a constant struggle to keep up with the laundry or with her! She is so Two and getting into things, or dirt or food that keeping her looking less then homeless is a huge struggle. Lesson learned : Monkey is going to remember the fun things we did, not the Clean Shirts or Combed Hair.

The Capt. and I look Swell

It had been a long while since I had pictures taken of me in which I was not hiding because it was a photo and I was not ready for it. More like in the last several years its hard to find a picture of me NOT picking my nose. I think I do that because I look terrible AND maybe the camera won't go off with me in the the frame. My Sister in Law BRIDGET takes amazing pictures, even just the few candids she took of my little Monkey are so beautiful. Bridget was also the fabulous one and only who took the beautiful photos of an impossible 20month old in her Halloween costume...Bridget was the only person I knew who would take family photos the way I wanted them. I called her up told her what we were wearing and she found a place to go right away that would complete the look. These were the first pictures that have been taken of my and The Capt. since our engagement photos. Since it was only a few short years since we were married...it still feels like a lifetime ago. We have since then added one more to our Duo who looks more like her daddy then her mommy. 2 weeks after these photos were taken, we(I) got the shocking(for the Capt. it was Exciting) news that we were great with a little Duckie. Next years family portraits will be the Fab 4 of us!

Deny Deny Deny

I had a friend tell me that someday she wants to have the glamorous life of a Stay At Home Wife. Awesome! My life is Fabulous, there is nothing better then sitting around watching stories, couch inspecting , and eating my dainty delectable chocolates. How I want to go back to those days... Its been pretty crazy and interesting the last several months. I had guests, babysitting, road shows, choir singing(not for me but for the Youth in the area) and yadda yadda yadda. In the middle of all of this, I stopped to find out why I was so crabby and not my usual relaxed self. Then... there it was. The brightest double pink lines that report the last thing on my mind.... Positive. Preggers. So just be prepared for more crafty-ass, and other insane antics.

Happy Hippy Homemaker Strikes again!

I don't know what came over me.The lack of plot to my stories, and me flipping through the channels and landing on the Project Runway reruns. I got my idea for the best gift for my daughters birfday.

One year for Christmas my dear dear Capt. bought me a skirt. Not just ANY SKIRT...but a 1950 throw back Pink circle skirt n petticoat. I LOVE IT and wear it on a regular basis. My youngin need something just as special forced upon her, so I decided the thing to do was make her a Pink circle skirt as well. Seeing how I never sew, and rarely try(much like cooking) I figured...what the hell? I purchased the needed thread, material, and pattern. The pattern I used was one that I could find in the Halloween Costume section of the patten books. This pattern also required the complexity of a zipper. Since a 2 year old is hard enough to get dressed...a zipper was not something I was willing to mess around with so I modified the pattern- a little. This is how it was done!

2 Yards of material, folded in half and the necessary parts of the pattern...I used a combination of both skirts (a shorter and a longer) because size 2T was not available. Cutting 2 of the patters I pinned them together to measure to my daughter. I then cut the pattern section for the waist band. This was going to be where I was going to loop elastic through. I sewed up both sides of the skirt and secured the waist band to the top...looped the elastic through and VOI LA !!! Circle skirt! Seriously it took me all of two hours from begining to end! I am in the process of creating a petticoat of some sort. When I am finished ya'll will hear about it.

In the mean time take a look in awe ladies n ladies! This is what circle skirts in the family looks like!!

In Memory of...

I would like to dedicate this entry to the memory of something that I have tended to faithfully for days. Through the good times and the bad times, through the thick and thin...I thought "This year will be the year." After days of denial, I have come to the conclusion that I killed another one. Our Christmas Bush, gave us a little more then three weeks of love, and we were happy to have him in our home. After convincing myself that this year would be different, and there were several new sprouts atop of this sweet smelling bush, It was drying up. There was not saving it now. I broke the news to Joseph that I killed another one, but I came closer to keeping it alive a helluva lot longer then the previous years. There was sun, and water, but no room for growth. There is always next year.

Since it was the New Years It was time for those pesky New Years Resolutions...which made me think of why I was going to really need to to that any way. Of course it's the usual stuff, loose my ass, fit into skinny jeans and learn to cook. But Seeing how my diet always starts Monday because my love and desire for those tasty little Chocolates, and couch lounging. My Stories have gotten stale the last little bit so I did decide to do something a little different. I have turned yet again to John Hughs to show me the ways of Suburban life. I thought that since I live in a Suburban-esqu area I might benefit. Sure Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink was full of High School lessons with the class of the kids and how they come into their own. Lessons we all learned then, but what about us now? I have noticed that his other fine features have gone unnoticed, and several missed his other lessons from things like Plains, Trains, and Automobiles...or the Vacations with the Grizwalds. ( I refuse to bring up Home Alone, and Cury Sue). So here are a few things that I have resoluted with a help from John Hughs

1) When turning 16, don't have hurt feelings that your family forgot. I mean really what would you rather have Dreamy Jake Ryan bake you a Cake and kiss you over it...or have your family say happy birthday. Besides, when people(parents) forget your birthday the Belated gifts are much bigger there for sweeter.

2) I will not be quick to judge others...It doesn't matter if they are a Princess, the Athlete, the Brain, the Basket Case, or the Criminal...er or the Mommy who likes to lounge about watching her stories. Oh and there is nothing wrong with the song "(Don't You) Forget About Me". It doesn't matter who sings it.

3) Taking a day off once in a while and making the best of it is ALWAYS a good idea. It doesn't mater if Mr. Rooney is after you. He'll get his in the end anyway.

4) When taking a Vacation across country in a station wagon...I should just get there ASAP, and not stop to see every site along the way. In the end there will be no dead aunts, no crazy relatives, no mis-adventures...you know don't go across country in station wagon, take a plane. You know what? Don't take that kind of a Vacation...you know, the kind with a family. Just take your own vacation, maybe one with out the Capt. and the Monkey kiddo...

4) Oingo Boingo sings really good songs, like Weird Science. So good in fact, that I am going to turn them on, and listen to them right now.


This is what happens when you have a John Hugh's Marathon, and a stay at home mommy. You get a New Years post about the 80's and dieting. Happy New Years