The Learning Umbrella

Yesterday was a light daycare day, since only the little baby showed up.  At first, we were all a little unsettled without more playmates here, but the kids were OK after I took them outside and we planted some seeds in our garden.  Then it started to rain, and we all had to come inside […]

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This is what I made for DH for Valentine’s Day.  I also bought him a new pillow to go inside the case.  He used to have a feather pillow that he loved, and had to give up when I moved in with him because it made me sneeze.  So, seven or so years later I’m […]

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Since I started swapping on swap-bot.com, my crafting has become more prolific, creative, and fun.  Having a deadline for a set of projects pushes me to actually do them, so I don’t have a whole bag of things I’ve started and then never finished.  I have to finish them - there’s someone waiting for it!  […]

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Carbon may have caught the sewing bug.  He has been taking the scraps from my projects and carefully cutting them into shapes and pinning them together.  The next step is to give him a needle and thread, I think.  It’s nice to sit with him while I’m doing my projects.
My latest creations:
 
This is a Dotee […]

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 I just made Carbon this shirt (doesn’t he look thrilled?) from fabric that I decided looked good together when I sorted all of my fabric into like color piles.  The pattern has matching men’s size shirts, so I’m thinking of making my boys matching father/son shirts for Father’s Day.  I’ll have to do a better […]

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I did two projects recently that recycled some old household items.
1.  Soap bags, very useful for collecting the little bits of soap that are too small to hold onto anymore, and still getting some use out of them.
Take one wash cloth, cut it in half.  Fold them into pockets, leaving approximately 1 1/2 inches at the […]

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