Sydney's Easter Dress

My main goal for Spring Break was to get Sydney's Easter dress made. It's a fairly simple dress, so realistically it shouldn't take long to make. The girls typically take 2 hour naps at the same time so I didn't think it would take long to get it done. I was wrong.

Monday Sydney decided she just didn't want to take a nap. I tried to sew while she was supposed to be keeping herself occupied, but that just didn't happen.

Yesterday Riley decided she didn't want to take a nap. I worked with her for an hour and a half trying to get her to nap so needless to say not much sewing got done.

I think I'll try to get them busy with toys and cartoons this morning so I can hopefully get some sewing done this morning.

Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have a completed dress to photograph and post. I don't think I'll hold my breath though.

Cute Buttons

While looking through the many blogs I visit on a daily basis I came across these cute buttons:

They look super easy to make. I think they would look cute on the kids sweaters I sometimes make. I came across the pattern/instructions while looking at a blog called Yarn on the House. The writer of the blog gives away yarn to people who post comments on her blog. What a great way to get people to read your blog. I hope one of these days I will win some yarn. With my luck, it will be yarn I already have or don't like.

Great Idea for the Girls' Rooms

I have quite a few craft blogs I look at regularly. I've gotten some great idea of some things I would love to do.





This is something I really want to do for the girls' rooms this summer:

They look super easy and I think they would look fun in both Sydney and Riley's rooms.

I also want to get some drapes finally made for Sydney's room. Although this summer it will become Riley's room. They sleep in the opposite room so I decided when I change their clothes over this spring I'm going to swap their rooms. Sydney's room is done in Dora the Explorer which Riley absolutely loves now. Sydney is into the Disney Princesses now so I thought I would make over Riley's plain jane room into a Princess room for Sydney. Nothing much, just a few Princess accents here and there. Of course, by the time I finally get it done Syd probably won't like the Princesses anymore.