I Love the Basement

We spent the better part of the day in the basement sewing.  It was pure bliss.  We emerged a few times to switch laundry and eat dinner, but other than that we enjoyed being crafty!  We worked on making towels for  Valen.tine's  Day, St. Pa.tty's D.ay, and Spring/E.aster.  We also worked on our quilt squares from our kit of the month club.

It has been frigid here - wind chills below zero.  So, it was a great day to stay inside.

Day 2 of my F0llis.tim tonight, and I have an U/S on Monday to make sure everything looks OK in there.   We're keeping our fingers crossed for that November baby.  We were talking today about the fact that it was almost a year ago that  we got pregnant.  I can't believe it has been that long already.

Mission Complete

Today was Operation Organize the Basement. As you can see from the pics below, our craft area had become a catch all. Blame it on the holidays, or whatever, but we couldn't do anything in there! We have many sewing and scrapbooking projects that we want to work on and just can't. We worked really hard and got not only the craft room organized, but the rest of the basement as well!

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We put together our new cutting table for sewing:

and some new shelves for organizing:

and we have a whole lotta trash to bring out on Tuesday!

What a productive day!  Now, tomorrow, we can be crafty!

Rest of the Fourth

The rest of the day yesterday was busy, busy, busy. We had lots of crafts to do so, we started out with the foam girl that had to be sewed together:

Then made an Owl that Olivia did a great job following the pattern for:

After that, we took some wooden bead necklace kits into the living room to have a little "rest" before the evening festivities. As you can see, I think Sadie needed more of a rest than anyone else!

The necklaces were super cute when finished!

Once the rest time was over, we decorated the cookies that were baked earlier while dinner was cooking.

After dinner we had time for one more craft - a foam monkey:

Then, we headed out to watch the fireworks which were awesome!

What a great day!

Saturday Morning

The most exciting thing about this morning was this:



I could hardly believe we actually blue sky AND sunshine. I almost didn't know what to do with myself!! However, we are currently in the midst of pouring rain and a thunderstorm, but they do say it should clear for fireworks tonight - I sure hope so. We are planning on meeting my parents later to enjoy the festivities!

So far this morning, we have watched Pinocchio (she had never seen it!), gone swimming in the pool:

and we also made cookies for the occasion with our Fourth of July cookie cutters. We need to decorate them later.

We're getting ready to have some lunch and then we are heading to the basement to do a few crafts.

We'll update later with the rest of our fun day!