Friday, September 30, 2011

my fingers hurt



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yesterday micah took two loooong naps and i was a tornado
my tornado days are few and far between these days
i'm more like a steady breeze of productivity these days
there isn't a day that i don't go to bed wishing i had one more hour to get stuff done, but usually happy that i don't have that 25th hour, because i'm usually tired and ready for bed by 10, 11 at the latest.


but yesterday was different - tackling items on my to do list like a tornado (a little bit of coke - the soda, not the drug - helped too i think!) 


and then something got going and all i wanted to do was get crafty
so i did


we were planning to go visit my cousin and his wife last night - they just had their first baby - a little girl - and although i got her a shower gift, i don't like visiting the maternity ward empty handed, so i got down to embroidery business.


queue photo #1


as you can see, her name is Romy (different but cute - a family name i think?) and it took me about an hour to do the first two.


then i got to making a card to go with the little gift.


i don't have pictures to show you but let me tell you, i carved a little triangular bunting flag into an eraser and stamped little colorful bunting flags across a blank white card. i ended up making like 8 of them, all different - it was fun, and fast (nothing beats a fast project!) and i now have lots of cards to go along with these burp cloths i'm now addicted to making.


then last night, after Micah was in bed, we turned on the t.v. to watch The Office (which i must say is slip sliding down the drain fast) and i decided to whip up two more burpers. This time for a friend of mine at church who just had her second little one - a darling baby boy named Joshua. 


queue photo #2.


as you can probably see from the dark and blurry iphone pictures, i'm not THAT good, but it is a super relaxing little craft and now that Micah is taking two really nice (and long) naps a day instead of a few shorter ones, it affords me more time to have some creative me-time.


last night i kept saying, "my fingers hurt," to Curtis.
and in typical Happy Gilmore fashion he would respond with:
"Oh, well, now your back's gonna hurt, 'cause you just pulled landscaping duty!"







4 comments:

CitricSugar said...

They're beautiful, Jess. I'm sure they'll be treasured. The gifts that people save as keepsakes after the baby is grown are the handmade ones...

Veda Penick said...

I love them! You are one super talented lady!!! :)

Aili said...

They turned out super cute!! Learning to embroider is my goal this fall....thanks for the inspiration!

Kate said...

super cute, jess!

 
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