JANUARY DAYS

Most of our weeks are filled with small, but still important events and activities that tell a lot about us as a family. I thought I'd post a few pics to illustrate our family at this moment in time.

Little C reads Spiderman comics regularly.

Big C dresses in a special outfit to grill the burgers.

Princess P (in orange) at the 4th grade County Fair. 

Princess P sews her PJ bottoms. She loves sewing and begs me to sew. 

Awesome A decided to cut off his long hair into a mullet. 

Just kidding! We cut it like this to send a photo to the missionaries to make them think he got a mullet. He didn't. I cut the rest of it off. It is nice and missionary short now.

MESSENGER BAG MADNESS

I thought it would be fun for my Young Women in church to learn how to sew something useful, so we set aside two weeks to make some messenger bags. Unfortunately the girls weren't as excited as I was to make them. Only one girl finished hers. Sad. I thought they were really fun and made a few.

Princess P decided she needed to learn to sew too, so we took a few hours yesterday and sewed. She really liked the way her bag turned out and I do too. It is SO cute and she did such a good job! She sewed every stitch herself, I just told her what to do. This is the tutorial we followed. SUPER simple, even if you don't sew that well. Watch out though, it is addicting.

Princess P and her peace bag.

SEWING A COLOR SCHEME

Yesterday was the 7th anniversary of my mom's death. In homage to her, I spent a few hours sewing on her machine (actually it was just a coincidence). I finally made some valances for my kitchen windows. Lately I've really loved light blue/turquoise with red and so it has been my plan to use those colors in my kitchen. Big C is not too thrilled with the new colors so far. Maybe they will grow on him.

Blue and red.

Personally, I LOVE them! I even like the valances. I made them up as I went along and am kind of surprised they look as good as they do. All my mom's sewing lessons paid off I guess. I think she would be thrilled.