Can’t remember how I stumbled upon this,but how amazing is this sewing machine cake from Sweet Things.
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From the monthly archives:
November 2009
The kids got their chance to experience the infamous mud pit during the Mini Muddy Buddy. Despite her prissy pseudonym, Princess has always loved getting dirty. Pumpkin, on the other hand, said: “I had fun, but I don’t want to the Muddy Buddy EVER again.” I think her decision was partly because to do with […]
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It’s a unique mountain biking & trail running team adventure race with obstacles, ending with a crawl through an infamous mud pit with your buddy. With my new partner this year, we bested last year’s time by twelve minutes, coming in 14th out of 54 in our age division. But, the mud wrestling wasn’t nearly […]
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If you are on Twitter, this giveaway is for you.It’s easy, peasy, rice & cheesy. If you aren’t on Twitter, stay tuned.There will be a journal a day giveaway for you next week.
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Once again, we boxed up our Halloween candy along with bags and bags of candy left at our front door by friends who heard we were sending it off to a better place.
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As is our tradition, the girls drew their pumpkin faces on paper pumpkins and I translated them onto the real thing.Princess was inspired by the Halloween decorations at Disneyland this year.
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Sometimes there are Pre-Halloween parties that happen before the costumes get finished so we have to come up other options. Thanks to this awesome guest post over at Design Mom, I pulled together something special for Baby Brother right before the Halloween Street Fair. He’s a Black Eyed Pea. Most people felt bad for him […]
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Unsurprisingly, our little spitfire did not want to be part of the Wizard of Oz theme and chose a costume I previously made for her sister: Mary Poppins.“It’s a Jolly Holiday with Mary”
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The most difficult part of this costume was getting the ear placement just right so he didn’t look like an Ewok. Luckily, I was able to purchase black wings and spray paint them gray to match.And with a thread anchor, the tail was able to swing perfectly with his little toddler gait. By this point […]
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“Not the Wicked Witch, the misunderstood witch” Her costume really came together thanks to makeup tips from my best makeup friend, the perfectly proportional hat from the Target 1$ section, the ruffling foot for my sewing machine and the kind people at Mel’s Sewing who were able to fix my machine at the very last […]
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