Feeling Crafty..part 2

Ivy's dress is nearly done(it didn't take 2 weeks to make, I've just been busy)! I've even convinced her to wear it for school pictures on Tuesday. If we're paying for pictures anyway, might as well have her look nice in them, right? I'm just finishing hem on the ruffle & doing a self-made single bias tape on the armpits(out of the same fabric). It's a little hard to tell, but on the back there is a sort of ruching/gathering with elastic on the inside of the back piece. I may be making her a small matching purse, from an Amy Butler pattern, called Stash & dash bags, since I have leftover fabric.

I haven't even started on the boys' pants yet, but I'm planning on using this online tutorial called "10 minute trousers." Essentially, it's using the boys' existing pants or shorts as a pattern.

new background

i made it myself! thanks for the tips natalie!

Feeling Crafty

Yesterday I found a cool new fabric store a couple miles from me, and found these 2 designer fabrics(both thin corduroy) for $3/yd--the online co-op I sometimes order from is $5-6/yd+shipping. So I thought it was a good deal. I'm going to make the boys matching pants & a dress(maybe jumper style?) for Ivy. Looks so yummy for fall.

first days of school

ivy & collin both started school last week. ivy on tuesday & collin on thursday.

all ready for her 1st day

she gave me the thumbs up on the backpack(i got it while talking to her on the phone)

poor ivy. her school faces east & the sun was in every kids' face while their parents took pictures.

fancy pantsy lunchbox. seriously, i think this is her favorite part about school: she gets to take a lunch with her, like collin has been doing.

excuse just the shirt & boxer undies. collin was super excited to try on his new backpack. the one from last year barely made it thru the school year, so i had to find something built better. it's thomas the train.

Update

Why do things have to get harder before they get easier?? Everything was settling in nicely with Tom's new job, Ivy & Collin starting back up at their schools, and I was finally feeling like I could actually breathe and relax. By the way, Ivy and Collin are both loving being in school.


Wednesday afternoon, that all came crashing down. Tom called me in the middle of Collin's therapy to let me know that the parent-company he was going to re-join(he was with them before the split-off) is retracting the job offer(even though he already accepted and and everything was almost finalized). We're guessing their retracting it because of Tom's deployment, which is BLANTANTLY illegal. They're legally obligated to keep his job or comparable job for him while he's gone, so he has something to come back to. Tom's filing a complaint, and getting a statement in writing from the company why they took the offer back.

At work(same buldings as the parent company he's transferring to) has this plastered all over the walls. This is why he wants the statement in writing from the HR department.



He has a company helping him with the complaint, who specializes in military situations like ours. If nothing happens with the complaint, we're going to government representatives over our district & the district the company is located in. After that, bring on the news stations! The sad/ironic part is that this is one of the top Defense Contractors companies in the contry..they get contracts from the military!!!!!!!! This is one fight we are going to give it our all.