The Handmade Dress

I have been so impressed lately with the pretty dresses (and variations) coming through our Flickr  group, and being blogged about! You guys are awesome! When I saw this picture for the first time all I could do was smile! Kymy  was so sweet to let me share these pictures of her girls in their Miss Mary Easter dresses! Aren't they sweet?! This confirms my belief that twins  make everything sweeter. Here she shortened the Miss Madeline into a shirt and paired it with leggings. So stinkin cute! I came across this dress on Flickr. Can you guess what pattern this is? Trina  made this dress using the Miss Lily pattern and just left out the bubble! It looks like a completely different dress doesn't it?! Now does this look like an ad for Target or what? Alisa  let me share this picture of her daughter in a Miss Mary on a red bike...it's just so perfect in every way. Those gals over on Flickr have some really cute ideas, I love the ...

1. I'm going to market in May, and I will be bunking with a crazy woman ! I can't wait! 2. Put-Put FINALLY had her babies! Twin boys and they are so adorable. There is nothing better than baby goats, seriously, they are so funny. They are both doing very well and we love them already! 3. I have Easter fabric- which I was so preoccupied shopping for that I ran out of gas and had to walk with my mama along the side of a four lane highway to the closest Target! LOL! And it was there that my daddy rescued me, because he's awesome like that. 4. The new Liberty of London line at Target rocks my face off! 5. Ben built us a milking stand!! Goat cheese, goat milk, goat milk hot chocolate, here we come. 6. My lips, tongue, or throat has swollen everyday for over a week now. I'm going to the doctor next Tuesday to see what's up. Have I ever told you that I HATE going to the doctor? They always tell me things that I don't want to hear....I don't wanna go....bu...

These are the first two "test runs" for the newest pattern! Let me tell you a little bit about it.....there are pleats on the bodice... ...it wraps in the back (I'm keeping my promise of no plackets, buttonholes, or zippers in my patterns)... (the scratched up face is from an awesome bike wreck she had this week) ...it ties on the sides with either ribbon or a fabric sash (it also looks nice on the older girls just knotted), the front of the skirt is flat and the gathers start on either sides of the pleats.... ...and it's long with and heirloom feel, but it also makes an adorable shirt. This one hasn't been hemmed yet, but I really like the look of an unhemmed dress! I'm always tempted to leave them this way and just let the girls go outside to run and pick flowers in them! Isn't that silly? It's like the hem is what makes it too dressy to run in or something. These dresses were made out of two old worn ou...

OK, so it wasn't Botox, but I have had swollen lips THREE times this week! I figured if I have to look this silly somebody outta get a good laugh out of it! LOL! Too bad it's not both sides of my mouth instead of just the right side, I'd be "stylin and profilin" then! Back in 2006 I used to do this almost everyday, but they eventually found out that it was an autoimmune reaction to my rotting gallbladder. As soon as they took that nasty thing out the reactions stopped for good. Until now. I sure hope if it's another organ-gone-bad that it's one I can live without! LOL! If you think this one is funny I dare you to search "lips" on my blog and see what comes up! It's good stuff. (Nobody get all worried, I have an epipen, my husband is a paramedic, and I can tell if it's getting bad fast. I'm pretty well equipped.) I'm working on Easter dresses (and maybe another cute pattern) so I will be back soon with lots of sewing! xoxo, ...

We have been really into bike riding lately. I love it! Really I've always loved it, I was a HUGE bike rider as a kid. I think just about every kid in our neighborhood growing up had to get a new bike every Christmas because we had just wore the old ones out! My kids are old enough now that we can ride bikes together!!  It's awesome! Maddie can't ride on trails yet so I've been taking the kids to a church down the road to ride in the parking lot. When we were there the other day we stopped and sat on the curb by this drain to eat a granola bar and drink some water, as I was putting the trash back in the bag.... my keys fell out and DOWN THE DRAIN. I looked at Molly and said "Did that just happen?" She looked back and said "Uh, yeah, it did. Do you have more keys?" Well the fact of the matter was no, I didn't have any more keys! But I was kind-of excited about being stranded! I said "Well, I guess we will just have to play surviv...

Kidding season is not over yet, we still have one more mama due any day, but I wanted to share these pictures before I got too far behind. I have to say that we have learned so much over the last few weeks! It has been so very full of the joy and excitement that new life brings, life lessons, struggles, hard work, and yes....even a little pain; but I feel even more now than I ever have that we are in the right place. Ben and I sat  last night and talked about how we never imagined that we would end up here, on a farm! It's like somehow over time it has just become who we are, like some sort of instinct brought on by having all of this beautiful land. Our children are naturals and they love it more every day. The bonds that form between us while we work as a family for a common goal are incredibly strong, equally incredible is the bond that we feel toward our animals and this soil. I found this "Farmers Creed" tonight and I loved the...

Abby, our baby goat, is sick and I am just beside myself. She was fine on Friday night, but by morning she was very sick. We took her to a neighboring farm on Saturday morning and our friend Beth (she's like the goat doctor in these parts) gave her antibiotics and treated her for pneumonia. Abby seemed to do much better after that until this morning...she is getting worse now. Beth is coming this evening after work to give her more antibiotics. She laying on my chest asleep right now, I just gave her a bottle.... It may sound silly to get all worked up over a little goat, but you can't help but fight for them.... I'll check back in soon. xo, Sam