Matchy Matchy

As I have read various people's blog it has made me kinda think about what I want my blog to be like. The blogs that I especially love seem to have some direction or congruency versus the rather random postings I have been doing. So I have decided to create schedule for my blog to help me remember what things I care about posting and take some of the "thrown together"-ness out of my blog. I have already started to feel out my schedule with some of my postings but I want to try to be more regular about it. The schedule could very likely change, or I might hate it all together (although I highly doubt that because almost everything in my life has a routine or schedule. I already live by a weekly schedule (which I don't tell many people about because they look at me funny ( it is kinda hilarious that I am now telling the whole world via my blog)), so I imagine adding in a blog schedule seems normal (p.s. how many stinkin' times have I already said schedule?!))

I am thinking that Monday will be Olive Loves Day. She is rather quirky and hilarious so I thought that would be a fun way to highlight it. Wednesday will be something I Love Day, which will probably include things about my house which you might be sick of but ehh. Friday will be something I have Created Day. I work on all kinda of different projects and sometimes I want to show them off not because I want praise or admiration but to justify me spending so much time on them.

Seeing as it is Friday I thought I would start out with a project I recently finished. I am not a fantastic seamstress although I can kinda get by with what I know. My mom, who is an amazing seamstress but has no time to do it, always tried to get me into sewing when I was a teenager. The pressing and the tediousness really turned me off then. I wish I had stuck with it more because I feel like I am just learning as I go now. I figure, the more I do it, the less "homemade" things will look. So here is my creation:

I love fabric stores. I could spend hours there if I didn't have a baby with me pulling everything off of every shelf. On a recent trip to the fabric store I found this cute bird patterned fabric. I decided it would be perfect for a skirt I had been wanting to make. And although I know it is very cheesy I was estatic when I saw there was enough left over fabric to make Olive a matching dress.

Here is a better shot of her dress. I found this cute free pattern online.


I included this shot just because I like it.

A friend of mine came over for a late night bow making party and she helped me create this matching clip. I am kinda in love with it.

This is Olive telling us "NO NO NO" because she was done taking pictures.