An artist, a pack rat, and a 3 year old explorer

No, this is not the beginning of a joke. It's my daily life, and the source of all the chaos in our home.  I don't like chaos.  I love order and organization, but chaos seems to over come whatever I try and do to keep our home organized.

So I am going to begin documenting our quest for order and peace in our home.  It may be like swimming up stream, but I really do feel we can turn our packed chaotic home into something worthy of a magazine showcase.  Except lived in.  We do want to enjoy our home after all.  My father in law will be tiling our master bathroom floor in a little over a month, and our master bedroom is currently a mess.  I think that will be the best room to start with.  Now I'm off to go gather inspiration. 

Ha!

When a pattern tells me that it should only take an evening to make, I laugh.

And Minkie (or however you spell that super soft fabric with bumps) is not easy to cut.

Luckily, my two year old won't care or notice that he's not getting his Easter basket, etc, actually on Easter. (I'm thinking Tuesday.)

Sneak peaks

The past couple of weeks have been ummmmmmm.....crazy. Yeah, crazy. So I wasn't able to work on the first border for my mystery medallion quilt until a few days ago, and even that has been hit or miss between LC not napping and my allergies kicking in more than normal. (Oh, allergies, why must you dominate my life so?)

But here's a little sneak peak at what's been happening sewing wise. LC and Momma wise has been full of friends and activities. Today we played cars, and later on when he was playing by himself he used the same sorts of voices that I had used earlier. Deeper voice for the bigger truck, etc. This kid cracks me up!

To sew or not to sew...

I've had to take a break from sewing the last couple of weeks because of a crazy busy life and boy have I missed it! I'm hoping to get some in tomorrow, but we'll see.
I've been going through all my piles o' projects.....I'm not sure what to say about them. 'Cept there's a whole lot. I slashed my fabric stash in half (we needed the room), which actually felt amazing. And today when I went to a fabric store with LC I was super picky about fabrics and ended up not buying any of them because they weren't worth it to me. LC looked at me like I was nuts when we didn't go to the cut counter. Poor kid. That was his favorite place to go as a baby. He loved sitting on the counter and flirting with the people cutting our fabric.
Here's hoping tomorrow brings some stitching and fabric loving time!

Send in reinforcements!

This is what a reinforced seam looks like when you have a wiggly two year old on your lap......

Done!

The medallion is done! Just in time for tomorrow! Phew! (Can you tell I'm happy about it? !!!!!!)

Goodnight, Day!

I am grateful that today has come to its end.
I am grateful that I was able to mostly stay calm with my oober whiney and tearful son today. (LC has never been this whiney when he's been sick before, so I'm wondering if something else is going on...sore throat? Needs more sleep? Where is that owner's manual?)
I am grateful for a husband who understands that sometimes retail therapy is completely necessary.

I woke up underneath the bed today (not literally). Not just on the wrong side. So not only was I unaccountably cranky, I was unaccountably sad as well. No reason for it whatsoever. Just one of those days I guess.
So LC and I went shopping to get out of the four walls that house us. And Mommy got some comfy new jeans (that are not skinny jeans! I'm going to call them my lounging jeans) and a couple of flattering shirts. Love ma new jeans. I am a t-shirt and jeans kind of girl. In junior high and high school I was a flannel shirt and jeans kind of girl. Oh, and don't forget the perm. Oh, the perm. Wow. And the huge glasses! Ha! The memories! Wow.
Anyway! Coming back from memory lane.... I thoroughly enjoyed wearing one of my new pairs of jeans today. I haven't thoroughly enjoyed wearing jeans in a long time--for many much reasons, which I am not going to get into. Any who, tomorrow I am going to test drive the other pair :)

(Side note: played Just Dance 3 tonight at a friends house. I'm so bad at it but it was so much fun!)

On the sewing front. There has been a lot of assembly line sewing going on. I'm trying to get my mystery medallion done in time for my quilt guild on Saturday..... Ha! (Why do I always design super complicated things?!?)

Lots and lots of this has been happening: