Wordless Wed: 2013.

2013 was by far one of the most difficult and awesome of my life.  Here's to 2014!

Wordless Wed: Inside vs Outside.

May 31.

July 10.

I like the whole baby wearing thing....

Wordless Wed: Memphis Kiddie Park.

Wordless Wed: Hipster Family.

I have nothing to add to that photo.  Big BRAVE with my redhead for her first ever movie in a theater post coming tomorrow!

Wordless Wed: Summer Vacation Dress and 2 Years.

The dress is the Summer Vacation Dress (basic shirred dress using elastic thread) and I made it for my daughter in July of 2010.  Photos on the left were taken July 2010.  On the right June 2012.  What a difference two years makes!

Some details (ending the wordless wed part now):  The dress is the most basic Summer Vacation Dress.  No armhole cutouts or anything like that.  Just plain old elastic thread shirring. I used ribbon for the ties and was super excited that the orange ribbon lined up with the orange stripes in the fabric:

Her hair was so short!!!

The hem I used is detailed in the Oliver + S Lazy Days Skirt pattern. 

I don't remember all of the details of the first photoshoot now but there was some drama with her shoes.  She wanted to wear her red shoes but I didn't think that they matched the dress and wouldn't let her.  She basically spent the whole shoot crabbing at me about it before walking to the door and demanding to be let inside to get her shoes.  Looking back I think it's hilarious.  Not that a 16 month old was so opinionated about shoes.  I think it's funny that I tried to have an opinion in any of her clothing whatsoever.  Especially her choice of footwear.

Put these on my mom!

Now I know better.  Kid wears what she wants to wear.  The reason I was even able to do this little comparison is because she decided that she wanted to wear a dress today, used her stool to reach the rack in her closet, looked through the whole thing giving me the rundown on each dress, finally picking this one.  Which she then outfitted with her clear jelly shoes (the pink ones don't match, obviously) a fabulous rhinestone neck-a-lace, and a pretty slamming bag:

I made the bag, too.

When did her legs get so long?  When did she turn into this kid?  Although I suppose the main difference in the two years that span between these pictures is this guy:

I hate any and all shoes.  No matter what they look like.

Wordless Wednesday: Waterslide.

I love that her dismount includes Jazz Hands.  How about one more shot for the road:

Dottie is never very far from the action.

Wordless Wed - What's Blooming.

So it seems like the end of May is the best time for my yard.  Everything is in bloom right now:

Instagramming a Sock

WOW!  My SITS day was a complete success!  Thank you so much, everyone!  And Welcome to my new followers!  I'm still going through and responding to all of the comments. It's taking a bit of time to get back to everyone but it has been SO much fun meeting so many new bloggers!  I'm very much looking forward to following everyone back.  Yay for support!

In other news the Derby/Shower weekend was a complete success.  Recap post coming as soon as I sort through all of the pictures.  I'm a bit overwhelmed.  So how about a simple not-quite Wordless Wed Post:

Wordless Wednesday: Instagramming a Sock:

I love these 9x9's of knitting progress via instagram (another one is here).  Such a fun, quick way to really see a project grow.  This was just a plain old basic sock knit out of Destination Yarn in the colorway Chartes Cathedral.  It has been my "waiting for the pot to boil" knitting since January.  I love the center pic of the kids in the bath while I'm knitting.  I pretty much worked on these anywhere and everywhere that I could!

Thanks again for making my SITS day such a success!!!!


Linking up with We Did it Wed:

Instagraming a Hat.

So in the last few days my son turned 1 and I turned 32. But since I'm still in a cake hangover from all of that celebrating how about simple Wordless Wed Instagram style:

All the wordy details on this hat are in this post.  The yarn is Destination Yarn in the colorway Ireland and the pattern is Cecily.