Here’s little Harrison in the outfit I made for him.

I am totally a sucker for ric-rac. I love the stuff. This is the first time I have ever sewed a garment where I picked material that looks almost exactly like the one on the pattern package.

The lollipop has become a necessity, in Elsie’s mind, for taking photographs in dresses. I made her first dress last week and gave her a yellow lollipop when we took the photo, and this time she was like, where’s the lollipop? So here it is.

I wanted to make my own wedding dress, and I did. Mainly because my mom made her own, and I always thought that was really neat. Now I had always thought, since I was little, that she had sewed it from a tablecloth. I told people this, all my life, whenever the subject of wedding dresses came up. After my wedding we were discussing it, and it turns out that she did not make her wedding dress out of a tablecloth. Or anything abnormal. This story has no founding in truth whatsoever. Why did I think this? I could have sworn she told me! Did I dream it? Who knows! Sorry mom!

We turned some unused space in our house into a bathroom. Then we needed a door. There was this old glass panel door out in the garage that fit perfectly, but then there was the problem of being able to see through it… so my mom and I painted this peacock on it.