Hannah Doll

I am a gift-giver.  I think I've said that before.  Even when I was little I would sometimes get in trouble for using all of my birthday money to buy people's Christmas presents, but this is how it is when you have a November birthday.  But when it was a week until Hannah's birthday and we had already decided what we were going to do and get her to celebrate (super low-key), I decided to squeeze in one last thing.  Despite initially...

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Hannah's Birthday at Kew Part 2 and Sleeping in Public

We left the green house and headed out back by the Rose Garden Tea Party that had recently been set up.By this time, we were all pretty pooped.  Hannah had already fallen asleep in her stroller, and Jayce was trying to fall asleep.So we stopped off one of the paths, parked Hannah  in the shade in her stroller, and Chris and Jayce grabbed a sunny spot nearby for a mid-day, full-sun snooze.I thought it was kind of funny and just wanted to...

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Hannah's Birthday at Kew Gardens, Part 1

Are you getting sick of reading about dresses yet?  Because I am just a little sick of writing about them.  I have a few more sewing things to show, a few of the best actually, but even though I am excited to show them off I am getting a little bored writing exclusively about sewing.  So I'm taking a short break and writing about something else, like this. For Hannah's birthday this year, we got up, opened gifts and hung...

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The Floral A-Line: AKA, My Favorite

At the beginning of the month Chris left for a conference that would take him away for 8 days and nights, and let me tell you, I was not looking forward to that.  On the morning that he left, Hannah and I dropped Jayce off at school, headed over to Starbucks for breakfast, and then to my favorite little fabric shop, looking for a distraction.  I found it in this incredible, fun, floral fabric.Then I held onto it for almost a month, making...

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