Welcome Heinrich Paul Ward

We have a new nephew that we cannot wait to meet some day!

happy healthy henry

with a package of love on the way

Welcome Wyatt Reinke Ward

Our newest and only nephew, Wyatt, was born on March 27th in Minnesota. After some trials in the hospital he is home with his happy parents Ryan (my brother) and Jackie. He looks so precious and we really want to meet and hold him. I've finished some things for him that i hope will fit him this summer.

Wyatt - so cute. thanks for the picture amy! :)

Here is the whole package - the shoes are reversible see below for the other side

Here are the details I've added on the onesies. Lots of room for improvement but still cute I think

The shoes soles and other side. It was so fun making these things for Wyatt. I've been told I have an old soul, and that I must be old if I'm sewing. Whatever I am, I enjoy making things for little ones. Lots of love going into our "homegrown fashions"

freezer paper tutorial

i forgot to share the great tutorial i used to make my freezer paper shirt. It was super easy and fun to do, we have more on our way. Go here to see the tutorial. It is the same place that inspired me to make the j skirt, she is a crafty lady.

sew what?

I said awhile back that i would share some of my sewing adventures with you soon and well it wasn't so much "soon". So it's here even though some of my stuff isn't quite finished. I've been having tons'o'fun and never really imagined this to be my hobby at age 25. Not that young people don't sew, i'm just sayin...

This is a shirt that i did using the freezer paper method. Its a boojum tree which is the gnarliest looking tree i've ever come across. It was one of my themes this winter in preschool and it was a super fun one at that.

This shirt was long sleeve, i thought it would look better as a short sleeve shirt so i cut off the sleeves. I'm still planning on adding buttons and a strap for a little more fun but i'm exploring how to do that (button holes) on the machine.

This is my favorite so far. I got this large pile of fabric (mostly old curtains) at of course, the thrift store, and was inspired to make this skirt. We're a little over due on a birthday present to a special girl whose name starts with a j:

crafty sunday

Today was a day of making things. I had to do a couple things for work, one of them being to bake numerous agave leaves for snack this week. I made cinnamon chips out of tortillas using a pastry wheel to cut the leaves out to look like an agave leaf. It is one of my "craftier" snacks (all of our snacks relate directly to the theme).

While I was making tasty agave leaves gabe was making whole wheat pizza dough. We got the recipe from Everyday Food which was a gift from Jim and Kathy and had a great January issue! (thanks Jim and Kathy!) It made 8 individual size pizza crusts which we layered in between wax paper and will freeze. Very handy for a quick yummy homemade fresh pizza! We'll let you know how they are, we haven't made this recipe before.

I got the sewing itch this morning and decided that I wanted to make something with my new sewing machine i got for Christmas from Gabe but hadn't used yet. I decided to make these thrifty pants from a t-shirt. After a number of good hearted attempts and making some seams and the sewing machine kept jamming up (the second project I attempted and it did the same thing the first time) Gabe decided we need to get a different sewing machine. So we gracefully took that one back and got a lovely green singer.

Sadly I was having some problems a bit further into my project and spent a good hour trying to figure out what was wrong. I was frustrated and gabe came through once again like the prince he is to solve my thread tension problemos. Hooray! I finished my pants, with few blunders. Well kinda - i still have some resolving to do with a small hole that somehow appeared...

Okay i can't seem to get the pictures to upload so i'll have to do try again tomorrow. i need sleep

Pizza dough - we made our pizzas tonight - it is SO yummy!

These are the agave leaves for my little kiddos snack this week. They sorta look like them...

My new beauty, i'm having fun!

From the too big to wear T-shirt to my new lounge/yoga pants!