Update, etc.

Well, I'm both happy and sad to report that we have officially moved away from Cambridge/Boston. We are living in Dover, Delaware for about a year while my husband clerks for a judge here - then off to Manhattan as planned.

Delaware is beautiful (especially the beaches) and the people are genuine. I think it's going to be a great year.

My husband is busy studying for the New York bar, day and night. The girls are obsessed with the family of bunnies living in our new backyard. And I am equally obsessed with unpacking boxes, organizing and decorating.

I'm also busy preparing for a big blog update. I can't wait to show you all. I think it will look great and I'm confident the aesthetic changes to the blog will inspire me to post more often again!

Speaking of decor posts - my friend emailed me pictures of some furniture and things she inherited from her Grandmother recently. She wasn't sure what to do with some of the items.


Look at all these cool glass bottles she got! I think these would be great candidates for this Martha project, where you use a squirt bottle to coat the inside of bottles with glass enamel (available at all craft stores). I suppose you could use any color enamel, but using white really makes for a beautiful mix of pale blues and greens depending on the color of the bottle's glass.

Makes me want to go to the thrift store this minute to look for random glassware.

Easy and Cute Doll Pattern

I'm sorry that posting has been so sparse lately. We are moving to New York City tomorrow, so things have been crazy with packing and cleaning. I promise to make up for it starting next week.

In the chaos of packing up this week, I managed to squeeze in a fun and easy sewing and craft project (you know, a little outlet from all the stress of moving).

I pumped out five of these sweet little dolls in just a few days worth of nap times. Really, they are super easy and make really fun gifts for the kiddos. I made one for my niece's 1st birthday (not shown), one for Grace, Claire and for our wonderful friends/best neighbors ever kid's, Noah (4), who loves the green Power Ranger (with his detachable velcro dagger) and Presley (2).They're not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but that's the fun of homemade, right?

Thanks to their wonderful and talented photographer mom, Terese, for doing a fun mini photo shoot of the dolls when I gave them to the kids today. Seriously, you should check out her incredible work here. She did our family pictures this year (and probably will continue to forever! She's great.).
I basically used the crafting blog Black Apple's pattern as shown on the Martha Stewart show and website, but changed up some of the look, inspired by the adorable dolls on the craft blog Wee Wonderfuls.

These are an easy and fun project if you have a sewing machine, a few scraps of mix-matched fabrics (really, just scraps) and an afternoon to spare. Guaranteed positive response from the little ones!