Bunny Love

I had to share this picture from yesterday. Since Ben is out of town I took pictures of her opening Valentines Day presents for him and caught this amazing face. I wish it wasn't so blurry but whatev. Still amazing. ANYWAY Lilly was a bit distraught when we shipped off the last pink bunny so I made one for her too. She has several toys made by mommy but this is the first one she has been excited about. Make me so happy!

♥ ♥ ♥

Let me introduce Marjorie

Marjorie is only a little rebellious. She would like to be a lot more rebellious but is too afraid. She has tried to express this by talking back to her parents and staying up late but they tell her to stop pretending. She is no rebel. She's a goodie goodie.

So she expresses her rebellion through loud accessories that annoy her mother. A happy compromise.

 Marjorie's accessories.

I love Marg. I think she is too stinkin cute. She has been floating around my house for a few weeks now. She was based on some toys I made for my good friend Jordan's nursery. (ps- how amazing is Autumn's nursery?)

The idea of dress up monsters just came to me this afternoon as I was sorting through all my unfinished items and I have to say that I love it! I mean, I'm a girl so I like to play dress up and I love little monsters so viola! A toy is born.

Marg should be available in my etsy shop later this evening.

emotions and elephants

It feels so good to finish a project like this. As you may remember, a wonderful gal from my church asked me to make her some "argyle elephants" for a baby shower she is throwing next weekend. 

I have made the pieces for an elephant before but never finished,stuffed or sewed it together. (shocking, I know)

I feel very strongly that I do not have any exceptional talent when it comes to knitting. I am simply following instructions written by someone else using techniques explained to me by another someone. Because I feel this way I tend to respond "I know!" when someone says "That is amazing!" about a project like the elephants. I am genuinely just as surprised as you are (I'm assuming) that I was able to turn out these little guys.

 As per usual, I under estimated the amount of work left to be done and was up until the wee hours of the morning finishing them. This is the aftermath.

WARNING: The following content is a little emotional. 

It give me such a satisfying sense of accomplishment to... you know... actually finish something. I know this sounds strange, but at times I need something to make me feel like more then just a mom. After hours of talking about Lilly, taking care of her and loving with my whole being it is nice to have something to show for myself. It feels very selfish and almost (ironically) childish to say those things out loud. I want to say that I do it out of some sort of support for other moms so they know that they aren't the only ones feeling that way but that's not true. I guess I'm just afraid that I am the only one and am hoping that someone else comes along and says "me too."

And just to be clear- I love my Lillian more then anyone has ever loved anything. 

(true story)

Jellys

This is just going to be a short and sweet blupdate since it is nearly 12:30am. (Can someone please let Lilly know that I would appreciate it if she slept in  tomorrow?)

As per my new years resolution of finishing things I start...

taa daaaa! I present, the completely finished, Jillian and James the Jellyfish. 

They are in love.

Seeing as I forgot to mention these two in the specifics of what needed to be finished I am kind of starting from square one now. But what a great place to start, right?

EDIT: I noticed that, according to blogspot, I posted this around 9:30pm. As it is actually close to 1am now I am not even going to try to fix it.