Walking and walking and..... stuff

Well I wasn't wrong in my last post.  Baby K was determined to keep trying until she got the walking thing down (silly me for hoping she'd fall down enough that she'd give up the walking idea for awhile, NOPE!).  She now walks all over the house, though I still keep her contained out of the kitchen most of the time.  She is so cute & fun to watch as she takes her little almost dancing steps down the hallway, tiny fists clenched and raised chest-high for balance.  She stumbles and gets right back up, or crawls away...  giggles and all.

Poor little thing though, she has caught her Daddy's cold, and while not deeply congested yet, it is still disrupting her sleep enough that she won't [fall to] sleep unless on Mama.

Other news on the home-front, I am now thoroughly sick of canning though I have promised hubby to juice out the last of the apples to make "cider."  I am thinking today would be a perfect day for this, maybe I will sauce out the leftover apple pulp a bit too (if it's not raining on us).  I think a bit of sugar and some spices would that apple juice a delightful fall drink too, especially if i mixed in some of the last of the pear juice too.  Then to scrub out my water bath canner (used for cooking beets in) and preserve all this delicious juice in quart bottles.

Life goes on...

So I realize that it's been a really long time since I've last posted (something like 4 months), but I've been busy!
Lately I have just been canning my brains out.  Yesterday I hauled 84 bottles of peaches, pears, plum jelly & raspberry jam downstairs to my basement food storage room.  I have also canned green beans and tomatoes.  I have more tomatoes & pears to can, plus lots of apples awaiting "saucing"; I just hope that my jars hold out.  I had to to go D.I. to look for more, found some but only got 28 (had just $10 on me).
Anyhow, I have also been holding 'home & hearth' together while my hubby has frequently been sent out of town for work.  PLus my baby girl is cutting (& grinding *cringe*) more teeth, when this last one comes in she'll have 6 & will no longer look like a 'wild fanged beast' haha.
Speaking of my baby, since I have been called to work in the nursery at Church, she has now decided that she needs to walk.  She manages only about 1 or 2 tiny steps before gravity pulls her down and off she crawls with a big smile on her face.  I fear real walking isn't far away now.  *sighs*  Oh well, I guess I couldn't keep her my tiny baby forever.

=) Gayle

Shirt refashion into toddler dress

OKay, so I jsut looked at the  clock, and I need to go pull the food out of the oven to feed my family a late dinner, but here's a couple of teaser photos, then I promise i'll come back & post all the photos I took (almost took as long to take the pics as it did to make the dress).


Here is what I started with, this fabric & this shirt, it was long sleeved, all I wanted was the bodice...

here is what I ended up with:

The sleeves (unintentionally) are big enough that baby can wear this in teh winter as a tunic over a long sleeved shirt.. for long time to come.   :)

See ya later!