christmas comes early

I gave J one of his bday gifts a little early (his actual bday is 12/15). we had decided to hijack the tail end of Fenix's party to celebrate J's birthday as well. Our friends were giving him gifts so I decided to give him his big gift (a Wii). I guess he got caught up in all of the gift giving so he gave me one of my Christmas gifts early.

These wooden hoops from Leviticus Jewelry:


I love them! They feel so light on your ears - I kept touching my earlobes all through the next day to be sure that they hadn't fallen out.

Now that I have these it's kinda piqued my interest in other wooden jewelry items. Check out some of these:

from etsy seller carpedraco


from etsy seller ZsBcreations


from etsy seller effiehandmade

tribute quilt

Holy cow! An incredibly talented woman who works with my mom made this amazing quilt using photos that she found on our flickr site.

There are some mean people in my life right now and I've been feeling a little bit down about it. But now my faith in the goodness of people is restored. I can't believe that someone took the time and energy to make something so lovely for a baby that she hasn't even met yet!

Thank you Rosie! Hopefully we'll get to meet you when we fly out there in May.

crap. christmas is coming

all this craziness with the baby coming early has really thrown a wrench in my plan to make all of my xmas gifts. luckily i got alot of things done before the drama started but i still have a bit to do. if i am diligent, i can still get it all done before the 25th.

so i started this thing last night.

It's a new knitting project (free pattern from knitty.com)



To clarify, I am talking about the thing on her head.

I am doing it with orange/yellow/green variegated soy wool yarn that looks like this:


The pattern is really very easy to follow. The funny thing is that I looked at this pattern about a year ago and thought, 'oh boy, I don't have the skills to do that'- which is sad because I did but apparently I was having a seriously dumb moment when I made that assessment.

So just yesterday while searching for things to make as xmas gifts I came across it again and thought 'wow that looks easy and quick'.
Alot can change in a year!

I'll post pics when I'm done.