back from camping

here's some pictures from our camping trip, we had an afternoon and night of pouring rain, we let the boys play in the rain-they had a blast! The next day cleared up and was beautiful. We've found a new favorite spot for camping.

I'm back at my sewing machine and moving along on custom orders.

Saturday Yard Sale Find

Near our house we have the most wonderful yard sale, it runs every Saturday and it has the greatest stuff. My find today was this little vintage doll cradle for $1.00. It's in great shape, nice and sturdy. All it needed was a wipe down (which was done post pictures). I'll soon sew up a little mattress pad and blanket for it. Other finds included some needed mugs and glasses, lots of clothes for the kids and a Christmas decoration too. Did you thrift any great finds this morning?

Happy World Breastfeeding Week!

I've been wanting to create a post in honour of World Breastfeeding Week, I've has some unique breastfeeding experiences between my two children that are probably worth sharing and one day I'll post them. Today though I'd like to share my two most favorite things about nursing our 17 month old daughter....how she plays with her fingers while she doses off nursing and my most favorite is when she's nursing during the night she rolls over and snuggles into me when she's done

To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week I'm offering two pairs of washable flannel nursing pads in my Etsy shop as a Pay It Forward listing. All you pay is the listing fee of 20 cents and the shipping...enjoy and happy breastfeeding!
Here's a little peek at some wetbags I'll be listing later on today....

A new sweater

This is the sweater I knit when I wasn't supposed to be knitting. It seems I got lucky with the little ones sleep habits last week I was able to stay on top of sewing and get this knit up. I had *just* enough yarn, actually the second arm is a row or two short of the other so I barely made it. It's kind of a cropped version of the original pattern which is the Elliot Sweater by Teresa Cole it's a freebie on Ravelry. It was a nice easy pattern and I'll probably end up knitting another later one in the fall. I think my next knitting project will be the Mossy Jacket http://fpea.blogspot.com/2007/01/free-pattern-friday-mossy-jacket.html But with a camping trip next week and some new custom orders (yeah!) I really won't be starting this one for a couple of weeks.

(she loves it by the way!)

Buttons

I finished knitting a sweater for Rowan last night (after I said no knitting for the week). It needs buttons so I got out the button jar. Most of these buttons are vintage from my mom and aunts, I decided to try letting Rowan search through them too. My son used to love to just sit and look at the buttons actually he still likes to look through them. Rowan though....I wasn't sure how it would work out, she still (at 17 months) likes to taste everything and sometimes doesn't transition well from things. It worked out all right though and I did find some buttons for the sweater. I'm hoping to get them sewn on while she naps so I better keep this short!

More canning, these are some bread & butter pickles. I'm branching out a bit in canning recipes and it's keeping me motivated. I also made a double batch of relish this week it's yummy. I'm going to get another batch made so we have enough to share and last through the year. I'll try to post the recipe, it's a good one.
And a custom order. I had two custom orders to complete this week and they're both done (yaaa!) This is a stack of flannel topped pads.

Off to sew on some buttons.

Gardening Notes 2010

I realized this year that I need to start making notes on our veggie gardens so I can remember what to change for the following year. Our garden will grow again next year and here's some changes we'll make:

-plant more spinach (3-4 plants)
-plant more cucumbers (I didn't think this would be necessary but I'm not getting the quantity I need to make enough relishes and pickles)
-plant the tomatoes even further apart
-onions
-potatoes (so we can enjoy fresh baby potatoes)

August 4
-zucchini for baking & grilling

I'm sure the list will grow.

one pair down

I finished the wool longies I previewed a couple of posts ago. I finished the leg while on the drive back from Toronto yesterday. I had planned to start knitting more longies for the fall and winter but I'm going to hold off a little bit, just in case there's any potty learning vibes happening. Next on my needles will be a cardigan or pinafore of some sort.






I'll be busy with customs, and canning (relish is next) this week which won't leave much time for blogging or knitting. Hoping to post again towards the end of the week!