Itching to sew.

 

  
I've decided to attempt to make some _____. I've been itching to sew the last little while so I thought I'd get a start on my christmas gifts ;) I best not say what they are quite yet. I ordered the fabric from Hypernoodle2 on ETSY. I love etsy.

Finishes

So here are the finishes we've selected for the basement/kitchen. The lino is one that doesn't need to be glued, and the flooring is a laminate...both we can do ourselves ++. The board leaning against the wall is the paint color for the kitchen...Farrow and Ball's 'Parma Grey 27'. Now we just need a paint color for downstairs and we can get rolling! yay!

Basement Reno

When DH and I bought our first house a couple years ago, we knew it needed a bit of a facelift. We had decided to gut the quasi-finished basement and start from scratch. As DH worked downstairs I attempted to come up with an effective floorplan. This is what I came up with. Now that everything is framed and drywalled I think the layout is actually working out quite well. I used AutoCAD and google Sketch-up to draw everything out (Insert nerd here) so I could see what it would look like. With Sketch-up you can make a 3D model that you can look into - very cool! Sketch up is a pretty great program its free and quite user friendly - I'd definately suggest it to anyone renovating or making major changes. I've also used it for organizing my closet, laying out the nursery, and drawing up railing ideas for our front step.

Testing out the new lens

 Yesterday, i had my first night out with out kids in uh...7 months :D. SIL and I had a girls night in the city. We had a nice sit down meal and a movie - it was so nice! Although I did my little ones terribly - I muchly enjoyed the girl time.
Anyhow...while galavanting in the city I executively decided to buy a new lens for our DLSR. It's a 50mm 1.8...I'd really like to get a 1.4 but I'm liking this one so far. Here are some pics I snapped this afternoon, I can't wait to get outside with it!!


oooo I see evil in those eyes!!

I'm enjoying the pretty bokeh (boquet I think is how you say it) - the fuzzy background.
Little miss H inbetween expressions. SO CUTE! But of course I am biased. ;)

Aww now there are those sparkling eyes.
Yes, I too once judged parents of dirty faced kids...now I am one.

I like the lens but it is a little awkard indoors (as I was pre-warned) - to get more than one person in the frame you need to be standing quite a ways back, but other than that it's ++ so far.

And it begins

So here we go. My first post on my very own blog. I never ever thought this day would come - as I have  generally not been a believer in blogs. So why am I here you may ask? It's through my aimless browsing during the moments of the day I have to myself I have come to appreciate the blog. I have found so many interesting patterns and ideas on people's blogs, now I'd like to share/record my own.

Also, now that we have two little munchkins, I often want to record all of those simple and mundane memories and moments that we have....when I think of them or have a spare moment. Perhaps one day they will even make it into their scrapbooks.
So here I am, now with a place to share my own babble about life as a momma, a crafter, a wife, a sister, and a friend.
Wish me luck as I dive into the world of blogging.