tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47036478712212150252024-11-05T20:58:06.560-06:00:: a place for creative reflection on life, mothering and the craftier things in life ::Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703647871221215025.post-64490582288778753642012-03-16T10:00:00.000-05:002012-03-16T10:00:33.324-05:00

The Newest Member of the Harris Family! Here is the birth announcement for Miss Eliza Grace Harris.

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we had a fun Christmas with lots of chatter about "jesus' birthday coming up!" and christmas trees and jesus' birth in a barn with our almost 3-year-old. luke joined me and grandma in the family tradition of stuffing korv, or swedish potato sausage! we hosted christmas eve dinner at our home with cousins galore, the highlight for luke by far!  (making for little sleep the night

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dear miss olivia made her way into the world on feb 15, 2010 while i believed i would no longer keep this blog. now that i have decided to make it private and learned that you can later make your blog into a photo book, i'm back and an intro of our latest addition is in order!olivia has brought so much joy into the lives of each member of this family and we are so thankful for her life! she is

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Sofie rides in Luke's stroller!

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Having fun in the coupe!!

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a first prayer by luke heard around our dinner table recently:"[something sounding like "Dear God"],"Mommy, mommy, mommy, mmmm, mommy!""Amen!"music to a mommy's ears :)

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Dear Luke,In less than a week you will be 18 months old -- the months are just flying by!  This summer has been a big one for you.  Somewhere around 16 months you morphed into a little boy, and are no longer my baby.  You walk, run, tickle, wrestle, laugh, chitter-chat, and say lots of words and -- your favorite -- imitate all kinds of sounds.  Your favorites are truck siren noises, ruff-ruff

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my friend keri just turned 31 and so i decided to make her a birthday quilt. i love the look of the super quick + easy quilt in joelle hoverson's last minute patchwork and quilted gifts, so i decided to give it a try.  i made the dimensions a bit bigger -- more like 42" x 52"ish -- and used the "zigzag option" for the sewn ties since my machine is pretty basic and doesn't make those lovely

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last week was a refreshing one. luke got his first taste of sand...and some pool time. and mom and dad treasured a certain 1-year-old's wrinkled-nosed grins and enjoyed some much-needed r&r. i actually read an entire book just for fun and relished every minute of it.

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Well, my baby is turning 1 this weekend and for a variety of reasons, but one particular medical one, we’ve decided it’s time to wean. I am sad and have been really struggling with this decision, but in the last day I have become more confident and excited about what lies ahead for me and Luke.He is growing up into such an amazing and fun little boy. He has *finally* started to tolerate a few

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here's a pic of a birthday t i'm in the process of making for lukie. love the boy-ness of it :) can't wait to see it on his little 1-year-old self!

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she's complete. my quilt had been looking at me for two weeks asking me to just sew her together already. i'd been debating buying some narrower double fold bias tape for the binding but figured i'd never get it done if i waited to get to joann's. :) so, the last couple of days i have been putting the finishing touches on my quilt, and it turns out i really like it! the top started to appeal to

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picked up my yarn for "knitting ::for:: the least of these" today at CloseKnit. i think the yarn is going to work out really well -- it is nice and soft, easy to work with, and the color is... well, it's delicious.i placed an order for the rest of the knitters' yarn as well, so we'll be ready to kick things off soon.what did people do, by the way, to learn to knit before youtube??? seriously, the

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so, a mama has to have a night out once in a while to get silly and dance. and Split Infinitive lived up to their self-proclaimed status: "we are the most party." finally feel like i'm doing justice to my blog name. (yes, that's me on the right.)peace.

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i floated the "knitting" idea to a bunch of women this past week and they are excited! we are primarily going to do it as an RUF service project, but i'm going to invite some other friends to participate as well. initially i'd created a separate blog to keep track of things, but i think a facebook group makes more sense, so if you'd like to participate, check it out! i'm ordering the yarn on

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it all started with seeing this blanket.well, actually, it started about a year ago when i was pregnant with my first. i really wanted to knit something for my little guy, but had never knitted before. i enlisted the help of my (very patient!!) mom, who is an accomplished knitter. i rented a "how to knit" video from the local library. i checked out knitting books. but to no avail. i had, in my

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i started working on my first quilt last week. i was so excited because quilts are something that i LOVE and i've always wanted to make my own. i had bought the fabrics for it before christmas at quiltology and, with christmas and birthday sewing projects complete, was able to begin. i decided to start with amy karol's "easy lap quilt" since my sister had so much luck with it in making her

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I love having my machine out! It is so easy to get a little sewing done here and there. My adorable niece, Hannah Sofia, turned 1 last week. She is the only girl of all the kids on that side of our family, so my mom, sister and I have been having a lot of fun buying her pink, giving her dolls, seeing her in dresses, etc. I decided to try doing some applique on a dress for her birthday gift,

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Given all the projects in my head these days, I decided I better have my sewing machine out all the time or none of them were going to get done. Getting out all my stuff while my son attempts to sleep in our small-ish apartment is always a noisy mess. Sooo, my machine has a new home on my bedside table and I decided to make a "cozy" for it to avoid making our bedroom look like a sewing room...

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I've been getting back into sewing lately, inspired by my son, Luke, and craving a fun, creative outlet. I love the sense of accomplishment that comes with completing a project and the challenge of getting one done. I'm a "lurker" on several mommy crafting blogs and love hearing what others are up to. I thought I'd join in and contribute a little, although I am very much a beginner! Here goes

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