NOMNOMNOM

Mmmm, delicious! A little gift from the fabric fairy! And by ‘gift’ I mean ‘purchased with monies from fabricworm.com’ and by ‘fabric fairy’ I mean my mailman. If you’d seen my mailman, you would now have a hilarious mental picture of a medium-chubbyish man with a stubbly face hair like that big guy from Lost but blonder and a looser curl, wearing his mailman uniform with a pink fluffy tutu and holding a sparkly pink wand. I think I should write a suggestion letter to Canada Post, that would be a pretty awesome uniform update. Obviously my favourite is this print right here. Heart heart heart heart heart. Time seven. I’ll use up every precious bit, because when it’s been cut into so much I can’t use it anymore I will cut out all the squares that are still whole and use them for appliques and patches. THIS IS LOVE, PEOPLE. And it better be at what a meter of this sucker cost me. I do NOT normally pay that much for fabric. Or wait, a yard? Whatever. I appear to be incapable of buying in halfs like normal people. I always have to get the whole meter. Or yard. Or whatever.

I maybe have another package from fabricworm in the mail. BUT I GOT AN EMAIL. THERE WAS A SALE ON ALEXANDER HENRY FABRICS. Besides, everything I get in the mail these days is like, cloth diapers or onesies or glass bottles or change tables or breast pumps. (Hi, creepy guy from Google Search who is very confused by pictures of fabric that are clearly not related to breasts.) All those things are fun and/or cute (except the last one, which is really neither) but it’s nice to get something that’s just for my hoarde-y little self but you know, everything I make with this stuff is probably going to be for Nicole or Baby V anyways, give give give, that’s me. Selfless.

* I am what awesome is made of *

Ever get into one of those moods where you feel like that? I'm right there right now. At least, until I go back into the kitchen to clean up post-crafting, that is. HA.

I just finished a little sewing project / giftie. Inspired by the http://www.youcanmakethis.com/ name pillows, and to be honest I'm sure I've seen other name pillows too, but those are the first that pop into my head. This took me about three hours from start to finish, including the time spent placating my toddler and being anal-retentive. (ironing over and over, anyone?) These are quite possibly much simpler than the YCMT pillows, but I'm not sure.

This is an envelope pillow, camping-pillow sized. Camping pillows are available at walmart, and they're about, oh, half the size of a regular pillow? Perfect for toddler and perfect for little accent pillows, too!

If anyone wants a tutorial, speak now or forever hold your peace! Nicole wants to keep this pillow, but for obvious reasons she will not be getting her wishes, this will be going to her cousin Morgan for her 7th birthday gift. With a pillow inside, of course. Anywhoo, I have tons of extra fabric, and since this accidently matches the colours for Nicole's room (the blues in particular) I'll make her one almost the same. :) So if you want a tutorial, I'll make one!

The other reason I'm on cloud nine is I am feeling FABULOUS. I have been working out for at LEAST half an hour every day for the last few days. I'm pretty impressed with myself, and I'm starting to get that energy spike that comes with it, too.