I apologize if you're sick of this photo. I, personally, can't get enough of it. 

So remember when I said the toddler was sick? Yeah, well, he likes to share. And this time, he gave me something that knocked me on my ass for a good week-and-a-half. So I've barely done anything. At all. Last Friday night, I even passed on a trip to the thrift store because I just didn't feel like it. I know! Read more about mini-freakout and miscellany

My kids love to share. Mostly pestulence and bacteria. Gage came down with a nasty cold last weekend and spent the next five days coughing in my face all day, all night. So the two of us have spent the week alone in the foxhole while Daddy is at work and Big Brother is at school. Read more about 4 of the 5 kind birthday tee

After spending an afternoon putting on the daisy dress and pinning it and taking it off and sewing it and putting it back on and pinning it some more and taking it off and sewing it and you get the idea, right? Fitting clothes is a process without a dummy. Not to mention I didn't have a full-length mirror, either, and had to stand up on a chair I pulled into the living room so I could see myself in the wall mirror. Read more about meet my dummy! (no, not my husband)

About this time last year, when I was doing my annual holy-crap-I-wish-spring-were-here dance, I went to a thrift store on my lunch break to buy some shirts. Basic men's button-front shirts, which I later turned into dresses for my niece. 

While I was there, I remembered all the nifty "repurpose that Godawful thrift store dress" ideas I'd seen around the internet, so I started looking at the dresses. And I found one that is truly hideous but the fabric said SPRING! and so I bought it. Read more about so i have this dress...