You know it is bath day!
Browsing Posts published in January, 2009
Ken and I have been a little out of the loop, but I was still surprised we *just* found out that a new Taylor St in Aurora opened close enough to delivery to SG!! We got pizza delivered tonight and it was right on time and yummy! We aren’t fans of the other SG pizza options – Genoa tastes weird and Rosatis and the one with the funny name makes me sick. Now, if only we could get a Maciano’s… 
We’ve still been pretty busy. Ken has felt better the last couple days and finally left the house today. We took the dogs for a ride to get out of the house and went to Best Buy to get Ken a Nintendo DS Lite. He has been happily playing Mario Bros all day. Then we went out to dinner with his parents. In between I made Sammy a bed and fixed Loki’s (it was fleece tied, but I cut off the fringe and just sewed it up so I could pack more stuffing in there. Attention Apple: Get your act together and release iLife ‘09 so I don’t have to spend 20 minutes on a huge blog post and instead just uploading all of these fun pictures to Flickr with 2 clicks. The vague “Ship date: January” is not working for me!!!!!!
“Take me with you!” Sammy does not like to be left at home!
Minions with coats on waiting for Ken to get ready. They like having a comfy chair and ottoman in the office. They sneak in there to go visit Ken and nap on his chair. Then they bark at the garbage man/plane/mailman/neighbor and get kicked out.
Car Ride! I don’t know if anyone believes me, but when they get in the car they sit and face each other and make little noises. It’s like they discuss where we might be going. They also put their chins on the edges of their seats and look into the other seat in case the other one got some extra treat or blanket or something. They just like to make sure everything is fair. (No, I was not driving when I took this.)
Sammy wanted to sleep in her bed, not model it. It needs some more stuffing but she didn’t care. In fact, both of them watched me intently while I made their beds. Loki was very upset that I was messing with his and kept nudging me like “Are you done yet? Are you done yet????” I’ll get a better picture tomorrow.
Oh yeah, and they got haircuts so they are super cute right now. They always love to see Miss Jan. Sammy looks about the same because SHE WIGGLES TOO MUCH to do much to her. She’s like a ninja, still as can be until the last second and then she kicks your hand away (the hand WITH the scissors, of course.) But Loki looks awesome, especially his face. Although I think his face in wet in half of these pics. Whatever. We love him! Please note their heads are not going to twist off. In order to get two dogs to look at the camera I have to stand there and say “Apple. Grandma. Do you want to go for a car ride? Do you like bananas? Is grandma coming to see you? Do you want chicken? Treat? TRREEEAAAATTTT???? Whosacutepuppydog…” etc. etc. etc. and more and more pathetic. But hey, they look at the camera. Well, actually most of those antics are for Sam. Loki knows what “watch me” means. Typically I get Loki in place and have him stay and then take 35 pictures and hope that Sammy is looking at the camera in one of them.
OK so that was today.
Thursday I finished mom’s purse and another accessory for Sarah. Sarah is either going to think I am crazy or obsessed, but really I’m just practicing new patterns. If you don’t like all the extras just pass them out to your friends. I had extra fabric and it was fun. And I learned stuff. I’ll make stuff for myself now. Maybe
Of course this one is a keykalou pattern!
And this is the purse I made for Mom. It was supposed to be for Christmas. OK so it was only a month late. I really like this size – I sized the Camille’s bag down a few inches to make it purse sized rather than tote bag sized. And I added a zipper and some extra pockets. It takes a long time to quilt it and make the darts and fuse the fleece and you have to measure everything exactly right (I usually just wing it! that does not work here… see Sarah’s first bag 
) but the shape is unique and work the extra effort.
Size comparison:
Well the dogs slept through the speech, but we enjoyed it! They at least put up with wearing their shirts for a few hours.
Laying on not one pillow but two. Sometimes it takes her several tries to get up there. Maybe it makes her feel like a big dog or something because she can see everything.
