tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72731837824887439912024-02-20T00:07:54.948-08:00crooked shmookedHeidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-14949710202333876092012-12-23T00:43:00.001-08:002012-12-23T00:43:40.299-08:00the tree farm experience<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hubby went by himself to get our Christmas tree from Costco the weekend of Thanksgiving. Super festive, right? We did it that way last year too. The thought of tromping around a tree farm to find the perfect tree with a kook and babe just wasn't appealing. I'm really looking forward to when they can both hike through the trees with us and help find a tree but this year wasn't the year to start that tradition. Even though we weren't there to find the perfect tree, we still visited a local tree farm for the experience of it all. We visited the petting zoo, took a horse-drawn carriage ride, stepped into the gift shop for 3 minutes, <strike>let the kook carry a saw around</strike> and walked around looking at the trees. The kook was enamored with the tiny tree. The crazy photo of her is her "TA-DA!" proclamation. All things tiny are her favorite. We were there just long enough to enjoy the amazing California holiday weather and leave when the kook started to throw her attitude around. Yeah. That happens. It was at that moment that hubby and I were thankful that we weren't in the middle of trying to find a tree and that we took the easy Costco way out. Right before leaving we hit up a stranger to take our family photo and it's one of the best ones we've gotten minus the little man looking away. Yay for strangers that know how to use cameras! Because as we all know, if there are no pictures to prove it, it didn't happen.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-52202456339257947642012-12-13T15:58:00.003-08:002012-12-16T00:12:33.520-08:00the little man's FIRST HAIRCUT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Someone got his first haircut and someone gave her first haircut this week. We had a friend do family photos for us on Tuesday and I knew I had to trim the little man's shaggy hair before putting him in front of a camera. I was definitely nervous as it was my first time cutting anyone's hair- besides a very unfortunate extreme bang trimming when I was 6 or so. I set the little man up in a booster chair, got some tiny sharp crafting scissors and just started cutting. The little man was dodging every attempt so I grabbed him a spatula to chew on. I trimmed as much as I could in the 10 minutes he allowed me near his head before he started throwing the spatula on the ground and swiping at my scissors. It is by no means a pro job and I definitely won't be waving him around out in public and declaring my hair cutting brilliance, but the shag is gone and the little man seems pleased. 9 months and 2 weeks old and his hair is finally trimmed. He's a handsome little thing. Maybe someday the kook will have some hair to cut too. I'll probably be able to make a hair baby out of all of the little man's hair trimmings before that happens.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-24558486357873205582012-12-11T23:43:00.000-08:002012-12-11T23:49:17.427-08:00the most WONDERFUL time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to the smattering of colors, animals, vintage Christmas, and yarn decor that is our living room. Oh how I love to decorate for the holidays! I am all about Anthropologie, handmade, and vintage ornaments and the random special animal ornaments from stores here and there. I dream of someday having a Christmas tree filled entirely with animal ornaments, but that will have to be when I have a mansion with a tree in every room someday because I can't give up my non-animal vintage ornaments. Let's see... I'd have an animal tree in the den, a vintage tinsel tree in the pretty entertaining living room (the parlor? I don't know the formal names for these things), a candy/cake/popcorn tree in the kitchen that I can snack off of all season, and.... yeah, that's all I'd need.<br />
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I started my holidays nice and early this year, November 1st. I have a friend who puts up her decorations November 1st every year and this year I decided to join her. Christmas music was a'blaring in our house while all the kids in the land still had Halloween sugar highs. I haven't regretted the early start one bit. I love Christmas and feel like there's never enough of it to enjoy when it takes me a week or so to decorate and I'm rushing around getting presents the whole season. This year I wanted to be done with shopping and decorating early to soak it all in and I am! I have half of one present left to buy and then I am done. I'm usually a week of shopper, so this is a major accomplishment. And I did most of my shopping in sweats in front of the computer. As much as I hate the internet sometimes because it's such a time sucker, I loooove the invention of online shopping. Not having to leave the house and go to 100 different stores with the kiddos in tow? Amazing! The kids threatened to ruin with season with a crazy horrible cold before Thanksgiving. That put a major halt in shopping and celebrating and sanity, but luckily they were well just in time to go to Thanksgiving with hubby's family. After a few days of recovery from the madness of a 3 week crazy cough, I was back in Christmas mode. I still have some Christmas decorations I want to make (check out my <a href="http://pinterest.com/heidijo/happy-holidays/" target="_blank">holidays Pinterest board</a> to see some of them), but if I don't get to them this year, I'll survive.<br />
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How is your Christmas coming along? Any decorating left to do? Are you an early shopper or December 23rd evening shopper?<br />
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<br />Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-31452803030377146902012-11-19T20:34:00.001-08:002012-11-19T20:34:59.634-08:00STOP BITING ME!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My cousin's wife shared this on Facebook today. I normally don't share these things, but oh my gosh... so true right now, except for the shower part. I totally haven't showered today. We're hanging on by a thread in this house. The kook has been sick for 2 weeks now, coughing up a storm at night, keeping me awake in between nursing the boy. (Yeah, he still doesn't sleep through the night.) I'm pumping the kook full of vitamin C and garlic and every immune boosting thing I can think of in hopes that she can kick this soon. I have lost hope of us being able to attend Thanksgiving with hubby's family though. Time to start planning some simple recipes for our quarantined family Thanksgiving. Between taking care of the kook and a teething baby boy, I haven't had much time to hop on here and post anything, but I just wanted to let you know we are alive... and not well.<br />
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In other news- the boy has just found out how to use his teeth during nursing sessions and I have just found out that my screaming in pain doesn't phase him. Awesome. I'm really hoping I won't need any sort of reconstructive surgery after he is weaned.<br />
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Now you are caught up.<br />
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So, tell me, how do I stop this baby from nipping at my parts-of-a-similar-name?Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-2991931252001857322012-11-09T17:51:00.000-08:002012-11-09T18:07:41.162-08:00THIS & THAT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-Twinkle lights make me incredibly happy. </span>I've wanted to put some up for quite a while and when I saw these pink ones at the fabric store, I grabbed them (as in purchased them, not grabbed and stuffed them in my purse) and put them up as soon as I got home. I put the kook down for a nap, turned the lights off and grinned like a giddy little girl enjoying twinkle lights for the first time. They make me so happy and it's a wonder I never put any up before this!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-I finally came across the "is it poo or chocolate dilemma?" on a quilt yesterday... I opted to smell it rather than taste it. It was chocolate. PTL. Mama's been having some cravings lately.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-Lots of sleepless nights from taking care of sick littles turn into a morning of sleeping in till 11 with the toddler watching Curious George on the laptop for who knows how long. It's scary how well she can use that thing. I recall waking up at 9, spilling a cup of water all over my lap, changing, throwing a blanket over the spill then sleeping on it 2 more hours. I then forgot about the spill until getting into bed on top of a damp blanket that night. So of course I just threw a fresh blanket on and went back to sleep.... At 2am... After the baby boy was awake till 1:30am. Mom life is kicking my butt this week!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-I managed to make 1 homemade meal this week. This <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/110197522102594358/" target="_blank">Lazy Sunday Casserole</a>. I used chicken apple sausage, red potatoes, onions, carrots, and Granny Smith apples and omitted the Italian spices. It was pretty tasty. You really can't go wrong with this dish.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-Hubby is addicted to </span><a href="http://slickdeals.net/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">slickdeals.net</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and I'm not complaining. We've scored a lot of awesome things from his addiction. We currently have 5 $50 off of $100 Home Depot coupons to use by Sunday and have been plotting what to buy for the house. Exciting things like a new front door, peg board for the office/craft room, and rodent/ant/wasp killers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-I started decorating for Christmas and listening to Christmas music. Judge all you want because I am LOVING it!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-My new favorite show is <a href="http://www.cwtv.com/shows/hart-of-dixie" target="_blank">Hart of Dixie</a>. It's funny, cute, romantic, and is full of great Rachel Bilson style. Such a chick show. If you like romcoms, you'll love it. You can watch the entire 1st season on Netflix streaming and catch the 2nd season on Hulu.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-My mom uniform this week has been sweatpants and whatever shirt I wore to bed the night before. Every day. This is a new low. I feel so horrible for the hubby to see me like this all week but between being covered in kiddo snot, lack of sleep, and my attempt to survive, I just can't seem to change into anything cuter or less comfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-I'm loving these blogs lately: <a href="http://www.smallfryblog.com/" target="_blank">Small Fry</a> -and- <a href="http://elizabethkartchner.com/" target="_blank">Dear Lizzy</a>. These ladies have some serious mom style and crafting mojo. I'm totally not sending laser-jealousy beams from my bloodshot eyes in their direction right now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-We recently purchased <a href="http://www.worldmarket.com/product/julian-bed.do?wk40=2&from=fn" target="_blank">this bed</a> on major sale (it's in the shed waiting for a mattress) and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/104570673/floral-perfection-queen-bed-cover?ref=usr_faveitems" target="_blank">this light quilt</a> is on its way to our house (bought with my birthday $$$). We are FINALLY decorating the bedroom after 3 years in this house, and after many squishy nights with 2 littles in the bed, we are upgrading to a king! The new bed is our Christmas gift to each other. I can't wait! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-I'm praying these colds end soon and that the weekend grants us some much needed rest and stress relief!!!!!!!!! I'm not usually an advocate of the finger-stuck-on-the-exclamation-point-key sentences, but I am doing some major desperate praying over here!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What plans do you have this weekend? Any Christmas decorating plans or are you post-Turkey Christmas </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">celebrators?</span><br />
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(1.) Hubby's chalk portrait of the kook. (2.) The little man loves the wind in his hair. (3.) Shopping with the fam for my birthday. (4.) The duck fountain wasn't running so it became a toddler ride. (5.) I was living with the cracked, mute iPhone 4 for almost a year and finally got the iPhone 5! It's a whole new world. I can actually see what things look like on the screen now. (6.) The kook was scooting around on this giant rubber ducky at World Market while fanning herself with a pen fan and looking through a toy gun like a telescope, all the while making siren noises. I was cracking up. (7.) Our first baby-less date in 2 months! It was very much needed. (8.) The kook is constantly building things. She showed me this house she made and I was seriously impressed. (9.) The little man's squash face. (10.) Kale-Mango-Coconut Water smoothies at Whole Foods. We both loved them. (11.) "Don't worry mom. I'll put some on your face too." (12.) A gorgeous evening chasing cats and kicking a soccer ball. (13.) Little drummer boy. (14.) Building towers everywhere. (15.) Baby dedication at church. We dedicated both of the kiddos to the Lord and had our families there to support us. (16.) Waiting for dada to make dinner breakfast burritos. (17.) She's kind of cute sometimes. (18.) The little man pulled himself to standing this last week. Every time he does it I almost have a heart attack and hubby and I spot him until he's done. He's definitely not stable on his two feet yet. (19.) I did it. I decorated for Christmas. (20.) If she's not building, she's lining things up. This girl has a future in architecture.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-69530054758415905602012-11-01T08:00:00.000-07:002012-11-01T08:00:04.983-07:00TANGLED... not the movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kids playing happily in the living room. I duck out for 2 minutes to grab an outfit for the day.<br />
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"Mommy! Mommy!!! Come help us! We're stuck in the cord!"<br />
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I come out to find that they have grabbed a cord from under the TV console and somehow managed to do this. Then I take photos. You know you do it too.<br />
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Don't worry. I freed them after a few shots.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-14329063492691565762012-10-31T08:31:00.000-07:002012-10-31T16:00:23.241-07:00KOOK STYLE: shopping with Nana<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This girl can whip out some cheesy smiles.</div>
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Chuuuuunk!</div>
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The best of the photos I took of them together... the little man was flopping all over the place. He's on the move these days. No time for mama to take photos of him.</div>
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Happy Halloween! Nothing spoooky to share here. We're a couple of fuddy-duddies. Yes, I'm aware just using that phrase proves the point.<br />
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It was cool socks and beanies weather in the house yesterday morning. I haven't broken out the heater yet, but those days aren't too far away... hopefully. We've had some days in the 80s in the last few weeks and it's totally throwing me off. I'll have a day in comfy fall clothes, burning my fall candles, and then the next day will be 80 and I'll be in shorts and wondering what fun summer holds... yeah, it's messing with my brain. I hope fall weather takes off before fall is over! My boots keep sending me longing stares as I pass them by to wear flats. Poor boots. I miss you too.<br />
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We went on a little shopping trip with Nana yesterday to get the kook a children's Bible because we are dedicating the kooks at church on Sunday. The gal was in awe of the Veggie Tales section at the store and all things Christmas related. She had to touch everything and shout "Look, guys! Look!" when she made a new discovery. It took 4 times as long to shop with a toddler leading the way, but it was worth it to hear how "beautiful" everything was and see her make a stack of Bibles up to her waist.<br />
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I'm thinking of and praying for all of you affected by Sandy! Stay safe and dry!Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-89543699149879764432012-10-29T15:02:00.000-07:002012-10-29T15:02:00.595-07:00if i can't, YOU MUST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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- <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/106962932/vintage-afghan-baby-blanket-light-blue?ref=sr_gallery_27&ga_search_query=afghan&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_vintage_rewrite=vintage+afghan&ga_orig_facet=vintage&ga_original_query=2&ga_page=10&ga_search_type=vintage" target="_blank">Blue</a> ($25). <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/107882775/vintage-baby-afghan-blanket?ref=sr_gallery_9&ga_search_query=afghan&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_vintage_rewrite=vintage+afghan&ga_orig_facet=vintage&ga_original_query=2&ga_page=23&ga_search_type=vintage" target="_blank">Yellow</a> ($12) -</div>
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I'm like 98% sure that the hubby and I are done adding to this kooky clan, but I still melt when I see little baby things that I'd want to decorate our pretend 3rd child's nursery with. The little man is 8 months and well on his way to college so there's no more nursery buying for him. Someone needs to put me out of my misery and get these afghans into their nursery stat! Ugh. Too cute.<br />
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I spent my Sunday evening searching through the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/search/vintage?q=afghan&order=most_relevant&view_type=gallery&ship_to=US&vintage_rewrite=vintage+afghan&orig_facet=vintage&original_query=2" target="_blank">vintage afghans on Etsy</a>, by the way. I have some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket and some ugly blankets in our house burning a hole in my retinas. I'm still hoping the thrifting gnomes will smile on me and a gorgeous vintage afghan will drop into my lap someday soon.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-82565720350903427912012-10-25T14:34:00.000-07:002012-10-25T15:17:56.447-07:005 QUIRKY MOVIES you will love or hateI have a thing for cute and/or clever, quirky movies. I try to indoctrinate friends and family with my love of quirky movies when I can but they aren't for everyone. If you love quirky movies, this list is for you. I hope there are some titles on here that you haven't seen, and will enjoy.<br />
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-Son of Rambow (PG-13)-<br />
WHO: Bill Milner and Will Poulter.<br />
WHAT: When this movie was recommended to hubby and I, we were skeptical. I'm not a fan of the Rambo movies and immediately thought it was just another installment. We were very wrong. This movie is about a young boy in England with an overactive imagination who sets out to make his own Rambo film with the class troublemaker and a crew of random kids. We visit each boy's family lives and find that they are both coping with the changes in their lives through their art. It is an incredibly sweet, funny, and unexpected movie.<br />
NITTY GRITTY: very mild language, mild violence<br />
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-Hot Fuzz (R)-<br />
WHO: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Directed by the wonderful Edgar Wright.<br />
WHAT: If you like quirky well-timed British humor and don't mind a bit of unrealistic gore then you will maybe, possibly, quite likely love this movie. If you saw and loved Shaun of the Dead, then you are in for a treat. I am a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. They are ridiculously hilarious without being over the top corny. Then you add in Edgar Wright as the director, and this movie ended up having amazing cinematography and perfect timing. The pace that Edgar Wright sets may seem unusual and abrupt if you haven't seen any of his films before, but you will soon submit to his brilliance and realize he makes the movie what it is. Then you will start googling him and immediately put all of his other films and show on your Netflix queue. I suppose I should tell you a bit about the movie instead of gushing about Edgar Wright though. I don't know if I want to. I went to see this movie with my husband and brothers-in-law and had no idea what it was about or who was in it. I just showed up and was shocked and my stomach hurt from laughing so much. I walked out of the theater processing and eventually decided it would land on my list of favorite movies. Here's all you need to know- Simon Pegg is a police officer who is relocated to a rural farm town that appears to have no crime. He and his partner, Nick Frost, find out that while the town has no crime, it does have an unusually high number of accidents. That's all I will give away.<br />
NITTY GRITTY: violence, heavy on language, and some sexual content<br />
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-Lars and the Real Girl (PG-13)-<br />
WHO: Ryan Gosling (do I really need to mention anyone else?), Emily Mortimer, and Paul Schneider.<br />
WHAT: This movie is a gem. I am pretty sure it is underrated. Ryan Gosling is an extreme introvert with some emotional issues that lead him to imagine that a life-sized doll he got off the internet (for.... you know) is a real woman. While the premise may seem like this movie is vulgar, the only sexual content is seeing the ads for the doll on the internet and knowing what its actual purposes are. Ryan Gosling's character is a gentleman and treats the doll as any Christian man would treat a woman. This movie has a slow, relaxed pace, and isn't chock-full of belly laughs, but there is some nicely timed humor to break it up and the end result is an uplifting, touching movie.<br />
NITTY GRITTY: sexual content referring to the doll, mild language<br />
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-Ghost Town (PG-13)-<br />
WHO: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear and Tea Leoni. Cameo by Kristen Wiig.<br />
WHAT: Hubby and I went to see this in a super uncomfortable, cheap theater with a group of guffawing teens behind us... but we still enjoyed it. Here's the scoop- After a routine medical procedure Ricky Gervais's character, an anti-social, negative dentist, is able to see ghosts. One of these ghosts is Greg Kinnear who enlists his help to wrap things up with his widow Tea Leoni. You have to like Ricky Gervais' humor to like this movie. This movie is "don't take a sip at the wrong moment or you will spit it out laughing" funny while being sweet at the same time. I enjoyed the whole thing and loved the ending. And any movie where Kristen Wiig pops up gets major points from me. Unless they use her for a dramatic role rather than the humor and characters she excels at... then they get a big fat frown.<br />
NITTY GRITTY: sexual humor and language<br />
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-How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (No Rating)-<br />
WHO: a young Robert Morse (Bertram Cooper in Mad Men)<br />
WHAT: This movie was recommended to me by one of my college film teachers. I have a list of 100+ of his favorite rewatchable movies that he sent me a couple years ago and we have slowly been making our way through. We have found some of them to be barely watchable the first time and some of the others have been a treat. This movie was one of the treats. It's a musical about a young man who makes his way up the corporate ladder.... without really trying. The singing and dancing are hilarious and entertaining and the idea of this man making his way up the company just by reading a simple step-by-step guide book is ironic in and of itself. If you like 1960s musicals, this is definitely one to watch. And if you like The Jonas Brothers, you already missed Nick Jonas' stage performance in this musical this year. Sorry.<br />
NITTY GRITTY: I don't remember anything questionable, but there may be some PG content I don't recall.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-56039798575274375492012-10-24T08:59:00.000-07:002012-10-31T00:52:28.978-07:00KOOK STYLE: headed to a birthday party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the little man: suspender jeans [H&M] - <a href="http://www.hm.com/us/product/02549?article=02549-A" target="_blank">circus onesie [H&M]</a> - <a href="http://www.hm.com/us/product/91894?article=91894-D" target="_blank">beanie [H&M]</a></div>
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On the kook: flats [GAP] - <a href="http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=72017&vid=1&pid=478780042" target="_blank">leggings [Old Navy]</a> - poplin blouse [H&M] - <a href="http://www.forever21.com/Product/Product.aspx?BR=f21&Category=acc_hairgoods&ProductID=1027705846&VariantID=" target="_blank">hair bow [Forever 21]</a></div>
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Welcome to kook style. One of the perks of being a mom (besides having a hilarious little mini-me and mini-hubby running around) is dressing the kiddos. It's like Barbies but way cuter with a million more options. I rarely actually played Barbies. I styled Barbies. I don't have all the mountains of dollars to drop on crazy expensive outfits, so it's a fun challenge to find things on clearance or find the best deals. I mainly shop for the kids at GAP (as in the 40% off clearance sales), GAP Outlet (sales and clearance), and H&M (a bit of a splurge sometimes), but also get things on sale at Old Navy, Target, 77 Kids, and thrift stores, and am just starting to sew things myself. These kids are such kooks that it's fun to put them in kooky little outfits that fit their personalities. When I found out I was having a boy I thought it would be so boring getting him clothes, but it has proved just as fun dressing him as the gal. Since I have so much fun with their wardrobes, I'd love to share their pint-sized outfits with you from time to time. And if you blog about your kiddo's clothes- handmade or store bought- please let me know! I just love little fashion (and big fashion- who am I kidding).Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-8368524998645798542012-10-23T11:05:00.000-07:002012-10-23T11:05:46.863-07:00TRIANGLE LEGGINGS tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was planning on posting a tutorial for <a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2012/10/kcwc-day-4-5-upcycled-hand-printed.html" target="_blank">all 3 pairs of leggings I stamped</a>, but then when I wrote out the <a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2012/10/bow-leggings-tutorial.html" target="_blank">bow leggings tutorial</a> I realized it was pretty much exactly the same as a tutorial for these triangle leggings would be, so I decided to leave these out. And then today I decided to go ahead and share in case anyone wants to know what method I used and missed the <a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2012/10/bow-leggings-tutorial.html" target="_blank">bow leggings tutorial</a>. Did I mention I'm indecisive?</div>
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-1 medium-sized potatoe</div>
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-A small plate for your paint<br />
<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">-The 3rd installment of your favorite show</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">For these leggings I used a potato stamp to stamp the triangles and followed </span><a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2012/10/bow-leggings-tutorial.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">the same method as the bow leggings</a><span style="text-align: left;"> to a T.</span><br />
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The above photo shows an idea of what your potato stamp should look like. This is the only project I used actual fabric paint on rather than acrylic paints plus a textile medium. I used <a href="http://www.jacquardproducts.com/lumiere.html" target="_blank">Lumiere fabric paint</a> in Metallic Bronze and LOVED it. I highly recommend it and am definitely going to try other colors in the future. The color came out beautifully and it was more saturated upon first stamping than the other paint combinations I used. I didn't restamp at all because I liked the uneven look of the triangles with the black fabric showing through.</div>
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For those wondering why I'd go to the trouble of using acrylic paints plus a textile medium, it was mostly a cost issue for me. I already had a large collection of acrylic paints on hand and wanted to use what I had instead of buying 10 new fabric paint colors at $5 a pop. There is also more variety in acrylic paints colors than the fabric paint aisle at our local craft store. If you have the money to throw down on fabric paint and they carry the colors you like, I say go for it because the <a href="http://www.jacquardproducts.com/lumiere.html" target="_blank">Lumiere fabric paint</a> was lovely to work with. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">While I was at my stamping, I also used a 2 inch thick piece of thermal undershirt fabric I cut off of one of my shirts during my <a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2012/10/kcwc-day-6-7-upcycled-thermal-nightgown.html" target="_blank">repurposing</a> to make a little headband for the kook. It was already the perfect length to tie in a bow, so I just trimmed one of the hems off to tidy it up and used my pencil eraser and the bronze <a href="http://www.jacquardproducts.com/lumiere.html" target="_blank">Lumiere fabric paint</a> to stamp dots on the fabric. It was maybe a 5 minute project, if that, and I love the finished look of it. I will definitely be stamping more of my scrap fabric stash to make hair accessories for this gal. Apparently once you stamp, you just can't stop. </span><br />
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Adelaide turned 2! Well, 6 months ago. I asked my friend to take photos of the party because I'm such a frazzled host and after us both forgetting about the CDs any time we saw each other over these last 6 months, she handed them to me at her own daughter's 2nd birthday this past weekend. It was so fun looking at them and seeing how much the kook and our little man have grown and changed in the last 6 months.<br />
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After doing way too much for <a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2011/05/adelaides-1st-bday-bash.html" target="_blank">her 1st birthday party</a> in the way of crafting decorations and favors, and baking a bunch of things, I decided I didn't want to bake or cook anything for this party. It was way too stressful last time and I also had a newborn this time around who was just recovering from a month of RSV (memories...). I bought junk food cereal, various milks (for the lactose tolerant and intolerant), tea, good coffee, and then the morning of hubby picked up a few dozen donuts (vegan and non). We had the party at 10 am and it was unusually gorgeous out for a morning in April. The sun was shining and it was nice and warm. It was the perfect day to have a little brunch with friends and family in our backyard. There's not much to tell you in the way of details, but what there is to tell, I'll share below.<br />
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INVITATIONS: designed by me<br />
GARLAND: sewn by me- the fastest garland ever<br />
2 POSTER: designed by hubby and printed at his work<br />
PLATTERS: one was a gift from my cousin, a couple were cake platters, and I made the two tall skinny ones out of candlesticks and little plates<br />
ANIMALS & PARTY HATS: the animals were from Michael's and I spent some time one evening making their little party hats<br />
PLATES, TABLECLOTHES, PAPER LANTERNS: Target<br />
FAVORS: mini cereal boxes and animal finger puppets from Target<br />
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P.S. Um... and don't mind our ghetto house. Yeah, I was a little embarrassed to put the table and decor in front of that wall that hasn't been painted over, but it was the best spot for everything. Remember how we live in a crooked shmooked house and remodeled <a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2008/09/tour.html" target="_blank">the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad inside</a>? Well, the outside is still that crooked shmooked house and hasn't been touched. Let's just say that I would be scared to walk up to our crazy little house. Luckily I live inside the house and rarely pay that much attention to how sad it looks on the outside. Maybe someday we'll do something to the outside? I don't know. We have so many other priorities. But all that to say, the outside of our house is not the beautiful backdrop for backyard parties that I want it to be, but we do live with a beautiful view of the country and friendly farm animals next door so I won't complain.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-4694518174442459322012-10-20T21:14:00.002-07:002012-10-20T21:38:24.865-07:00THIS & THATI hope your weekends are going famously! The kook had a temperature a few nights ago and I was worried our weekend plans were going to turn into staying home and watching Curious George 24 hours a day, but her temperature magically disappeared and we were able to go to her little friend's 2nd birthday party this morning and a nice little fall get together with hubby's family this evening.<br />
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Here are some things that have been whirling around my mind lately...<br />
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I totally get a bad mom award for not noticing the kook had a temperature the whole time we were running errands on Wednesday. It was in the high 80s and every time I took her out of the car she seemed super hot but I thought it was just because it was warm in the car. It wasn't until I dragged her to 4 different places within 4 hours and we got home and she was still hot that I took her temperature and found out she was 102 degrees. I felt terrible. Poor girl. :(<br />
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I really need to invest in a big bag of rice and/or beans for the kiddos to play with in the kitchen. I'm reminded every time I see tutorials like these ones: <a href="http://alifesustained.blogspot.com/2012/07/diy-rice-play-table.html" target="_blank">DIY Rice Play Table</a> - <a href="http://domesticsimplicity.com/2010/03/30/playingwithbeansandric/" target="_blank">Playing with beans and rainbow rice</a> - <a href="http://www.spdbloggernetwork.com/2011/02/22/sensational-fun-bean-box/" target="_blank">Bean Box</a><br />
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Now that KCWC is over, I'm back to hand-stitching some hanky/doily curtains for the kitchen. I'm hoping I can crank them out because I'm itching to start <a href="http://mermag.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilt-how-to.html" target="_blank">this cat quilt from mer mag</a> for the kook's bed. I've never quilted before, but if anything is going to inspire me to, it's a cat quilt!<br />
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I have a friend that decorates for Christmas the first day of November and I'm such a Christmas lover that I decided I will do the same this year. That means I start my decorating in 2 weeks... and it's in the 80's this week. I don't know if I can decorate for Christmas before we've even had real fall weather!<br />
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Trying to decide what to do with my grown out asymmetrical pixie. I'm thinking I will start with <a href="http://www.elle.com/beauty/hair/hollywood-hairstyles-best-short-hair-looks-447678-13#slide-13" target="_blank">this Katie Holmes cut</a>, then maybe grow it into something like <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/exclusive/fun-fearless-females-2012-rose-byrne" target="_blank">Rose Byrne's cut</a>. I guess it's time to get my bangs back!<br />
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My mom just became a <a href="http://shop.stelladot.com/" target="_blank">Stella & Dot</a> rep. I'm pretty excited about any Christmas or 'just because' Stella & Dot presents to come. (Wink wink, mom!) I am in love with <a href="http://shop.stelladot.com/style/b2c_en_us/shop/rings/rings-all/fox-ring-4104.html" target="_blank">this fox ring</a>.<br />
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Someday when life calms down I'd love to start <a href="http://www.beckyhiggins.com/products/" target="_blank">Project Life</a>. <a href="http://eliseblaha.typepad.com/golden/project-life-2012/" target="_blank">Elise's posts are so crazy inspiring</a>. What a great way to keep memories.<br />
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I am doing potty-training with the kook next week. Any potty-training advice from veteran moms?<br />
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And I leave you with a laugh from SNL. I am loving The Californians skits. Anything that makes fun of Californians makes me laugh. Because I'm a Californian. If we sound anything like this skit, we deserve to be made fun of.<br />
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="315" id="nbc-video-widget" src="http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1402552" width="560"></iframe>Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-18653596005664684092012-10-19T08:00:00.000-07:002012-10-19T08:00:07.202-07:00from THE CORNER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes I like to just sit in the corner of the kiddos' room and watch them play. And mediate. And listen to the kook "read" books and tell stories.<br />
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A story by Adelaide.<br />
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"Once upon a time there was a little girl and there was a little boy. There was a little girl! There was big girls. There was big ladies. There was a girl writing a story for reading a book. There was a story for someone reading a story for us."<br />
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.....and then she got distracted. Too bad. That story had potential. I was wondering what would happen to the big girls and big ladies.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-20900137284609839812012-10-18T08:00:00.000-07:002012-10-21T22:53:19.951-07:00KCWC outtakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is what happens when you take a sweater and say "I can totally make this into a toddler sweater dress" without measuring anything. The neckline didn't look that big to me and somewhere in my brain I thought "Hey, this neck hole looks like it'd fit her" because she and I totally have the same size neck??! Yeah... I don't know. It was on an evening when I'd tackled a few projects already so it was probably 1 or 2am and I wanted to whip out one more thing fast. Fast as in not doing any prep. A snip here, a snip there, no snips at the neckline... and this is what I ended up with. I tried it on the kook the next day and burst out laughing. And that was the day I learned I can never eyeball a pattern. I definitely need something to trace or measure against. The kook thought it was funny too. I have plans to cut this ridiculous dress up to make a sweater jumper most likely. Maybe I'll try it at 9pm with correct measurements next time. Sheesh...<br />
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Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-49038390822783239412012-10-17T08:30:00.000-07:002012-10-17T08:30:01.578-07:00BOW LEGGINGS tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For my second pair of hand-stamped leggings during KCWC, I chose to do a bow design. I've seen several bow print shirts, sweaters, and more and am all about bows and polka-dots for the gal right now. Okay, really any fun prints... And now that I've gotten into hand-stamping prints on fabric, I can make any printed clothes my print-loving heart desires. You can too! But let's start with these bow leggings.</div>
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-Solid colored leggings<br />
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1.) Cut your cardboard in the shape of your leggings and stick it inside.<br />
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2.) Take your knife and one potato, and cut a bow design into the potato about 1/2" deep. Then use your knife to cut around the design on the side, so that all you have left is bow potato stamp.<br />
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3.) Take your knife and the second potato, and cut a circle just big enough to be the center for your bow. Then use your knife to cut around the design but not into it, so that all you have left is a circle potato stamp.<br />
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3.) If you are using acrylic paint plus textile medium, follow the directions on the back of your textile medium and mix the two together on your plate. If you are using fabric paint, just squirt some on the plate. I covered my dish with enough paint to be just a bit bigger than I wanted my bow. A thin pool of paint is better than thick.<br />
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4.) Take your bow potato stamp and dip the very end of it into the paint. At this point, it is good to do a practice stamp or two on a piece of paper to make sure you are using the right amount of paint, not too much or too little, and the right amount of pressure.<br />
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5.) Once you are confident in your stamping, you can start stamping bows on your leggings. Dip your potato in the paint in between each time you stamp. I didn't do very many bows on my leggings, but I think it would also look pretty awesome to have a ton of bows, so go crazy if your heart desires!<br />
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6.) Once you are done stamping bows, you can repeat the same process with your circle stamp and stamp circles into the middle of your bows.<br />
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7.) If the bow isn't as saturated with color as you would like, you can wait a little while and then carefully restamp them all until they are as saturated as you want.<br />
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8.) Once you are done painting, let the leggings dry for 24 hours and then set the paint with heat as directed on the back of your textile medium or fabric paint. Also note washing instructions on your paint, so you don't wash them sooner than needed.<br />
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9.) When you are done, and your paint is all dry and set, put the leggings on your toddler and take photos to share with all your blog and Facebook friends. You're so crafty!<br />
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For days 6 and 7 of KCWC, I got out my pile of old thermals. First I cut the sleeves off of my gray one and blue one to make pants for the little man (which I haven't gotten to yet). Then I was left with a sleeveless thermal. I looked at the length and thought it might be the perfect length for a nightgown for the kook. I tried it on her in it's huge state and after she took a nap in it and played for a while, I made her take it off so I could actually take it in to fit a toddler. The length ended up being so perfect that I didn't have to touch the original hem. All I did was trace a slightly loose tee she has to get an idea of where to sew the top, and then extended it to dress length. I left the sleeves raw and took in the neckline to fit her, and that was that. Very simple and practical nightgown. When I was done sewing, I pulled out my fabric paints and spent way too long painting a little kitty friend for the kook. We're both happy with how it turned out. Soon I get to repeat the process with the rest of the blue thermal I chopped the sleeves off of. If anyone is interested, I can attempt a tutorial for you.</div>
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My next thermal project was pretending that I know how to sew a long-sleeved tee and learning that I don't. Time to invest in the <a href="http://www.made-by-rae.com/2012/02/flashback-skinny-tee-sewing-pattern-is-here/" target="_blank">Flashback Skinny Tee pattern by Made by Rae</a>. I'm going to keep this tee around for her to play in and it may make it out of the house under a sweatshirt, but I definitely didn't mean to do a boatneck and dropped sleeves and my waist hem and pocket are pretty sad. Oh well. That's what happens when an over-confident beginning seamstress tries to make something without a pattern at 1am.</div>
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All in all, I'm happy with the sewing I accomplished during KCWC. It was my first time sewing clothing since a couple times in elementary school and I was able to pull only from my stash of clothes to repurpose which meant that I only spent a little bit of money on fabric paint and elastic. My list of things to buy for the kids' fall/winter wardrobes got cut in half and spending a week sewing has convinced me that I can probably make most of the other items they need on the list. Thanks to <a href="http://www.elsiemarley.com/" target="_blank">Elsie</a> for hosting KCWC. I can't wait for the Spring one!</div>
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I am always admiring the hand-printed leggings on etsy and floating around Pinterest kid's style boards. While I am definitely not able to drop $30 and $40 on a pair of leggings for my stylish little gal (although I wish I was!), I do have a steady hand and my craft store has plenty of fabric paint. After repurposing a few of my old solid-colored pairs of leggings into new pint-sized leggings for the gal, I knew there had to be something to do to jazz them up a bit. Three different patterns popped into my head and after going through my acrylic paint stash, picking up some fabric paint and textile medium, and staying up way later than I should, I now have 3 uber stylish pairs of toddler leggings.<br />
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For my first pair of leggings, I was envisioning a confetti effect, so I started with my berry colored leggings and chose party colors like aqua, neon pink, yellow, and tangerine. I think metallics would also look awesome for this confetti pattern. If you don't have any solid-colored leggings for your kiddo sitting around already and aren't up to sewing any, they are cheap enough to buy at Target or Walmart.<br />
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WHAT YOU'LL NEED:<br />
-Solid colored leggings<br />
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-A pencil with an unused eraser<br />
-Small dishes for your paint (bottle caps or baby food jar lids work great!)<br />
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-Cardboard<br />
-Your favorite movie, show, or audiobook to enjoy<br />
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1.) Cut your cardboard in the shape of the leggings and stick it inside to keep the front and back from sticking together as you paint.<br />
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2.) If you are using a textile medium and acrylic paints, follow the directions on the back of your textile medium and mix the two in your dishes. If you are using fabric paint, squirt a little in your dishes. You only need about a teaspoon.<br />
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3.) Get your pencil and dip the very end of the eraser into your first color of paint. If you are nervous about stamping. You can practice a couple times on a piece of paper to make sure you are applying enough even pressure.<br />
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4.) Stamp one dot, then dip again, and repeat. To achieve the confetti look, I picked 2 areas to make the dots more concentrated and then stamped less dots in other areas. I stamped each color 3 or 4 times in the concentrated areas and then 3 or 4 dots spaced out over the rest of the area.<br />
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5.) Once you are done with the first color, wipe off your eraser with the paper towel and repeat with your next color. Repeat the process again until you are done with each color. If the colors aren't as saturated as you would like, you can restamp them once the dots dry a little until they are the saturation you desire.<br />
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6.) Swat the fly swarming around your face. That's just me? Oh ok. Continue on then.<br />
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7.) At this point you will only be done with one side. If you aren't in a rush to finish, you can simply let that side dry for a day and stamp the other side the next day. If you are impatient to finish (like me) you can lightly blow-dry the dots until they feel like they won't smudge when you turn over the leggings. Make sure you have paper towels or something covering your table when you flip the leggings over in case any paint comes off.<br />
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8.) Once you are done painting, let the leggings dry for 24 hours before setting with heat. Your fabric paint or textile medium should have instructions on how to set the paint with heat. Also note the washing instructions on your paint, so you don't wash them too soon if they need a few days to set.<br />
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9.) Now put the leggings on your tot and admire your handiwork!<br />
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The Kids Clothes Week Challenge is officially over, but I still have a few projects left to share with you, you lucky ducks.<br />
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A messy little toddler can never have too many leggings. When I was going through my closet to find clothes to upcycle for the kiddos, I found my collection of leggings from back when leggings were just coming in again. Three years ago I asked for 5 different colors of leggings for Christmas, and I got them all... and ended up wearing maybe 2 pairs. I was a little over-enthusiatic about the leggings trend. When I found them again, I immediately knew that #1- my leggings needed to go far away from my legs, and #2- where they needed to go was the kook's little legs. I used the same method as<a href="http://craftsnob.com/2011/09/refashioned-leggings/" target="_blank"> this tutorial </a>to upcycle the leggings except I resized the legs to be thinner for little toddler legs by measuring against a pair of leggings that fit her well. Our legs aren't quite the same size. Oh, but I barely had to take the white pair of leggings in at all. And that was when I remembered I never wore them because they were so stinking tight. Toddler tight.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">After I was done making the leggings, I decided they needed a little help and I got out the fabric paint and ended up with 3 funky hand-printed patterns on them that I love. <a href="http://crookedshmooked.blogspot.com/2012/10/confetti-leggings-tutorial.html" target="_blank">I'll be sharing the tutorials with you this week</a>.</span><br />
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Today I took a break from sewing and hubby took a break from work to head to a little pumpkin patch with Nana and Papa. There was lots of climbing on hay bales, sitting on pumpkins, tripping over irrigation hoses or whatever they might be called, riding in wagons, hay butts, and photo ops--- including one where hubby precariously stuck our 7 month old son on top of a pumpkin and I nearly had a heart attack.... but took a photo before collapsing out of fear, of course. They had a haunted house there so we sent Papa through to check it out. I got to the door and totally wimped out when I saw how dark it was. He came out with a bumped nose. Apparently it wasn't made for 6'2" big kids. It was a lovely afternoon and we came away with a few little pumpkins to decorate with. With my boots on, a scarf around my neck, and pumpkins in my house, I can officially declare it fall!Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-75597684030093605062012-10-11T08:40:00.000-07:002012-10-21T22:55:07.755-07:00KCWC DAY 3: upcycled sweater leggings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay, I'm a total cheater. I actually made these on Tuesday, the million hour day of sewing. I stayed up till the wee hours of the morning because I was so stoked that the blouse turned out and I wanted to keep sewing. I sewed the blouse, eyeballed a sweater dress that turned into a disaster (I'll do a KCWC outtakes post to share my absolute sewing fails when this week is over), and made these leggings. I was partying hard. Babies asleep, Boy Meets World on the TV (I own the whole series. Don't be jealous.), a pile of clothes to upcycle. Ohhhh yeeeeeah. Anyway, the cheating is now coming into play as it is Wednesday night as I write this and I am fried after a long evening of sewing on Tuesday and a day of crazy kids and grocery shopping. I am just hoping that when I roll off this couch, I miraculously land in bed instead of trapped in between the couch and the coffee table. But, I digress... let's discuss these leggings.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I started with this American Eagle sweater from back in my American Eagle days (Did anyone else have American Eagle days? I am so not an AE girl, but lost my sense of personal fashion one year of college and turned into an AE undergrad clone. Oh, college...). I didn't go off of a tutorial because it was pretty easy to figure out, but </span><a href="http://craftsnob.com/2011/09/refashioned-leggings/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">this tutorial</a><span style="text-align: center;"> is the exact process I used. And that's that! It was super easy to do and I love that the kook will have some really thick and warm sweater leggings to live in during the winter. She had a pair of sweater leggings from H&M last year and wore them all the time. So cute. I'm definitely going to try to find some sweaters at the thrift store to make her more.</span><br />
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On a totally unrelated but equally exciting note, I currently have the cotton ball end of a Q-tip stuck in my ear. Darn you, cheap Q-tips. It just popped off in there and I must have twisted it in really good before realizing what happened. So wish me luck with my cotton ball extraction. Um, yeah... I don't feel stupid at all. I think I'll go ahead and shove a pea up my nose too. Might as well, right? Hubby said I'm a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fig956-MuVA" target="_blank">cotton headed ninny muggins</a>. He's called me that before, but tonight... I really am.Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-4505439682243387192012-10-10T23:07:00.006-07:002012-10-21T22:55:23.629-07:00KCWC DAY 2: upcycled blouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Tuesday I spent a million years sewing. Maybe not a million years, but it felt like it. I started with this Target blouse that I only wore a couple times because it just wasn't that flattering on me, and decided I'd try to upcycle it into a kook sized blouse. I spent the entire naptime measuring and tracing and cutting, and then noticed I cut it totally crooked. Not crooked shmooked crooked, but seriously crooked. So then I had to go back and cut the pieces straight, but that meant cutting a bunch off one side which meant that the blouse was now too narrow around the midsection. To remedy that I cut triangles along the side seams of the mama blouse to add extra material to the sides of the toddler blouse. I was totally flying by the seat of my pants there (I don't know where that expression comes from either). I pinned it all together and it worked to widen the midsection and it actually looked kind of cute- as cute as an inside out pinned together blouse can look. And then the kids woke up and I frantically picked up pins and scissors so I wouldn't have an Adelaide scissor/pin-hands walking around.</div>
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After the kook went to bed I started my sewing and was pretty crazy happy when it all came together to make a cute little blouse. A fly by the seat of my pants upcycled sewing success!<br />
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Don't you love her poof of hair? Her hair is growing SO SLOW and it's growing up or out. I wonder how big her fro will be before it's finally heavy enough to fall down to her shoulders. As you can see, she was totally giddy to go outside and take these photos. But giddy or peeved to be stuck standing in one spot, she's still a cutie in her new blouse!</div>
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This week I'm participating in the <a href="http://www.elsiemarley.com/kids-clothes-week-fall-2012.html" target="_blank">Kids Clothes Week Challenge</a> hosted by <a href="http://www.elsiemarley.com/" target="_blank">Elsie Marley</a>. Besides some matching pjs for my stuffed orangutan Punky Ponzo and I in elementary school, I have never sewn clothes for myself or the mini me's. I started sewing this last year to make some plush toys for the kook and her cousins and am pretty much just teaching myself as I go along. My mom taught my sister and I when we were young so I have some basic and very, very rusty skills, but beyond that, I'm learning by trial and error.<br />
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I followed <a href="http://www.smallfriendly.com/" target="_blank">Carla at Small and Friendly</a>'s projects through KCWC last year but had no motivation to sew anything besides softies and decorations. This year I had just purged my closet when I saw that KCWC was coming up in a few weeks. I happen to be needing some sweats and basic pieces for the kids' fall/winter wardrobes so I figure there's nothing to lose (besides my sanity) with just trying. <a href="http://www.elsiemarley.com/category/kids-clothes-week-challenge" target="_blank">If you want to participate, it's not too late</a>. You've only missed a couple days and I'm pretty sure Elsie doesn't have any KCWC cops to come take your sewing machine away.<br />
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For day 1 I decided to start on a pair of sweats for the little man. I love this <a href="http://www.elsiemarley.com/kcwc-guest-post-sophie-from-cirque-du-bebe.html" target="_blank">DIY for Low 'n' Lazy Loungies</a> from Sophie of <a href="http://cirque-du-bebe.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cirque du Bebe</a> so I gathered up a pair of long sweat shorts I had in my repurpose pile and went to work cutting out one side. As soon as I tried to starting cutting pieces for the other side, I realized a big ugly embroidery piece (the reason the shorts were in the repurpose pile) was in the way and there was no way for me to have enough material for both sides. Oops. Trial and error, I tell you. So I grabbed another pair of sweats in a coordinating color and cut a side out from them. In Sophie's DIY, she had a cute huge pocket on the front of the Loungies because the sweatshirt she repurposed had a pocket. I didn't have a pocket to repurpose but loved it enough to try and make my own. It isn't as big as I would like and I made it a bit low, but I still like it. Instead of sewing a waistband from scratch, I just used the waistband from my sweat shorts.<br />
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All in all, the Loungies fit well and will be great for fall weather. I hope to find some funky sweatshirt fabric like Sophie's to make some more for the little man and some for the kook.... and some for hubby... and some for me. C'mon, don't they look comfy? I think hubby might protest. He's not really a drop-crotch kinda guy. And really, anyone that is a drop-crotch kinda guy is very... special.<br />
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(If you'd like to see some of the other projects I'm dreaming of sewing up. Check out my <a href="http://pinterest.com/heidijo/kids-clothes-week-challenge/" target="_blank">KCWC board on Pinterest</a>.)Heidi Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09405820713833564078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273183782488743991.post-24884122761252082612012-10-09T18:34:00.000-07:002012-10-09T18:34:10.985-07:00PAINT, PINECONES & a TODDLER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday Adelaide and I took some time before naptime to paint some pinecones she gathered with hubby. I saw <a href="http://smileandwave.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/paint-dipped-pinecone-garland.html" target="_blank">this tutorial from Rachel at Smile & Wave</a> floating around <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> and <a href="http://pinterest.com/heidijo/happy-holidays/" target="_blank">repinned it</a> then realized there was a bucket of tiny pinecones sitting outside my back door. Otto has been super inconsistent with his naps up to this point- not that I've tried to make them consistent with having to run errands and keep the gal on a consistent nap schedule so she doesn't become a kook monster- so when he went down for a nap around noon, I grabbed my snotty girl for some Vitamin D crafting time outside the back door. I filled a little tupperware with white acrylic paint, showed her how to dip them and let her go for it. Half-way through dipping, she got antsy and grabbed a paintbrush I had out and started painting the 2 big pinecones she'd collected, then her hand, then the ground. She's definitely a 2-year old. She loves pinecones, paint, and being outside so it was pretty much her favorite thing ever. Mama liked it too. A sleeping baby plus a happy, occupied toddler equals a happy mama. She actually calls me "mom" or "mommy" now. I guess it's time to stop referring to myself as mama. When we went inside later, the gal was still thinking about our time outside and told me "That was really shun! That was really shun painting pineapples!" Pinecones, pineapples.... tomato, tomotto...</div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Hubby said it looks like little there's little bird turds on the pinecones. Ha. Yeah, that's what happens when you let a 2-year old loose with paint and pinecones.</span></div>
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