What's up with me?

First of all, here's a cute picture of my kids that I just had to share. And if you look really closely you'll see that Gwen is wearing a bracelet on her left arm that I MADE. No, really. I'm not joking.

Okay, don't believe that I'm capable of making stuff? Fine, here's something else I made. A tag blanket for Gwen to play with.

Your mouth is hanging open in utter disbelief. You can close it now.

I chose the fabrics (cotton on one side, red minky dot on the other) and ribbon, cut and pinned everything, and then sewed it all up with only a tiny bit of help from JoAnn. In all honesty I couldn't have done it without her. She helped me through a couple of beginner's snafu's and was a calming influence. Usually sewing projects make me homicidal, but not so this time. Don't look too closely. I can't sew a straight line to save my life, but I love it and so does Gwen. See?

In case you weren't already impressed (although who are we kidding? You're totally impressed, right?) take a look at the family picture at the top of the page. The girls' hair thingies...I made them. No, I didn't "make" them make them. I purchased some flowers at Hobby Lobby, then cut them down and glued them onto hair clips. Then I glued some ribbon onto a pre-made headband and clipped the flowers onto the ribbon so they stayed on the headband. For Gwen I made her hairband out of a new pair of brown tights. So it's not like it was anything too tough.

Given that I have spent the vast majority of my life being anti-craft and anti-sewing (Who was it that said that a woman should never sew, and if she does she should never admit it?) this has been a strange frenzy of creative activity for me. I'm not sure what has brought it on and I make no promises that it will continue. Hence the need to document it for posterity.